| Average Book Rating 1-10 (rating system) |
Date | Bookclick on the title to see a summary. | | Author | Chosen by | Hosted by |
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2010 |
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3.22 |
Feb 21 |
Wolf Hall |
 |
Hilary Mantel |
Joanne |
Mary M |
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7.23 |
Jan 10 |
Digging to America |
 |
Anne Tyler |
June |
Nancy C |
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2009 |
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6.41 |
Dec 6 |
Lost & Found
|
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Jacqueline Sheehan |
Lynn |
Nancy G |
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7.83 |
Nov 1 |
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America |
 |
David Von Drehle |
Marge |
Ellen |
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8.04 |
Oct 4 |
The Help |
 |
Kathryn Stockett |
Nancy G | Mary S |
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7.38 |
Sep 13 |
The Double Bind |
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Chris Bohjalian |
Mary S | Rachel |
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5.73 |
Aug 2 |
The Girl in the Italian Bakery
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Kenneth Tingle |
Mary M |
Sheila |
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7.23 |
Jun 7 |
The Condition |
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Jennifer Haigh |
Anne |
June |
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5.28 |
May 3 |
The Elegance of the Hedgehog |
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Muriel Barbery |
Nancy C |
Mary M |
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7.125 |
Apr 5 |
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Michele |
Anne |
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7.67 |
Mar 1 |
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas |
 |
John Boyne |
Sheila |
Ellen |
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7.45 |
Feb 8 |
Someone Knows my Name |
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Lawrence Hill |
Connie |
Nancy C |
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8.69 |
Jan 4 |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
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Khaled
Hosseini |
Ellen |
Michele and Lynn |
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2008 |
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Dec 7 |
The Girl With The Golden Shoes |
 |
Colin Channer |
Rachel |
Mary S |
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6.4 |
Nov 2 |
Belong to Me |
 | Marisa De Los Santos |
June | Marge |
5.94 | Oct 5 | Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance |  | Barack Obama | Lynn | Nancy G |
7.4 | Sept 7 | Maisie Dobbs |  | Jacqueline Winspear | Marge | Michele & Lynn |
8.42 | Aug 3 | Moloka'i |  | Alan Brennert | Nancy G | Michele & Lynn |
5.89 | July 13 | Keeping Faith |  | Jodi Picoult | Mary S | June |
| 7.0 | June 8 | A Simple Plan |  | Scott Smith | Anne | Mary M |
| 7.09 | May 4 | Falling Through the Earth |  | Danielle Trussoni | Mary M | Anne |
| 6.18 | April 6 | Body Surfing |  | Anita Shreve | Nancy C | Ellen |
| 5.53 | March 2 | Madame Bovary |  | Gustave Flaubert | Michele | Connie |
| 5.58 | Feb 10 | Love in the Time of Cholera |  | Gabriel García Márquez | Connie | Mary S |
| 7.15 | Jan 6 | North River |  | Pete Hamill | Julie | Michele and Lynn |
| 2007 |
| 7.1 | Nov 11 | Saturday |  | Ian McEwan | Ellen | Michele and Lynn |
| 7.0 | Oct 14 | A Widow For One Year |  | John Irving | Rachel | Nancy G |
| 7.35 | Sep 9 | Book of Bright Ideas |  | Sandra Kring | June | Rachel |
| 6.0 | Aug 5 | Suite Francaise |  | Irène Némirovsky | Lynn | Nancy C |
| 5.0 | June 3 | Arthur and George |  | Julian Barnes | Marge | June |
| 8.57 | May 6 | Water for Elephants |  | Sara Gruen | Nancy G | Connie |
| 8.6 | April 1 | The Glass Castle |  | Jeannette Walls | Mary S | Anne |
| 8.75 | March 4 | |  | Kim Edwards | Mary M | Mary M |
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Jan 7 | My Sister's Keeper | 
| Jodi Picoult | Anne | Ellen |
2006 |
| | Dec 3 | Pearl | 
| Mary Gordon | Nancy C | Anne |
| | Oct 22 | Name All the Animals | 
| Alison Smith | Michele | Nancy G |
| | Sep 9 | Lily's Ghost | 
| Cheryl Drake Harris | Connie | Mary S (Wareham) |
| | Aug 6 | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | 
| Lisa See | Julie | June |
| | July 9 | Mountains beyond Mountains | 
| Tracy Kidder | Ellen | Julie |
| | June 11 | The Fortress of Solitude | 
