Upcoming Book Club Selections

Upcoming titles for book club... in no particular order

Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst (Kindle)
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs (Kindle)
Alphabet Weekends by Elizabeth Noble (Kindle)
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier (Kindle)
The Dowry Bride by Shobhan Bantwal ~ August 08
The Book of Loss by Julith Jedamus
Secrets of a Lady by Tracy Grant (Kindle)
The Mapmaker's Wife by Robert Whitaker ~ August 08
Blind Submission by Debra Ginsberg (Kindle)
The Scent of Rosa's Oil by Lina Simoni
Peony in Love by Lisa See (Kindle)
The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen (Kindle)
Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe by Jennie Shortridge
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
The Film Club: A Memoir by David Gilmour
Enlightenment for Idiots by Anne Cushman
Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited by Elsye Schein & Paula Bernstein
Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Irene Spencer
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell (Kindle)
Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
Lottery by Patricia Wood
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club: Diary of a Sixtieth Year by Virginia Ironside
Around the World in 80 Dinners: The Ultimate Culinary Adventure by Bill Jamison and Cathy Alters Jamison

'08 Reading List

Recommended
Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas
It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas
Pope Joan by Donna Cross
Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
Scandal in Spring by Lisa Kleypas
Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris/Early Reviewers
Pick Your Poison by Leann Sweeney
Stone Cold by David Baldacci
Gardens of Water by Alan Drew/Early Reviewers
The Dark Queen by Susan Carroll
The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz
The Courtesan by Susan Carroll
The Silver Rose by Susan Carroll
The Huntress by Susan Carroll
The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah/Authors on the Web
Strangers in Death by J.D. Robb/Authors on the Web
A Sense of the World by Jason Roberts
Charmed to Death by Shirley Damsgaard
Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
Nothing to Fear but Ferrets by Linda O. Johnston
Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
Silent in the Sanctuary by Deanna Raybourn
The Appeal by John Grisham
A Rose for the Crown by Anne Easter Smith
Franklin and Lucy by Joseph E. Persico
Predatory Game by Christine Feehan
Takeover by Lisa Black
The Hindi-Bindi Club by Monica Pradhan
Some Like It Hot Buttered by Jeffrey Cohen
The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
Patriot Hearts by Barbara Hambly
The Whole Truth by David Baldacci (Kindle edition)
The Dark Lantern by Gerri Brightwell (Kindle edition)
Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett (Kindle edition)
Escape by Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer (Kindle edition)
Getting Stoned with the Savages: A Trip through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by J. Maarten Troost (Kindle edition)
The Richest Season by Maryann McFadden
The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky (Kindle edition)
Marie-Therese, A Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel
The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel by Jeffery Deaver

Somewhere between so-so & recommended
The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall
The Venetian Mask by Rosalind Laker
Southern Fried by Cathy Pickens
Legerdemain by James J. Heaphey
Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund Intuition by Allegra Goodman

So-so
Victoria Victorious by Jean Plaidy
Mew is for Murder by Clea Simon
The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks
Secret of the Scroll by Chester Campbell

DNFs
The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber/Early Reviewers
Summer People by Brian Groh
Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis/Authors on the Web
Apples & Oranges, My Brother and Me, Lost and Found by Marie Brenner

