These books have been the topic of discussion at our Second Friday Book Group. For information about this month's meeting, please see our Monthly Series page. Choose from the list below to jump to selections from a particular year:

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• 1999

2010	January	Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson
	February	Revolutionary Road Richard Yates
	March	The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
	April	A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson
	May	The White Tiger Aravind Adiga
	June	The Outcast Sadie Jones
	July	Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout
	August	No meeting
	September	Let the Great World Spin Collum McCann
	October
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	December

2009	January	Close Range: Wyoming Stories Annie Proulx
	February	The Women at the Washington Zoo Marjorie Williams
	March	The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield
	April	The Giver Lois Lowry
	May	The Tender Bar: A Memoir J.R. Moehringer
	June	The Lay of the Land Richard Ford
	July	Water For Elephants Sara Gruen
	August	No meeting. Enjoy the library-wide Three Rivers Storytelling Festival!
	September	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Mary Ann Shaffer
	October	The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel Stef Penney
	November	Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
	December	Loving Frank: a Novel Nancy Horan

2008	January	The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros
	February	The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai
	March	The Road Cormac McCarthy
	April	I'm Proud of You Tim Madigan
	May	Double Bind Chris Bohjalian
	June	Astrid and Veronika Linda Olsson
	July	Moral Disorder: Stories Margaret Atwood
	August	No meeting
	September	The Maytrees Annie Dillard
	October	Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata
	November	The Pilot's Wife Anita Shreve
	December	The Ghost At The Table Suzanne Berne

2007	January	Purple Hibiscus  Chimamanda Adichie
	February	Wonder Boys Michael Chabon
	March	Shalimar the Clown Salman Rushdie
	April	Amy and Isabelle Elizabeth Strout
	May	My Sister's Keeper Jodie Picoult
	June	To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
	July	The Plot Against America Philip Roth
	August	No meeting
	September	The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards
	October	An Unquiet Mind Kay Redfield Jamison
	November	Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer
	December	When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka

2006	January	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie  Muriel Spark
	February	Slaughterhouse Five  Kurt Vonnegut
	March	One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
	April	The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad
	May	Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
	June	Saturday Ian McEwan
	July	Bee Season Myra Goldberg
	August	No meeting
	September	Auntie Mame Patrick Dennis
	October	The Glass Castle: a memoir Jeannette Walls
	November	The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
	December	Baker Towers Jennifer Haigh

2005	January	The Kite Runner  Khaled Hosseini
	February	We Need to Talk About Kevin  Lionel Shriver
	March	Three Junes  Julia Glass
	April	Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg
	May	Peace Like A River Leif Enger
	June	Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri
	July	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time  Mark Haddon
	August	Old School  Tobias Wolff
	September	Amateur Marriage: a novel  Ann Tyler
	October	Cry, the Beloved Country  Alan Paton
	November	Crossing To Safety Wallace Stegner
	December	Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson

2004	January	Fahrenheit 451  Ray Bradbury
	February	Woman of the Inner Sea  Thomas Keneally
	March	Flowers for Algernon  Daniel Keyes
	April	Mystic River  Dennis Lehane
	May	How to be Good  Nick Hornby
	June	Atonement  Ian McEwan
	July	Bel Canto  Ann Patchett
	August	Life of Pi  Yann Martel
	September	Reading Lolita in Tehran  Azar Nafisi
	October	The Dive from Clausen's Pier  Ann Packer
	November	The Things They Carried  Tim O'Brien
	December	Last Orders Graham Swift

2003	January	Back When We Were Grownups Anne Tyler
	February	To Kill A Mockingbird  Harper Lee
	March	Disgrace  J.M. Coetzee
	April	Empire Falls Richard Russo
	May	An American Childhood Annie Dillard
	June	The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood
	July	Daughter of Fortune Isabel Allende
	August	Waiting Ha Jin
	September	Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand
	October	The World Below Sue Miller
	November	Howard's End E.M. Forster
	December	Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight Alexandria Fuller

2002	January	The End Of The Affair Graham Greene
	February	The Shipping News Annie Proulx
	March	The House Of Sand And Fog Andre Dubus
	April	Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands Jorge Amado
	May	The Hours Michael Cunningham
	June	The Grapes Of Wrath John Steinbeck
	July	Plainsong Kent Haruf
	August	One Heart Jane McCafferty
	September	Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver
	October	Women Of Troy Hill Clare Ansberry
	November	A Prayer For The Dying Stewart O'Nan
	December	Falling Leaves Adeline Yen Mah

2001	January	Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
	February	While I Was Gone Sue Miller
	March	A Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler
	April	Wind, Sand And Stars Antoine de SaintExupery
	May	Charming Billy Alice McDermott
	June	The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
	July	The Red Tent Anita Diamant
	August	The Flaming Corsage William Kennedy
	September	The Girl With A Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier
	October	The Progress Of Love  Alice Munro
	November	Nine Parts Of Desire Geraldine Brooks
	December	The Mayor Of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy

2000	January	Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt
	February	On The Occasion Of My Last Afternoon Kaye Gibbons
	March	A Few Green Leaves Barbara Pym
	April	Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
	May	The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty
	June	Foreign Affairs Alison Lurie
	July	The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
	August	No meeting.
	September	The Sweet Hereafter Russell Banks
	October	Never Buried Edie Claire (author spoke)
	November	Confederacy Of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
	December	no meeting

1999	January	no meeting
	February	The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell
	March	Life and Death in Shanghai Nien Cheng
	April	The Spanish Lover  Joanna Trollope
	May	A House for Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipaul
	June	The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver
	July	Black and Blue Anna Quindlen
	August	These Is My Words Nancy Turner
	September	Moon Tiger  Penelope Lively
	October	Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer
	November	Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
	December	no meeting