Winter 2011-12 Reads

The Housekeeper and the Professor/ Yoko Ogawa *****
Life in a Jar/Jack Mayer ******
Steve Jobs/Walter Isaacson *****
Catherine the Great/Robert K. Massie ****
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb/Melanie Benjamin
Tender at the Bone/ Ruth Reichl
A Covert Affair/ Jennet Conant

Fall Reading List 2011

New Rating System: 0-5 *s, 5 the highest "must read"

Empire of the Summer Moon/ S.C.Gwynne *****
The Last Time I Saw Paris/ Lynne Sheene ***
Clarence Darrow - American Iconoclast/ Andrew E. Kersten ***
The Story of Beautiful Girl/ Rachel Simon*****
The Wild Girl/ Jim Fergus*****
The Red Garden/ Alice Hoffman ****
Strength in What Remains/ Tracy Kidder ******
Eden's Outcasts/ John Matteson *****
The Warmth of Other Suns/ Isabel Wilkerson *****
The Other Barack/ Sally H. Jacobs *****
we is got him The Kidnapping That Changed America/ Carrie Hagen****
The Wrong Blood/ Manuel De Lope ****
The Blue Orchard/ Jackson Taylor *****
Nightwoods/Charles Frazier****

Summer 2011 Good Reads

Caleb's Crossing/ Geraldine Brooks
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin/ Erik Larson
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey/ Walter Mosley
Dear Bess/Letters of Harry Truman edited by Robert Ferrell
West of Here/Jonathan Evison
The Lake Shore Limited/Sue Miller
The Reading Promise/Alice Ozma
Rodin's Debutante/Ward Just
The Long Snapper/ Jeffrey Marx
A Night Too Dark/Dana Stabenow
Extraordinary, Ordinary People/Condoleezza Rice
River of Darkness/ Buddy Levy
Nothing Daunted/ Dorothy Wickenden
The Remembrances of Marietta Lufford/ Virginia Chute
The Slap/ Christos Tsiolkas
Papa Martel/Gerard Robichaud
Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story/ Mitchell Zuckoff
Madam Bovary's Daughter/ Linda Urbach
The Paris Wife/ Paula McLain
Mississipppi Mud/Edward Humes
Clara and Mr. Tiffany/ Susan Vreeland

Winter Reading 2010/2011

The Heretic's Wife/Brenda Vantrease
The Heretic's Daughter/ Kathleen Kent
The Wolves of Andover/ Kathleen Kent
Hannah Coulter/ Wendell Berry
Oxygen/ Carol Cassella
Team of Rivals/ Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Eleventh Man/ Ivan Doig
The Healer/ Carol Cassella
Daniel/ Henning Mankell
Remarkable Creatures/ Tracy Chevalier
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse/Louise Erdrich
Four Souls/Louise Erdrich
The Imperial Cruise/ James Bradley
The Witness House/ Christiane Kohl
A Fierce Radiance/ Lauren Belfer
The Immortal Life of Hennrietta Lacks/ Rebecca Skloot
Walk the Blue Fields/ Claire Keegan
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems/ Alice Walker