Past Selections from the Germantown Community Library* Adult
Book Club:
2011
January:
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
February: The
Forgotten Garden: A Novel by Kate Morton
March:
Little Heathens:
Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
April:
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
May:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
June:
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
July:
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
August:
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
September: My Name is
Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
October:
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
November: The
Postmistress by Sarah Blake
December: A Gate
at the Stairs: A Novel by Lorrie Moore
2010
January: My Stroke of
Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
February: The Boy
in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
March: Flags of Our
Fathers by James Bradley
April: Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan
May: Chosen by a Horse
by Susan Richards
June: Cane River
by Lalita Tademy
July: The Shack
by William P. Young
August: Shanghai Girls: A
Novel by Lisa See
September: Nothing
to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
October: The Birth House
by Ami McKay
November: The Art of
Racing the Rain by Garth Stein
December: Red Weather
by Pauls Toutonghi
2009
January: So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger
February: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
March: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
April: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
May: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
June: The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
July: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann
Shaffer
August: The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
September: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
October: Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern
November: The Other Side of the River by Alex Kotlowitz
December: Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan
Vreeland
2008
January: The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
February: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
March: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of Mary Dodd
by Jim Fergus
April: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
May: Before You Know Kindness by Christopher Bohjalian
June: Mozart's Sister by Nancy Moser
July: March by Geraldine Brooks
August: Uncommon Grounds by Sandra Balzo
September: Tall Grass by Sandra Dallas
October: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
November: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
December: I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
2007
January: Girl
with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
February: The Shadow of the Wind by
Carlos Ruiz Zafron
March: Mount Vernon Love Story by Mary
Higgins Clark
April: Alice's Tulips by Sandra Dallas
May: For One More Day by Mitch Albom
June: Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
July: The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
August: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
September:
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
October: The Tortilla Curtain by
T.C. Boyle
November: The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
December: You Learn by Living by Eleanor Roosevelt
Silent Night by Mary Higgins Clark
2006
January: Girl
with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
February: The
Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney
March: Hannah's
Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson
April: The
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseine
May: The
Color of Water by James McBride
June: Summer
Island by Kristin Hannah
July: A
Place of Hiding by Elizabeth George
August: Devil
in the White City by Erik Larson
September:
The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
October: Mountain
Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder; the Autobiography
of a Winnebago Indian by Mountain Wolf Woman
November: Our
Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter
December: Peace
Like a River by Leif Enger
2005
January: A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest
J. Gaines
February: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
March: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
April: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
May: Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
June: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
July: The Lovely Bones by Alice
Sebold
August: Dancing at the Rascal Fair by
Ivan Doig
September: Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons by
Lorna Landvik
October: The Bonesetter's Daughter by
Amy Tan
November: The
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
December: The
Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
2004
January: Watched an Agatha Christie movie
February: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
March: The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
April: The Winner by David Baldacci
May: The Sparrow by Maria Doria Russell
June: Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
July: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
August: Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
September: The Quiet American by Graham Greene
October: Crooked River Burning by Mark
Winegardner
November: The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn
Parkhurst
December:
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
AND A Choice to Cherish by Alan Maki
2003
January: Dance of Intimacy by Harriet Goldhor
Lerner
February: Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
March: Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
April: White Teeth by Zadie Smith
May: Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
June: Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
July: Welcome to the World, Baby Girl by Fannie
Flagg
August: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
September: I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison
Pearson
October: Midnight Champagne by A. Manette Amsay
November: In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
December: The Bachelor's Cat by
L.F. Hoffman
2002
January: A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
February: Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
March: Chocolat by Joanne Harris
April: Red Tent by Anita Diamant
May: It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
June: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
July: Corelli's Mandolin by Loius DeBernieres
August: First Lady by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
September: Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
October: My Thomas, the novel of Martha Jefferson's life
by Roberta Grimes
November: Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence
December: Catherwood by Marly Youmans
2001
January: The Testament by John Grisham
February: Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy
Allison
March: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
April: Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
May: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by
Rebecca Wells
June: At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
July: Possession by A. S. Byatt
August: The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer
Chiaverini
September: Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding
October: Plainsong by Kent Haruf
November: A Painted House by Margaret Lawrence
December: The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their
Sisters and Daughters by Paul Nagel
2000
April: The Dean's List by Jon Hassler
May: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
June: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
July: The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
August: The Ladies of Covington Sent Their Love by
Joan A. Medlicott
September: All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
October: Midwives by Christopher A. Bohjalian
November: The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Heig
December: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by
Jung Chang
* NOTE: Known as the Duerrwaechter Memorial Library until July 2002.
