Here is an updated list of books we have read in our Lit Group. If you old timers remember some not on the list please email titles and authors to me and I will be glad to add them. Going strong after 22 years!
"Reading good books ruins you for reading bad ones." from The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by MaryAnn Shaffer
Books We Have Reviewed
updated 5/2011
Africa
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Covenant by JamesMichner
Poisinwood Bible by Barbara Kingsovler
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Asia/India
Letter From Peking by Pearl Buck
The Good Earth bby Pearl Buck
LIfe and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
LIfe of Pi by Yann Martel
City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre
Beyond the Blue by Leslie Gould
Australia
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
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From Strength to Strength by Sarah Henderson
A Town LIke Alice by Nevil Shute
Spose I Die by Hector HolthouseNative American
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
Sacajewea by Anna Lee Waldo
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
Americana
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn b Betty Smith
Gap Creek by Rober Morgan
The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Bus Stop by William Inge
The Bridge Of San Luis Rey by Thorton Wilder
Having Our Say by Sarah Louise Delaney
Family: a Novel by J. California Cooper
LIttle House in the Ozarks by Laura Ingalls Wilder
LIttle Women by Louisa May Alcott
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
Handyman by Linda Nichols
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Skippig Christmas by John Grisham
The Painted House by John Grisham
Testament by John Grisham
Those Who Love; A biographical novel of Abigail and John Adams by Irving Stone
The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchey
This Year It Will Be Different and Other Stories: A Christmas Treasury by Maeve Binchy
Girl In Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
The Color of Water by James McBride
Grapes of Wrath by John Stienbeck
The Lumby LInes by Gail Fraser
A Red Bird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
The Help by kathryn Stockett
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Anne
These Is My Words by Nancy Turner
The Christmas Jars by Jason Wright
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Malcoomber
The Sojouner by Marjorie Rawlings
The Christmas Pearl by Dorthea Frank
ʼs House of Dreams by Lucy MontgomeryJews
The Chosen by Chiam Potak
The Gift of Asher Lev by Chiam Potak
Raquela
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The Genizah by Tamar Yellin
Great Britain/France
The Little Prince byAntoine de Saint Exupery
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Harry Potter J.K. Rowling
Enchanted April by Elizabeth
Emily Dickinson poetry
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Tess of the D
Les Miserables Victor Hugo
Jane Erye by Charlotte Bronte
The DaVincci Code by Dan Brown
books by George McDonald
As the Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer
Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespere
Mansfield Park by Jane Austin
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Moonraker
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
ʼUrbervilles by Thomas Hardyʼs Bride by Madeleine BrentLDS/Religion
Approaching Zion by Hugh NIbley
Glimpses, biography of Marjorie Hinckley
Screw Tape Letters by C. S. Lewis
The Great Divorce by c. S. Lewis
Nafanua by Paul Alan Cox
The Work and the Glory by Gerald N. Lund
Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bush
Book of Mormon
Self Help/Informative
Use What You Have Decorating by Laura Ward
I Don
The Last Lecture by Randy Prausch
The Philosopher
Outliers, the Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
ʼt Have to Make Everything All Better by Gary and Joy Lundbergʼs Diet by Richard WatsonMiddle East
The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Side by Farah Ahmedi
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
Stolen LIves by Malika Oufker
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen
Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferrais
Wars
Flyboys by James Bradley
The Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
Lee and Grant a duel biography by Gene Smith
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Geurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
MIddle Ages
Catherine Called Birdie by Karne Cushman
Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Pope Joan by Donna Cross
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Science Fiction
Tathea by Anne Perry
Other
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