Votes are in for best book we read in 2009

1. White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
2. Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer

Ordinary Thunderstorms in March

We will be reading William Boyd's Ordinary Thunderstorms at our next meeting on March 11

Books we read in 2009

Over the last year our Group of 97 Book Club read eight books and we are about to vote on our best book for the year. I'll post the top three books when I have collated the votes. It was a varied selection of fiction and non-fiction:

Book group list for 2009

Doing Life: a biography of Elizabeth Jolley Brian Dibble

The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga

The Lost Life, Steven Carroll

Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer

The Dragon’s Blessing, Guy Allenby

The Mitford Sisters, Mary Lovell

The Red Highway, Nicholas Rothwell

Book for January: Nicolas Rothwell's The Red Highway

Anne has selected Nicolas Rothwell's The Red Highway. We meet on January 28, 2010.

After that we will be reading Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd, chosen by Jenn.

Reading now The Mitford Sisters

We meet next at Beverly's on November 5 to discuss The Mitford Sisters by Mary Lovell

Books group books read in August and September

I'm a bit behind in blog posts, so here's where we are at for 2009:

In August we read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, chosen by Marie

Marjorie chose The Dragon’s Blessing by Guy Allenby in September 2009

In June we read Steven Carroll

In June we read Steven Carroll's The Lost Life.

Our next meeting is in July, doing Marguerite's book choice: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates