2nd Tuesday Book Discussion Titles 1997-2007

SECOND TUESDAY
BOOK DISCUSSION TITLES FROM
1997-2007
The Second Tuesday Book Discussion Groups for adults are led by a member of
the Library's Reader's Advisory staff.
(In alphabetical order; nonfiction titles indicated by call number)
The following titles are fiction unless otherwise noted.
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann (970.011
MAN)
After Rain William Trevor
Ali and Nino Kurban Said
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes Maya Angelou B Angelou
All over but the Shoutin’ Rick Bragg B Bragg
All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: an American Misfit in India Rachel Manija
Brown (915.4 BRO)
All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and the End of the Universe Charles
Seife (523.1 SEI)
American Appetites Joyce Carol Oates
American Sphinx: the Character of Thomas Jefferson Joseph J. Ellis 973.46092 ELL
American Theocracy: the Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money
in the 21st Century
Kevin P. Phillips (973.93 PHI)
Amy and Isabelle Elizabeth Strout
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us James
Carroll 813.54 CAR
An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood Jimmy Carter B Carter
Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner
Animal Dreams Barbara Kingsolver
April 1865: The Month that Saved America Jay Winik 973.7 WIN
Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy Robert McNamara
959.7043 ARG
The Ash Garden Dennis Bock
Ava’s Man Rick Bragg B Bundrum
The Bee Season Myla Goldberg
The Beginning and the End Naguib Mahfouz
Behind the Scenes at the Museum Kate Atkinson
Beloved Toni Morrison
Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home George Howe
Colt (974.492 COL)
Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
The Book of Famous Iowans Douglas Bauer
Bound Feet & Western Dress Pang-Mei Natasha Chang 305.420951 CHA
Bound for Canaan: the Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of
America Fergus Bordewich (973.7115 BOR)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder
Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Buffalo Soldier Christopher A. Bohjalian
Burden of Desire Robert MacNeill
Charms for the Easy Life Kaye Gibbons
Children of God Mary Doria Russell
Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared M. Diamond (304.28 DIA)
The Color of Water James McBride 947.7100496 MCB
The Complete Stories Flannery O’Connor
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron
Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
Crossing to Safety Wallace Stegner
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton
Dark Remedy: The Impact of Thalidomide and Its Revival as a Vital Medicine Trent
Stephens 615.782 STE
Dark Star Safari: Overland From Cairo to Cape Town Paul Theroux (916 THE)
Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed
America Erik Larson (364.1523 LAR)
Dina’s Book Herbjorg Wassmo
Disgrace J. M. Coetzee
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Rebecca Wells
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Alexandra Fuller (968.9104
FUL)
Down to a Soundless Sea Thomas Steinbeck
The Dream of Scipio Iain Pears
Dreams From My Father: a Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama
Dreams of My Russian Summers Andrei Makine
The Echo Maker Richard Power
Eleanor and Harry: the Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S.
Truman Eleanor Roosevelt 973.918 ROO
Eleanor of Aquitaine Alison Weir B Eleanor
Eleni Nicholas Gage 949.5074 GAG
Empire Falls Richard Russo
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time Jeffrey Sachs (339.46 SAC)
The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
Evening Class Maeve Binchy
Fair and Tender Ladies Lee Smith
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
Galileo’s Daughter: a Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love Dava Sobel 520.92
SOB
The Ginger Tree Oswald Wynd
A Girl Named Zippy Haven Kimmel (B Kimmel)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Stephen King
The Giver Lois Lowry
The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams (812.54 WIL)
The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina Frank
Rich (973.93 RIC)
The Ha-ha Dave King
The Haj Leon Uris
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
He, She and It Marge Piercy
The History of Love Nicole Krauss
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times Studs Terkel (920 TER)
The Hours Michael Cunningham
The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros
How the Canyon Became Grand Stephen J. Pyne 979.1 PYN
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Julia Alvarez
The Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh
I Dreamed of Africa Kuki Gallmann 967.6204 GAL
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves and the Creation of America Henry
Wiencek (973.41092 WIE)
In a Sunburned Country Bill Bryson 919.4 BRY
In America Susan Sontag
The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai
In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories Jhumpa Lahiri
Iron and Silk Mark Salzman
Jayber Crow: a Novel Wendell Berry
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
The Known World Edward P. Jones
The Last Report of the Miracles at Little No Horse Louise Erdrich
Letters from Yellowstone Diane Smith
The Lexus and the Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 337 FRI
The Life of Pi Yann Martel
Lindbergh A. Scott Berg B Lindbergh
Linked: The New Science of Networks Albert-Laszlo Barabasi 003.7 BAR
The Living Annie Dillard
