Beyond Words Book Group (Kingston Free Library)
Meets 2nd Wednesday of the month, 7:30 PM (does not meet July and August)
2009-2010
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: a Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison
Five Skies by Ron Carlson
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
Limits of Power: the End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew J. Bacevich
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino
2007-2008
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
Emma by Jane Austen
Mayflower: a Study of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire
Atonement by Ian McEwan
2006-2007
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foer
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
Aloft by Chang Rae Lee
West With the Night by Beryl Markham
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
My Life in France by Julia Child & Paul Prudhomme
Pretty Birds by Scott Simon
2005-2006
1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Mailman by J.Robert Lennon
Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
V by Thomas Pynchon
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Poet and the Murderer by Simon Worrall
2004-2005
The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
The Moons of Jupiter byAlice Munro
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
In the Castle of the Flynns by Michael Raleigh
The Lovely Bones byAlice Sebold
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
2003-2004
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Under Cover of Daylight by James Hall
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Love’s Executioner: and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom Lost
Nation by Jeffrey Lent
Seabiscuit: an American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
2002-2003
Plagues and People by William McNeill
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Till We Have Faces: a Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis
Blanche Cleans Up by Barbara Neely
About the Author by John Colapinto
All the Names by Jose Saramago
Steel Beach by John Varley
The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
2001-2002
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
School for the Blind by Dennis McFarland
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
The Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
The Late Mr. Shakespeare by Robert Nye
Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing by Ted Conover
Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig
2000-2001
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII by John W. Dower
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Flashman at the Charge by George MacDonald Fraser
1999-2000
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
The Color of Water by James McBride
A Widow for One Year by John Irving
Lost in Translation by Nicole Mones
We Were Soldiers Once, and Young by Harold G. Moore
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
No Mercy: a Journey into the Heart of the Congo by Redmond O’Hanlon
1998-1999
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Other Side of the River by Alex Kotlowitz
Poison by Kathryn Harrison
Sacrifice of Tamar by Naomi Ragen
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi
Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis DeBernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
1997-1998
The River God by Wilbur Smith
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
Bailey’s Café by Gloria Naylor
Northern Borders by Howard Mosher
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn by Paul Watkins
Mercy by David Lindsey
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
1996-1997
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Swimming in the Congo by Margaret Meyers
Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham
Familiar Heat by Mary Hood
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway