What we have read.

These are some of the books the Tuesday morning group has read and discussed over the past three years:

Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
Divine Inspiration - Jane Langton
Pretty Blonde Girls - Penelope Davidson (local author)
Any book by Ray Bradbury
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
To America by Steven Ambrose
The Guns of Babel by Carolyn Pankhurst
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Any book by Jane Austen
California Uncovered: Stories of the 21st Century
God and Mr. Gomez by Jack Smith
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Melba Beals
My Antonia by Willa Cather
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
The Chestnut Tree by Charlotte Bingham
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Tara's Secret by William Garlington
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute
A Primate's Memoir by Robert Sapolsky
Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Old Beauty and Others by Willa Cather
Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Any book by James Thurber
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Innocent Man by John Grisham
Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Any book by Ray Bradbury
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole by Jerri Nielsen
Any Book by James Michener

January 8, 2008 - In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
February 12, 2008 - Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle

March 11, 2008 - Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson

April 8, 2008 - Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

May 13, 2008 - Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

June 10, 2008 - Any collection of short stories by Alice Munro

July 8, 2008 - Confederates in the Attic (or Blue Latitudes or A Voyage Long and Strange) by Tony Horwitz

August 12, 2008 - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

September 9, 2008 - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

October 14, 2008 - Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

November 11, 2008 Any title by Anita Shreve

January 13, 2009 - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

February 10, 2009 - What Is the What by Dave Eggers

March 10, 2009 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

April 13, 2009 - The Overcoat and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol

May 12, 2009 Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Anyone is welcome to join us for any discussion, whether you have read the book or not. So, if you enjoy reading and talking about books, please stop by the library the second Tuesday of the month at 11:00 AM and see what's going on. If you have comments or suggestions for these book discussion web pages please send email to sly_one@verizon.net.

For more information call the library at 388-5225 or send email to Steve at sly_one@verizon.net or Sandi Banks at Sandi.Banks@ventura.org. You can also go to the library website at www.vencolibrary.org.

This is not part of the Camarillo Library website.