Past Titles - Tuesday Morning Group

2007 and Earlier

Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain

Divine Inspiration - Jane Langton

Pretty Blonde Girls - Penelope Davidson (local author)

Any book by Ray Bradbury

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

To America by Steven Ambrose

The Guns of Babel by Carolyn Pankhurst

The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

Any book by Jane Austen

California Uncovered: Stories of the 21st Century

God and Mr. Gomez by Jack Smith

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Melba Beals

My Antonia by Willa Cather

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie

The Chestnut Tree by Charlotte Bingham

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

Tara's Secret by William Garlington

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute

A Primate's Memoir by Robert Sapolsky

Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Old Beauty and Others by Willa Cather

Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Any book by James Thurber

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Innocent Man by John Grisham

Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole by Jerri Nielsen

Any Book by James Michener 

2008

January 8, 2008 - In a Sunburned Country by Bill         Bryson 

February 12, 2008 - Tortilla Curtain by T. C.                 Boyle 

March 11, 2008 - Ramona by Helen Hunt                 Jackson

April 8, 2008 - Three Cups of Tea by Greg                     Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

May 13, 2008 - Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

June 10, 2008 - Any collection of short stories by             Alice Munro

July 8, 2008 - Confederates in the Attic (or Blue             Latitudes or A Voyage Long and Strange)          by Tony Horwitz

August 12, 2008 - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter             by Carson McCullers

September 9, 2008  - The Handmaid's Tale by             Margaret Atwood

October 14, 2008 - Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo             Anaya

November 11, 2008 Any title by Anita Shreve

2009

January 13, 2009 - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

February 10, 2009 - What Is the What by Dave Eggers

March 10, 2009 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

April 13, 2009 - The Overcoat and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol

May 12, 2009  Rabbit, Run by John Updike

June 9, 2009 Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

July 14, 2009 A Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama

Aug. 11, 2009 The Soloist by Steve Lopez

Sept. 8, 2009 Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Oct. 13, 2009 The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

Nov. 10, 2009  Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

December, 2009  --  No Meeting

2010

January 12, 2010 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

February 9, 2010 - The Known World by Edward P. Jones

March 9, 2010 - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

April 13, 2010 - Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder

May 11, 2010 - The Help by Kathryn Stockett

June 8, 2010 - The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

July 13, 2010 - Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

August 10, 2010 - We Are Our Mothers' Daughters by Cokie Roberts

September 14, 2010 - White Noise by Don DeLillo

October 11, 2010 - The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

November 8, 2010 - Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

2011

January 11, 2011 - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese  

February 8, 2011 - Will War Ever End? and The End of War both by Captain Paul K. Chappell

March 8, 2011 - The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates

April 12, 2011 - The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

May 10, 2011 - How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill

June 14, 2011 - House Rules by Jodi Picoult

July 12, 2011 - My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar

August 9, 2011 - The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles

September 13, 2011 - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

October 11, 2011 - 1491 by Charles Mann

November  8, 2011 - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Dec. 2015 - no meeting

2012

January 10, 2012 - The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

February 14, 2012 - Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle

March 13, 2012 - A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit

April 10, 2012 - The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen

May 8, 2012 - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

June 12, 2012 - We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

July 10, 2012 - The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

Aug. 14, 2012 -  The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Sept. 11, 2012 - The Big Thirst by Charles Fishman

Oct. 9, 2012 - Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Nov. 13, 2012 - The Submission: A Novel by Amy Waldman

2013

Jan. 8, 2013 - In the Garden of  Beasts by Eric Larson

Feb. 12, 2013 - My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor

March 12, 2013 - Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter  (This is the selection for our 2013 One City/One Book program.)

April 9, 2013 - On the Road by Jack Kerouac

May 14, 2013 - The Hornet's Nest - by Jimmy Carter

June 11, 2013 - Barbarian Nurseries by Héctor Tobar

July 9, 2013 - Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf  

Aug. 13, 2013 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Sept. 10, 2013 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Oct. 8, 2013 - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Nov. 12, 2013 - City of Women by David R. Gillham

December - no meeting

2014

Jan. 14, 2014 - Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Feb. 11, 2014 - The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

March 11, 2014 - Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford (The One City/One Book selection for 2014.)

