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BOOKS

I have been blessed to be in a great book club for many years and thought I'd share our reading list.  Our favorite books are noted with **.  There are some stinkers on the list too, but that is the nature of a book club too.

Our club has seven members and each of us selects a book each year.  We do not have a book selection for May or December.  In May, we get together for dinner and discuss independent readings.  In December, we get together for a dinner and a gift exchange. 



Year One 2005
Deadly Grace**
Gap Creek
Skipping Christmas
Sisterchicks Do The Hula
Dying for Chocolate
At Home In Mitford
Do Me, Do My Roots
Davinci Code

Year Two 2006
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Copper Beach
Common Passions
Tell No One
Dead Ringer
Bell Canto
1000 White Women**
A Million Little Pieces
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Secret Life of Bees

Year Three 2007
A Sudden Change Of Heart
Two For The Dough
Where The Wind Blows
Lovely Bones
Sarah’s Song
Window of the South**
The Kite Runner**
Thre3e
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Forever

Year Four 2008
Wedding In December
This Present Darkness
Vanishing Acts
Into The Wild
Red Bird Christmas
Cold Sassy Tree
Friends, Lovers & Chocolate
The Truist Pleasure
Snow Flower & The Secret Fan**
Honeymoon
Goodnight Nobody
The Thirteenth Tale

Year Five 2009
Marley & Me
The Historian
Beneath The Marble Sky**
A Name Of Her Own
On Strike For Christmas
The Innocent Man
The Persian Pickle Club
The Other Boleyn Girl
Cane River
Here on Earth
Shoe Addicts Anonymous
The Shack**

Year Six 2010
The Hotel At The Corner of Bitter & Sweet
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas**
City of Thieves
Blind Assassin
Beautiful Lies
The Saving Graces
The Glass Castle
Catcher In The Rye
The Confederacy of Dunces

Year Seven 2011
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo
Blood Club
The Kitchen House**
The Virgin’s Lover
Joy Luck Club
Piercing The Darkness
Saving Ce Ce Honeycutt
Cutting For Stone
North River

Year Eight 2012
Anne of Green Gables
The Winter Garden**
Fireworks Over Toccoa
Whistling In The Dark
The Cypress House
Juliet
Mudbound
Before I Go To Sleep
Outlander
Sarah's Key

Year Nine 2013
Mrs. Mike
The Sweetness of Forgetting**
The Empty Glass
Thunder & Rain
The Language of Flowers
Defending Jacob 
The Dry Grass of August
Molokai
The Forgotten Garden**
The House On Tradd Street

Year Ten 2014
The Chaperon 
The Snow Child
Morning Glory
The Shoemaker's Wife
Beach House
The Inferno
The Husband's Secret
Necessary Lies**
The Story Teller
The Secret Keeper

Year Eleven 2015
Me Before You**
40 Acres
The Other Typist
The Invention of Wings
Sense & Sensibility
The Last Original Wife
Take Me With You
Sisterland
My Sister's Grave
Wench

Year Twelve 2016
The Flame & the Flower
Lake News
The Girl on a Train
The Round House
At Water's Edge
Everything I Never Told You
The Maid's Version
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
The Nightingale
Go Set a Watchman

Year Thirteen 2017
The Thorn Birds
The Guest on South Battery
The Memory of Water
The Lost Mother
The Perfume Collector
The Nest
Same Kind of Different Than Me**
The Mountain Between Us
A Man Called Ove
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

Year Fourteen 2018
Murder on the Orient Express
The Women In the Castle
The Legacy of Lucy Harte
Before We Were Yours
The Chemist
The Lake House
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster
If The Creek Don't Rise

Year Fifteen 2019
The Fourth Monkey
Envy
Becoming Mrs Lewis
The Scent of Rain and Lightening 
The Woman in the Window
The Great Alone
The Dead Key
The Keeper of Lost Things
Ordinary Grace
The Secret Wife
Little Fires Everywhere 

Year Sixteen 2020
A Gentleman in Moscow
Educated
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Mornings in Jenin
Goodnight June 
The Shadow of the Wind
Best Intentions 
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
Then She Was Gone
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

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