2009-10 Book Discussion Schedule

July 11 '10 7:00 Girls from Ames (Zaslow) Christensen
(at Grace)
Aug 8 '10 7:00 Lesson Before Dying (Gaines) Doerges or Moser?
Sept 12 '10 7:00 Giants in the Earth (Rolvaag) Soloman
Oct 10 '10 7:00 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Ford) Powers
Nov 14 '10 7:00 Reliable Wife (Goolrick) Tabbert/Rasmussen
Dec 12 '10 7:00 The Help (Stockett) Doerges
Jan 9 '11 7:00 Great Upheaval (Winik) Swanson
Feb 13 '11 7:00 All Iowa Reads TBD
Mar 13 '11 7:00 Snowflower and the Secret Fan (Yee) TBD
Ap 10 '11 7:00 Other Wes Moore (Moore) TBD

 

................................. Past Selections

Time Traveler's Wife (Niffenegger)
Splendid Solution (Kruger)
Children's Blizzard (Laskin)
Color Purple (Walker)
Devil in the White City (Larson)
My Sister's Keeper (Picoult)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
Historian (Kostova)
The Road (McCarthy)
Life/Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (Bryson)
Gilead (Robinson)
Eventide (Haruf)
Empire Falls (Russo)

April 1865 (Winik)
Million Little Pieces (Frey)
Kite Runner (Hosseini)
In Cold Blood (Capote)
Wicked (Maguire)
Angle of Repose (Stegner)
Harry Potter/ the Sorcerer's Stone (Rowling)
Skipping Christmas (Grisham)
Sam: the Boy Behind the Mask (Hallman)
Five People You Meet in Heaven (Albom)
Niagara Falls All Over Again (McCracken)
Master Butcher's Singing Club (Erdrich)
Riding the Bus With My Sister (Simon)
Sailing Alone Across the Room (Collins)
Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Leaving the Home Front (Karr)
Thumbs, Toes, and Tears (Walter)
Rope Walk (Brown)
Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Conviction (Patterson)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Dick)
Laramime Project
Cold Sassy Tree (Burns)
Faith Under Fire
Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)


Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain)
Peace Like a River (Enger)
Frankenstein (Shelley)
Dracula (Stokes)
Martin Luther biography
Screwtape Letters (Lewis)
Great Divorce (Lewis)
Night (Wiesel)
Book of the Dun Cow (Wangerin)
Handling Sin (Malone)
DaVinci Code (Brown)
Cry, the Beloved Country (Paton)
Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)

The Pearl (Steinbeck)
East of Eden (Steinbeck)

Red Tent (Diamant)
Our Town (Wilder)
Life of Pi (Martel)
Angels and Demons (Brown)
Midnight Assassin (Wolf)
Blink (Gladwell)
Digging to America (Tyler)
River of Doubt (Millard)
Glass Castle (Wall)
Innocent Man (Grisham)
Thousand Spelendid Suns (Hosseini)
Under the Banner of Heaven (Krakauer)
Thread of Grace (Russell)

Just Revenge (Dershowitz)
Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)

Listening is an Act of Love (Isay)
Good Earth (Buck)
Zoo Keeper's Wife (Ackerman)

Long Way Gone (Beah)
The Shack (Young)
Driftless (Rhoads)
Standing Tall (Stringer)
John Adams (McCullough)
Secret Life of Bees (Kidd)