THE WEST BABYLON LITERARY CLUB
(ESTABLISHED 10-29-87)
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Over the past 26 years, The West Babylon Literary Club has read and discussed:
1987
-Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
1988
-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
-Home Ground by Lynn Freed
-The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
-My Antonia by Willa Cather
-The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
-The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
-The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
-The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
-Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1989
-Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
-The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
-The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
-Plays by Bernard Shaw
-The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
-The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
-Tales and Sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne
-Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
-The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
-Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
-The Poems of Emily Dickinson
1990
-Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-First Ladies by Betty Boyd Caroli
-The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
-A Notorious Woman by Malcolm Ross-Macdonald
-Growing Up by Russell Baker
-Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
-Word of Honor by Nelson DeMille
-The Collected Stories of Colette
-When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip
1991
-The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
-Palace Walk by Najib Mahfouz
-Some Can Whistle by Larry McMurtry
-Cider House Rules by John Irving
-Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Llosa Vargas
-Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
-The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
-Rabbit, Run by John Updike
-The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
-Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
1992
-Time and Again by Jack Finney
-Crowns of Thorns and Glory by Gerry Van der Heuvel
-Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
-Opie’s Classic Fairy Tales
-Streets of Paradise by Anthony Mario DiFranco
-A Vision of Light by Judith Merkle Riley
-Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
-Queens of England by Norah Lofts
-The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
-The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
-Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel
1993
-The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
-Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
-The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson
-A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
-The Middleman & Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
-The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
-Beloved by Toni Morrison
-The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
1994
-Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
-Ordinary Love & Good Will by Jane Smiley
-Age of Innocense by Edith Wharton
-Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy
-Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
-Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis
-Before and After by Rosellen Brown
-Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle
-Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
1995
-Emma by Jane Austen
-Thomas Jefferson
-Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
-Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
-O Pioneers by Willa Cather
-Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
-Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
-Collected Works of Flannery O’Connor
-Favorite Childhood Poetry
1996
-Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
-Turn of the Screw by Henry James
-Chekov: the early stories
-When I am an Old Woman I shall wear purple edited by Sandra Martz
-Waterworks by E. L. Doctorow
-Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
-Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
-A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
-Ireland
1997
-“H”-Heathcliff’s return to Wuthering Heights by Lin Haire-Sargeant
-Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
-Collected Short Stories of Eudora Welty
-Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
-The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
-She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
-Snow in August by Pete Hamill
-Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzzo
-Candide by Voltaire
-Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1998
-The Color of Water by James McBride
-I Know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou
-Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
-One True Thing byAnna Quindlen
-Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
-Into Thin Air by Jon Krahauer
-Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
-God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
1999
-Personal History by Katherine Graham
-The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham
-The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
-The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
-Poems of Robert Frost
-The Red and the Black by Stendhal
-Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
-Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
-Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
2000
-Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
-Hard Times by Charles Dickens
-Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
-Walt Whitman’s Poetry
-Other Powers by Barbara Goldsmith
-Wild Swans by Jung Chang
-Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis DeBernieres
-Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
-Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
2001
-Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
-Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracey Chevalier
-Abigail Adams: witness to a revolution by Natalie Bober
-Poetry of Emily Dickinson
-In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien
-The Undiscovered Chekhov: 38 new stories
-Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel
-The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
-Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
2002
-The Hours by Michael Cunningham
-Madame Bovary by GustaveFlaubert
-The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
-Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
-Price of Honor: Muslim women lift the veil by Jan Goodwin
-Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
-War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
-The Bee Season by Myra Goldberg
-Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
2003
-Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
-The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty
-Poetry of Dylan Thomas
-How the Garcia Girls lost their accents by Julia Alvarez
-Nickel and Dimed (on not getting by in America) by Barbara Ehrenreich
-Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
-Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
-Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
2004
-Atonement by Ian McEwan
-Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning by Harriet Scott Chessman
-Eleanor of Aquitaine: a life by Alison Weir
-Snow in August by Pete Hamill
-Blessings by Anna Quindlen
-Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
-East of Eden by John Steinbeck
-Candy & Me: a love story by Hilary Liftin
2005
-Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
-America’s Women: 400 years of dolls, drudges….by Gail Collins
-Selected Short Stories of Alice Munro
-Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
-The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
-A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare
-100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
2006
-Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
-Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
-Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
-Amagansett by Mark Mills
-The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
-Enjoying J Picture Books with Linda Lupario
-The Brothers Karamazov
-The Namesake by Jhumpa LeHiri?
-My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
-Holiday Readings
2007
-One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
-A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
-The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr
-The Color of Water by James McBride LIREADS
-Obsessive Genius by Barbara Goldsmith
-Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
-Memoirs of club member: Barbara Lichtneger
-The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
-Gilead by Marilynn Robinson
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2008
-Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
-March by Geraldine Brooks
-Devil in the White City by Larson
-Aloft (LI READS) by Change Rae Lee
-Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
-The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
-Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
-Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
-Away by Amy Bloom
2009
-My Life in France by Julia Child
-The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
-Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
-Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
-Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
-The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
-Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig
-The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent
-The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
2010
-Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
-People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
-The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
-River of Doubt by Candice Millard
-Dragon Bones by Lisa See
-Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters
-World without End by Ken Follett
2011
-The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
-The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
-The Road by Cormac McCarthy
-Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
-The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
-The Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
-A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
-The Irresistable Henry House by Lisa Grunwald
-The House on Salt Hay Road by Carin Clevidence
2012
-Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
-An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
-Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
-The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman
-Little Bee by Chris Cleave
-The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
-The Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2013
-The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
-All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
-Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet by Jamie Ford
-Sutton by J.R. Moehringer
-The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
-Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly
-Winter of the World by Ken Follett
-The Light Between Two Oceans by M.L. Stedman
-The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
WEST BABYLON PUBLIC LIBRARY
July 2013