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Jun 2015 and earlier

From 2011 until mid-2015, these are the book we read and discussed:

Barron Park Reading GroupBooks read June 2015andearlier
2015
American NationsColin WoodardJunTerrynon-
fiction
AmericanahChimamanda Ngozi AdichieMayJanetfiction
Me Before YouJoJo MoyesAprYvonnefiction
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, ABetty SmithMarBarbarafiction
All the Light We Cannot SeeAnthony DoerrFebYvonnefiction
Stealing Buddha’s DinnerBich Minh NguyenJanTerrynon-fiction
2014
WildCheryl StrayedDecTerrynon-fiction
StonerJohn WilliamsNovYvonnefiction
Teaspoon of Earth and Sea, A Dina NayeriOctfiction
GoldfinchDonna TarttSepfiction
Old Man and the SeaHemingwayAugfiction
West with the NightBeryl MarkhamJulnon-fiction
BlindnessJose SaramagoJunfiction
Mind’s EyeOliver SacksMaynon-fiction
For the Time BeingRuth OzekiAprfiction
Unwinding, TheGeorge PackerMarnon-fiction
Silent WifeA.S.A. HarrisonFebfiction
Buddha in the AtticJulie OtsukaJanfiction
2013
Stranger, TheAlbert CamusDecfiction
City of ShadowsAriana FranklinNovfiction
Behind the Beautiful Forevers:  Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Katherine Boo – Book; Film; Janet’s India experienceOct Sep AugJanetnon-fiction
Whip, TheKaren KondazianJulnon-fiction
How It All BeganPenelope LivelyJunfiction
Book Selection MeetingMay
Gone GirlGillian FlynnAprfiction
Growing Up bin Laden Jean SassonMarJeannon-fiction
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie SocietyMary Ann Shaffer & Annie BarrowsFebfiction
Book Share EventJan
2012
Dreams from the Monster FactorySunny SchwartzDecTerrynon-fiction
House of MirthEdith WhartonNovBarbarafiction
No meeting in OctoberOct
Muslim Next Door, The Sambul Ali-KaramaliSepTerrynon-fiction
Cutting for StoneAbraham Verghese, MDAugfiction
No meeting in JulyJulfiction
Steve JobsWalter IsaacsonJunnon-fiction
Major Pettigrew’s Last StandHelen SimonsonMayfiction
Under the Banner of HeavenJon KrakauerAprnon-fiction
The Help Kathryn StockettMarfiction
BoomerangMichael LewisFebnon-fiction
Marriage PlotJeffrey EugenidesJanfiction
2011
When the Body Says NoGabor MateDecnon-fiction
Remarkable CreaturesTracey ChevalierNovfiction