| Jonathan Lethem | Rachel | Rachel |
| | May 14 | Shutter Island | 
| Dennis Lehane | June | Marge |
| | April 2 | Sister of My Heart | 
| Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | Marge | Diane |
| | March 5 | Those Who Save Us | 
| Jenna Blum | Lynn | Michele & Lynn |
| | Feb 5 | The Summer Guest | 
| Justin Cronin | Nancy G | Mary S |
2005 |
| | Dec 4 | Crow Lake | 
| Mary Lawson | Mary S | Mary S |
| | Nov 6 | The One-foot Waterfall | 
| Frederick Mandell | Mary M | Michele and Lynn |
| | Oct 2 | Mrs. Kimble | 
| Jennifer Haigh | Anne | Anne |
| | Sep 11 | | 
| Lynda Barnes | Nancy C. | Mary S (Wareham) |
| | Aug 7 | | 
| Mary Roach | Michele | Ellen |
| | July 10 | The Namesake | 
| Jhumpa Lahiri | Connie | Nancy G |
| | June 5 | Cold Sassy Tree | 
| Olive Ann Burns | June | Connie |
| | May 1 | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | 
| Dai Sijie, Ina Rilke (Translator) | Rachel | Marge |
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Apr 3 | The Big House | 
| George Howe Colt | Jane | June |
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Mar 6 | The Kite Runner | 
| Khaled Hosseini | Ellen | Ellen |
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Feb 13 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | 
| Mark Haddon | Lynn | Mary S |
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Jan 9 | Middlesex link from Jane: Here’s a brief account of the tragic life of the man with the botched circumcision that may have provided some of the background for Middlesex. Articles and the book based on David Reimer’s life are cited at the end. | 
| Jeffrey Eugenides | Marge | Michele &Lynn |
| 2004 |
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Dec 5 | No book, movie night and Yankee Swap | | | | Nancy C |
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Nov 7 | Leap of Faith- Memoirs of an Unexpected Life | 
| Queen Noor | Nancy G | Mary M |
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Oct 3 | Eats, Shoots and Leaves | 
| Lynn Truss | Mary S | Rachel |
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Sept 12 | The Piano Tuner | 
| Daniel Mason | Nancy C | Nancy G |
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Aug 1 | The Caine Mutiny | 
| Herman Wouk | Michele | Michele and Lynn |
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Jul 11 | All Souls: A Family Story from Southie | 
| Michael Patrick MacDonald | Julie | Julie |
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Jun 6 | Life of Pi | 
| Yann Martel | Mary M | Marge |
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May 2 | The Handmaid's Tale | 
| Margaret Atwood | Connie | Anne |
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April 4 | The Broken Places | 
| Susan Perabo | Anne | Connie |
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March 14 | The Activist's Daughter | 
| Ellyn Bache | Rachel | Nancy C |
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Feb 1 | One thousand white women: the journals of May Dodd | 
| Jim Fergus | Lynn | Michele & Lynn |
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Jan 4 | The Street | 
| Ann Petry | Ellen | Ellen |
| 2003 |
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Nov 2 | The Dive from Clausen's Pier | 
| Ann Packer | Marge | Rachel |
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Sep 7 | Family Matters | 
| Rohinton Mistry | Nancy G | Mary S |
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Aug 3 | Pope Joan | 
| Donna Woolfolk Cross | Mary S | Michele and Lynn |
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July 13 | The Secret Life of Bees | 
| Sue Monk Kidd | Nancy C | Nancy G |
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June 1 | Almost | 
| Elizabeth Benedict | Michele | Anne |
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May 11 | Couldn't Keep It to Myself | 
| Wally Lamb | Mary M | Diane |
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April 13 | The Chili Queen | 
| Sandra Dallas | Diane | Connie |
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March 2 | Good in Bed | 
|  Jennifer Weiner | Connie | Mary M |
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Feb 2 | My Ántonia | 
| Willa Cather | Rachel | Mary S |
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Jan 5 | The Life and Loves of a She-Devil | 
| Fay Weldon | Anne | Nancy C |
| 2002 |
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Dec 8 | Cloud Cuckoo Land more info | 
| Lisa Borders | Lynn | Michele&Lynn |
