Wine, Cheese & Books Club

2010-2011 Books:

The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
Truck, A Love Story by Michael Perry
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart by Gordon Livingston
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane

2008-2009 Books:

September -  A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty  Smith
October -  A Secret History by  Donna Tartt
November -  Stiff by Mary Roach
January -  Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
February -  Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson and Anne Born
April - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan S. Foer
May - So Brave Young & Handsome by Leif  Enger
 

2006-2007 Books:

The group is doing something a bit different this year.  They are alternating between book discussions and cooking from a particular cookbook.

September: cooking from How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food by Nigella Lawson
October: discussing Five Quarters of the Orange by Jean Harris (author of Chocolat)
November: French cooking to go with the book The French Kitchen by Joanne Harris and Fran Warde 
January: The San Francisco Chronicle Cookbook by Michael Bauer (Editor) and Fran Irwin (Editor)
February: book not yet decided
March: Italian Two Easy: Simple Recipes from the London River Cafe by Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers
April: book not yet decided
May: The Foster's Market Cookbook: Favorite Recipes for Morning, Noon, and Night by James Baigrie, Martha Stewart, Sara Foster, and Sarah Belk King

2005-2006 Books:

September: The American Compass (Poetry) (Bill Meissner)  (NOTE:  This was great and we had the author come and join our discussion)
October: Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides) 
November: Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) 
January: Politics of God (Jim Wallace) 
February: Oh, My Stars (Lorna Landvik)  
March: The Dogs of Babel (Carolyn Parkhurst)   
April: Neither Dog Nor Wolf: On Forgotten Roads with An Indian Elder
(Kent Nerburn) 
May: The Bookseller of Kabul (Asne Seierstad) 
    

2004-2005 Books:

August: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
September:  Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
October:  Wicked by Gregory Maguire
November:  A Mans Reach by Elmer L. Anderson
January:  Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
February:  Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
March:  Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks
April:  Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
May:  The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich

2003-2004 Books:

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
A Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
No Ordinary Times: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt by Doris Kearns Goodwin
A Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Giver by Lois Lowry

2002-2003 Books:

September, 2002 Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Hostess:  Julie

October, 2002 Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo
Hostess:  at the B&B

November, 2002 Resistance by Anita Schreve
Hostess:  Vaughnie

January, 2003 Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
Hostess Ann

February, 2003 The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
Hostess:  Tulla

March, 2003 Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Hostess:  Annie

April, 2003 Charm School by Nelso De Mille
Hostess:  Bridgett

May, 2003 A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

2001-2002 Books:

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Holes by Louis Sachar