Books

Yr read Author Title Basic Theme Locale Type.

1991 E. Gaskell Cranford family England 19C F

1991 Edith Wharton Ethan Frome family New Eng. F

1991 James Joyce The Dubliners family England F

*1991 Jill Ker Conway The Road From Coorain memoir Australia NF

1991 Keri Hulme The Bone People Maori, family New Zealand F

*1991 M.C. Bateson Composing a Life 5 women's lives U.S. NF

*1991 Nadine Gordimer Burgher's Daughter apartheid S. Africa F

1991 Robert Bly Iron John men's issues U.S. NF

1991 Toni Morrison Beloved racism/slavery U.S. F

*1992 Carolyn Heilbrun Writing a Woman's Life celebrated women Eng./U.S. NF

1992 E.B. White One Man's Meat essays/daily life Maine NF

*1992 Laurel Ulrich A Midwife's Tale Maine NF

1992 Lynn Andrews Medicine Woman shaman/spirits Manitoba NF

1992 May Sarton As We Are Now elderly U.S. F

1992 Michael Dorris Yellow Raft in Blue Water family U.S. NF

1992 Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse family England F

*1993 Wallace Stegner Crossing To Safety relationships U.S. F

1993 Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek nature F

1993 Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses rite of passage U.S./Mexico F

1993 Dylan Thomas A Child's Christmas in Wales Poetry

*1993 Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea Caribbean F

1993 M.F. K. Fisher Art of Eating gastronomy U.S. NF

1993 Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye growing up Canada F

1993 Peter Mayles A Year in Provence travel/customs France NF

1993 Robert Coles The Call of Stories memoir NF

1994 Aldo Leopold A Sand Country Almanac nature U.S. NF

1994 Annie Proulx Shipping News family /sea Canada F

1994 Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya family 1900 Russia Play

1994 B. Kingsolver Bean Trees Arizona F

1994 Benjamin Hoff The Tao of Pooh England

*1994 Corrie Ten Bloom The Hiding place Holocaust/WWII Holland NF

*1994 Delaneys Having Our Say Bio/family/racism New York NF

Yr read Author Title Basic Theme Locale Type.

1994 Edith Wharton The House of Mirth family 1900 N.Y. F

1994 Henry James The Golden Sowl family 1900 England/U,S. F

1994 Ken Follett Pillars of the Earth hist/church 1100 England F

*'1994 Rumer Godden In This House of Brede religion England F

*1994 Tillie Olsen Tell Me a Riddle women 1930 U.S. F

1995 Cathie Pelletier The Weight of Winter family Vermont F

1995 Dorothy West The Richer, The Poorer short stories U. S. F

1995 Harper's Magazine Turning Toward Home essays! family U.S. NF

*1995 Julia Alvarez How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents U. S./Dom.Rep.F

