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CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER Longitude -    Dava Sobel Jan/Feb 1997 Men And The Girls -  Joanna   Trollope Jan 1997 Away -   Jane Urquhart 11/96 Pigs In Heaven -  Barbara  Kingsolver  12/96 Saint -   Catherine Bell  12/96 Liars Club -  Mary Karr 2/97 Alias Grace -    Margaret Atwood 3/97 Little Altars Everywhere  Rebecca Wells 3/97 Cloud Chamber -  Michael Dorris 4/97 Divine Secrets Ya Ya Sisterhood R Wells 4/97 A Thousand Acres -    Jane  Smiley 5/97 Chess Garden -  Brooks Hansen 5/97 Tumbling -  Diane McKinney-Whetstone 5/97 Angela's Ashes -  Frank McCourt 6/97 Statement -   Brian Moore 6/97 Watchers -  Dean Koontz 6/97 Jane Eyre -  Charlotte Bronte 7/97 Rocking The Babies -  Linda  Raymond 7/97 Cannery Row -   John Steinbeck 8/97 Sleeping At The Starlite Motel -  Bailey White 8/97 Cold Mountain -   Charles Frazier 9/97 Keeper Of The House - Shirley Ann Grau 9/97 Body Is Water -  Julie Schumacher 10/97 Wild Swans:3 Daughters Of China-Jung Chang 10/97 Cold Sassy Tree -   Olive Ann Burns 11/97 Patty Jane's House Of Curl -Lorna Landvik 11/97 Wicked  Gregory  Maguire  12/97 At Home In Mitford -   Jan  Karon 12/97 Atticus--   Ron Hansen 1/98 Bookshop--  Penelope Fitzgerald 1/98 Love's Executioner--  Irvin Yalom 2/98 Paradise- Toni Morrison  3/98 Fifth Business  Robertson Davies 4/98 Into The Forest--   Hegland 4/98 House Of The Spirits---- Isabel Allende  5/98 Memoirs Of A Geisha --  --  Arthur Golden 6/98 Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora NealeHurston 6/98 Lesson Before Dying/Gathering Of Old Men- Gaines 7/98 A Widow For One Year -- -- John Irving 7/98 Weight of Water -Anita  Shreve  8/98 Woman of the Inner Sea Thomas Keneally 8/98 Bachelor Bros. Bed&Breakfast Bill Richardson 9/98 Behind the Scenes at the Museum Kate Atkinson 9/98 Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God J Coomber 9/98 Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving 10/98 Dreams of My Russian Summers  Makine 10/98 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 11/98 Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler 11/98 Raney Clyde Edgerton 11/98 Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver 12/98 An Instance of the Fingerpost Ian Pears 1/99 All Over But the Shouting Rick Bragg 2/99 The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson 2/99 100 Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 3/99 Professor and the Madman Simon Winchester 3/99 These is My Words Nancy Turner 4/99  The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell 5/99  Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven by Sherman Alexie  6/99 Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner  7/99 MISTRESS OF SPICES BY  Divakaruni 8/99 The Drowning People by Richard Mason 8/99 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 9/99 The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 9/99 Medea, by Euripedes 10/99 Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 11/99 My Antonia--Willa Cather 12/99 Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister Maguire1/00 Tin Drum-Gunter Grass 2/00 Apologising to Dogs  Joe Coomer 2/29/00  CIDER HOUSE RULES John Irving 3/28/00 RED-TAILS IN LOVE Marie Winn  4/11/00 A Wild Sheep Chase, Murakami 5/9/00 A Place Where the Sea Remembers, Benitez, 5/23/00 Gossamer Years : Noblewoman of Heian Japan Seidensticker(Transl) 6/20/00 Amsterdam - Ian McEwan 7/18/00 Caveman's Valentine, GD Green 8/1/00 Harry Potter#4 Goblet of Fire 8/15/00 The Giver by Lowis Lowry 8/29/00 White Teeth by Zadie Smith  9/26/00 A Place of Execution-Val McDermid 10/3/00 A Fine Balance by R. Mistry 10/24/00 On Beulah Height--Reginald Hill 11/00  White Widow--Jim Lehrer--12/5/00 Prisoner in a Red Rose Chain-Jeffrey Moore 12/19/00 When We Were Orphans --Kazuo Ishiguro 2/6/01 Blind Assassin--Margaret Atwood 2/20/01 Prodigal Summer--Kingsolver 3/13/01 La Maravilla-Vea  4/24/01 English Passengers--Kneal (no chat) 5/01 Big Stone Gap--Trigiani 6/19/01 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay--Chabon 7/31/01 Sleeping Arrangements & Cronkite 8/28/01 Possession--A.S. Byatt  9/25/01 Beach Music--Pat