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The Trinity Book Club has been meeting once a month continuously since 1989. Books -- both fiction and nonfiction -- are chosen from suggestions by members, and usually the member who has suggested the book of the month brings supplemental material (study questions, author information,etc.) to the meeting. Occasionally, the group views a film based on a book. The Book Club meets on the fourth Monday of each month at 7:00 pm in the Fireside Room. New readers are always welcome; one does not need to belong to Trinity to join the group.
For further information, contact Joanne Clever at 426-0268. |
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1989
Cider House Rules – John Irving
And the Band Played On – Randy Shilts
Life and Death in Shanghai – Nien Cheng
The Remains of the Day – Kazu Ishiguro
I See By My Outfit – Peter S. Beagle
Lady’s Maid – Margaret Forster
Green City in the Sun – Barbara Wood
Crossing to Safety – Wallace Stegner
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Ponderheart – Eudora Welty
1990
West With The Night – Beryl Markham
Straight On Till Morning – Mary S. Lovell
Peace, Love and Healing – Dr. Bernie Seigel
The Shell Seekers – Rosamunde Pilcher
Circle of Quiet – Madeleine L’Engle
Handmaids’ Tale – Margaret Atwood
Stones for Ibarra – Harriet Doer
Cold Sassy Tree – Olive Ann Burns
Joy Luck Club – Amy Tam
Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver
Song Lines – Bruce Chatwin
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
1991
The Cape Ann – Faith Sullivan
The Shining Hour – Susan Issac
Travels With Charlie – John Steinbeck
A Vision of Light – Judith Murkel Riley
Buffalo Nickel – Charles Smith
Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Yellow Raft in Blue Water – Michael Dorris
Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café – Fannie Flagg
A Mother and Two Daughters – Gail Godwin
Education of Little Tree – Forrest Carter
Road from Coorain – Jill Kerr Conway
1992
Palace Walk – Naguib Mahfouz
Animal Dreams – Barbara Kingsolver
Broken Cord – Michael Dorris
House of Spirits – Isabel Allende
Bed by the Window – M. Scott Peck
Outer Banks – Anne Rivers Siddon
Into the Heart – Kenneth Good
1993
Father Melancholy’s Daughter – Gail Godwin
Composing a Life – Mary Katherine Bateson
Plain and Simple – Sue Bender
How to Make an American Quilt – Whitney Otto
Rising Sun – Michael Crichton
Acts of Faith – Eric Siegel
Waiting to Exhale – Terry McMillan
Wallace Stegner’s books
Maya Angelou’s books
The Living – Annie Dillard
1994
Toni Morrison’s books
Among Schoolchildren – Tracy Kidder
At Paradise Gate – Jane Smiley
Tony Hillerman’s books
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Wild Swans – Three Daughters of China – Jung Chang
Girls with the Grandmother Faces – Frances Weaver
The Sacred Journey – Frederick Buechner
1995
Refuge – Terry Tempest Williams
Mutant Message From Down Under – Marlo Morgan
Pat Conroy’s books
Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Possession – J.S. Byatt
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
Till We Have Faces – C. S. Lewis
The 16 Pleasures – Robert Hellenga
Charms for the Easy Life – Kay Gibbons
Written by Herself – Jill Kerr Conway
1996
To Dance With the White Dog – Terry Kay
Serving in Silence – Margarethe Cammermeyer
84 Charing Cross Road – Eleanor Hanff
A Gathering of Old Men – Ernest Gaines
Shipping News – Annie Proulx
Dead Man Walking – Sister Helen Prejean
Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
Winter Wheat – Mildred Walker
Montana 1948 – Larry Watson
A Frontier Lady – Sarah Royce
These Same Long Bones – Gwendolyn Parker
Reviving Ophelia – Mary Pipher
1997
Libby – Betty John
Ellen Foster – Kaye Gibbons
Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
The Horse Whisperer – Nicholas Evans
How the Irish Saved Civilization – Thomas Cahill
The Long Walk – Slavomir Rawicz
Smell of Apples – Mark Behr
She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb
Bucking the Sun – Ivan Doig
The Gift of Pain – Paul Brand
1998
Undaunted Courage – Stephen E. Ambrose
Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
Eight Feet in the Andes – Dervla Murphy
Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
A Civil Action – Jonathan Harr
A Change of Heart – Clair Sylvia
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
A Perfect Storm – Sebastian Junger
Arranged Marriage – Chirta Banerjae Diva Karuai
The Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells
2009
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
Bridge of Sighs – Richard Russo
Cider House Rules – John Irving
