Proposed Reading List – 2012

Book	Author
A Dance to the Music of Time:  First Movement	Anthony Powell
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons	Lorna Ladvik
Anything by	Ellen Gilchrist
Anything by	Jane Austin
Anything by	Iain Pears
Bold Spirit:  Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America	Linda Lawrence Hunt
Cannery Row / Sweet Thursday	John Steinbeck
City of Thieves	David Benioff
Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy Toole
Confinement	Carrie Brown
Dreamers of the Day	Mary Doria Russell
Falling Angels	Tracy Chevalier
Forever	Pete Hamill
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet	Jamie Ford
Killer Angels	Michael Shaara
Labor Day	Joyce Maynard
Leah’s Wake	Terri Giuliano
Loving Frank	Nancy Horan
Maine	J. Courtney Sullivan
Mill Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children	Ransom Riggs
Misia:  The Life of Misia Sert	Arthur Gold
Nicholas & Alexandra	Robert K. Massie
One Thousand White Women:  The Journals of May Dodd	Jim Fergus
Peace Like a River	Leif Enger
Pigs in Heaven	Barbara Kingslover
Room	Emma Donoghue
Rules of Civility	Amor Towles
Sarah’s Key	Tatiana de Rosnay
Sister	Rosamund Lupton
Soul Catcher	Michael White
Stone’s Fall	Iain Pears
The Bean Tree	Barbara Kingslover
The Cat’s Table	Michael Ondaatjie
The Dovekeepers	Alice Hoffman
The Elegance of the Hedgehog	Muriel Barbery
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society	Mary Ann Shafffer
The Heretics Daughter	Kathleen Kent
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot
The Last Child	John Hart
The Last Lecture	Randy Pausch
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint	Brady Udell
The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern
The Postmistress	Sarah Blake
The Prague Cemetery	Umberto Eco
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Muriel Spark
The Red Tent	Anita Diamant
The Rope Walk	Carrie Brown
The Secret Kept	Tatiana de Rosnay
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet	Reif Larson
The Sense of an Ending	Julian Barnes
The Thirteenth Tale	Diane Setterfield
The Tiger’s Wife	Tea Obreht
The Time Traveler’s Wife	Audrey Niffenegger
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennos	Maggie O’Farrell
To Kill a Mocking Bird	Harper Lee
Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand
Waiting for Snow in Havana	Carlos Eire
We the Living	Ayn Rand
What Alice Forgot	Liane Moriarty
Year of Wonders	Geraldine Brooks