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Choices for 2007 are:
January: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
February: The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid
Choices for 2006 were:
January: Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
February: Holidays in Hell by PJ O'Rourke
March: We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
April: Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
May: Hotel World by Ali Smith
June: Time to Depart by Lindsey Davis
July: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
August: Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
September: English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
October: Old Filth by Jane Gardam
November: Malignant Sadness by Lewis Wolpert
December: Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers
Choices for 2005 were:
December: We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
November: The Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser
October: The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
September: Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier [Michele Roberts]
August: Blood Rain by Michael Dibden
July: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
June: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and Three-Quarters by Sue Townsend
May: Small Island by Andrea Levy: Portrays life in London for newly arrived Jamaican immigrants in 1948. Won Orange and Whitbread Prizes.
April: Independence Day by Richard Ford
March: The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
February: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
January: White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Choices for 2004 are:
December: The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
November: Regeneration by Pat Barker
October: How the Dead Live by Will Self
September: New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
August: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
July: Mort by Terry Pratchett: Part of the Discworld series of fantasy novels.
June: The Scold's Bridle by Minette Walters: British crime novel.
May: Nice Work by David Lodge: "Two unlikely individuals are thrown together and sparks fly as they learn about each other’s world and themselves in this social comedy and unusual love story set in the industrial heartland of Thatcherite Britain in the mid-1980s."
April: Falling by Elizabeth Jane Howard, about the many facets of love.
March: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters: "Love, lust and deceit are all intertwined in a tale of thievery, elopement, wrongful imprisonment, mental asylum, pornography, and child abuse set in Victorian London."
February: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey: The life story of legendary outlaw Ned Kelly, set in Australia, told in journal format.
January: Clinging to the Wreckage and Rumpole and the Younger Generation by John Mortimer
Books for 2003 were:
January: Writing Home by Alan Bennett, a collection of his prose writing
February: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
March: After Rain by William Trevor, a short story collection.
April: An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
May: Original Sin by PD James, an Adam Dalgleish crime novel
June: Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, discussed by Sally Beauman, whose novel Rebecca's Tale was inspired by the original
July: The Tortilla Curtain by T Coraghessan Boyle
August: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman, a biography.
September: Down by the River by Edna O'Brien
October: Junk by Melvin Burgess, the tale of a boy, a girl and heroin.
November: Hideous by Esther Freud
December: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
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Choices for 2004 were:
Patti Davis's The Long Goodbye, a memoir by the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan about her father's struggle with Alzheimer's.
Harriet Scott Chessman's Someone Not Really Her Mother
Pearl Cleage's Some Things I Thought I'd Never Do, "the story of Regina Burns, a former reporter who moves to her family home in Atlanta as she recovers from a broken heart and six months of drug rehab."
Ann Brashares' The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, the first YA novel selected for the Read This! Book Club.
Choices for 2003 were:
Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin: Novel about the after-effects of a school tragedy on a troubled teenager's family.
Yann Martel's Life of Pi: A Novel: Both the story of a young castaway who faces immeasurable hardships on the high seas, as well as a meditation on religion, faith, art and life.
Philip R. Craig's A Vineyard Killing: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery: Mystery involving a former Olympic medalist-turned-real estate developer who is buying deeds and evicting homeowners on Martha's Vineyard. 14th mystery in this series.
Richard Price's Samaritan: Ray Mitchell returns to New Jersey to the housing project where he grew up to re-evaluate his life, but when he is found savagely beaten -- and refuses to press charges -- childhood friend Detective Nerese Ammons must uncover the truth.
Andy Andrews' The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success: At a low point in his forty-six-year-old life, David Ponder finds himself traveling back in time to meet with some of the wisest people in history. Magical fable.
Po Bronson's What Should I do with My Life?: Profiles of individuals from around the world who have found meaningful answers to some of life's most difficult questions.
J. David Kuo's Dot.bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath: An insider offers a glimpse at the dot.com world as he recreates one of the biggest failures of the NASDAQ collapse.