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood - Mark Kurzem
And the Waters Turned to Blood - Rodney Barker
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver
The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
Where Light Takes Its Color From the Sea – James Houston
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemmingway
Isaac’s Storm – Erik Larson
2010
January - In the Company of Liars – Karen Maitland
February - The Believers – Zoe Heller
March - Stones for Schools – Greg Mortenson
April - Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
May - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford
July - People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks
August - Cutting For Stone – Abraham Verghese
September - Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
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1999
Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Follow the River – James Thomo
Pilot’s Wife – Anita Shreve
Before Women Had Wings – Connie May Fowler
Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
John Steinbeck’s books
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
2000
A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
Traveling Mercies – Anne Lamott
Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
The God of Small Things – Avanhati Roy
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata
Accordion Crimes – Annie Proulx
House of Sand and Fog – Andre Dubus
Farewell – Horton Foote
Plainsong – Kent Haruf
2001
Galileo’s Daughter – Dava Sobel
Hitler’s Niece – Ron Hansen
Tortilla Curtain – T. C. Boyle
Samurai’s Garden – Gail Tsukiyama
Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
A Valley in Italy – Lisa St. Aubin De Teran
Girl with the Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier
Girl in Hyacinth Blue – Susan Vreeland
Sister of My Heart – Chitra Divakaruni
2002
Ahab’s Wife – Sena Jeter Nasland
Plain Truth – Jodi Picoult
The Professor and the Madman – Simon Winchester
Four Letters of Love – Niall Williams
Snow Mountain Passage – James Houston
Folly – Laurie R. King
I Know Just What You Mean – Ellen Goodman & Patricia O’Brien
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – Susan Hertog
Five Quarters of the Orange – Joanne Harris
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
2003
Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
The Piano Tuner – Daniel Philippe Mason
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
Colors of the Mountain – Da Chen
The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Other Boleyn Girl – Phillipa Gregory
2004
Three Junes – Julia Glass
Josephine – Carolly Erickson
The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder
The Virgin Blue – Tracy Chevalier
The Cave – Jose Saramago
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling – Ross King
The Songcatcher – Sharyn McCrumb
Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands - Susan Carol McCarthy
Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
2005
Catfish and Mandela – Andrew Pham
Four Spirits – Sean Jeter Naslund
Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer
The Good Earth – Pearl Buck
The Dive From Clausen’s Pier – Ann Parker
Walking Into the Night – Olaf Olafsson
Summerland – Michael Chabon
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
The Book of Joe – Jonathan Tropper
2006
Abraham – Bruce Feiler
The Known World – Edward P. Jones
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Zafon
About Grace – Anthony Doerr
Moloka’i – Alan Brennert
Pearl – Mary Gordon
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See
The Kitchen Boy – Robert Alexander
Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
44 Scotland Street – Alexander McCall Smith
2007
Unless – Carol Shields
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
On The Road – John Kerouac
Teacher Man: A Memoir – Frank McCourt
Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
Atonement – Ian McEwen
Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson
The Madonnas of Leningrad – Debra Dean
Measure of a Man – Sydney Poitier
Lay of the Land – Richard Ford
2008
eat pray love - Elizabeth Gilbert
Thunderstruck – Erik Larson
Scorched Earth – David Robbins
the namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
The Language of Baklava : A Memoir – Diana Abu-Jaber
Waiting for Teddy Williams – Howard Frank Moser
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
Farewell to Manzanar – Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
The Zookeeper’s Wife – Diane Ackerman
The Shack – William P. Young
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