Book Club in 2014

Here is what we read together in 2014:

Candyfreak / Steve Almond (Cynthia)
The Moviegoer / Walker Percy (Donna)
After Visiting Friends / Michael Hainey (Rachel)
The Cookbook Collector / Allegra Goodman (Paula)
How About Never--Is Never Good for You? / Bob Mankoff (Anne)

Donna's Top Ten for 2013

I read 32 books this year and am pretty proud of it (my previous tops was 27, I think, not counting college).  Here are my favorite 10, kinda in order:

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
Nine Inches: Stories by Tom Perrotta
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

Book Club in 2013

Here is what Book Club read together this year:

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (Rachel's pick)
The Shoemaker's Wife by Adrianna Trigiani (Paula)
Triburbia by Karl Taro Greenfeld (Anne)
*Charlotte au Chocolat by Charlotte Silver (Beth)
Eat and Run by Scott Jurek (Manda)
Wonder by R.J. Palacio (Wendy)

*This was Book Club's 100th book! We made it to Upstairs on the Square shortly before it was announced that they were closing. :(

Donna's Top 10 List for 2012

I read exactly the same number of books as last year (26) so I am determined to up that total by at least one in 2013!  Here are my top ten reads for 2012 in order:

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Heft by Liz Moore
Kick Me by Paul Feig
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Collective by Don Lee
Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick

Book Club in 2012

Here is what Book Club read together in 2012:

The United States of Arugula by David Kamp (Paula)
Just Kids by Patti Smith (Anne)
Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden (Beth)
Replay by Ken Grimwood (Manda)
Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick (Wendy)
Blood, Bones & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton (Cynthia)
A Death in the Family by James Agee (Donna)

Donna's Top Reads of 2011

I was a little off my pace from 2010 and finished 26 books in 2011. Here are my favorite 8, in order of when I read them:

Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman

Rachel's 2011 Top Ten

In alphabetical order by author:

• The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
• Open City, Teja Cole
• Townie, Andre Dubus IIIA
• Visit From the Goon Squad, Jenifer Egan
• Gun with Occasional Music, Jonathan Letham
• The Leftovers, Tom Perotta
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
• Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart
• My Own Country, Abraham Verghese
• Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson

Books Read in 2011

Here is what book club read together in 2011:

Running the Books by Avi Steinberg (Beth)
Gift of the White Light by James N. Frey (Manda)
Everyone Loves You When You're Dead by Neil Strauss (Wendy)
The Honey Trail by Grace Pundyk (Cynthia)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Donna)
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Rachel)