Date Book (Author) Leader/Hostess
Sept. 13 The Female Brain and The Male Brain (L. Brizendine) M. Krentz/ J. Reft
Oct. 4 Ethan Frome (E. Wharton) C. Adler/K. Nelson
Nov. 1 Cutting for Stone (A. Verghese) L. Kracke/M. Harter
Dec. 6 Brooklyn (C. Toibin) J. Mazenko/M.R. Shaughnessy
Jan. 3 Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand (H. Simonson) B. Wagner/K. Woods
Feb. 7 Sarah’s Key (T. de Rosnay) N. Baum/ C. Strauss
March 6 Little Bee (C. Cleave) M. Reitz/ C. Johnston
April 3 The Warmth of Other Suns (I.Wilkerson) M. Schilling/ D. Patton
May 1 BOOKLIST (2012-2013) D. Stokes
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une 5 Pearl of China(A. Min) M. R. Shaughnessy/ M. Schilling
July 10 Room (E. Donoghue) D. Stokes/
We're still talking about our 2010-2011
Book List 
Oct. 5 The Big Short (M. Lewis) Luhmann+H. Stokes/ Luhmann
Nov. 2 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (S. Larsson) Shaughnessy/Stokes
Dec. 7 Pictures at an Exhibition (S. Houghteling) Baum/Shaughnessy
Jan 4 The Uncommon Reader (A. Bennett) plus
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (D. Sijie)
____________/Woods
Feb. 1 Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constituional Convention May-Sept. 1787 (C. D. Bowen) Wallace/Stokes+Mazenko
March 1 Stones into Schools (G. Mortenson) Wagner/__
April 5 Half the Sky (N. Kristof and S. WuDunn) Schilling/Patton
May 3 Booklist for 2011-2012 Adler
June 7 The Swan Thieves (E. Kostova) Patton/Schilling
July 12 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (R. Skloot) Adler/Stokes
Each February the Book Group is responsible for providing refreshments for the members' meeting. 
A Look Back at Past Books Discussed
2009-2010
2008-2009
Sept. 1 Team of Rivals (D. Goodwin), Kris Nelson/Marie Schilling
Oct. 6 People of the Book (G. Brooks), Leah Kadden/Diana Stokes
Nov. 3 Windy City (S. Simon), Jamie Reft/Mary Harter
Dec. 1 Portrait of an Unknown Woman (V.Bennett), Kristen Woods/M R Shaughnessy
Jan. 5 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Shaffer & Barrows), Barbara Wagner/K. Wood
Feb. 2 The Book Thief (Zusak), Miriam Reitz/D. Patton
March 2 The World's Wife (C. Duffy), D. Patton/
Mothers and Sons (C. Toibin), C. Adler/
April 6 The Elegance of the Hedgehog (M. Barbery), Marie Schilling/J. Reft
May 4 BOOKLIST 2010-2011 D. Stokes
June 1 The Nine (J. Toobin), D. Luhmann/ Nancy Baum
July 6 A Thousand Splendid Suns (K. Hosseini), M R Shaughnessy/Connie White
Sept. 9 Family Tree (B. Delinsky), Another Way Home (R. Hartfield); J. Reft/N. Baum
Oct. 7 Little Heathens (M. Kalish); M. Reitz/D. Luhmann
Nov. 4, Zoo-Keeper's Wife: A War Story; (D. Ackerman) M. Krentz /D. Stokes
Dec. 2 Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History (L. Ulrich) C. Johnston/M. Shaughnessy
Jan. 6 Year of Wonders (G. Brooks) B. Wagner/K. Woods
Feb. 3 A Long Way Gone ( I. Beah) D. Stokes /M. Buchanan at the Neighborhood Club
March 3 The Tenderness of Wolves (S. Penney) J. Mazenko/J. Reft
April 7 Infidel ( A . Ali) M. Schilling/M. Harter
May 5 BOOKLIST 2009-10 D. Stokes
June 2 The Yiddish Policeman's Union (M. Chabon) Laura Fenster/K. Nelson
July 7 Iceland 's Bell (Laxness) Barbara Wagner/J. Reft& L. Fenster
Suite Francaise (Nemirovsky)
Three Cups of Tea (Mortenson)
The Secret Life of Bees (Kidd)
Inheritance of Loss (Desai)
March (Brooks)
The Namesake ( Lahiri)
The Known World (Jones)
After This (McDermott)
On Hitler's Mountain (Hunt) K. Woods/J. Reft
2006-07
Withey, Dearest Friend
Isiguro, Never Let Me Go
Glass, Three Junes
Robinson, Gilead
McCall Smith, In the Company of Cheerful Ladies; Sunday Afternoon Philosophy Club
Toibin, The Master
Manji, The Trouble with Islam Today
de Bernieres, Birds Without Wings
See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Zafon, In the Shadow of the Wind
The Kite Runner, Husseini ;
Thunder at Twilight, Morton;
The Good Doctor, Galgut;
The Pied Piper of South Shore, Amster; Snow, Orhan Pamuk;
The Way to Paradise, Vargas Llosa;
Saturday, McEwan;
The Red Queen, Drabble;
The Orientalist, Reiss.