FAVORITE LIST
KIM: Birds in Fall
BECKY: Indian Summer-Alex Von Tunzelmann
KIERSTEN: Olive Kitteridge-Elizabeth Strout
VAL: Reluctant Fundamentalist
DEB: A Passage to India
SARAH: Refuge-Terry Tempest-Williams
CLAUDIA: The Help-Katherine Stockett
DIANE:
Murder
of Mary Beane
SUSAN:
Someone
Knows My Name, Lawrence Hill
KATHLEEN: Away-Amy Bloom
"Away" by Amy Bloom.
Published in 2007,this is a fabulous novel of the life of a
young Ellis Island immigrant and her extraordinary will to
survive in her new country...because nothing could be worse than
what she left behind. Her transcontinental travels eventually
take her to Alaska. This book is a gripper and so beautifully
written. The New York Times critics chose it as one of the best
books of 07. Read the review: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/books/review/Thomas-t.html
MELISSA:
State of Fear- Michael Crichton. I've been a Crichton fan since
I first saw Jurassic Park. (I love those dinosaurs!) And I found
this book to be an excellent mix of plot and research. It
addresses the global warming environmental focus--with all sorts
of points of view...scientific vs. political/ marketing vs.
factual/ myth v. partial knowledge. It was gripping!
SUZY:
I Dreamed of Africa
was such a beautiful book...romantic, heartbreaking and yet
lyrical description of place.
???The Elegance of the Hedgehog-Muriel Barbary
???Song Yet Sung-James McBride
GREAT BOOKS
SUSAN MORRIS
Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood
Exit Lives, Joan Barefoot
The Polished Hoe, Austin Clarke (The Giller Prize and
Commonwealth Writers Prize, 2003)
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai (Man Booker Prize 2006)
The Murder of Mary Beane, Elizabeth Dewolfe
Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer (NYT Best
Seller)
The Lay of the Land, Richard Ford (NYT Best Book of the Year
2006)
The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
Love and other Infectious Diseases, Molly Haskell
Someone Knows Your Name,
Lawrence Hill
Mercy Among the Children, David Adams Richards (The Giller
Prize 2000)
Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told, Carol Shields and
Marjorie Anderson
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth
Strout (Or Amy and Isabelle-Pulitzer Prize)