Friday, June 8, 2018

BOOKS THAT WERE PRESENTED, BUT NOT PICKED

Abundance
The All Girls Filling Station's Last Reunion - Fannie Flagg - 2013 - 347 pages
Awakening of Miss Prim - Fenollera -
The Awakening (AW) Chopin (1899) 123 pages 
Bel Canto - SA
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - Deborah Moggach - 2004 - 336 pages
Between Friends - Debbie Macomber - 2002 - 352 pages
The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni - 1628 - 720 pages
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage - David Hoffman - 336 pages - 2015
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - 351 pages - 1945
Call the Midwife - Jennifer Worth - 340 pages - 2002
Cancer Ward - Solzhenitsyn
Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns - Margaret Dilloway - 354 pages - 2012
Cassino Royale
Charlie Wilson's War - George Crile - 2003 - 560
The Chillbury Ladies' Chior
Cold Sassy Tree
Confessions of X - Suzanne Wolfe
Confessions of St. Augustine - ML
Contact - Care Sagan, 286 pages
Count of Monte Cristo
Curious Incident of the Dog
Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton - 224 pages
Dark Matter: A Novel: 368 pages - by Blake Crouch
Darkness at Noon
Deep Down Dark
Demon Copperhead - (2022) 546 pages by Kingsolver
The Devil Hates Latin
Diary of Anne Frank
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - LH
Dim Sum of All Fears
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
The Dutch House - LB
Educated
The Elephant Company
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Elijah in Jerusalem
Emily of New Moon
The Endless Knot
Every Man Dies Alone
Everyone in my Family Has Killed Someone - AD
Flight Attendant
Flush - Virginia Woolf
The Fox Wife - AD
The Fur Hat - by Voinovich 1991 - 132 pages
Ghosts of the Tsunami - AD
Glass Castle
Go Set a Watchman - Lee Harper
The Grand Sophy - 
The Great Alone: A Novel by Kristen Hannah
The Great Divorce 
The Gun Seller
Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
Happy Place by emily Henry - LH
The Heart of the Matter - Greene
Herzog
Hidden Pictures - LB
The House of the Seven Gables - Hawthorn
The Hunger Games
Ida Elizabeth - Singrid Undset
In this House of Brede
Into the Wild
The Imperfectionist
In the Presence of my Enemies
The Infidel
Instruments of Darkness
Jaws
Jayber Crow
Last Policeman
Letter to My Daughter - Angelou
A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest Gaines
Lessons in Chemistry - Garmus - 390 pages - SL 
Lord of the Flies (AW) - Golding (1956) 224 pages
Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy 
Keys of the Kingdom
Lake Wobegon
A Lantern in her Hand
Lessons in Chemistry - SA 
Letters from the Closet: Ten Years of Correspondence that Changed My Life
The Life of Pi
Lying Awake
The Maid
Maisie Dobbs
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
A Man Called Ove
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskel - 400 pages
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Memoirs of a Geisha
Merlot Murders - Ellen Crosby - 308 pages
Midnight Library - Matt Haig - LH
Mrs. Dalloway- 103 pages - Virginia Wolf
Mrs. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
The Mummy
My Antoinia - Cather
Narrative of Fredrick Douglas
Neverwhere - AD - 390 pages
North and South - Gaskell
Now, Voyager
Odd Thomas - Koonst
Our Man in Havana
Out of Africa 399 pages
Paladin of Souls
Paris Letters - MacLeod - 272 pages - 2014
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Satrapi, 153 pages, 2003
Peter Pan - Barrie
Petersburg - Andrei Bely
A Place on Earth - Wendal Berry - 320 pages, 1969
The Plague - by Camus 1991. 320 Pages
The Planets by Sobel
The Prime of Mis Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Sparks 90-130 pages
The Princess Spy by Larry Loftin - 384pages
Rabble in Arms
Riders of the Purple Sage
The Right Stuff
The Rules of Civility - LB
The Secret of Santa Vittoria - Robert Crichton - 1966
A Serial Killer's Daughter - Kerri Rawson - 320
Seven Story Mountain
Shirley - Bronte
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson - 440 pages, 2000
Something Other Than God
The Song of the Lark
The Sorrows of Young Werther - JD 
Station 11
Song of the Scaffold
The Spear
That Hideous Strength - CS Lewis
The Testament - John Grisham
The Thursday Murder Club - SL
This Side of Paradise - F Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mocking Bird
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Wolf
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Turn of the Key
The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper club
Uncle Silas
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
The Warden - Trollope
We
The Wheat that Springeth
Where the Crawdads Sing 
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wine and War
Whose Body -Dorothy Sayers, 202 pages, 1923
A Woman of Note
The Woman on the Orient Express
The Wright Brothers

