Glen Ellyn Public Library Adult Book Discussion Books 1991-1999

1999
January - Howard's End by E.M. Forster
February - Perfect Storm by Sebastien Junger
March - Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
April - Names of the Mountains by Reeve Lindbergh
May - Truman by David McCullough
June - My Antonia by Willa Cather
July - Billy Budd by Herman Melville
August - Ordinary Love and Good Will by Jane Smiley
September - The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd
October - Endurance by Caroline Alexander
November - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter by Sharyn McCrumb
December - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1998
January - Damascus Nights by Rafik Schami
February - Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
March - Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist
April - Color of Water by James McBride
May - Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
June - Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
July - Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
August - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
September - The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCraken
October - Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
November - Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks
December - Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

1997
January - Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
February - Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
March - Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne
April - Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell
May - Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
June - The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
July - Selections from Modern American Poetry
August - Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
September - Winesburg Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
October - Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
November - Mr. Ives Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
December - Lincoln by David Herbert Donald

1996
January - No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
February - The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
March - The Dubliners by James Joyce
April - Burr by Gore Vidal
May - In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
June - A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
July - The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
August - Light in August by William Faulkner
September - Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
October - In Retrospect by Robert S. McNamara
November - Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
December - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

1995
January - Shipping News by Anne Proulx
February - Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
March - Growing Up by Russell Baker
April - Summons to Memphis by Peter Hillsman Taylor
May - Common Ground by Andrew Cowan
June - Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
July - Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
August - Good War by Studs Terkel
September - The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
October - The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris

1994
January - Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
February - Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
March - There are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
April - The Other Side by Mary Gordon
May - Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
June - Family Pictures by Sue Miller
July - Parallel Lives by Phillis Rose
August - Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
September - Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie
October - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
November - A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot
December - Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

1993
January - Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder
February - Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski
March - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
April - All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
May - Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
June - Shaker Why Don't You Sing by Maya Angelou
July - Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
August - Ah Wilderness and Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene O'neill
September - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
October - Control of Nature by John McPhee
November - Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
December - Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean

1992
January - The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill
February - Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
March - Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
April - March of Folly by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
May - Admiral of the Ocean Sea: a life of Christopher Columbus by Samuel Eliot Morison
June - An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
July - Poetry of Mona Van Duyn
August - Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
September - Timebends by Arthur Miller
October - Sea of Grass by Conrad Richter
November - Crucible by Arthur Miller
December - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

1991
October - Middle Passage by Charles Richard Johnson
November - The Warden by Anthony Trollope
December - Road from Coorain by Jill Conway

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