Suggested Reading from
Kellen's Book Club

Book Group Reading List February 2008

The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perrotta
What I loved - Siri Hustvedt
Not Me - Michael Lavigne
The Triangle - Katherine Weber
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flauber
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Talk Talk - TC Boyle
The Uses of Enchantment - Heidi Julavits
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
The Echo Maker - Richard Powers
March - Geraldine Brooks
The Emperor's Children - Claire Messud
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
The Ghost at the Table - Suzanne Berne
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
The Pearl Diver - Jeff Talarigo
The Magician's Assistant - Ann Patchett
Garcia Marquez
Memories of My Meloncholy Whores (novella) - Gabriel
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Last Night (Short Storise) - James Salter
The History of Love - Nicole Krause
Courtesan - Dora Levy Mossanen (author event)
Aloft - Chang-rae Lee
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Sister of My Heart - Titra Divakaruni
Saturday - Ian McEwan
Four Souls - Louise Edrich
Broken for You - Stephanie Kallos
Runaway:Stories - Alice Munro
The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
Liars and Saints - Maile Meloy
Song of Names - Norman Lebrecht
Brick Lane - Monica Ali
Caucasia - Danzy Senna
The Kite Runner - Kalini Hosseini
The Known World - Edward P. Jones
Old School - Tobias Wolff
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
Monkey Hunting - Cristina Garcia (Author Event)
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Hosting Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
The Curious Incident of the Dog In the NightTime - Mark Haddon/Kellen
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Three Junes - Julia Glass
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime (Author Event)
Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand (no moderator)
Marriage a Duet - Anne Taylor Flemming (Author Event)
The Human Stain - Philip Roth
The Solace of Leaving Early - Haven Kimmel
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Crossing to Safety - Walace Stegner
My Antonia - Willa Cather
Short Stories by Anton Chekhov, Flannery O'Connor, Adam Haslett, Don Chaon and Tim O'Brien
In the Casa Azul - Meaghan Delahunt
The Ghost of Hannah Mendes - Naomi Ragen
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Atonement - Ian Pears
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage - Alice Munro
Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith/Sunday's Silence - Gina Nahai (Author Event)
Half a Life - V.S. Naipaul
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Highwire Moon - Susan Straight
Lying Awake - Mark Salzman
The Muse Assylum - David Czuchlewski
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
The Death of Vishnu - Manil Suri
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
1000 White Women - Jim Fergus (no moderator)
Approaching Eye Level - Vivian Gornick
The Feast of Love - Charles Baxter
The Girl in Hyacinth Blue - Susan Vreeland
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The Red Tent - Anita Diamont
Plainsong - Kent Haruf
The Country Life - Rachel Cusk
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
Amy and Isabelle - Elizabeth Strout