Conroy 10/01 Founding Bros (Ellis) OR Rise to Rebellion (Shaara) 11/27/01 Short History of a Small Place--Pearson (12/01) Rebecca (Du Maurier) & A Severed Head (Murdoch) 1/02 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2/02) Back When We Were Grown-Ups by Anne Tyler 3/02 Last Orders by Graham Swift 6/02 Empire Falls by Richard Russo 7/02 Bad Blood by Lorna Sage 8/02 Bitter Grounds by Sandra Benitez 8/02 Crow Lake by Mary Lawson 9/02 The NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY by A McCall Smith 10/02 FAMILY MATTERS by Rohinton Mistry (11/20/02) ========================================= SECRET LIFE OF BEES Kidd (01/03) STANDING IN THE RAINBOW Fannie Flagg (alt. 01/03) When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (02/03) The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor (03/03)   From Beirut to Jerusalem-Thomas L. Friedman (04/03)   ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY--David Sedaris (05/03)   Jose Saramago, The Cave (6/02/03)   The Devil in the White City: by Erik Larson 6/30/03   HARRY POTTER #5 Order of the Phoenix(7/03) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 8/03 Potiki by Patricia Grace 9/03 Coffee Trader -David Liss 10/03 After You'd Gone - Maggie O'Farrell 11/03 My Name is Red-Orhan Pamuck 11/03 Middlesex by Eugenides 12/03 Elizabeth Costello -J. Coetze 12/03 ================================= Fingersmith Sarah Walters 1.04 Confessions Of A Failed Southern Lady F King 2/04 Piano Tuner Daniel Mason 3/04 Dante Club Matthew Pearl 4/04 Empress Orchid A Min 5/04 Dream Of Scipio, Iain Pears 6/04 Reading Lolita In Tehran 6/04 Jane Austen Book Club 7/04 Monkeewrench PJ Tracy 8/04 Seven Sisters Drabble 9/04 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 10/04 The Known World, E Jones 10/04 Kite Runner 11/04 12/04 skipped for holidays =========================== Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Clarke 1/05 The Shadow of the Wind, Zafon 2/05 Memory of Running, Mclarty 3/05 Thread of Grace, Russel 4/05 Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Garcia Marquez 5/05 OR Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire The Ha-Ha, Dave King 6/05 Peace like a River, Enger 7/05 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (#6) Rawlings 8/05 Snobs, Julian Fellowes 9/05 Snow Flower & the Secret Fan, Lisa See 10/05 Ursula Under by Ingrid Hill 11/05 Ninth Life of Louis Drax, Liz Jensen 12/05 2006 reads An Unpardonable Crime, A Taylor (American Boy UK title) 1/06 Beyond Black Hilary Mantel 2/06 Arthur & George 3/06 East of Eden Steinbeck 4/06 The Accidental 4/06 People's Act of Love 5/06 Black Swan Green David Mitchell--6/06 In A Sunburned Country Bill Bryson 7/06 The Book Thief, Zusak 8/06 (unofficial BB read) Five Smooth Stones Ann Fairburn- 8/06 Peyton Place, G. Metallius 9/06 The Stolen Child, Donohue 9/06 Spectator Bird, W, Stegner10/06 Strangeness of Beauty, L Minatoya 10/06 The Girls, Lansens 11/06 Don't Look Back, Fossum 12/06 2007 reads The Meaning of Night, M Cox, 01/07 Cannery Row + Sweet Thursday, Steinbeck, 02/07 The Murdered House, Magnan 02/07 Suite Francaise, Nemirovsky 03/07 Map of Glass, Urquhart 04/07 Secret River, Grenville 05/07 Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin, May 23 A TRIP TO THE STARS by Nicholas Christopher,June 20 ORDINARY WOLVES Seth Kantner, JULY 18 Harry Potter & Deathly Hallows, Aug. 22 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, Sept 19 The Tenderness of Wolves Stef Penney, Oct 17 Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O'Farrell Nov 07 A Far Cry from Kensington, Muriel Sparks Dec07 2008 reads Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier 1/08 The Painted Veil By William Somerset Maugham 2/08 The Assassination Of Jesse James By Ron Hansen 3/08 The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny 3/08 Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell 4/08 The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story, Diane Ackerman 5/08 The Other Side Of The Bridge By Mary Lawson 6/08 THE HIGHEST TIDE, Jim Lynch July 9th MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON, Lauren Goff August 6th SAVAGE GARDEN, Mark Mills