Lee Smith's The Last Girls: A Novel: Four college friends reunite on a boat tour of the mighty Mississippi more than 30 years after graduation.
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Choices for 2007 are:
January: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan: A history of the Dust Bowl.
February: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
Choices for 2006 were:
January: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, a pathbreaking nonfiction novel about a murder in rural Kansas.
February: The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa, chronicling the effects of the unification of Italy on an aristocratic Sicilian family.
March: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, a memoir of death and grief
April: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, a 1940 novel about a flawed priest living in a time of repression.
May: Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia, a compilation of essays about poems.
June: King Lear, a tragedy by William Shakespeare
July: Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003 by Kevin Starr
August: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: Novel that captures the atmosphere of post-World War I England by spending a day in the life of a society woman planning a party.
September: Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon: Biography of the feminist pioneer.
October: Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky: A novel of World War II, written almost contemporaneously with the events it describes.
November: The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga: A revisionist history, originally published in 1919.
December: All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones: A short story collection.
Choices for 2005 were:
December: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
November: The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
October: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
September: Samuel Pepys by Claire Tomalin
August: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
July: Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
June: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
May: Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche's book (1883-85) about personal liberation is a landmark of modern philosophy.
Apr: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. David Mitchell's novel gives us six stories, spanning the planet and roughly 1,000 years of time.
Mar: Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth From Interplanetary Peril by Timothy Faris
Feb: Runaway by Alice Munro. The latest collection of short stories from the Canadian writer.
Jan: Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, by Stephen Greenblatt.
Choices for 2004 were:
December: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
November: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin
October: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri: Novel about a family of Bengali immigrants in America
September: Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll: A journalist's history of how the anti-Soviet jihadist movement in Afghanistan evolved into the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
August: Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer: Novel about a young American man who goes to Ukraine to investigate his family's past.
July: The Rebel by Albert Camus: Essay on values in the age of utopian philosophy and totalitarian horrors.
June: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James: Novel about a young American woman's disillusioning experiences in European society.
May: Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc:
A reporter's intimate portrait of life in a rough neighborhood.
April: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: Sir Thomas and Lady
Bertram agree to take in their less-privileged niece in Jane Austen's 1814 novel.
March: American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by
Kevin Phillips.
February: Brick Lane
by Monica Ali: Novel about a family of Bangladeshi immigrants in London.
January: Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History
by James Carroll: A history of the Catholic Church's relations with Jews and a personal
meditation on faith.
http://www.oprah.com/books/books_landing.jhtml Oprah was choosing fiction classics for her book club; beginning in Fall 2005, she branched
out to non-fiction. You have to sign up as a member of her website and book club
to view the detailed information about each book (try these: login: waterlib; password: waterme). Choices for 2007: Summer 2007: Jeffrey
Eugenides' Middlesex: 'As a child, Calliope Stephanides never felt like other
girls her age. On her road to self-discovery, family secrets are exposed
and an astonishing genetic history is uncovered.' Spring 2007: The
Road by Cormac McCarthy: A powerful story of a father and son against an unrecognizable, post-apocalyptic world. Winter-Spring 2007: Sidney Poitier's 2000 autobiography The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography Choice for 2006: Winter-Spring 2006: Elie Wiesel's memoir Night.
Choices for 2005: Fall 2005: James Frey's
memoir A Million Little Pieces Oprah Winfrey announced
in June that her summer book club picks are three William Faulkner novels: As I Lay Dying
for June, The Sound and the Fury in July, and Light in August, in August. More
at Oprah's website. Choices for 2004 are: The
Good Earth by Pearl Buck - Fall 2004 selection Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy -- Summer 2004 selection, and
specifically the Penguin
Classic Deluxe edition. The Heart Is a
Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Choices for 2003 are: One Hundred
Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez: "Elaborating on real stories from his
own family history, García Márquez breathes life into a wild, wonderful, mythical cast
of characters [this book]. ... Magic permeates everyday life in Macondo -- and is accepted without
the blink of an eye. But One Hundred Years of Solitude is not a fairy tale. There
is pain and suffering, angst and frustration, war and forgiveness, loss and heartache.