BOOKCLUBS PAST

188 - Brideshead Revisited - AW
187 - The Book of Doors - AD
186 - The Curious Incident of the Dog at the Nighttime
185 - The Confessions of St. Augustine - JD
184 - Casino Royale
183 - Beartown - LH
182 - Jan - The Housemaid - SL
2025

181 - Dec - Little Women - ML
180 - Nov - The Martian - LA
179 - Oct - Dracula - AS
178 - Sep -Horrorstรถr - AD
177 - Aug - The In-Between - JD
176 - Jul - The Little Old Woman Who Broke All the Rules - AW
175 - Jun - Orphan Train
174 - May  - Cuckoo's Calling
173 - Apr - A Man Lay Dead - LH
172 - Mar - The Awkward Age - ML
171 - Feb - Turn, Magic Wheel - LA
170 - Jan - A Tale of Two Cities - AS
2024 

169 - Dec - The Hobbit - AD
168 - Nov - Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy - SL
167 - Oct - Something Wicked this way Comes - SM
166 - Sep - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - LB
165 - Aug - Age of Innocence - LH
164 - Jul - Crying in H Mart - ML
163 - Jun - That Woman - AW
162 - May - Death Comes to Pemberley - LA
161 - Apr - Before We Were Yours - JD
160 - Mar - Ivanhoe - AS
159 - Feb - Our of the Silent Planet - SM
158 - Jan - The Boys and the Boat - SL
    2023

157 - Dec - Kim - SM
156 - Nov - The Long Road to Mercy - LB
155 - Oct - Ready Player One - LH
154 - Sep - Anxious People - ML
153 - Aug - The Death of Ivan Ilyich - LA
152 - Jul - Earth Abides - JD
151 - Jun - The Splendid and the Vile - AW
150 - May - Mr. Midshipman Hornblower C.S. Forester
149 - Apr - 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle-SL- 432 Pages
148 - Mar - The Storyteller - SM
147 - Feb - Death on the Nile - LB
146 - Jan - The Gentleman Burglar - LH
2022

145 - Dec - The Old Curiosity Shop - ML 
144 - Nov - Carry On, Jeeves - LA
143 - Oct - The Road - JD
142 - Sep - Hillbilly Elegy - AW
141 - Aug - Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters - AD
140 - Jul - The Sanatorium - LB
139 - Jun - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - SA
138 - May - Black Mass - JD
137 - Apr - The Devil and the White City - LB
136 - Mar - Come Rack! Come Rope! - OD
135 - Feb - Father and Sons - ML
134 - Jan - Still Life - JD
2021

133 - Dec - The Andromeda Strain  - Michael Crichton - AW
132 - Nov - The African Queen - C. S. Forester - LH
131 - Oct - The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett - 1930 - 212 pages - LA
130 - Sep - Gentleman in Moscow - OD - Towles - 496 pages - 2016
129 - Aug - Up From Slavery - SA
128 - Jul - Razor's Edge - ML
127 - Jun - Cafe by the Sea - OD
126 - May - High Achiever - JD
125 - Apr - Roughing It - Twain - AG - 1872
124 - Mar - The Dead Secret - Collins - LB - 1857
123 - Feb - Death Comes for the Archbishop- Cather -  1927 - AW
122 - Jan- The Invisible Man - HG Wells - LB - 1897
2020

121 - Dec - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine -OD - Honeyman - 2017
120 - Nov - Frankenstein - Shelley - SA - Shelley - 1818
119 - Oct - Breakfast at Tiffany's- LA - Capote - 1958
118 - Sept - Picture of Dorian Gray- Wilde -1890 -  ML
117 - Aug - Children of Men- PD James - 1992 - JD
116 - Jul - Travels with My Aunt - Graham Greene - 1969 - AW
115 - Jun - The Bell Jar - Plathe - LB - 1963
114 - May - The Hideaway - OD - Denton 2017
113 - Apr - Sitti Nurbaya - SM - Roesli - 1922
112 - Mar - All Creatures Great and Small- James Harriot - 1972 - 472 pages - LA
111 - Feb - My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier - 1951 - 352 pages - ML
110 - Jan - The Girl Who Lived - JD - Greyson - 2017
2019

109 - Dec - The Man in the High Castle -AW - 1962 - Dick
108 - Nov - Cannery Row- LB - Steinbeck  -1945
107 - Oct - Persuasion -DL - Austin - 181
106 - Sep - Strangers on a Train - 1950 - Highsmith
105 - Aug - Howard's End- OD - Forester - 1910
104 - Jul - Reading Lolita in Tehran - 2003 - Nafisi
103 - Jun - The Metamorphosis - Kafka - 1912 - SA
102 - May - Tarzan of the Apes -  Edgar Rice Burroughs - 1912 - LA
101 - Apr -  The Twelve Chairs - Ilf and Petrov - 1928 - ML
100 - Mar -  The Poet and the Murderer - Simon Worrall - 2002 - 
99 - Feb - The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene - 1940 - AW
98 - Jan - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold  - John le Carre 1963 -LB
2018

97 - Dec - My Grandmother Wanted Me to Tell You She's Sorry - Fredrik Backman - 2013 - OD
96 - Nov - Embers - Sandor Marai - 1942 - DL
95 - Oct - The Haj - Leon Uris - 1984 - NC
94 - Sep - Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie - 1934
93 - Aug - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt - 1994 - ML
92 - Jul- 1984 - George Orwell - 1949 
91 - Jun - Scoop - Evelyn Waugh - 1938 = AW
90 - May - Tattoos on the Heart - Gregory Boyle - 2010 - MH
89 - Apr - The Thirteenth Tale - 2006 - LB
88 - Mar - Freddy and Fredericka - Mark Helprin - 2005 - OD
87 - Feb -Lost in the Cosmos - Walker Percy - 1983 
86 - Jan - Cruel Beauty - Rosamund Hodge - 2014 - NC
2017

85 - Dec - Joan of Arc - Mark Twain - 1896 - LA
84 - Nov - Slaughter House V - Kurt Vonnegut - 1969 - JD
83 - Oct - Breaking Rockefeller - Peter Doran - 2016 - ML
82 - Sep - The Great Train Robbery - Mahael Crichton - 1975 
81 - Aug - The Devil's Cub - Georgette Heyer - 1932 - LB
80 - July - The Tenant of Wildfeld Hall - Anne Bronte - 1848 - OD
79 - June - Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - 1932
78 - May - All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr - 2014 - DL
77 - Apr - Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War against Hitler - Mark Riebling - 2015 - NC
76 - Mar - A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M Miller - 1960 - JD
75 - Feb - The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester - 1998 - RC
74 - Jan - Perelandra - CS Lewis - 1943 - SA
2016

73 - Dec - A Severe Mercy - Sheldon Vanauken - 1977 - TP
72 - Nov - Saffhira and the Slave - Willa Cather - 1940 - ML
71 - Oct - The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson - 2011 - AW
70 - Sept - Crocodile on the Sandbank - Elizabeth Peters - 1975 - LB
69 - Aug - The Book Thief - Markus Zusak - 2005 
68 - July - Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne - 1867
67 - Jun - The Light Between Oceans - ML Stedman - 2012
66 - May - Seabiscuit: An American Legend - Laura Hillenbrand - 2001
65 - Apr - King Solomon's Mine - H Rider Haggard - 1885 - NC
64 - Mar - Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me - Mindy Kaling - 2011 - SA
63 - Feb - The Bride of Lammermoor - Sir Walter Scott - 1819 - ML
62 2015 Jan - The Luck of Barry Lyndon - William Thackeray - 1844 - AW

