Carrollwood Cultural Center Book Club

Carrollwood Cultural Center
Book Club

READING LIST

2013

NOVEMBER 25
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath (Michael Norman and Eliabeth Norman)
Leader: Susan R.
OCTOBER 28
The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett)
Leader: Joyce S.
SEPTEMBER 23
Strength in What Remains (Tracy Kidder)
Leader: Susan R.
AUGUST 26
March (Geraldine Brooks)
Leader: Jean K.
JULY 22
Wild Fire: A John Corey Novel (Nelson DeMille)
Leader: Ed C.
JUNE 24
The Imperfectionists (Tom Rachman)
Leader: Caroline S.
MAY 20 (not the 4th Monday/not Memorial Day)
The Inner Circle (Brad Melzer)
Leader: Barbara M.
APRIL 22
My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store (Ben Ryder Howe)
Leader: Joyce S.
MARCH 25
A Land Remembered (Patrick Smith)
Leader: Jean K.
FEBRUARY 25
A Prisoner of Birth (Jeffrey Archer)
Leader: Ed C.
JANUARY 28
Clara and Mr. Tiffany (Susan Vreeland)
Leader: Jean K.

2012

NOVEMBER 26
84, Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff)
Leader: Jan V.
OCTOBER 22
Clouds from Both Sides: An Autobiography (Julie Tullis)
Leader: Ed C.
SEPTEMBER 24
The Last Brother (Nathacha Appanah; translated by Geoffrey Strachan)
Leader: Susan R.
AUGUST 27
RESCHEDULED FOR Monday, September 10th, 7:00 p.m.
The Girl in Hyacinth Blue (Susan Vreeland)
Leader: Kathy S.
JULY 23
The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
Leader: Caroline S.
JUNE 25
The Guns of August (Barbara Tuchman)
Leader: Nancy R.
MAY 21
Travels with Charley (John Steinbeck)
Leader: Kathy S.
NOTE DATE CHANGE DUE TO
MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY ON MAY 28
APRIL 23
Caleb's Crossing (Geraldine Brooks)
Leader: Jean K.
MARCH 26
Outliers (Malcom Gladwell)
Leader: Nancy R.
FEBRUARY 27
Elizabeth Street: A Novel Based on True Events (Laurie Fabiano)
Leader: Ed C.
JANUARY 23
Shark River (Randy Wayne White)
Leader: Kathy S.

2011

NOVEMBER 28
Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese)
Leader: Susan R.
OCTOBER 24
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (Gail Collins)
Leader: Susan R.
SEPTEMBER 26
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Jamie Ford)
Leader: Barbara M.
AUGUST 22
Washington Square (Henry James)
Leader: Kathy S.
JULY 25
Drowning Ruth (Christina Schwarz)
Leader: Caroline S.
JUNE 27
The Worst Hard Time: the Untold Story of Those Who survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Timothy Egan)
Leader: Susan R.
MAY 23
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Burbery)
Leader: Joyce S.
APRIL 25
The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
Leader: Jan V./Nancy R.)
MARCH 28
Charming Billy (Alice McDermott)
Leader: Caroline S.
FEBRUARY 28
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Bill Bryson)
Leader: Kathy S.
JANUARY 24
Shalimar the Clown (Salman Rushdie)
Leader: Caroline S.

2010

NOVEMBER 22
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Tracy Kidder)
Leader: Valerie R.
OCTOBER 25
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
Leader: Kelley F.
SEPTEMBER 27
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society (Mary Ann Shaffer)
Leader: Jean K.
AUGUST 23
The Black Echo (Michael Connelly)
Leader: Ray O.
JULY 26
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Leader: Sandra H.
JUNE (No meeting -- combined with July 26 meeting to accommodate longer book.)
MAY 24
The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
Leader: Ray O.
APRIL 26
The Echo Maker (Richard Powers)
Leader: Jedd P.
MARCH 22
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (Jim Fergus)
Leader: Kelley F.
FEBRUARY 22
A Thousand Acres (Jane Smiley)
Leader: Jedd P.
JANUARY 25
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
Leader: Jean K.

2009

NOVEMBER 23
Loving Frank (Nancy Horan)
Leader: Ray O.
OCTOBER 26
The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Kim Edwards)
Leader: Sue C.?
SEPTEMBER 28
The Afghan (Frederick Forsyth)
Leader: Ed C.
AUGUST 24
Killing Mr. Watson (Peter Matthiessen)
Leader: Jean K.
JULY 27
The Painted Veil (W. Somerset Maugham)
Leader: Kathy S.
JUNE 22
Peace Like a River (Leif Enger)
Leader: Sandra H.
Rescheduled Date -- JUNE 1 (postponed from MAY 25)
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (David Wroblewski)
Leader: Kathy S.
APRIL 27
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Simon Winchester)
Leader: Ray O.
MARCH 23
Flight of Passage (Rinker Buck)
Leader: Kathy S.
FEBRUARY 23
3 Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson)
Leader: Barbara M.
JANUARY 26
Water for Elephants (Sarah Gruen)
Leader: Ed C.

2008

DECEMBER - No Meeting
Happy Holidays!
NOVEMBER 24
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Leader: Ray O.
OCTOBER 27
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship (Jon Meacham)
Leader: John M.
SEPTEMBER 22
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Leader: Terry L.
AUGUST 25
River of the Golden Ibis (Gloria Jahoda)
JULY 28
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 (David McCullough)
Leader: Ed C.
JUNE 23
The Eye of the Tiger (Wilbur Smith)
Leader: Kathy S.
MAY 26
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)
APRIL 28
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Ishmael Beah)
MARCH 24
Cross Creek (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
FEBRUARY 25
Suite Francaise (Irene Nemirovsky)
JANUARY 28
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)

2007

DECEMBER - No Meeting
Happy Holidays!
NOVEMBER 26
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Barbara Kingsolver)
OCTOBER 22
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (Thomas Cahill)
SEPTEMBER 24
A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
AUGUST 27
Crossing to Safety (Wallace Stegner)
JULY 23
The Professor and the Madman (Simon Winchester)