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If you were in my reading group these are the books you would have read
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2007
October And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie just in time for Halloween!
September Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
July Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
June Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
May Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
April The Hours by Michael Cunningham
March The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
February Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
January Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

February was actually Choose Your Own Adventure Month and I read Charming Billy, but here's what my chronies read as proof my reading group is better than yours. To protect the innocent I won't reveal who read what.

Bad Twin by Gary Troup
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel by Peter Carey
Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
The Rescue Artist by Edward Dolnick
The Sea by John Banville
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

2006
November/December Departed with Matt Damon!
October The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
September The March by E.L. Doctorow
July Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
June Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
May Blankets a graphic novel by Craig Thompson
April Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Previous Years:
A Big Storm Knocked it Over by Laurie Colwin
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime by J. California Cooper
The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Reader by Bernard Schlink
The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (This is the real version of Frankenstein so don't bother renting the movie or referring to the monster as Frankenstein).
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (He was one of those rich white guys from early last century who wrote about rich white guys…)
Watchmen a graphic novel by Alan Moore
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Midwives by Chris A. Bohjalian
Holidays On Ice by David Sedaris
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Please don't confuse with Girl with a Pearl Earring Hardy Boys Mystery #371)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Arráncame La Vida by Angeles Mastretta
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
The Hours the movie
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Bowling for Columbine
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

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