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2006 Selections - Our Eighth Year!!

• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (May)

• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lipiri (March-April)

• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (Jan.-Feb)

2005 Selections

• Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Nov-Dec.)

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen  J. Dubner (October)

• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (July-August)

• The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (June)

• The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (May)

• A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot, Linda Coverdale  (March - April)

• Shadow Divers by Jeffrey Eugenides (Jan.-Feb)

2004 Selections

• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by by Mitch Albom (Nov-Dec)

• The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (Nov)

• The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber (Sept)

• The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love by Jill Conner Browne

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

2003 Selections - Our Fifth Year!!

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Nov)

• Biography or Memoir of choice (Aug)

• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (May)

• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (March-April)

• I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother by Allison Pearson (Jan-Feb)

2002 Selections

• Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier (Nov-Dec)

• La Cucina: A Novel of Rapture by Lily Prior (Oct.)

• Empire Falls by Richard Russo (August-Sept)

• Man and Boy by Tony Parsons (July)

• The Nanny Diaries: A Novel by Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus (May)

• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver (March)

• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Jan-Feb)

2001 Selections

• Blue Ridge by T. R. Pearson (Dec)

• Le Divorce by Diane Johnson (November)

• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (October)

• Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (August)

• Chocolat: A Novel by Joanne Harris (June)

• Left Behind by Tim F. Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins (May)

• Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz (March)

• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells (January)

2000 Selections

• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (February)

• Widow for a Year by John Irving (March)

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (May/June)

• Daughters of Eve (young adult fiction) by Lois Duncan

• Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding (September)

• Under the Skin by Michel Faber (November)

1999 Selections

• Inaugural Book! Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur S. Golden (March)

• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (May)

• The Good of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (July)

• I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb (August)

• Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen (October)

• Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling (December)