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1 Reed Rainier Chapter Reading Group Past Readings Title Author Date The Joy Luck Club Tan 1991 Nice Work Lodge 1991 Fathers & Sons Turgenev 1991 Possession Byatt 1/92 All s Well That Ends Well Shakespeare 3/92 Ride With Me, Mariah Montana Doig 6/92 On Wings of Eagles Follett 7/92 Talking God Hillerman 8/92 The Temple of My Familiar Walker 9/92 Love in the Time of Cholera Garcia Marquez 10/92 Rebel Angel Davies 11/92 Saint Maybe Tyler 1/93 Pride & Prejudice Austen 3/93 A River Runs Through It Maclean 4/93 You Just Don t Understand Tannen 5/93 My Name Is Asher Lev Potok 6/93 Passage to India Forster 7/93 The Firm Grisham 8/93 War & Peace Tolstoy 9/93 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce 10/93 The Road Less Traveled Peck 11/93 Contact Sagan 12/93 Cold Sassy Tree Burns 1/94 Gaudy Night Sayers 2/94 On the Road from Coorain Conway 3/94 The Apprenticeship of Wilhelm Meister Goethe 4/94 The Age of Innocence Wharton 5/94 Stones for Ibarra Doerr 6/94 Aunt Julia & the Script Writer Vargas Llosa 7/94 Beloved Morrison 8/94 Animal Dreams Kingsolver 9/94 Remains of the Day Ishiguro 10/94 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Butler 11/94 Last Go Round Kesey & Babbs 12/94 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera 1/95 A Philosophical Investigation Kerr 2/95 Villette Bronte 3/95 Swann s Way Proust 4/95 Middle Passage Johnson 5/95 Smilla s Sense of Snow Hoeg 6/95 The Shipping News Proulx 7/95 Middlemarch Eliot 8/95 The Crying Heart Tatoo Martin 9/95 My Son s Story Gordimer 10/95 Arrogant Capital Phillips 11/95 Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson 12/95 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Sacks 1/96 A Thousand Acres Smiley 2/96

2 84 Charing Cross Road Hanff 3/96 The Natural Malamud 4/96 The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas 5/96 The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell Russell 6/96 To Kill a Mockingbird Lee 7/96 The House of the Spirits Allende 8/96 Light in August Faulkner 9/96 Justine Durrell 10/96 Sophie s World Gaarder 11/96 The Left Hand of Darkness LeGuin 1/97 Heat and Other Stories Oates 2/97 Guests of the Sheik Fernea 3/97 Regeneration Barker 4/97 Crossing to Safety Stegner 5/97 Moby Dick Melville 6/97 The English Patient Ondaatje 7/97 The Way through the Woods Dexter 8/97 Till We Have Faces Lewis 9/97 The Family Markowitz Goodman 10/97 What s Bred in the Bone Davies 11/97 The Ambassadors James 12/97 Reservation Blues/Indian Killer Alexie 1/98 Praying for Sheetrock Greene 2/98 The Death of Artemio Cruz Fuentes 3/98 A Long Fatal Love Chase Alcott 4/98 Angela s Ashes McCourt 5/98 Into Thin Air Krakauer 6/98 Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca Ford 7/98 The Old Curiosity Shop Dickens 8/98 A Civil Action Harr 9/98 Fugitive Pieces Michaels 10/98 The Idiot Dostoyevsky 11/98 Lolita Nabokov 1/99 When Memory Speaks Conway 2/99 Corelli s Mandolin DeBernieres 3/99 Bury Me Standing Fonseca 4/99 Cold Mountain Frazier 5/99 Labyrinthes Borges 6/99 Next of Kin Fouts 8/99 Straight Man Russo 9/99 Wait Till Next Year Goodwin 10/99 The Night Trilogy Wiesel 11/99 Henderson the Rain King Bellow 1/00 Madame Bovary Flaubert 2/00 Quite Early One Morning Thomas 4/00 The Pilot s Wife Shreve 5/00 Huckleberry Finn Twain 6/00 A Fairly Honorable Defeat Murdoch 7/00 The Brothers K Duncan 8/00 The Sun Also Rises Hemingway 9/00 The Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver 10/00 The Double Helix Watson 11/00