Long Way Home Connie Briscoe
Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World after September 11 Thomas L.Friedman
973.931 FRI
The Lost Painting: the Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece Jonathan Harr (759.5 HAR)
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Love Wife Gish Jen
The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
The Magician’s Wife Brian Moore
Mary and O’Neil Justin Cronin
The Master Colm Tóibín
The Mayflower: a Story of Courage, Community, and War Nathaniel Philbrick (973.22
PHI)
Mayor of Casterbridge: the Story of a Man of Character Thomas Hardy
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: a Savannah Story John Berendt 975.8724 BER
Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare (822.33 P7)
Miles from Nowhere: A Round-the-World Bicycle Adventure Barbara Savage
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough
Mother to Mother Sindiwe Magona
Mountain City Gregory Martin 979.316 MAR
Mrs. Bridge Evan Connell
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
My Antonia Willa Cather
My Invented Country: a Nostalgic Journey Through Chile Isabel Allende (863.64 ALL)
The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
Nothing Like It in the World: the Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 18631869 Stephen Ambrose 385.0973 AMB
The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus,
Antigone Sophocles (882.01 SOP)
On Beauty Zadie Smith
One Thousand White Women: the Journals of May Dodd Jim Fergus
Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty
Our Mother’s War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War
II Emily Yellin (940.53082 YEL)
Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa Keith Richburg 306.0967 RIC
The Painted Drum Louise Erdrich
The Painted House John Grisham
The Passion of Artemesia Susan Vreeland
Pavilion of Women Pearl Buck
Peace Like a River Leif Enger
The Perfect Storm: a True Story of Men Against the Sea Sebastian Junger 974.45 JUN
Personal History Katharine Graham B Graham
Peyton Place Grace Metalious
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
Plainsong Kent Haruf
The Plot Against America Philip Roth
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
Popular Music From Vittula Mikael Niemi
Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time Michael Perry 808.883 PER
The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
The Professor’s House Willa Cather
The Puttermesser Papers Cynthia Ozick
The Rape of Nanking: the Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Iris Chang 951.042 CHA
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books Azar Nafisi (820.9 NAF)
Red Azalea Anchee Min 951.05092 MIN
The Red Tent Anita Diamant
Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
Remembering Laughter Wallace Stegner
Reversible Errors Scott Turow
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey Candice Millard (981.13
MIL)
The River Why David James Duncan
Road from Coorain Jill Ker Conway B Conway
Ruin Creek David Payne
The Samurai’s Garden Gail Tsukiyama
Saturday Ian McEwan
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay Nancy Milford B Millay
Shadow Divers: the True Adventures of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve
One of the Last Mysteries of World War II Robert Kurson (940.5451 KUR)
Shalimar the Clown Salman Rushdie
She Walks These Hills Sharyn McCrumb
The Singing C. K. Williams
The Siege Helen Dunmore
Slaves in the Family Edward Ball 975.7915 BAL
Staggerford Jon Hassler
Standing in the Rainbow Fannie Flagg
Stones from the River Ursula Hegi
The Stories of Eva Luna Isabel Allende
Suite Française Irene Nemirovsky
Tears of the Cheetah: and Other Tales from the Genetic Frontline Stephen J.O’
Brien (591.35 OBR)
The Tender Bar: a Memoir J. R. Moehringer (070.92 MOE)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
These Is My Words: the Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories, a
Novel Nancy E. Turner
The Thief of Time Tony Hillerman
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Three Junes Julia Glass
Tiger Ladies: a Memoir of Kashmir Sudha Koul 954.6 KOU
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Tortilla Curtain T. Coraghessan Boyle
Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard
Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons Mary Kingsley 916.7
KIN
The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and
See Naomi Wolf (813.54 WOL)
Trinity Leon Uris
True Notebooks Mark Salzman
Tuesdays with Morrie: an Old Man, a Young Man, and Lifes Greatest Lesson Mitch
Albom 378.12092 ALB
Two Lives William Trevor
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the
American West Stephen E. Ambrose 973.46 AMB
An Unfinished Life Mark Spragg
Vanishing Acts Jodi Picoult
The Voyage of the Narwhal Andrea Barrett
Walking Across Egypt Clyde Edgerton
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart Alice Walker
West with the Night Beryl Markham B Markham
What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response Bernard Lewis
956.015 LEW
When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka
When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro
Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Gregory Maguire
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang 951.05 CHA
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare Stephen Greenblatt (822.33
GRE)
The World Is Flat: a Brief History of the Twenty-first Century Thomas L. Friedman
World War II Robert Kurson (940.5451 KUR)
Year of Wonders: a Novel of the Plague Geraldine Brooks (YA FIC BROOKS) (303.4833
FRI)