August 27th The LACE READER by B. Barry Sept 27 The Secret History by Donna Tartt--Oct 18 Death With Interruptions, Saramago Nov 15 Thirteenth Tale by Setterfield Dec 13 2009 reads In the Woods by T French Jan 3 2009 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Wroblewski Jan 31	TITLE ORDER 100 Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 3/99 A Far Cry from Kensington, Muriel Sparks Dec07 Accidental 4/06 After You'd Gone - Maggie O'Farrell 11/03 Alias Grace -Margaret Atwood 3/97 All Over But the Shouting-Rick Bragg 2/99 Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay-Chabon 7/31/01 Amsterdam - Ian McEwan 7/18/00 An Instance of the Fingerpost-- Ian Pears 1/99 An Unpardonable Crime, A Taylor (American Boy UK title) 1/06 Angela's Ashes -Frank McCourt 6/97 Angle of Repose- Wallace Stegner7/99 Apologising to Dogs Joe Coomer 2/29/00 Arthur & George 3/06 Assassination Of Jesse James By Ron Hansen 3/08 At Home In Mitford - Jan Karon 12/97 Atticus- Ron Hansen 1/98 Away - Jane Urquhart 11/96 Bachelor Bros. Bed&Breakfast - BRichardson 9/98 Back When We Were Grown-Ups by Anne Tyler3/02 Bad Blood by Lorna Sage 8/02 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2/02) Beach Music--Pat Conroy 10/01 Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God Joe Coomber9/98 Behind the Scenes at the Museum Kate Atkinson 9/98 Beyond Black Hilary Mantel 2/06 Big Stone Gap--Trigiani 6/19/01 Bitter Grounds by Sandra Benitez B/02 Black Swan Green David Mitchell--6/06 Blind Assassin--Margaret Atwood 2/20/01 Body Is Water -Julie Schumacher 10/97 Book Thief, Zusak 8/06 (unofficial BB read) Bookshop--Penelope Fitzgerald 1/98 Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier 1/08 Cannery Row - John Steinbeck 8/97 Cannery Row + Sweet Thursday, Steinbeck, 02/07 Cave Jose Saramago,(6/02/03) Caveman's Valentine, GD Green 8/1/00 Chess Garden -Brooks Hansen 5/97 Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Garcia Marquez 5/05 CIDER HOUSE RULES John Irving 3/28/00 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 10/04 Cloud Chamber -Michael Dorris 4/97 Coffee Trader -David Liss 10/03 Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier 9/97 Cold Sassy Tree - Olive Ann Burns 11/97 Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King 2/04 Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister Maguire1/00 Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 11/99 Cronkite Bio 8/28/01 Crow Lake by Mary Lawson 9/02 Cruelest Month by Louise Penny 3/08 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 8/03 Dante Club Matthew Pearl 4/04 Death With Interruptions, Saramago Nov 15 Devil in the White City: by Erik Larson 6/30/03 Divine Secrets Of The Ya Ya Sisterhood - RebeccaWells 4/97 Dream Of Scipio, Iain Pears 6/04 Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell 4/08 Dreams of My Russian SummersMakine 10/98 Drowning People by Richard Mason 8/99 East of Eden Steinbeck 4/06 Elizabeth Costello -J. Coetze 12/03 Empire Falls by Richard Russo 7/02 Empress Orchid, A Min 5/04 English Passengers--Kneal (no chat) 5/01 FAMILY MATTERS by Rohinton Mistry (11/20/02) Fifth Business Robertson Davies 4/98 Fine Balance by R. Mistry 10/20/00 Fingersmith by Sara Waters 1/2004 Five Smooth Stones Ann Fairburn- 8/06 Founding Bros (Ellis) & Rise to Rebellion (Shaara) 11/27/01 From Beirut to Jerusalem-Thomas L. Friedman (04/03) GIVER by Lowis Lowry 8/29/00 Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin, May 23 Gossamer Years : Noblewoman of Heian Japan Ha-Ha, Dave King 6/05 Harry Potter #4 Goblet of Fire 8/15/00 HARRY POTTER #5 Order of the Phoenix(7/03) Harry Potter & Deathly Hallows, Aug. 22 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (#6) Rawlings 8/05 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 9/99 Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson 2/99 HIGHEST TIDE, Jim Lynch July 9th House Of The Spirits---- IsabelAllende5/98 In A Sunburned Country Bill Bryson 7/06 In the Woods Tanya Hill Jan 03 2009 Into The Forest-- Hegland 4/98 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 9/99 Jane Austen Book Club 7/04 Jane Eyre -Charlotte Bronte 7/97 Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Clarke 