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Our Comprehensive Reading List
July 11, 2007
For those interested in a walk down memory lane or in learning about what we read and gather to discuss, I have compiled a list of our reading series since 2003. I continue to provide hyperlinks as time allows.
Fall-Winter 2003
“Historical Fiction, Learning through Story”
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
Upton Sinclair’s classic The Jungle
Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara
Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine
Michael Cunningham’s The Hours.
Fall-Winter 2004 series
“Exploring Religions”
NOTE: Christine is looking for her file on this series.
Princess by Jean P. Sasson
Spring-Summer 2005
“Medical Science and Disease”
Geraldine Brooks’ novel Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
Sheri Holman’s The Dress Lodger
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It by Gina Kolata
Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper.
Fall-Winter 2005
“Whodunits? Clueing in to Mysteries”
Rose by Martin Cruz Smith
Death, Snow and Mistletoe by Pennsylvania author Valerie Malmont
Owen Parry’s Strike the Harp. (Parry is a nom de plume for Ralph Peters, a renowned author with ties to Schuylkill County. This is not a mystery. We put it on the list to do something new by a local author and featuring local flavor.)
Nevada Barr’s Track of the Cat
Spring-Summer 2006
“The Appalachians: Mountains of Reading”
The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnow
Denise Giardina’s Unquiet Earth
Sharyn McCrumb’s She Walks These Hills
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Wendell Berry’s Hannah Coulter
Fall-Winter 2006
“A Brush With Reading”
The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye
Seek my Face by John Updike
Spring-Summer 2007
“Castles in the Sky: Possibilities and Improbabilities”
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
He, She and It by Marge Piercy
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Fforde
Fall-Winter 2007
Classics- Announcements pending
For those interested in a walk down memory lane or in learning about what we read and gather to discuss, I have compiled a list of our reading series since 2003. I continue to provide hyperlinks as time allows.
Fall-Winter 2003
“Historical Fiction, Learning through Story”
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
Upton Sinclair’s classic The Jungle
Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara
Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine
Michael Cunningham’s The Hours.
Fall-Winter 2004 series
“Exploring Religions”
NOTE: Christine is looking for her file on this series.
Princess by Jean P. Sasson
Spring-Summer 2005
“Medical Science and Disease”
Geraldine Brooks’ novel Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
Sheri Holman’s The Dress Lodger
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It by Gina Kolata
Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper.
Fall-Winter 2005
“Whodunits? Clueing in to Mysteries”
Rose by Martin Cruz Smith
Death, Snow and Mistletoe by Pennsylvania author Valerie Malmont
Owen Parry’s Strike the Harp. (Parry is a nom de plume for Ralph Peters, a renowned author with ties to Schuylkill County. This is not a mystery. We put it on the list to do something new by a local author and featuring local flavor.)
Nevada Barr’s Track of the Cat
Spring-Summer 2006
“The Appalachians: Mountains of Reading”
The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnow
Denise Giardina’s Unquiet Earth
Sharyn McCrumb’s She Walks These Hills
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Wendell Berry’s Hannah Coulter
Fall-Winter 2006
“A Brush With Reading”
The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye
Seek my Face by John Updike
Spring-Summer 2007
“Castles in the Sky: Possibilities and Improbabilities”
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
He, She and It by Marge Piercy
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Fforde
Fall-Winter 2007
Classics- Announcements pending
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