Book Club - Past Selections

Are you wondering which books the group has read in the past?

Check out this list of some of the book club's past selections!

Autumn 2006 / Spring 2007

A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Women of the Silk by Gail Tsykiyama

Autumn 2005

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher

Spring 2005 / Autumn 2004

The Same Sea by Amos Oz
Martyr's Crossing by Amy Wilentz
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Free Read: Read any book that catches your fancy and share your thoughts about the book in a 5 minute presentation.

Spring 2004 / Autumn 2003

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adian Nicole LeBlanc
White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (2004 Writers & Books' "If All of Rochester Read the Same Book..." )
The Magnificent Spinster by May Sarton
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Bel Canto: A Novel by Ann Patchett
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Free Read: Read any book that catches your fancy and share your thoughts about the book in a 5 minute presentation.

Spring 2003 / Autumn 2002

The Farm She Was by Ann Mohin
A Place Where the Sea Remembers by Sandra Benitez
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (2003 Writers & Books' "If All of Rochester Read the Same Book..." )
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Six Moon Dance by Sheri S. Tepper
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund

Spring 2002 / Autumn 2001

Singing in the Comeback Choir by Bebe Moore Campbell
A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
The Spirit Catches You & You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
Stones from the River by Ursala Hegi
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

Spring 2001 / Autumn 2000

Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaajte
Waiting by Ha Jin
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Sole Survivor by Derek Hansen
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis DeBerniers
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haines

If you are a Book Groupie who knows the title missing from from the Spring 2001/Autumn 2000 list, please contact the club's webmistress (rochesterclub@smith.alumnae.net) and help her complete the list.

Spring 2000

Headlong: A Novel by Michael Frayn
Orlando by Virginia Wolff
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

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For more information about the Smith College Club of Rochester Book Club, please email Lee Fox at rochesterclub@smith.alumnae.net