1/05 Keeper Of The House -Shirley Ann Grau 9/97 Kite Runner 11/04 Known World, E Jones 10/04 La Maravilla-Vea4/24/01 LACE READER by B. Barry Sept 27 Last Orders by Graham Swift 6/02 Lesson Before Dying/Gathering Of Old Men--Ernest Gaines 7/98 Liars Club -Mary Karr 2/97 Little Altars EverywhereRebecca WellsL/97 Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight In Heaven by SAlexie 6/99 Longitude -Dava Sobel Jan/Feb 1997 Love's Executioner--Irvin Yalom 2/98 Map of Glass, Urquhart 04/07 Me Talk Pretty One Day--David Sedaris (05/03) Meaning of Night, M Cox, 01/07 Medea, by Euripedes 10/99 Memoirs Of A Geisha ----Arthur Golden 6/98 Memory of Running, Mclarty 3/05 Men And The Girls -Joanna Trollope Jan/Feb 6997 Middlesex by Eugenides 12/03 Mistress Of Spices Divakaruni 8/99 Monkeewrench PJ Tracy 8/04 MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON, Lauren Goff August 6th Murdered House, Magnan 02/07 My Antonia--Willa Cather 12/99 My Name is Red-Orhan Pamuck 11/03 Ninth Life of Louis Drax, Liz Jensen 12/05 No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by A McCall Smith 10/02 On Beulah Height--Reginald Hill 11/00 ORDINARY WOLVES Seth Kantner, JULY 18 Other Side Of The Bridge By Mary Lawson 6/08 Painted Veil By William Somerset Maugham 2/08 Paradise- Toni Morrison3/98 Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler 11/98 Patty Jane's House Of Curl - Lorna Landvik 11/97 Peace like a River, Enger 7/05 People's Act of Love 5/06 Peyton Place, G. Metallius 9/06 Piano Tuner Daniel Mason 3/04 Pigs In Heaven -BarbaraKingsolver12/96 Place of Execution-Val McDermid 10/3/00 Place Where the Sea Remembers, Benitez, 5/23/00 Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver 12/98 Possession--A.S. Byatt9/25/01 Potiki by Patricia Grace 9/03 Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving 10/98 Prisoner in a Red Rose Chain-Jeffrey Moore 12/19/00 Prodigal Summer--Kingsolver 3/13/01 Professor and the Madman Simon Winchester 3/99 Raney Clyde Edgerton 11/98 Reading Lolita In Tehran 6/04 Rebecca (Du Maurier) 1/02 Red-Tails In Love Marie Winn4/11/00 Rise to Rebellion (Shaara) 11/27/01 Rocking The Babies -LindaRaymond 7/97 Saint - Catherine Bell12/96 SAVAGE GARDEN, Mark Mills August 27th Secret Life Of Bees Kidd (01/03) Secret River, Grenville 05/07 Secret History by Donna Tartt--Oct 18 Seven Sisters Drabble 9/04 Severed Head (Murdoch) 1/02 Shadow of the Wind, Zafon 2/05 Short History of a Small Place--Pearson (12/01) Sleeping Arrangements & Cronkite 8/28/01 Sleeping At The Starlite Motel -Bailey White 8/97 Snobs, Julian Fellowes 9/05 Snow Flower & the Secret Fan, Lisa See 10/05 Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell 5/99 STANDING IN THE RAINBOW Fannie Flagg (alt. 01/03) Statement - Brian Moore 6/97 Stolen Child, Donohue 9/06 Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Wroblewski 1/31/09 Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor (03/03) Suite Francaise, Nemirovsky 03/07 Tenderness of Wolves Stef Penney, Oct 17 Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Zora Neale Hurston 6/98 These is My Words Nancy Turner 4/99 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 11/98 Thirteenth Tale by Setterfield Dec 13 Thousand Acres -JaneSmiley 5/97 Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, Sept 19 Thread of Grace, Russel 4/05 Tin Drum-Gunter Grass 2/00 TRIP TO THE STARS by Nicholas Christopher,June 20 Tumbling -Diane McKinney-Whetstone 5/97 Ursula Under by Ingrid Hill 11/05 Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O'Farrell Nov 07 Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire 5/05 Watchers -Dean Koontz 6/97 Weight of Water -AnitaShreve 8/98 When the Emperor Was Divine-Julie Otsuka (02/03) When We Were Orphans -Kazuo Ishiguro 2/6/01 White Teeth by Zadie Smith 9/26/00 White Widow-Jim Lehrer-12/5/00 Wicked-GregoryMaguire12/97 Widow For One Year -John Irving 7/98 Wild Sheep Chase, Murakami 5/9/00 Wild Swans - Three Daughters Of China-Jung Chang 10/97 Woman of the Inner Sea Thomas-Keneally 8/98 Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story, Diane Ackerman 5/08
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