April 8, 2014 - My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

May 13, 2014 - The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian

June 10, 2014 - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

July 8, 2014 - Any Place I Hang My Hat by Susan Isaacs  (Terry)

Aug. 12, 2014 - Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Roseanne)

Sept. 9, 2014 - These Is My Words by Nancy Turner (Michal)

Oct. 14, 2014- What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes (Barbara?)

Nov. 11, 2014 - Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

2015

Jan. 13, 2015 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Feb. 10, 2015 - The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein  (Jo)

March 10, 2015 - The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea  (Barbara)

April 14, 2015 - The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown  (Kris)

May 12, 2015 - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Steve)

June 9, 2015 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Sandy)

July 14, 2015 - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Jo for Sandy) 

August 11, 2015 -  Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner  (Steve) 

September 8, 2015 - The Orenda by Joseph  Boyden (Barbara) 

Oct. 13, 2015 - Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward  (Arlene)

Nov. 10, 2015 - Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Márquez  (Jo)

Dec. 2015 - no meeting

2016

Jan. 12, 2016 - Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner (Steve)

Feb. 9, 2016 - We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride - Sandy

March 8, 2016- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai - Jo

April 12, 2016 - The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande  (The One City book.)

May 10, 2016 - Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson - Ro

June 14, 2016 - A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley - Sandy

July 12, 2016 -  The English Assassin by Daniel Silva  Leader - Arlene

August 9, 2016 - Horse Boy by Rupert Isaacson   Leader- Marie

September 13, 2016 - A Man Called Ove -By Fredrik Backman  Leader- Ro

October 11, 2016 - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah  Leader- Kris

November 8, 2016 - All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg   Leader- Alice

2017

Jan. 10, 2017 - Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Steve)

Feb. 14, 2017 - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (Alice)

Mar. 14, 2017 -  Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Ro)

Apr. 11, 2017 - Darktown by Thomas Mullen  (Glenda)

May 9, 2017 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (Sandy)

June 13, 2017 - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Arlene)

July 11, 2017 - Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance (Sandy)

Aug. 8, 2017 - The Turner House by Angela Flournoy (Alice)

Sept. 12, 2017 - A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron (Kris)

Oct. 10, 2017 - Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls (Arlene)

Nov. 14, 2017 - Glory Over Everything:  Beyond the Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom (Jan)

2018


2007 and Earlier

Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain

Divine Inspiration - Jane Langton

Pretty Blonde Girls - Penelope Davidson (local author)

Any book by Ray Bradbury

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

To America by Steven Ambrose

The Guns of Babel by Carolyn Pankhurst

The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

Any book by Jane Austen

California Uncovered: Stories of the 21st Century

God and Mr. Gomez by Jack Smith

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Melba Beals

My Antonia by Willa Cather

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie

The Chestnut Tree by Charlotte Bingham

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

Tara's Secret by William Garlington

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute

A Primate's Memoir by Robert Sapolsky

Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Old Beauty and Others by Willa Cather

Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Any book by James Thurber

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Innocent Man by John Grisham

Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole by Jerri Nielsen

Any Book by James Michener 

2008

January 8, 2008 - In a Sunburned Country by Bill         Bryson 

February 12, 2008 - Tortilla Curtain by T. C.                 Boyle 

March 11, 2008 - Ramona by Helen Hunt                 Jackson

April 8, 2008 - Three Cups of Tea by Greg                     Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

May 13, 2008 - Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

June 10, 2008 - Any collection of short stories by             Alice Munro

July 8, 2008 - Confederates in the Attic (or Blue             Latitudes or A Voyage Long and Strange)          by Tony Horwitz

August 12, 2008 - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter             by Carson McCullers

September 9, 2008  - The Handmaid's Tale by             Margaret Atwood

October 14, 2008 - Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo             Anaya

November 11, 2008 Any title by Anita Shreve

2009

January 13, 2009 - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

February 10, 2009 - What Is the What by Dave Eggers

March 10, 2009 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

April 13, 2009 - The Overcoat and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol

May 12, 2009  Rabbit, Run by John Updike

June 9, 2009 Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

July 14, 2009 A Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama

Aug. 11, 2009 The Soloist by Steve Lopez

Sept. 8, 2009 Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Oct. 13, 2009 The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

