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AREA BOOK CLUBS

• Galena Literary and Luncheon Guild
   

Meets at the Galena Public Library on the third Monday of the month at 10:00 am.

Reading List 2010:

January 18
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte

February 15
The Distant Land of My Father
Bo Caldwell

March 15
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls

April 19
Anne Frank: The Biography
Melissa Muller

May 17
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin

June 21
She Got Up Off the Couch
Haven Kimmel

July 19
The Believers
Janice Holt Giles

August 16 (picnic @ Ruth's)
The 19th Wife
David Ebershoff

September 20
Pomegranate Soup: A Novel
Marsha Mehran

October 18
Ponzi's Scheme
Mitchell Zuckoff

November 15
Little Pink House
Jeff Benedict

December 20
holiday party @ library
book exchange
A Thousand Country Roads
Robert James Waller

Reading List 2009:

January 19
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

February 16
The Widow of the South
Robert Hicks

March 16
Night Watch
Sarah Waters

April 20
In the Shadow of Man
Jane Goodall

May 18
The Zookeeper's Wife
Diane Ackerman

June 15
The Physician
Noah Gordon

July 20
The God of Animals
Aryn Kyle

August 17
Loving Frank
Nancy Horan

September 21
The Devil in the White City
Eril Larson

October 19
Leisureville
Andrew D. Blechman

November 16
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen

December 21
Holiday Party/Gift Exchange

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• Sparrows Book Club
   

This is a private book club and is not taking new members at this time.

Reading List for the Sparrows Book Club 2008:

January
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

February
The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell

March
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini

April
Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett

May
The Somnambulist
Jonathan Barnes

June
Poe's Shadow
 

July
Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult

August
Loving Frank
Nancy Horan

September
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
Jared M. Diamond