Previous Book Club Selections

Here's what Island Books Open Book Club has read in the past thirteen years.

2009

• The Places in Between, by Rory Stewart
• Divisadero, by Michael Ondaatje
• The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga
• The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh, by Linda Colley
• The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
• Dreamers of the Day, by Mary Doria Russell
• World Made by Hand, by James Howard Kunstler
• The Writing Class, by Jincy Willett
• The House at Sugar Beach, by Helene Cooper
• Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski

Other books enjoyed by club members in 2009

• Brick Lane, by Monica Ali; Lying Awake, by Mark Saltzmans; Straight Man, by Richard Russo; The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford; I'm Down, by Mishna Wolf; East of Eden, by John Steinbeck; Man's Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl; A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest Gaines; Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford; The Translator, by John Crowley; Guests of the Sheik, by Elizabeth Warnook Fernea; King Leopold's Ghost, by Adam Hochschild; Slam, by Nick Hornby; Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell; The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows; The Peppered Moth, by Margaret Drabble; The Dante Club, by Matthew Pearl; The Eight, by Katherine Neville; The Cunning Man, by Robertson Davies

2008

• Born on a Blue Day, by Daniel Tamnet
•  Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell
• Primavera, by Mary Jane Beaufrand
• White Cascade, by Gary Krist
• Triangle, by Katharine Weber
• Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson
• Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
• The Zookeeper's Wife, by Diane Ackerman
• Run, by Ann Patchett

2007

• City of Falling Angels, by John Berendt
• Accidental Happiness, by Jean Reynolds Page
• Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson
• Highest Tide, by Jim Lynch
• World to Come, by Dara Horn
• Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Emperor's Children, by Claire Messud
• Last Town on Earth, by Thomas Mullen
• Miss Alcott's Email, by Kit Bakke
• Behind a Mask, by Louisa May Alcott

2006

• March, by Geraldine Brooks
• Animals in Translation, by Temple Grandin
• Case Histories, by Kate Atkinson
• Broken for You, by Stephanie Kallos
• The Finishing School, by Muriel Sparks
• Chronicles Volume 1, by Bob Dylan
• Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Summer Crossing, by Truman Capote
• Owl Island, by Randy Sue Coburn
• A History of Love, by Nicole Krauss

2005

• Heir to the Glimmering World, by Cynthia Ozick
• Arc of Justice, by Kevin Boyle
• Small Island, by Andrea Levy
• Kings of Infinite Space, by James Hynes
• The Poet and the Murderer, by Simon Worrall
• Waxwings, by Jonathan Raban
• Girl Who Played Go, by Shan Sa
• Mountains beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder
• Elizabeth Costello, by JM Coetzee

2004

• Old School, by Tobias Wolff
• Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter, by Thomas Cahill
• The Known World, by Edward P. Jones
• Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
• My Invented Country, by Isabella Allende
• Washington Square, by Henry James
• Dancer, by Colum Mcann
• Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, by Azar Nafisi
• As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel, by Rudy Rucker
• The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World, by Jenny Uglow
• The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt

2003

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie
• The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
• Bad Blood, by Lorna Sage
• The Translator, by John Crowley
• Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
• Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician, by Anthony Everitt
• Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks
• Breaking Clean, by Judy Blunt
• Atonement, by Ian McEwan
• The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
• Wine & War: The French, The Nazis & the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure, by Don & Petie Kladstrup
• Embers, by Sandor Marai

2002

• Folly, by Laurie R. King
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend, by Laura Hillenbrand
• Holes, by Lois Sachar
• Secrets of the Tsil Cafe, by Thomas Fox Averill
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis
• Back When We Were Grownups, by Anne Tyler
• The Family Orchard, by Naomi Eve
• Paris to the Moon, by Adam Gopnik
• The Feast of Love, by Charles Baxter
• The Fellowship of the Ring, by JRR Tolkien
• Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, by Geraldine Brooks
• White Teeth, by Zadie Smith

2001

• Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth, by Naguib Mahfouz
• Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love, by Dava Sobel
• Anil's Ghost, by Michel Ondaatje
• The Human Stain, by Philip Roth
• Tulipomania, by Mike Dash
• The Dress Lodger, by Sheri Holman
• Ahab's Wife, by Sena Jeter Naslund
• Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic, by Martha Beck
• Pilgrim, by Timothy Findley
• A Month in the Country, by J.L. Carr
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree; Understanding Globalization, by Thomas L. Friedman
• Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem

2000

• The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
• Catfish and Mandala, by Andrew X. Pham
• Headlong, by Michael Frayn
• The Late Mr. Shakespeare, by Robert Nye
• Lenin's Embalmers, by Ilya Zbarsky
• The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, by Richard Zimler
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J. K. Rowling
• King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero, by David Remnick
• The Farming of Bones, by Edwidge Danticat

1999

• The Voyage of the Narwhal, by Andrea Barrett
• The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester
• The American, by Henry James
• The Chimney Sweeper's Boy, by Barbara Vine
• When Elephants Weep, by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
• Last Day, by Glenn Kleier
• The Englishman's Boy, by Guy Vanderhaeghe
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman
• The Witch of Exmoor, by Margaret Drabble

1998

• The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells
• Old Books, Rare Friends, by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern
• Straight Man, by Richard Russo
• Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks
• Fragments, by Binjamin Wilkomirski
• Reading in the Dark, by Seamus Deane
• Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
• Desert Places, by Robyn Davidson
• Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, by Hilary Mantel

1997

• Behind the Scenes at the Museum, by Kate Atkinson
• An Unquiet Mind, by Kay Redfield Jamison
• Audrey Hepburn's Neck, by Alan Brown
• Ishmael, by David Quinn
• Paula, by Isabel Allende
• Morality Play, by Barry Unsworth

1996

• Salvation on Sand Mountain, by Dennis Covington
• Saving Grace, by Lee Smith
• The Riders, by Tim Winton
• An Imaginary Life, by David Malouf
• A Very Long Engagement, by Sebastian Japrisot
• The Princes in the Tower, by Alison Weir
• Independence Day, by Richard Ford
• Bombardiers, by Po Bronson
• Autobiography of a Face, by Lucy Grealy
• Rocking the Babies, by Linda Raymond
• Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson
• Daisy Bates in the Desert, by Julia Blackburn
• Northern Borders, by Howard Frank Mosher