Winter/Spring 2009 Reading List

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Cold Rock River by J. L. Miles
East of the Mountains by David Guterson
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The World According to Garp by John Irving
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Winter/Spring 2009

Night
by Elie Wiesel

Night is the harrowing true account of the Nazi death camps as experienced by a young Jewish boy. Born in the town of Sighet in Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was only a teenager when he and his family were forced out of their home and into a concentration camp called Auschwitz. Then later Elie was transferred to Buchenwald where he witnessed and experienced such horrors that Wiesel was unable to speak of his experience and kept silence for almost 10 years.
   

Summer/Fall 2009 Reading List

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Jaws by Peter Benchley
Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Shogun by James Clavell
Swift as Desire by Laura Esquivel
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Last Girls by Lee Smith
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
   

Summer/Fall 2009

Cold Sassy Tree
by Olive Ann Burns

When Will's grandfather marries a woman young enough to be his daughter just six weeks after the death of his long time wife, tongues in Cold Sassy, Georgia are sent a'flappin.