Books Selected by the Karen Weeks Book Club A Nashville book club meeting continuously since 1987. 2009 March Susan Wicklund Common Secret February Ralph Ellison Invisible Man January Khaled Hosseini Thousand Splendid Suns 2008 June John Lewis Walking with the Wind May Kate Atkinson Case Histories April Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking March Julia Alvarez Saving the World February January Sarah Waters The Night Watch 2007 June Jhumpa Lahiri Namesake May Doris Lessing Golden Notebook April Allegra Goodman Intuition March Zadie Smith On Beauty February Geraldine Brooks Nine Parts of Desire-The Hidden World of Islamic Women January Ian McEwan The Innocent 2006 December Philip Roth The Plot Against America November John Updike Rabbit Run October Naguib Mahfouz Palace Walk September Kim Edwards The Memory Keeper's Daughter August Janet Wahlach Desert Queen July Margaret Drabble Seven Sisters June Penelope Lively City of the Mind May Ian Mcewan Saturday April John M. Barry Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America March Brenda Vantrease The Illuminator February Julia Glass Three Junes January Robert Penn Warren All the Kings Men 2005 December Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night November Dava Sobel Galileo's Daughter October Andrea Levy Small Island : A Novel September Erik Larsens Devil in the White City August Marilyn Robinson Housekeeping July Gabriel Garcia Marquez Living to Tell the Tale June Penelope Lively Photograph May Alice Munro Love of a Good Woman April Marianne Wiggins Evidence of Things Unseen March Martha Cooley The Archivist February Isabelle Allende Paula January Edward P. Jones The Known World 2004 December M.M. Eire Waiting for Snow in Havana November Ahdaf Soueif A Map of Love October John Steinbeck East of Eden September Yann Martel Life of Pi August Tracy Chevalier Falling Angels July M. Kundera Ignorance June Khaled Hosseini Kite Runner May Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha April Azar Nafisi Reading Lolita in Tehran March Daniel Mason Piano Tuner February Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex January Dai Sijie Balzac and the little Chinese Princess. 2003 December Carol Shields Unless November Arthur Phillips Prague October Peter Godwin Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa September Donna Tart A Secret History August Alexandra Fuller Don’t Let’s Go Down to the Dogs Tonight July Richard Russo Empire Falls June Sue Monk Kidd Secret Life of Bees May Ian McEwen Atonement April James Carroll Constantine's Sword (cont) March James Carroll Constantine's Sword February Josephine Humphries Nowhere Else On Earth January Barbara Ehrenreich Nickle and Dimed 2002 December Billy Collins Sailing Alone Around the Room November Jonathon Franzen Corrections October Nathan McCall Makes Me Wanna Holler September Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies August Thomas L. Friedman The Lexus and the Olive Tree July Ann Patchett Bell Canto June Peter Hessler River Town May Haruki Murakami Sputnik Sweetheart April Michael Chabon Adventures of Kavalier and Clay March Flannery O’Conner Everything That Rises Must Converge February Ann Fadiman Spirit Catches You and Then You Fall Down January Barbara Kingsolver Prodigal Summer 2001 December Tracy Chavalier Girl With a Pearl Earring November Michael Ondaatje Anil’s Ghost October Mary Gordon The Rest of Life September Ha Jin Waiting August Graham Greene Heart of the Matter July Mary Russell Sparrow June Simon Winchester The Professor and the Mad Man May Edith Wharton House of Mirth April Andrew Dubos III House of Sand and Fog March Deidre McNamer My Russian February J.M. Coetzee Disgrace January Sena Naslund Ahab’s Wife 2000 December Ruth L. Ozeki My Year of Meats November Susan Choi The Foreign Student October Peter Matthison The Snow Leopaard September Michael Cunningham The Hours August Anita Diamont The Red Tent July Virginia Wolff Mrs. Dalloway June Alex Garland The Beach May Clyde Edgerton Walking Across Egypt April Anita Shreve The Weight of Water March Edwidge Danticot The Farming of Bones February Iam McEwen Amsterdam January Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible 1999 December Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie November Katherine Graham Personal History October Eudora Welty The Golden Apples September Bernard Schlink The Reader August Anna Quinlan One True Thing July Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha June Howard Norman The Bird Artist May Bernard MacLaherty Grace Notes April Susan Wiltshire Athena’s Disguises: Mentors in Everyday Life March Frank McCort Angela’s Ashes February Charles Frazier Cold Mountain January Rick Bragg All Over But the Shoutin’ 1998 December Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street November Carol Shields Larry’s Party October Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things September Annie Proulx Accordion Crimes August Lee Smith Family Linen July John Irving Prayer for Owen Meany June William Boyd The Blue Afternoon May Julia Alvarez In the Time of the Butterflies April Louis De Bernieres Corelli’s Mandolin March Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda February Francis Mays Under the Tucson Sun January Rebecca Wells Little Alters Everywhere January Rebecca Wells Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 1997 December Calvin Trilling Messages from my Father November J. McBride The Color of Water October Reynolds Price Promise of Rest September Ursela Hegi Stones from the River August Andrea Barrett Ship Fever July J. Nozipo Maraarie Zenzeli-Letter for My Daughter June William Styron Lie Down in Darkness May Barbara Kingsolver High Tide in Tucson April Peter Taylor In Tennessee Country March Walker Percy The Moviegoer February Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses January William Styron Tidewater Morning 1996 December Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of Love and Other Demons November Richard Ford Independence Day October Thomas Keneally A River Town September Lee Smith Saving Grace August A.S. Byatt Matisse Stories July David Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars June Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist May Robert Olen Butler They Whisper April Nadine Gordimer None to Accompany Me March Tim O’Brien In the Lake of the Woods February Jung Chang Wild Swans January James Agee Death in the Family 1995 November/December Robert Olen Butler Good Scent from a Strange Mountain October Jane Hamilton Map of the World September Charlotte Bronte Shirley August Carolyn Heilbrun Writing a Woman’s Life July Thomas Keneally Woman of the Inner Sea June Kate Chopin The Awakening May Carol Shields Stone Diaries April Doris Lessing The Fifth Child March Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart March Maya Angelou All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes February Howard Owen Littlejohn January Harriett Doerr Consider This Senora 1994 December The Delaney Sisters Having Our Say November Jill Kerr Conway True North October Annie Proulx The Shipping News September Michael Ondatje The English Patient August Isabelle Allende The Infinite Plan July Barbara Kingsolver Pigs in Heaven June Willa Cather Death Comes fo the Archbishop May Paul Theroux The Happy Isles of Oceania April Toni Morrison Song of Solomon March Harriet Doerr Stones for Ibarra February Blanche Wiesen Cook Eleanor Roosevelt January Shelley Frazier Mickle The Queen of October 1993 November/December John Casey Spartina October A.S. Byatt Still Life September Ann Patchett The Patrol Saint of Liars August Toni Morrison Jazz July Reynolds Price Source of Life June Christina Garcia Dreaming in Cuban April/May Shelby Hearon Painted Dresses March Hettie Jones How I Became Hettie Jones February Zoara Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God January Alice Walker Temple of My Familiar 1992 November/December Wallace Stegner Spectator Bird October Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres September Ken Follett Pillars of the Earth August Willa Cather Professor’s House July Marge Piercy Woman on the Edge of Time June Amy Tan The Kitchen God’s Wife May E.M. Forster Howard’s End April Gail Goodwin Father Melancholy’s Daughter March A.S. Byatt Possession February Padgett Powell A Woman Named Drown January Nadine Gordimer July’s People 1991 November/December Mary Catherine Bateson Composing a Life October Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams September Lynn Sharon Schwartz Disturbances in the Field August Dennis McFarland The Music Room July Cathie Pelletier The Funeral Makers July Kaye Gibbons A Virtuous Woman June Mambo King Sings Songs of Love May Keri Hulme Bone People April Penelope Lively Moon Tiger March Ishiguri The Remains of the Day February Nien Cheng Life and Death in Shanghai January Allan Gurganus The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All 1990 November/December Jill Kerr Conway The Road from Coorain October Jay Clayton “on radical literary theory” September Annie Dillard American Childhood August Ian McEwan A Child in Time June Amy Tan Joy Luck Club May Phyllis Rose Parallel Lives April Reynolds Price Kate Vaiden March Mark Salzman Iron and Silk February Farrol Sams Run with the Horsemen January Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose 1989 November/December Joan Chase During the Reigh of the Queen of Persia October Nadine Gordimer Sport of Nature September Tony Hillerman A Thief of Time August Nikos Kazantzakis The Last Temptation of Christ July Anne Tyler Breathing Lessons June Louise Erdrich The Beet Queen May T. Coraghessasn Boyle Water Music April Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera March Willa Cather My Antonia February Wallace Stegner Crossing to Safety January Tom Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 1988 November/December Toni Morrison Beloved October Denise Giardina Storming Heaven September William McPherson Testing the Current August Michael Dorris Yellow Raft on Blue Water July Scott Turow Presumed Innocent June Bruce Chatwin The Songlines May Jane Austin Pride and Prejudice April Mary Catherine Bateson With a Daughter's Eye March Beryl Markham West With the Night February Ykio Mishima The Temple of Dawn, The Decay of the Angel January Ykio Mishima Spring Snow 1987 November/December Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat and Dust October Ellen Gilchrist The Annunciation August/September Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina July Robertson Davies The Deptford Trilogy June Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale May Shirley Grau Keepers of the House April Peter Taylor Old Forest March Bobbie Ann Mason In Country