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Nov 3 | Atonement | 
| Ian McEwan | Ellen | Diane |
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Oct 6 | Back When We Were Grownups | 
| Anne Tyler | Marge | Rachel |
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Sep 8 | Red Water | 
| Judith Freeman | Nancy G | Marge |
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Aug 4 | The Road from Coorain | 
| Jill Ker Conway | Mary S | Mary S |
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Jul 7 | Bonesetter's Daughter | 
| Amy Tan | Nancy C | Nancy G |
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Jun 1 | So Far from the Bamboo Grove and My Brother, My Sister and I |   | Yoko Kawashima Watkins | Mary M | Ellen (in Wellfleet) |
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May 5 | In the Heart of the Sea | 
| Nathaniel Philbrick | Michele | Michele&Lynn |
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Apr 7 | The Samurai's Garden | 
| Gail Tsukiyama | Connie | Anne |
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Mar 3 | Prodigal Summer | 
| Barbara Kingsolver | Rachel | Michele&Lynn |
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Feb 10 | Blind Assassin | 
| Margaret Atwood | Anne | Mary M |
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Jan 6 | Hometown | 
| Tracy Kidder | Julie F | Nancy C |
| 2001 |
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Nov 4 | Wicked | 
| Gregory Maguire | Lynn W | Connie |
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Oct 14 | Anil's Ghost | 
| Michael Ondaatje | Ellen G | Michele&Lynn |
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Sept 9 | Plainsong | 
| Kent Haruf | Marge | Michele & Lynn |
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Aug 5 | Bee Season | 
| Myla Goldberg | Nancy G | Marge |
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July 8 | Tulip Fever | 
| Deborah Moggach | Diane S | Mary S. |
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June 10 | Ice Bound | 
| Jerri Nielsen | Mary S. | Anne |
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May 13 | Galileo’s Daughter | 
| Dava Sobel | Michele | Nancy G. |
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Apr. 8 | House of Sand and Fog | | Andre Dubus III | Rachel | Ellen |
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Mar. 4 | Black Mass | | Dick Lehr | Mary M. | Mary M. |
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Feb. 4 | O is for Outlaw | | Sue Grafton | Nancy C. | Nancy C. |
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Jan. 7 | The Red Tent | | Anita Diamant | Connie | Lynn & Michele |
2000 |
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Dec. 3 | A Lesson Before Dying | | Ernest Gaines | Anne | Mary S. |
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Nov. 12 | The Hours | | Michael Cunningham | Marge | Mary N. |
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Oct. 15 | First They Killed My Father | | Loung Ung | Lynn | Rachel |
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Sept. 17 | Paper Daughter | | M. Elaine Mar | Beth | Julie |
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Aug. 6 | While I Was Gone | | Sue Miller | Ellen | Ellen |
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July 9 | Daughter of Fortune | | Isabel Allende | Nancy G. | Janis & Beth |
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June 4 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | | Tracy Chavalier | Julie | Mary S. |
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May 7 | Girl Interrupted | | Susanna Kaysen | Mary S. | Mary M. |
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Apr. 9 | How to Read a Poem | | Edward Hirsch | Mary N. | Anne |
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Mar. 5 | The Reader | | Bernhard Schlink | Anne | Nancy G. |
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Feb. 6 | Revere Beach Boulevard | | Roland Merullo | Janis | Connie |
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Jan. 9 | A Soldier of the Great War | | Mark Helprin | Diane | Lynn & Michele |
1999 |
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Dec. 5 | When I was Puerto Rican | | Esmeralda Santiago | Michele | Mary S. |
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Nov. 14 | The Beach | | Alex Garland | Rachel | Nancy C. |
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Sept. 26 | Salt Water | | Charles Simmons | Connie | Rachel |
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Aug. 15 | The Hope | | Herman Wouk | Michele | Mary N. |
