Reading Club

The Creston Public Library Reading Club meets the second Monday of every month from September to June.

For June we will be reading The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman

If you would like to join our book club call the library at 428-4141 or email ill.creston@crestonlibrary.com

Our title lists for:

2011

• January - The Island by Victoria Hislop
• February - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• March - Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
• April - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
• May - Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• June - Opium Dreams by Margaret Gibson
• July - (Yet to be determined)
• August - (Yet to be determined)
• September - (Yet to be determined)
• October - (Yet to be determined)
• November - (Yet to be determined)
• December - (Yet to be determined)

2010:

• February - The Reader by Bernard Schlink
• March - Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
• April - The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• May - The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
• June - Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• September - The Island by Victoria Hislop
• October - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• November - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

2009:

• January - The Birth House by Ami McKay
• February - Blindness by Jose Saramagoy
• March - A Complicated Kindness by Mariam Toew
• April - Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry
• May - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• June - The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman
• September - I Know this Much is True by Wally Lamb
• October - In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
• November - The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
• December - Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

2008:

• January - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• February - Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O-Neill
• March - Atonement by Ian McEwan
• April - The Natashas by Victor Malarek
• May - The Girls by Lori Lansens
• June - Hollywood Station by Joseph Waumbaugh
• September - The Deafening by Francis Itani
• October - Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• November - An Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark
• December - Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult

2007:

• January - Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truse
• February - Abra by Joan Barfoot
• March - Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
• April - Mutaut Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan
• May - Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
• October - A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
• November - Sarah by Marek Halter
• December - My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

2006:

• A Cup of Light by Nicole Mones
• The Ladies' Man by Elinor Lipman
• The Lagahoo's Apprentice by Rabindranath Maharaj
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
• The Holding by Merilyn Simonds
• Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
• Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller

2005:

• Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley
• Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• Three Junes by Julia Glass
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thurbon

2004:

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• The Lost Garden by Helen Humphries
• Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
• Our Lady of the Lost and Found by Diane Schoemperlen
• Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Stories from the Vinyl Café by Stuart McLean
• The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
• Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
• Balzac and the little Chinese Seamtress by Dai Silje
• Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

2003:

• Unless by Carol Shields
• The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• Cinnamon Garden by Shayam Selvadurai
• The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
• The River Midnight by Lilian Nattel
• All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
• Tully by Paulina Simons
• Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fieldin

2002:

• The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracey Chevalier
• No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
• The Fig Eater by Jody Shields
• Diary of a Wilderness Dweller by Chris Czajkowski
• Tulip Fever by Deborah Maggoch
• Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
• The House by Michael Cunningham
• Atonement by Ian McEwan

2001:

• Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
• All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
• The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaege
• The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
• The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay
• Rules of Engagement by Catherine Bush
• To All Appearances A Lady by Marilyn Bowering
• Thornyhold by Mary Stewart
• My Antonia by Willa Cather

2000:

• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• The Macken Charm by Jack Hodgins
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Shadow Child by Beth Powning
• About a Boy by Nick Hornby
• Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
• Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
• Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

1999:

• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
• Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
• Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
• Death in Summer by William Trevor
• Mercy Road by Dalia Pagani
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Elizabeth and After by Matt Cohen
• Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt

Suggestions from 2006:

• The Wife Tree by Dorothy Speak
• Saturday by Ian McEwan
• Claire's Head by Catherine Bush
• Continuity Girl by Leah Mclaren
• Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller
• The Girls by Lori Lansens
• Wreckage by Michael Crummey
• #1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Mitford Series by Jan Karon
• Stephanie Plum Mystery Series by Janet Evanovich
• Anybody Out There?by Marian Keyes
• Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
• The Birth House by Ami Mackay
• Past Secrets by Cathy Kelly
• The Ghost Orchid by Carol Goodman
• Any title by Carl Hiaasen
• Any title by Emily Giffin
• The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
• The 5 People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• The Morningside World of Stuart McLean
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• Any title by Dan Brown
• Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice
• The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
• Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• The Spire by William Golding
• Butterflies Dance in the Dark by Beatrice MacNeil
• The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
• A Complicated Kindess by Miriam Toews
• The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Gunning for Justice by Gerry Spence
• Dancing with Lawyers by Nichols Carroll
• Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen
• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Journals of Emily Carr
• The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
• A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
• The World According to Garp by John Irving
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Any title by Clive Cussler
• Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston
• Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex
• The Sister Fidelma Mystery Series by Peter Tremayne
• The Divide by Nicholas Evans
• The Shape I Gave You by Martha Baillie
• Pearl by Mary Gordon
• Believe Me by Patricia Pears
• Alphabet by Kathy Page
• Talk to the Hand by Lynn Trusson
• Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
• Vandal Love by Deni Y Bechard
• Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf
• Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry
• You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon
• London by Edward Rutherford

Suggestions from 2007:

• The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
• A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
• The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
• Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons by Lorna Landvik
• Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir & Michele Fitoussi
• Suffer the Little Children by Donna Leon
• Banishing Verona by Margaret Livesey
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• Tales From a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman
• Tom Bedlam by George Hagen
• The Scarlett Lion by Elizabeth Chadwick
• Duchess of Aquitane: a novel of Eleanor: by Margaret Ball
• Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
• In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
• Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishigura
• Children of the Day by Sandra Birdsell
• King Rat by James Clavell
• Ella Minnow Pea: a novel in letters by Mark Dunn
• My Sister's Keeper by Jody Picoult
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Sarah by Marek Halter
• Blink & The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• Deafening by Frances Itani
• Pope Joan by Donna Wool Folk Cross
• Luck by Joan Barfoot
• Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
• Fish, Blood and Bones by Leslie Forbes
• Alphabet by Kathy Page