The relationships among six generations of the Buendía family reflect the mythology
of all our lives, and the drama of an entire culture." Cry, the
Beloved Country by Alan Paton: A compassionate story of
the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in
the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. East
of Eden by John Steinbeck: Set in the rich farmlands of California's
Salinas Valley, this novel follows the intertwined destinies of
two families whose generations helplessly reenact the fall
of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. http://www.richardandjudybookclub.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StoreCatalogDisplay Website has listings of recommended titles, along with some author info. 4 July: The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards: Exquisitely written tale
of how one man's decision to send away his daughter, born with Down Syndrome,
affects the rest of his and his family's life.
11 July: Relentless by Simon Kernick: A thriller; I.T. consultant Tom Meron's
world is turned upside down following a phone call from an old friend.
18 July: The House at Riverton by Kate Morton: An old-fashioned
upstairs-downstairs saga set in the first half of the twentieth century, but with
a mystery at its heart.
25 July: Salmon Fishing In The Yemen by Paul Torday: Follows fishery
scientist Dr Alfred Jones's humorous journey as he attempts to realise
the dreams of a Yemeni Shiekh to bring salmon fishing to the Yemen.
1 August : Getting Rid of Matthew by Jane Fallon: Helen finally
gets what she wants when, after four years her boyfriend, Matthew, leaves his wife, only
to find she no longer wants him.
8 August: The Savage Garden by Mark Mills: Set in 1958, follows a
brilliant but lazy Cambridge student, Adam Strickland, as he uncovers the mysteries of
an Italian garden and the murderous secrets it hides.
15 August: How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper: 30-something
Doug Parker reclaims his life after the death of his wife. Funny and moving.
22 August : The Other Side of The Bridge by Mary Lawson: A story
set in rural Canada, dealing with war, families, love and dark secrets.
The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld: Rubenfeld, a Yale Law School professor, bases his mystery
on a 1909 trip Sigmund Freud took with his then-disciple Carl Jung to the U.S. The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson: An updating of the Faust myth in which a minister, Gideon
Mack, encounters Satan. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The story of five characters caught up in the civil war
in Nigeria. This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes: An uplifting story of how wealthy Richard Novak is forced
out of the bubble of his Los Angeles hills mansion to reconnect with the world. Restless by William Boyd: In the summer of 1976, Ruth Gilmartin discovers the strange and haunting true
story about her mother, Sally, and her life as a spy during the Second World War. Love in the Present Tense by Catherine Ryan Hyde: A young business owner, Mitch, helps his neighbour, Pearl, by
watching her young son, Leonard, while she goes to work. One day Pearl fails to return. The Girls by Lori Lansens: Rose and Ruby Darlen, soon to be the world's oldest conjoined twins, look
back over their three decades together and each tell the story of their surprisingly separate
lives. (Novel.) Semi-Detached by Griff Rhys Jones: In a warm and amusing trip back to his childhood in
the Sixties and Seventies, the popular television presenter considers whether he might
have felt less like an outsider if he had moved around less. The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne The Island by Victoria Hislop My Best Friend's Girl by Dorothy Koomson The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova The Abortionist's Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde Titles for 2006: 18 Jan: The History of Love by Nicole Kruass 25 Jan: Labyrinth by Kate Mosse 1 Feb: The Farm by Richard Benson 8 Feb: The Conjuror's Bird by Martin Davis 15 Feb: Arthur & George by Julian Barnes 22 Feb: The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice 1 March: Moondust by Andrew Smith 8 March: March by Geraldine Brooks 15 March: Empress Orchid by Anchee Min 22 March: The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly Fiction titles for 2005: 23 March: Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson by Paula Byrne:
"Sparkling and authoritative biography about the life of Mary Robinson," actress, mistress to the powerful, feminist thinker, best-selling author. 16 March: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult: "Unbearably moving novel about a family's love." 9 March: The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick: Debut, thriller about war, stolen identity
and betrayal. 2 March: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell:
Narrated by, among others, "a reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850, and a
young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilization." 16 Feb.: The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler:
"Over the period six months, six people meet in California’s Central Valley to
discuss Jane Austen’s novels." 9 Feb.: Feel: Robbie Williams by Chris Heath: Documentary of
British pop musician Robbie Williams, relating with wit, energy, and edginess the "nature of fame, ambition, and talent." 2 Feb.: The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright: "Captivating story of an
apparently ordinary English family caught up in uncontrollable events, united again, as much by apprehension as celebration on the return of the prodigal daughter." 26 Jan.: The American Boy by Andrew Taylor: Literary historical crime novel set in England 1819. 19 Jan.: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger: Debut. Love story involving time travel. 12 Jan.: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon: Literary thriller set in Barcelona
after the Spanish Civil War. Fiction titles for 2004 Summer Read: 14 July : Hunting Unicorns by Bella Pollen: "Witty, sophisticated romantic
comedy which explores the universal themes of love, loyalty and family."
7 July : The Mermaid And The Drunks by Ben Richards: "Fresia, the daughter
of Chilean exiles, leaves London following the suicide of her father to embark on a
journey of self-discovery in her mother country."
30 June : Liars And Saints by Maile Meloy: "Set in California, the narrative follows four
generations of the Santerre family from World War II to the present." 23 June : PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern: Gerry and Holly, soulmates since
childhood, reunite after Gerry’s death. 16 June : Want To Play? by P. J. Tracy: "Electrifying thriller introduces
the scariest serial killer in years." 9 June : A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly: Coming-of-age novel set in the Adirondack Mountains at
the turn of the last century. Fiction titles for 2004 Book Club (10-week series): 24 Mar.: The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad: "Factual account of
Asne Seierstad's time spent living with the thirteen-strong family of a bookseller in their four-roomed home in Afganistan." 17 Mar.: Notes on Scandal by Zoe Heller 10 Mar.: The Know by Martina Cole: "A mother's obsession to
uncover the truth when her daughter disappears." 3 Mar.: White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple: Improbable love story
set in and around Hyderabad. 25 Feb.: Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold: Partly told from the point of view of a murdered girl. 11 Feb.: Starter for Ten by David Nicholls: "Hilarious story of a university
student intent on appearing on BBC television's 'University Challenge." 4 Feb.: Brick Lane by Monica Ali: Experiences of a Bangladeshi girl growing up in London. 28 Jan.: Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani: "Story of a passionate young woman, the
beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a fine Italian immigrant family in Greenwich Village, New York, in 1950." 21 Jan.: The Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor: Novel about Irish refugees crossing the channel in 1847. 14 Jan.: Toast by Nigel Slater: Memoir of provincial British culinary tastes by Observer food critic. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,21969,00.html Book club titles for 2007: January: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins: An 1860 sensation with
something for everyone: suspense, comedy, bravery and a classic hero. Book club titles for 2006: Little
Children by Tom Perrotta: Novel that includes a bookgroup discussion of Madame Bovary. The
Evening of the Holiday by Shirley Hazzard Diary
of an Ordinary Woman by Margaret Forster Hunger
by Knut Hamsun Where
the Truth Lies by Rupert Holmes Twelve
Bar Blues by Patrick Neate http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3041344/ Seems to be discontinued. Website has listings and excerpts of recommended titles. Fiction titles for 2005: June: More Book Lust by Nancy Pearl.
May: Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden: The story of two Cree men who became snipers
for a Canadian battalion during WWI. April: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.
A long-lost book connects an elderly man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. January: Graceland by Chris Abani: A Nigerian Elvis impersonator tries to survive in
the urban desolation of Lagos, Nigeria. Fiction titles for 2004: December: Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos November: Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini. October: A Window Across the River by Brian Morton. September: Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick. August: Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore. June-July: Bury the Lead by David Rosenfelt.
