Suggested Books:
And let us not forget the perennial favorite among the also ran category:
Brazil by John Updike – Suggested by Ernie on numerous occasions!
The Winner is in Bold Type - This list is complements of Robyn
You will note that perseverance pays. The looser one month can become the winner in a later month!
| Apr and May 2002 | Shopgirl
Mr Spaceman The History of the Kelly Gang Blind Assassin While I Was Gone Bee Season Slightly Singl |
Steve Martin
Robert Olen Brown Peter Carey Margaret Atwood Sue Miller Myla Goldberg Wendy Markham |
| 2000 | Moors' Last Sigh Blindness The Soloist High Fidelity |
Salman Rushdie Jose Saramago Mark Salzman Nick Hornby |
| May 2000 | Innocent's Abroad (voted for with the April books below) |
Mark Twain |
| April 2000 | The Hours Are You Somebody? Spartina Sonny Liston is a Friend of Mine The Dress Lodger Blindness Go Tell it on the Mountain For whom the Bell Tolls |
Michale Cunningham Nuala O'Faolain John Casey Thom Jones Sheri Holman Saramago James Baldwin Ernest Hemingway
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| Mar. 2000 | The Reader Are You Somebody? Spartina Waiting Hen Frigates Lindbergh Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette When Pride Mattered |
Bernard Schlink Nuala O'Faolain John Casey Ha Jin Joan Druett A. Scott Berg Judith Thurman Vince Lombardi |
| June 1999 | Fool's Progress Empress Of the Splendid Season Spartina Pears On A Willow Tree Cry, the Beloved Country |
Edward Abbey Oscar Hijeulos John Casey Leslie Pietrzyk Alan Patton |
| Oct 1998 | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Rebecca Welles |
| Sep. 1998 | Vein of Iron American Sphinx On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon Fool's Progress TimeQuake |
Ellen Glasgow Joseph Ellis Kaye Gibbons Edward Abbey Kurt Vonnegot |
| Aug. 1998 | Wicked Patchwork Planet |
Gregory MaGuire Ann Tyler |
| June 1998 | Jack London, A Life - biography The Call of the Wild The Mistress of Spices The House Gun Diaries of a Young Poet In the Midst of Life Wicked A Patchwork Planet Birdsong |
Alex Kershaw Jack London Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Nadine Gordimer Rainer Maria Rilke Ambrose Bierce Gregory MaGuire Ann Tyler Sebastian Faulks
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| May 1998 | Corelli’s Mandolin Ghosts |
Louis de Bernieres John Banville |