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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
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
2004
January:
"The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
February: "Scorpion Tongues" by Gail Collins
March: "When The Emperor Was Divine" by Julie Otsuka
April: "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" by Sarah Vowell
May: "Don't Know How She Does It" by Allison Pearson
June: "Summer Snow: Reflections From a Black Daughter of
the South" by Trudier Harris
July: "Life of PI" by Yann Martel
August: "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books" by
Azar Nafisi
September: "The Dante Club" by Matthew Pearl
October: "The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood
and How It Has Undermined Women" by Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels
November: "The Coffin Trader" by David Liss
December: See January 2005 selection
2003
January: "Girl
in Hyacinth Blue" by Susan Vreeland
February: "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America"
by Barbara Ehrenreich
March: "The Lovely Bones" by Anne Sebold
April: "Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and
Bicultural" edited by Claudine C. O'Hearn
May: "Rabbit-Proof Fence" by Doris Pilkington
June/July: "The Russian Debutante's Handbook" by Gary Shteyngart
August: "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser
September: "Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade
Gone Mad" by Virginia Holman
October: "Letters From Emily" by Camron White
November: "Peace Like a River" by Leif Enger
December: "The Nanny Diaries" by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola
Kraus
2002
January: "The
Red Tent" by Anita Diamant
February: "Geisha" by Liza Dalby
March: "The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood
April: "Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind" by Ann B. Ross
May: "Prodigal Summer" by Barbara Kingsolver
June: "Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing
Life" by Madeleine L'Engle
July: "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
August: "Seabiscuit" by Laura Hillenbrand
September: "Lying Awake" by Mark Salzman
October: "John Adams" by David McCullough
November: "The River King" by Alice Hoffmann
December: "Tending Roses" by Lisa Wingate
2001
January: "Timeline"
by Michael Crichton
February: "Naked" by David Sedaris
March: "A Good House" by Bonnie Burnard
April: "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton
May: "Tara Road" by Maeve Binchey
June: "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
July: "Waiting" by Ha Jin
August: "Wild Swans" by Jung Chang
September: "While I Was Gone" by Sue Miller
October: "Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions" by Daniel
Wallace
November: "Plainsong" by Kent Haruf
December: "A Month In The Country" by J.L. Carr
2000
January: "A
Virtuous Woman" by Kaye Gibbons
February: "The Book of Ruth" by Jane Hamilton
March: "I Know This Much Is True" by Wally Lamb
April: "Large Animals in Everyday Life: Stories" by Wendy
Brenner
May: "Hanna's Daughters" by Marianne Fredriksson
June: "The Pilot's Wife: A Novel" by Anita Shreve
July: "Murther & Walking Spirits" by Robertson Davies
September: "Mrs Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf
October: "The Hours" by Michael Cunningham
November: "Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith" by
Anne Lamott
December: "White Oleander" by Janet Fitch
Last Updated: 12 October 2008
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