May: The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat April: The Confessions of Max Tivoli by
Andrew Sean Greer March: The Photograph by Penelope Lively
February: The Sleeping Father: A Novel by Matthew Sharpe: A young brother
and sister try to rehabilitate their father after he emerges from a drug-induced
coma with brain damage. January: The Breathtaker by
Alice Blanchard: "When Police Chief Charlie Grover finds three mutilated
corpses in a tornado-ravaged farmhouse, his first thought is that the
victims were impaled by flying debris. But his instincts tell him something
different. Through solid police work, Charlie proves that they were brutally murdered
and discovers that their executioner has left a particularly hideous calling card." Fiction titles for 2003: December: The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald:
A high-spirited 8-year-old girl is happy when her family is posted to a quiet air
force base near the Canadian-American border in the early 1960s, unaware
that her father is caught up in a web of secrets. November: The Known World by Edward P. Jones:
A critically hailed story of an African-American farmer in 19th-century Virginia. October: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard:
National Book Award winner for 2003. In the aftermath of World War II,
young men and women living in Europe and Asia reconstruct their lives. September: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger:
Depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare's
marriage and their passionate love for each other. August: Shadow Baby by Alison McGhee: A poignant tale of family history regained. July: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon: Despite his overwhelming
fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy,
decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and
uncovers secret information about his mother. June: Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst: Discovering clues that indicate his beloved
wife may not have died accidentally, Paul Iverson begins a perilous search for
the truth while attempting to teach his dog, who witnessed the crime,
to communicate. May: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere: Stories by ZZ Packer: Debut collection of stories.
Vivid vignettes cover topics from a racially divided Girl Scout camp to
the Million Man March on Washington. April: Nine Horses: Poems by Billy Collins: A collection of poems offers reflections on the mystery and beauty
found in everyday life. March: Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros: During her family's annual car trip
from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her
family, including her grandmother, the descendant of a renowned dynasty of
shawl makers, whose magnificent striped shawl has come into Lala's possession. February: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith: Working in Gaborone, Botswana,
Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries. January: Crow Lake by Mary Lawson: In the rural farm country of northern Ontario,
the lives of members of two families are brought together and torn
apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love, and tragedy. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/books/bookclub/ Seems to be discontinued. Choices for 2005 were: March: Augustus by John Williams. February: Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado. January: The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam. Choices for 2004 were: December: Lost in the City by
Edward P. Jones: "Composed of 14 stories set mostly in poor and working-class Washington, D.C., neighborhoods." November: The Spider's House by Paul Bowles. October: The
Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, Book One of the His Dark Materials series. September: Sunrise
With Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries, 1964-1984 by Paul Theroux August: An
American Childhood by Annie Dillard July: Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk June: So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell May: The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever April: An Unsuitable
Job for a Woman by P.D. James March: Lost Light by Michael Connelly,
the ninth Harry Bosch crime novel. February: Douglass' Women
by Jewell Parker Rhodes January: The
Hours by Michael Cunningham: "With its genesis in Virginia
Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway, Michael Cunningham's third novel ...
follows the unfolding of one day in ... three women's lives. Separated by time and
geography, the women are Clarissa Vaughan, a late-20th-century New Yorker;
Laura Brown, a housewife in Los Angeles in 1949; and Woolf herself in
1923, when she lived at Hogarth House in the London suburb of Richmond with her husband, Leonard." Choices for 2003 were: December: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow November: Part
of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties by
Murray Kempton: "Beginning with an arresting, interlocking biographical
portrait of arch-nemeses Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss, Kempton supplies a
tightly focused but also thematically broad-ranging litany of '30s
spirits and set-pieces." October: The Way of All Flesh by
Samuel Butler September: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman August: Bombingham by Anthony Grooms July: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler June: The Leopard by Giuseppi Tomasi di Lampedusa May: Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark April: Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell March: Fat City by Leonard Gardner February: A Train of Powder by Rebecca West January: Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
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