61 Dec - The Painted Veil - W Somerset Maugham - 1925 - LB
60 Nov - The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - Johnsson - 2008 -OD
59 Oct - The Wedding Dress - Rachel Hauck - 2012 - LA
58 Sept - Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand - 2010
57 Aug - All the Pretty Horses - Carmac McCarthy - 1992 - JD
56 July - The Longest Day - Carnelius Ryan - 1959 - NC
55 Jun - Dad is Fat - Jim Gaffigan - 2013 -SA
54 May - The Moviegoer - Walker Percy - 1961 - 
53 April - Tower of Shadows - Drew Bowling - 2006 - ML
52 March - Silence - Shusaku Endo - 1966 - AW
51 Feb -A Taste for Morbid Bones - Ellis Peters - 1977 - LB
50 Jan - Ceremony Of Innocence - Dorothy Cummings McLean - 2013 - OD
2014

49 Dec - Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom - 2003 - DL
48 Nov - Fearless - Eric Blehm - 2012 - JD
47 Oct - The Virginian - Owen Wister - 1902 - NC
46 September - The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas - 1850 - ML
45 August - Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - 1874 - KL
44 The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver - 1998 - EG
43 When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro - 2000 - RM
42 Diary of a Provincial Lady - EM Delafield - 1933 - SA
41 My Life in France - Julia Child - 2006 - OD
40 Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome - 1889 - SN
39 Running with the Demons - Terry Brooks - 1997 - ES
38 - House of Pomegranates - Oscar Wilde - 1891 - DL
2013
37 Dec - A Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 1967 - AG
36 Nov - The Lord of the World - Robert Hugh Benson - 1907 - JD
35 Oct - The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - 1860 - NC
34 Sep - Diary of a Country Priest - Georges Bernanos - 1936 - ML
33 Aug - The Help - Kathryn Stockett - 2008 - EG
32 July - Leave It to Psmith – PG Wodehouse - 1923 - SA
31 June - The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler - 1939 - MA
30 May - One Day in the Life Of Ivan - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - 1962 - OD
29 April - Franny and Zooey - JD Salinger - 1961 - AW
28 Mar - The Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith - 1998 - ES
27 Feb - The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov - 1967 - DD
26 Jan – The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor - 960 - AB
2012
25 Dec – Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - 1963 - DL
24 Nov – Sophia House - Michael O'Brien - 2005 - JD
23 Oct – The Talisman Ring - Georgette Heyer - 1936 - NC
22 Sept – The Buccaneers - Edith Wharton - 1938 - RM
21 Aug – The Cid - Unknown - 1207 - CK
20 July – Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway - 1929 - ML 
19 Jun – The Red Tent - Anita Diamant - 1997 - KL
18 May – Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - 1979 - OD
17 Mao’s Last Dancer - Li Cunzin - 2003 - KP
16 Helena - Evelyn Waugh - 1950 - MW
15 Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier - 1936 - AW
14 The End of the Affair - Graham Greene - 1951 - DL
2011
13 I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith - 1948 - AG
12 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - 1924 - AB
11 Wind Sand and Stars - Antoine Saint-Exupery - 1939 - CK
10 What Maisie Knew - Henry James - 1897 - ML
9 Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquirel - 1989 - OD
8 The Man Who was Thursday - GK Chesterton - 1908 - DL
7 Agnes grey - Anne Bronte - 1846 - MW
6 Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky - 1866 - KW
5 House of Mirth - Edith Wharton - 1905 - AW
4 Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Shaffer and Barrow - 2008 - KL
3 Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier - 1938 - KP
2 Kristen Laverndatter - Singrid Undset - 1920 - CK
2010
Dec 2009- The Horse and His Boy - CS Lewis - 1954 - ML

BOOKS THAT WERE PRESENTED, BUT NOT PICKED

Abundance The All Girls Filling Station's Last Reunion - Fannie Flagg - 2013 - 347 pages Awakening of Miss Prim - Fenollera - The Awa...