*1995 Jung Chang Wild Swans political/historic China F

1995 Rachel Carson The Sea Around Us ecology U.S. NF

1995 Terry T.Williams Refuge memoir/death Utah NF

*1995 Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose historical U.S. F

1995 Zora N. Huston Their Eyes Were Watching God family 1930 U.S. F

*1996 Carol Shields Stone Diaries family/1900 Canada F

*1996 AS. Byatt Possession England F

1996 Barbara Pym No Fond Return of Love England F

*1996 Elinore P.Stewart Diary of a Woman memoir U.S. NF

1996 D. Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars racism/Jap 1942 Washington F

*1996 Kim Chemin In My Mother's House memoir Russia/U.S, NF

1996 Maxine Kumin Poetry S.W. U.S. poetry

1996 Matthiessen The Snow Leopard Nature/Zen Nepal NF

*1996 Robertson Davies The Cunning Man Canada F

1997 Bellah ed. Habits of the Heart soc/psych. U.S. NF

*1997 Doris K. Goodwin No Ordinary Time hist/pol. 1940 U.S. F

1997 Michael Ondaatje The English Patient Italy F

1997 Patrick O'Brien Master & Commander nautical 18C England F

1997 T.C.Boyle Tortilla Curtain racism California F

1997 Wally Lamb She's Come Undone womans' life U. S. F

1998 Alex K. Shulman Drinking the Rain memoir Maine NF

1998 Charles Frazier Cold Mountain Civil War U.S. F

*1998 James McBride The Color of Water racism U.S. F

1998 L. Anderson ed. Sisters of the Earth Essays U.S. NF

*1998 Leslie M.Silko Ceremony racism New Mexico F

1998 Sebastian Faulks Bird Song WWII France/Eng. F

Yr read Author Title Basic Theme Locale Type

*1998 Ursula Hegi Stones From the River WW11 1940 Germany F

1998 V. Nobakov Lolita France F

1998 W. Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! family 1900 Miss. F

1998 Wilkie Collins The Moonstone mystery 1800 England F

1999 Anne Michaels Fugitive Pieces Greece F

*1999 Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha Japan F

1999 B. Kingsolver Poisonwood Bible religion/family Africa F

1999 E. Hemingway Garden of Eden relationships Fr./Spain F

1999 Iris Murdock The Sea, The Sea England F

*1999 Mary Oliver Poetry nature/spiritual U.S. F

1999 Nadine Gordimer Guest of Honour racial/political S. Africa F

1999 R. Meryman Andrew Wyeth biography U.S. F

1999 Tim O'Brien Going After Cacciato Vietnam war Vietnam F

1999 Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway family England F

1999 Willa Cather The Professor's House 1930 New Mexico F

2000 S. Singh Baldwin What the Body Remembers hist/women India F

*2000 Ahdaf Soueif The Map of Love hist/family 1900 Egypt/Eng. F

2000 B.Schlink The Reader holocaust/war Germany F

2000 Ben Okri Famished Road racism/soc. Africa F

2000 D.H. Lawrence Women in Love relationships '30s England F

2000 D. Guterson Country Ahead of Us, Country Behind sh. Stories U. S. F

*2000 Least Moon Blue Highways travel U.S. NF

2000 M. Cunningham The Hours Woolf England F

2000 M.G. Vasangi Book of Secrets Africa F

2000 Martha Cooley The Archivist T.S. Eliot England F

*2001 Anita Diament The Red Tent biblical Egypt F

2001 B. Kingsolver Prodigal Summer nathistory/rel. U.S. F

2001 de Bemieres Corelli's Mandolin Civil War '45 Greece F

2001 J. Rowlings Harry Potter & Sorcerer's Stone mythical England F

2001 J. Wallach Desert Queen women advent. NF

2001 Jean Paul Sartre The Age of Reason phil. 1940 France F

2001 O'Faolain Are You Somebody? memoir Ireland NF

2001 T Chevalier Girl With a Pearl Earring Vermeer Holland F

2002 Clare Booth Luce The Women play! reI. 1930 N. Y. F

2002 E. M. Forster Passage to India colonialism/raci 1930 India F

Yr read Author Title Basic Theme Locale Type.

2002 Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness . col.racism Africa F

2002 Anne-M. MacDonald Fall on your Knees Canada F

*2002 Reynolds Price Kate Vaiden family/rel N. Carolina F

2002 Sena Naslund Ahab's Wife whaling Mass. F

*2002 T. Friedman Lexus and the Olive Tree globalization/pol NF

2003 Ann Patchett Bel Canto Survival, relat. S.Am. F

2003 A. Linnea Deep Water Passage Sp. Journey- U.S NF

2003 Andrew Pham Catfish and Mandala travel, history Vietnam NF

2003 B. Ehrenreich Nickeled and Dimed Survival, politics U.S. NF

2003 B. Kingsolver Small Wonder essays-nature U.S. NF

2003 Iain Pears The Dream of Scipio . Hist Novel 5th C. France F

2003 Jean Bauby The Diving Bell and the Butterfly memoir France NF.

2003 Maine Poets U.S. Poetry

*2003 Peter Hessler River Town Peace Corp-mem China NF

2003 R. Nelson. The Island Within wilderness U.S. NW NF

2003 Sijie Dai Balzac and the Little Seamstress Cult. Rev. China F

2004 AS. Byatt Babel Tower relationships England F

2004 Andre Dubus III House of Sand and Fog relationships California F

2004 Annie Proulx Old Ace in the Hole Texas F

*2004 Azar Nafisi Reading Lolita in Tehran hist/lit Iran NF

2004 Carlos Fuentes Crystal Frontier soc/pol/hist Mexico NF

2004 Daniel Mason The Piano Tuner 1880's Burma F

2004 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love In the Time of Cholera Colombia F

*2004 Geraldine Brooks Nine Parts of Desire Muslim women Iran NF

2004 John Crowley The Translator relationships/pol. U.S. Midwest F

*2004 Naguib Mahfouz Palace Walk family/Islam Egypt F