2008 March selection

Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
Average: B Crapfactor: 20%

Most of the group thought it was a good read but not "literature".

Here's an interview with the author. You also might find this take on "Old Jacob" by a writer at Healthcentral.com informative.

2008 January selection

The Green Mile by Stephen King (book & movie)

The group enjoyed the movie very much (even though it was over 3 hours long!). The book offered a few more details (as most books do) than the movie. Some of us had seen the movie before reading the book so we weren't quit as shocked when a few things happened in the book and that took away from the enjoyment of the book.

2007 Book Selections

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (book & movie)
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

2006 Book Selections

Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (book & movie)
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice

1999 - 2005 Book Selections

1999

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

2000

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
The God's Themselves by Issac Asimov
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (book & movie)

2001

Waiting by Ha Jin
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Green Journey by Jon Hassler

2002

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

2003

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (book & movie)
The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
J.B.: A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

2004

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (book & movie)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
A Place Where the Sea Remembers by Sandra Benitez
Dracula by Bram Stoker
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton

2005

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (book & movie)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Language of Blood by Jane Jeong Trenka
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman