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Welcome to the BOOK FRiENDS Wiki! We are a group of friends who have been meeting monthly since our first gathering in May of 1999. We have lost and gained members here and there, but our core group continues to discuss books and life, and how they relate. We have seen each other through good times and bad, with our love of literature to sustain us.

=Here is a list of the books we have read:=


 * Prepared by Anne W. February 2013 **

May __The Color of Water__, James MacBridge June __The Road from Coorain__, Jill ker Conway July __Catcher in the Rye__, JD Salinger Sept. __A Yellow Raft in Blue Water__, Michael Dorris Nov. __The Shipping News__, Annie Proux
 * 1999 **

Jan. __The Great Gatsby__, F. Scott Fitzgerald Feb., __The Poisonwood Bible__, Barbara Kingslover Mar. __Memoires of a Geisha__​, Arthur Golden Apr. __Pride and Prejudice__, Jane Austin May __Persian Pickle Club__, Sandra Dallas June __Stones from the River__, Ursula Hegi July __Beach Music__, Pat Conroy Aug. __A Year in Provence__, Peter Mayle __Tuesdays with Morrie__, Mitch Albom __Wishcraft, How to Get What You Really Want__**,** Barbara Sher Sept. __Vera__, Stacy Schiff Oct. __Who Moved My Cheese__​, Spencer Johnson, M.D.
 * 2000 **

Jan. __Tender is the Night__, F. Scott Fitzgerald Feb. __The Hungry Ocean__, Linda Greenlaw Mar. __The Greatest Generation__, Tom Brokaw Apr. __Les Miserables__, Victor Hugo – Then we went to see Stephen Tewksbury perform in //**Les Miserables**// in Boston! June __Daughter of Fortune__ July __A Painted House__, John Grisham Aug. __The Red Tent__, Anita Diamart __Welcome to the World Baby Girl__, Fannie Flagg Sept. __To Kill a Mockingbird__, Harper Lee Oct. __The Bonesetter’s Daughter__, Amy Tan
 * 2001 **

Jan. __Chinese Cinderella__, Adeline Yen Mah __Skipping Christmas__, John Grisham Feb. __Chocolat,__ Joanne Harris March __We Were the Mulvaneys__, Joyce Carol Oates April, __Never Change__, Elizabeth Berg May __Girl With A Pearl Earring__, Tracy Chevalier June __Alice’s Tulips__, Sandra Dallas July __The Weight of Water__, Anita Shreve __ The Pilot’s Wife __, Anita Shreve Aug. __Old Man and the Sea__, Ernest Hemingway __Suzanne’s Diary to Nicholas__, James Patterson Sept. __Plain Truth__, Jodi Picquolt Oct. __Salem Falls__, Jodi Picoult Nov. __Picture Perfect__, Jodi Picoult Dec. __Christmas__? , Louisa May Alcott
 * 2002 **

Jan. __The Bridge of San Luis Rey__, Thornton Wilder Feb. __Body and Soul__, Frank Conroy Mar. __Little Women__, Louisa May Alcott Apr. __Patron Saint of Liars__, Anne Patchett June __Galileo’s Daughter__, Dava Sobel July __Empire Falls__, Richard Russo __Seabiscuit, An American Legend__, Laura Hillenbrand Aug. __Peace Like a River__, Leif Enger Nov.& Dec. __East of Eden__, John Steinbeck
 * 2003 **

Feb. __The Secret Life of Bees__, Sue Monk Kidd March __3 Junes__, Julia Glass May __The__ __DaVinciCode__, Dan Brown June, __Life of Pi,__Yann Martel June __Plainsong,__ Kent Haruf July __Anna Karenina__ Leo Tolstoy Sept. __A Year By the Sea__, Joan Anderson Nov. __The Education of Little Tree__, Forrest Carter Dec. __The Christmas Train__, David Baldacci
 * 2004 **

Jan. __The Kite Runner__, Khaled Hosseini Feb. __My Sister’s Keeper__, Jodi Piquot Mlar. __Middlesex,__ Jeffrey Eugenides April __The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night Time__, Mark Haddon __The Last Dance, Facing Alzheimer’s with Love and Laugher__, Ann McLane Kuster May __Wish You Well__, David Baldacci July __The Virgin Blue__, Tracy Chevalier Aug. __Reading Lolita in Tehran__, Azar Nafisi Sept. __Water Witches__, Chris Bohjalian Dec. __Before You Know Kindness__, Chris Bohjalian
 * 2005 **

Jan. __Light On Snow__, Anita Shreve Mar. __Jane Austen Book Club__, Karen Joy Fowler April __Cane River__, Lalita Tadeny May __Peyton Place__, Grace Metalious July __Islands__, Anne Rivers Skidders Aug. __When The Emperor Was Devine__, Julie Otsuka Nov. __All Souls__, Michael Patrick MacDonald – not sure if we did this as book club Dec. __The Christmas Thief__, Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
 * 2006 **

Jan. __A Fine Balance__, Rohinton Mistry Feb. __Weight__, Jeanette Winterson May __The Glass Castle__, Jeannette Walls June __The Measure of A Man__, Sidney Poitier July __Prodigal Summer__, Barbara Kingsolver __Nickel and Dimed__, Barbara Ehrenreich Sept. __Three Cups of Tea__, Greg Mortenson Dec. __Christmas Jars__, Jason Wright
 * 2007 **

Jan. __Water for Elephants__, Sara Gruen Mar. __March__, Geraldine Brooks May __Mountains Beyond Mountains__, Tracy Kidder Summer __The Pillars of the Earth__, Ken Follett Sept. __Animal, Vegetable, Miracle__, Barbara Kingsolver (A "**CONCORD READS" selection)** __The Law of Similars__, Chris Bohjalian Oct. __Out Stealing Horses__, Per Peterson
 * 2008 **

Jan. __The Bridge of Sighs__, Richard Russo April __Snow Flower and the Secret Fan__, Lisa Lee May __Mud Bound,__ Hillary Jorden **START OF 2nd Decade of Book Friends** June __The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society__, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Sept. __That Old Cape Magic__, Richard Russo Oct. __84 Charing Cross Road__, Helen Hunff Dec. __The Elegance of the Hedgehog__, Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson
 * 2009 **

Jan. __The Piano Teacher__, Janice Y.K. Lee Mar. __People of the Book__, Geraldine Brooks May __South of Broad__, Pat Conroy July __Still Life with Chickens__, Catherine Goldhammer Aug. __Cutting for Stone__, Abraham Verghese Fall __Laughing in Fars__i, Firoozeh Dumas (A "**CONCORD READS" selection)** Dec. __The Christmas Mink__, John-Richard Thompson
 * 2010 **

__An Amish Christmas__, Beth Wiseman

Jan. __Finny,__ Justin Kranon @ Gibson’s Bookstore – with the author Feb. __Prayers for Sale__, Sandra Dallas March __A Princess Found__, Sarah Culberson and Tracy Trivas April __Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet__, Jamie Ford May __Tallgrass__, Sandra Dallas July __The History of Love__, Nicole Kruss Fall __Outcasts Unlimited__, Warren St. John (A "**CONCORD READS" selection)**
 * 2011 **

Jan. __The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks__, Rebecca Skloot Feb. __Mennonite in a Little Black dress__, Rhoda Janzzen __Sarah’s Key__​, Tatiana de Rosnay March __Cleopatra,__ Stacy Schiff April __The Tiger’s Wife__, Tea Orbeht June __Caleb’s Crossing__, Geraldine Brooks Summer/Fall __The Weight of Water__, Anita Shreve – (A "**CONCORD READS" selection)**
 * 2012 **

Jan. __The Hunger Games__, Suzanne Collins Feb. __Mothers and Daughters__, Rae Meadows March - April - May - June - July - August - September - Maxine Kumin October/November - A Good American December - The Orchardist
 * 2013 **

2014 January - __The Way Life Should Be__ by Christina Baker Kline February - __The Aviator's Wife__ by Anne Morrow Lindbergh March - __Orphan Train__ by Christina Baker Kline April - __The Language__ of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh