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2009
January: “Slumdog Millionaire” (film)
February: “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time” by Greg Mortenson.
March: “He’s Just Not That Into You” (film)
April: “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer
May: “Angels & Demons” (Film)
June: “American Wife” by Curtis Sittenfeld
July: “The Ugly Truth” (film)
August: “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace” by Ayelet Waldman
September: “500 Days of Summer” (Film)
2008
January: “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia” by Elizabeth Gilbert
February: “27 Dresses” (film)
March: “Caramel” (film)
April: “Middlesex: A Novel” by Jeffery Eugnenides
May: “Made of Honor” (film)
June: “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult
July: “Roman de Gare” (film)
August: “Julie and Julia” by Julie Powel
September: “The Women” (film)
October: “Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, & Life in a Half-Changed World” by Peggy Orenstein
November: “The Duchess” (film)
December: “Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch
2007
January: “The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova
February: Oscar-Nominated Film Night
March: “The Meaning of Night” by Michael Cox
April: “The Namesake” (film)
May: “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat” by Oliver Sachs
June: “Waitress” (film)
July: “I Don’t Know How She Does it” by Allison Pearson, and “Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons” by Lorna Lanvick
August: “The Bourne Ultimatum” (film)
September: “2 Days in Paris” (film)
October: “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific” by J. Maarten Troost and “Reading Lolita in Tehran” by Azar Nafisi
November: “American Gangster” (film)
December: Dinner and drinks evening
2006
January: “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana” by Haven Kimmel
February: “The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver
March: “Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings” by Christopher Moore
April: “May Contain Nuts” by John O’Farrell
May: “The Good Neighbor” by William Kowalski
June: “The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials #1)” by Philip Pullman
July: “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” by Gregory Maguire
August: “The Bean Trees” by Barbara Kingsolver
September: “Little Miss Sunshine” (film)
October: “Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog” by John Grogan
November: “The Queen” (film)
December: Dinner and drinks evening

2005
January: “Middlesex: A Novel” by Jeffery Eugnenides
February: “Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life: or How I Learned to Love the House, the Man, the Child” by Faulkner Fox
March: “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon
April: “Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man’s Tour of Duty Inside the IRS” by Richard Yancey
May: “In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed” by Carl Honore
June: “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” by Alexander McCall Smith
July: “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim” by David Sedaris
August: “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” by Mitch Albom
September: “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers
October: “A Long Way Down” by Nick Hornby
November: “Housekeeping: A Novel” by Marilynne Robinson
December: “The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1)” by Lemony Snicket