Glen Ellyn Public Library Adult Book Discussion Books 2000-present

2011
January - Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
February - Cherries in Winter by Suzan Colon
March - Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
April - Train Go Sorry by Leah Go Cohn

2010
January - A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
February - Austerlitz by Winfried Georg Sebald
March - The Women by T.C. Boyle
April - The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton
May - Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
June - Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
July - Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
August - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
September - The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman
October - Invisible Mountain by Carolina de Robertis
November - Book Chat
December - No discussion

2009
January - No discussion
February - The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
March - The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
April - Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy by Louise Knight
May - Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
June - On Beauty by Zadie Smith
July - Keeping the House by Ellen Baker
August - Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
September - Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
October - The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr
November - Book Chat
December - No discussion

2008
January - No discussion
February -Waxwings by Jonathan Raban
March - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
April - The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman
May -The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
June - Shattered Dreams by Irene Spencer
July - Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
August - Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
September -
October - "The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl" by Timothy Egan
November - "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
December - No Discussion. Book Chat Round-up

2007
January - Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
February - Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
March - Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
April - Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
May - When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
June - The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
July - Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
August - Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
September - Into the Forest by Jean Hegeland
October - Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
November - The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer
December No discussion; "Book Chat" program

2006
January - Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
February - She's Not There by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
March - How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
April - We were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
May - The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare
June - Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
July - The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre
August - Chocolat by Joanne Harris
September - Courtroom 302 by Steve Bogira
October - Leap of Faith by Queen Noor
November - Crossing California by Adam Langer
December - Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

2005
January Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
February The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
March Empire Falls by Richard Russo
April Brick Lane by Monica Ali
May Widows by Ariel Dorfman
June Independence Day by Richard Ford
July Unwanted: A Memoir by Kien Nguyen
August Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo
September 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer
October Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn
November Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
December Atonement by Ian McEwan

2004
January A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery Occoner
February A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
March Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
April Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
May Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
June Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
July Persuasion by Jane Austen
August The Last Ride by Tom Eidson
September Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
October The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
November Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills

2003
January Arranged Marriage by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
February About Schmidt by Louis Begley
March Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
April The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
May An Unquiet Mind by Kay Jamison
June Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
July Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama
August Dollmaker by Harriette Louisa Simpson Arnow
September Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
October Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
November Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt
December Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

2002
January When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
February Island of Lost Maps by Miles Harvey
March All Over but the Shoutin by Rick Bragg
April Heros Walk by Anita Rau Badami
May Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
June Genie: an abused Child's Flight from Silence by Russ Rymer
July Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
August Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
September Asylum by Patrick McGrath
October American Pharaoh by Adam Cohen
November Empire Falls by Richard Russo
December Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

2001
January Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
February Plainsong by Kent Haruf
March Moving Violations by John Hockenberry
April Piano Lessons by Noah Adams
May Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
June Summer by Edith Wharton
July Picnic by William Inge
August Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
September The Hours by Michael Cunningham
October The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
November House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
December Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

2000
January The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
February Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
March The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey
April I, Claudius by Robert Graves
May Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
June Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
July Rabbit Run by John Updike
August All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein
September Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
October Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
November Death in the Family by James Agee
December Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson

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