'07 Reading List

Recommended
Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald
Geisha, a Life by Mineko Iwasaki
Dispatch by Bentley Little
The Illuminator by Brenda Rickman Vantrease
Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky
The Mercy Seller by Brenda Rickman Vantrease
Sweet Caroline: Last Child of Camelot by Christopher Andersen
Executive Power by Vince Flynn
Memorial Day by Vince Flynn
Consent to Kill by Vince Flynn
Act of Treason by Vince Flynn
Conspiracy Game by Christine Feehan
Deadly Game by Christine Feehan
Silent Partner by Stephen Frey
Earthly Joys: A Novel by Philippa Gregory
Virgin Earth: A Novel by Philippa Gregory
Company Man by Joseph Finder
The Secret Hour by Luanne Rice
The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Simple Genius by David Baldacci
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
The Alibi Man by Tami Hoag
The Overlook by Michael Connelly
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel by Jim Fergus
Safe Harbor by Luanne Rice
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant
The Good Guy by Dean Koontz
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
The Queen's Fool: A Novel by Philippa Gregory
Perfect Match: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
The Edge of Winter by Luanne Rice
Skyward by Mary Alice Monroe
Tenth Circle, The by Jodi Picoult
Duchess by Susan Holloway Scott
Royal Harlot by Susan Holloway Scott
IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW by Cecelia Ahern
THE LOST PAINTING by Jonathan Harr
The Rossetti Letter by Christi Phillips
The Last Victim by Kevin O'Brien
The Notorious Mrs. Winston by Mary Mackey
The Burning by Bentley Little
An Infinity of Little Hoursby Nancy Klein Maguire
Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
Red River by Lalita Tademy
The Poyson Garden by Karen Harper
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Sovereign Ladies by Maureen Waller
Catnap by Carole Nelson Douglas
The Tidal Poole by Karen Harper
The Courts of Love by Jean Plaidy
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
City of Dreams by Beverly Swerling
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
City of Glory by Beverly Swerling
Mary, Called Magdalene by Margaret George
Murder on Astor Place by Victoria Thompson
Dream Country by Luanne Rice
The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen
The Twylight Tower by Karen Harper
Death Instinct by Bentley Little
Sit, Stay, Slay by Linda O. Johnston
The Trouble With Magic by Madelyn Alt
Crisis by Robin Cook
Witch Way to Murder by Shirley Damsgaard
The Vanishing by Bentley Little
The Forget Me Not Sonata by Santa Montefiore
Have You Found Her by Janice Erlbaum/Early Reviewers
Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn
Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex
High Noon by Nora Roberts
Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
Creation in Death by J.D. Robb

So-so
Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray
A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies by Ellen Cooney
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HERE by Cecelia Ahern/Early Reviewers
Talking Back by Andrea Mitchell
An American Story by Debra Dickerson
Courting Trouble by Deeanne Gist
Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas

DNFs
No Shortcuts to the Top by Ed Viesturs
Dry Ice by Stephen White
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
The Terror by Dan Simmons
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Guardians by Ana Castillo/Early Reviewers
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Garden of Ruth by Eva Etzioni-Halevy
February Flowers by Fan Wu
Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon

Series Reading

Mystery series I've started or would like to start:

Amazon - US
Albert, Susan Wittig - China Bayles mysteries
Alt, Madelyn - The Trouble with Magic - 1st in the series
Clement, Blaize - Dixie Hemingway mysteries
Damsgaard, Shirley - Charmed to Death- 2nd in the Ophelia & Abbey series
Donati, Sara - Into the Wilderness series
Fforde, Jasper - Thursday Next mysteries
Gardner, Ashley - Mysteries of Regency England
Harris, C.S. - Captain Lacey mysteries
Harris, Rosemary - Pushing Up Daisies - 1st in the Dirt-y Business series
Hunter, Erin - Warrior series (cats, YA)
Johnston, Linda O. - Nothing to Fear but Ferrets - 2nd in the pet sitter series
Morris, Gilbert - Jacques & Cleo cat mysteries
Raybourn, Deanna - Silent in the Sanctuary - 2nd in the Julia Grey series
Stevens, Rosemary - Beau Brummell mysteries
Sweeney, Leann - Pick Your Poison - 1st in the Yellow Rose series
Thompson, Victoria - Murder on Astor Place - 1st in the Gaslight series

Amazon - UK
Gregory, Susanna - Matthew Bartholomew chronicles
Gregory, Susanna - Thomas Chaloner chronicles
Grace, C.L. - Katherine Swinbrooke medieval mysteries
Knight, Bernard - Crowner John mysteries
Martson, Edward - Elizabethan Theater mysteries
Martson, Edward - Christopher Redmayne series
Rickman, Phil - Merrily Watkins mysteries
Sansom, C.J. - Shardlake series