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Library Literary Salon

January 2008
"The Golden Notebook" by Doris Lessing
February 2008
"The Exile" by Robert N. Patterson
March 2008
"Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami
April 2008
Poetry Month
May 2008
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
June 2008
"Thirteen Moons" by Robert Frazer
July 2008
"Death Comes as the End" by Agatha Christie
August 2008
"Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
September 2008
"The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck, M.D.
October 2008
"Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond

January 2007
"The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
February 2007
"The Garcia Girls" by Julia Alvarez
March 2007
"Self-Made Man" by Norah Vincent
April 2007
Poetry month and 4 year celebration
May 2007
"Birds in Fall" by Brad Kessler
June 2007
"Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion
July 2007
"Inlandia" by Gayle Wattawa
August 2007
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown
September 2007
"Corpus Christi" by Brett Johnston
October 2007
"Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
November 2007
"Silk" by Alessandro Barrico
December 2007
No Selection - Holiday Luncheon

January 2006
"The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova
February 2006
"The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare
March 2006
Video of "The Merchant of Venice
April 2006
Poetry month and 3 year salon celebration
May 2006
"The Treasure of Montsegur: A Novel" by Sophy Burnham
June 2006
"The Mermaid Chair" by Sue Monk Kidd
July 2006
"The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
August 2006
"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
September 2006
"Plot Against America" by Philip Roth
October 2006
"Master Butcher's Singing Club" by Louise Ehrdrich
November 2006
"Wicked" by Stephen Schwartz
December 2006
No selection - Holiday Luncheon

January 2005
"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides
February 2005
"A Bad Beginning (from A Series of Unfortunate Events)" by Lemony Snicket
March 2005
"Tender is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
April 2005
Poetry Month celebrated by group as each read a poem they brought to the meeting
May 2005
"The Other Boelyn Girl" by Philippa Gregory
June 2005
"The Beekeepers Apprentice" by Laurie King
July 2005
"Reading Lolita in Tehran" by Azar Nafisi
August 2005
"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
September 2005
"L'Affaire" by Diane Johnson
October 2005
"The Fig Eater" by Jody Shields
November 2005
"The Ox-bow Incident" by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
December 2005
No selection, Holiday luncheon

January 2004
"The Piano Tuner" by Daniel Mason
February 2005
"Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
March 2004
"The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown
April 2004
"Cry the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton
May 2004
"Holy Blood, Holy Grail" by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln
June 2004
"Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer
July 2004
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" by Mark Hadden
August 2004
"The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
September 2004
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
October 2004
"Interpretor of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
November 2004
"Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackery

December 2004
No Book, Holiday luncheon

April 2003
First meeting the group selected a book for the May discussion
May 2003
'The Man Who Ate the 747" by Ben Sherwood
June 2003
"Princess Sultana's Daughters" by Jean Sasson
July 2003
"Prague" by Arthur Phillips
August 2003
"Dreaming War" by Gore Vidal
"Why Are We at War" by Norman Mailer
September 2003
"Always Running (La Vida Loca)" by Luis J. Rodriguez
October 2003
"Under the Tuscan Sun" by Frances Mayes
November 2003
"To Kill a Mocking Bird" by Harper Lee
December 2003
No book, Holiday party
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