Fresno State Book Club: December 2013

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

December 19 holiday book club at my house

December 19, we will will discuss the Reeducation of Cherry Troung by Aimee Phan at my house at 1284 West Keats Avenue northwest corner of Palm and Shaw. You are welcomed to bring a treat or something to drink or not.

2015 Schedule

2014 Schedule of Books

February 27 King Leopold's Ghost

March 20 Inferno by Dan Brown

No April meeting

May 15 Wild Swans:Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

June 19 For Esme with Love and Squalor by J. D. Salinger

July - no group

August 21 The Bean Trees: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
September 18 The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
October 16 The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
November 20 Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munro
December 18 Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
January 15 Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir

2013 Schedule of Books

January 17 La Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

February 21 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

March 21 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

April 18 The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

May 16 The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston

June 20 Molokai by O. A. Bushnell

No July Meeting

August 15 The Round House by Louise Erdrich

September 19 Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

October 17 The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam by Bao Ninh

November 21 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

December 19 The Reeducation of Cherry Truong by Aimee Phan

January 16 King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild

Book Selections 2011-2012

August-Sweeter than all the Earth by Rudy Wiebe

September-Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt

October-We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

November-The Unbroken by Laura Hillerbrand

December-Endurance, Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansin

January-Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian

February-The Paris Wife by Paula McLain Hemmingway’s wife

March-The Quickening by Michelle Hoover

April-I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

May-The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

June-Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe

July-Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Triptree, Jr. (Alice Bradley Sheldon)

Schedule of Books 2010 to 2011

August 19 Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
September 16 The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo by Stieg Larson
October 21 Hotel at the End of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
November 18 Things Fall Apart by Chiune Achebe
December 16 Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War, and an African Farm by Lauren St. John
January 20 The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
February 17 Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Bloody Jack #2 by L. A. Meyer
March 17 The Help by Kathryn Stockett
April 21 The little prince and first half of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
May 19 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
June 16 Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
July 21 Heart of Darkness by Josef Conrad

Schedule of Books 2009-10

October 15- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
November 19 - Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
December 17 - Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason by Russel Shorto
January 21 - The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
February 18 - The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
March 18 - Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
April 15 - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
May 20 - A Separate Peace by John Knowles
June 17 - Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
July 15 - In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

December 19 holiday book club at my house

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