Nov. 10, 2009  Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

December, 2009  --  No Meeting

2010

January 12, 2010 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

February 9, 2010 - The Known World by Edward P. Jones

March 9, 2010 - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

April 13, 2010 - Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder

May 11, 2010 - The Help by Kathryn Stockett

June 8, 2010 - The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

July 13, 2010 - Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

August 10, 2010 - We Are Our Mothers' Daughters by Cokie Roberts

September 14, 2010 - White Noise by Don DeLillo

October 11, 2010 - The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

November 8, 2010 - Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

2011

January 11, 2011 - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese  

February 8, 2011 - Will War Ever End? and The End of War both by Captain Paul K. Chappell

March 8, 2011 - The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates

April 12, 2011 - The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

May 10, 2011 - How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill

June 14, 2011 - House Rules by Jodi Picoult

July 12, 2011 - My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar

August 9, 2011 - The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles

September 13, 2011 - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

October 11, 2011 - 1491 by Charles Mann

November  8, 2011 - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Dec. 2015 - no meeting

2012

January 10, 2012 - The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

February 14, 2012 - Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle

March 13, 2012 - A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit

April 10, 2012 - The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen

May 8, 2012 - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

June 12, 2012 - We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

July 10, 2012 - The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

Aug. 14, 2012 -  The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Sept. 11, 2012 - The Big Thirst by Charles Fishman

Oct. 9, 2012 - Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Nov. 13, 2012 - The Submission: A Novel by Amy Waldman

2013

Jan. 8, 2013 - In the Garden of  Beasts by Eric Larson

Feb. 12, 2013 - My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor

March 12, 2013 - Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter  (This is the selection for our 2013 One City/One Book program.)

April 9, 2013 - On the Road by Jack Kerouac

May 14, 2013 - The Hornet's Nest - by Jimmy Carter

June 11, 2013 - Barbarian Nurseries by Héctor Tobar

July 9, 2013 - Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf  

Aug. 13, 2013 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Sept. 10, 2013 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Oct. 8, 2013 - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Nov. 12, 2013 - City of Women by David R. Gillham

December - no meeting

2014

Jan. 14, 2014 - Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Feb. 11, 2014 - The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

March 11, 2014 - Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford (The One City/One Book selection for 2014.)

April 8, 2014 - My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

May 13, 2014 - The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian

June 10, 2014 - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

July 8, 2014 - Any Place I Hang My Hat by Susan Isaacs  (Terry)

Aug. 12, 2014 - Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Roseanne)

Sept. 9, 2014 - These Is My Words by Nancy Turner (Michal)

Oct. 14, 2014- What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes (Barbara?)

Nov. 11, 2014 - Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

2015

Jan. 13, 2015 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Feb. 10, 2015 - The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein  (Jo)

March 10, 2015 - The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea  (Barbara)

April 14, 2015 - The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown  (Kris)

May 12, 2015 - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Steve)

June 9, 2015 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Sandy)

July 14, 2015 - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Jo for Sandy) 

August 11, 2015 -  Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner  (Steve) 

September 8, 2015 - The Orenda by Joseph  Boyden (Barbara) 

Oct. 13, 2015 - Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward  (Arlene)

Nov. 10, 2015 - Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Márquez  (Jo)

Dec. 2015 - no meeting

2016

Jan. 12, 2016 - Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner (Steve)

Feb. 9, 2016 - We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride - Sandy

March 8, 2016- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai - Jo

April 12, 2016 - The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande  (The One City book.)

May 10, 2016 - Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson - Ro

June 14, 2016 - A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley - Sandy

July 12, 2016 -  The English Assassin by Daniel Silva  Leader - Arlene

August 9, 2016 - Horse Boy by Rupert Isaacson   Leader- Marie

September 13, 2016 - A Man Called Ove -By Fredrik Backman  Leader- Ro

October 11, 2016 - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah  Leader- Kris

November 8, 2016 - All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg   Leader- Alice

2017

Jan. 10, 2017 - Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Steve)

Feb. 14, 2017 - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (Alice)

Mar. 14, 2017 -  Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Ro)

Apr. 11, 2017 - Darktown by Thomas Mullen  (Glenda)

May 9, 2017 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (Sandy)

June 13, 2017 - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Arlene)

July 11, 2017 - Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance (Sandy)

Aug. 8, 2017 - The Turner House by Angela Flournoy (Alice)

Sept. 12, 2017 - A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron (Kris)

Oct. 10, 2017 - Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls (Arlene)

Nov. 14, 2017 - Glory Over Everything:  Beyond the Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom (Jan)

2018