3 Grendel Gardner 12/00 When We Were Orphans Ishiguro 1/01 The Golden Gate Seth 2/01 The Charterhouse of Parma Stendahl 3/01 The Professor and the Madman Winchester 4/01 Cold Comfort Farm Gibbons 5/01 The Big Sea; an Autobiography Hughes 6/01 Sister of My Heart Divakaruni 7/01 The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck 8/01 Wild Life Gloss 9/01 The Hours Cunningham 10/01 The House of Mirth Wharton 11/01 Girl with a Pearl Earing Chevalier 1/ 02 A Clearing in the Distance Rybczunski 3/02 The God of Small Things Roy 4/02 Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath Undset 5/02 Stones from the River Hegi 6/02 A House for Mr. Biswas Naipaul 7/02 The Corrections Franzen 8/02 Copenhagen Frayn 11/02 The Flanders Panel Pérez Reverte 12/02 Common Ground Lukas 1/03 Fury Rushdie 2/03 Jane Austen: A Life Tomalin 3/03 The Dress Lodger Holman 4/03 The Same Sea Oz 5/03 The Master of Petersburg Coetzee 6/03 Galileo s Daughter Sobel 7/03 The Spirit Catches You & You Fall Down Fadiman 8/03 Bleak House Dickens 9/03 Dead Souls Gogol 10/03 Empire Falls Russo 11/03 Don Quixote Cervantes 1 /04 Atonement McEwan 2/04 The Feast of the Goat Vargas Llosa 3/04 Bel Canto Patchett 4/04 John Adams McCullough 5/04 Reading Lolita in Tehran Nafizi 6/04 Middlesex Eugenides 7/04 Life of Pi Martel 8/04 Daisy Miller James 9/04 One Hundred Years of Solitude García Marquez 10/04 Living to Tell the Tale García Marquez 11/04 Daniel Deronda Eliot 1/05 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Haddon 2/05 Night My Antonia Cather 3/05 The Scientific Revolution Shapin 4/05 Persepolis & Persepolis 2 Satrapi 5/05 East of Eden Steinbeck 6/05 The Known World Jones 8/05 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Chabon 10/05

4 Eichmann in Jerusalem Arendt 11/05 The Ornament of the World Menocal 1/06 War Trash Ha Jin 2/06 If on a winter s night a traveler Calvino 3/06 A Farewell to Arms Hemingway 4/06 The Kite Runner Houseini 5/06 Sense & Sensibility Austen 6/06 The Year of Magical Thinking Didion 7/06 Two Lives Seth 8/06 A Plot Against America Roth 9/06 Rabbit, Run Updike 10/06 Austerlitz Sebold 11/06 Persuasion Austen 2/07 Guns, Germs & Steel Diamond 3/07 Adam Bede Eliot 4/07 Midnight s Children Rushdie 5/07 Indiana Sand 6/07 Istanbul Pamuk 7/07 The China Study Campbell 8/07 The French Lieutenant s Woman Fowles 9/07 Citizen Vince Walter 10/07 The Namesake Lahiri 11/07 Team of Rivals Goodwin 1/08 Emma Austen 2/08 Silas Marner Eliot 3/08 The Golden Notebook Lessing 4/08 The God Strategy Domke & Coe 5/08 Suite Française Némirovsky 6/08 The Yiddish Policemen s Union Chabon 7/08 Away Bloom 8/08 The Penelopiad Atwood 9/08 Dreams for My Father Obama 10/08 The Bad Girl Vargas Llosa 11/08 Mill on the Floss Eliot 1/09 Run Patchett 2/09 Lost Illusions Balzac 3/09 Three Cups of Tea Mortenson & Relin 4/09 Sentimental Education Flaubert 5/09 Salt River Sallis 6/09 Prodigal Summer Kingsolver 7/09 The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the Coll 8/09 American Century Les Miserables, Hugo 10/09 The Nine Toobin 11/09 Middlemarch Eliot 1/10 The Dante Club Pearl 3/10 Out Stealing Horses Petterson 4/10 Cider House Rules Irving 6/10 The Reluctant Fundamentalist Hamid 7/10 All Passion Spent Sackville-West 9/10 David Copperfield Dickens 11/10 The Metaphysical Club Menand 1/11

5 The Education of Henry Adams Adams 2/11 The Elegance of the Hedgehog Barbery 3/11

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