"The Last Wednesday Book Group"
a traditional evening Book Discussion Group
in which everyone reads the same book
Last Wednesday of every month -- 7-8:30 p.m.
Join us for lively discussions!
[Check out "Book Talk" for a
daytime group with no assigned reading]
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Past Reads
2012
| Date |
Book Title |
Author |
| 1/25/12 |
Someone to Run With |
David Grossman |
2011
| Date |
Book Title |
Author |
| 1/26/11 |
The "Post Secret" Books |
Frank Warren |
| 2/23/11 |
Dark Tide |
Stephen Puleo |
| 3/30/11 |
[Stephen Puleo Speaks] |
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| 4/27/11 |
The Postmistress |
Sarah Blake |
| 5/25/11 |
The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai |
Ruiyan Zu |
| 9/29/11 |
The Bell Ringers |
Henry Porter |
| 10/26/11 |
The Constant Princess |
Philippa Gregory |
| 11/30/11 |
Cutting for Stone |
Abraham Verghese |
2010
| Date |
Book Title |
Author |
| Jan. 27, 2010 |
The Red Tent |
Anita Diamant |
| Feb. 24, 2010 |
Dewey the Small-town Library Cat |
Vicki Myron |
| Mar. 31, 2010 |
Robert Parker Night |
Robert Paker |
| Apr. 28, 2010 |
Q&A/Slumdog Millionaire |
Vikas Swarup |
| May 26, 2010 |
Diving Bell and the Butterfly (book & film) |
Jean-Dominique Bauby |
| Jun. 30, 2010 |
Suite Francaise |
Irene Nemirovsky |
| Jul. 28, 2010 |
Born to Run |
Christopher McDougall |
| Sep. 29, 2010 |
Kitchen Confidential |
Anthony Bourdain |
| Oct. 27, 2010 |
Stitches: a Memoir |
David Small |
| Nov. 17, 2010 |
The Glass Castle |
Jeanette Walls |
2009
| Date |
Book Title |
Author |
| Jan. 28 2009 |
[Snowed out] |
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| Feb. 25, |
Indignation |
Philip Roth |
| March 25 |
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle |
Barbara Kingsolver |
| April 29 |
China Road |
Rob Gifford |
| May 27 |
The Devil's Advocate |
Morris West |
| June 24 |
Dreams From My Father |
Barack Obama |
| July 29 |
The World Without Us |
Alan Weisman |
| August 26 |
Counting Heads |
David Marusek |
| Sept. 30 |
Time Paradox |
Philip Zimbardo |
| Oct. 28 |
Vanishing Acts |
Jodi Picoult |
| Nov. 18 |
Ellen Foster |
Kaye Gibbons |
2008
| Date |
Book Title |
Author |
| Jan. 30, 2008 |
Catch 22 |
Joseph Heller |
| Feb. 27 |
Madame Bovary |
Gustave Flaubert |
| March 26 |
I'm a Stranger Here Myself |
Bill Bryson |
| April 30 |
King Rat |
James Clavell |
| May 28 |
The Memory Keeper's Daughter |
Kim Edwardsq |
| June 25 |
Nineteen Minutes |
Jodi Picoult |
| July 30 |
Infidel |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
| August 27 |
Slaughterhouse Five |
Kurt Vonnegut |
| Sept. 24 |
Heat |
Bill Buford |
| Oct. 29 |
An Inconvenient Truth |
Al Gore |
| Nov. 19 |
Water for Elephants |
Sara Gruen |
2007
| Date |
Book Title |
Author |
| Jan. 31, 2007 |
The Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
| Feb. 28 |
Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley |
| March 28 |
Crow Lake |
Mary Lawson |
| April 25 |
The Amateur Marriage |
Anne Tyler |
| May 30 |
Ponzi's Scheme |
Mitchell Zuckhoff |
| June 27 |
In Revere, in Those Days |
Roland Merullo |
| July 25 |
The Time Traveler's Wife |
Audrey Niffenegger |
| Aug. 29 |
Survival at Auschwitz |
Primo Levi |
| Sept. 26 |
Riding the Bus With My Sister |
Rachel Simon |
| Oct. 30 |
The Maltese Falcon [book and movie] |
Dashiell Hammett |
| Nov. 28 |
Wish You Well |
David Baldacci |
2006
(Discussions were held on Thursday evenings in 2006 and before)
| Date |
Book Title |
Author |
| Jan. 19, 2006 |
House of Sand and Fog |
Andre DuBus III |
| Feb. 16 |
The Poisonwood Bible |
Barbara Kingsolver |
| March 16 |
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents |
Julia Alvarez |
| April 20 |
Bringing Down the House |
Ben Mezrich |
| May 17 |
Dark Tide: the great Boston Molasses flood of 1919 |
Stephen Puleo |
| June 15 |
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons |
Lorna Landvik |
| July 20 |
Nickel and Dimed |
Barbara Ehrenreich |
| Aug. 17 |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
Lisa See |
| Sept. 21 |
Middlesex |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
| Oct. 19 |
Artemis Fowl |
Eoin Colfer |
| Nov. 16 |
The Quiet American |
Graham Greene |
2005
| Date |
Book Title |
Author |
| Jan. 20, 2005 |
Jane Eyre |
Charlotte Bronte |
| Feb. 17 |
Gift From the Sea |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| March 17 |
The Mammy |
Brendan O'Carroll |
| April 21 |
More Than You Know |
Beth Gutcheon |
| May 19 |
The DaVinci Code |
Dn Brown |
| June 16 |
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister |
Gregory Maguire |
| July 21 |
People of Darkness |
Tony Hillerman |
| Aug. 18 |
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze |
Peter Hessler |
| Sept. 15 |
To the Hilt |
Dick Francis |
| Oct. 20 |
The Smartest Guys in the Room |
McLean & Elkind |
| Nov. 17 |
The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
Mitch Albom |
2004
| Date |
Book Title |
Author |
| Jan. 15, 2004 |
The Education of Little Tree |
Forrest Carter |
| Feb. 19 |
Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason |
Helen Fielding |
| March 18 |
Dr. Zhivago |
Boris Pasternak |
| April 15 |
Mountains Beyond Mountains |
Tracy Kidder |
| May 20 |
Ghosts |
Henrik Ibsen |
| June 17 |
Kalahari Typing School for Men |
Alexander McCall Smith |
| July 15 |
Miss Julia Takes Over |
Ann B. Ross |
| Aug. 19 |
When the Emperor Was Divine |
Julie Otsuka |
| Sept. 17 |
the Devil in the White City |
Erik Larson |
| Oct. 21 |
The Murders in the Rue Morgue |
Edgar Allan Poe |
| Nov. 18 |
The Secret Life of Bees |
Sue Monk Kidd |
2003
| Date |
Book Title |
Author |
| Jan. 15, 2003 |
The Bean Trees |
Barbara Kingsolver |
| Feb. 19 |
Cry, the Beloved Country |
Alan Paton |
| March 19 |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
Harper Lee |
| April 16 |
The Founding Brothers |
Joseph J. Ellis |
| May 21 |
The Other Boleyn Girl |
Philippa Gregory |
| June 18 |
The Bonesetter's Daughter |
Amy Tan |
| July 17 |
Stupid White Men |
Michael Moore |
| Aug. 14 |
The Man of Property |
John Galsworthy |
| Sept. 18 |
Pope Joan |
Donna Cross |
| Oct. 16 |
The Notebook |
Nicholas Sparks |
| Nov. 20 |
The Lovely Bones |
Alice Sebold |
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