The Book Club With No Name

This is the home page for the Book Club With No Name. We meet on the first Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m.

Scheduled Books for 2003:

September 2, 2003 - (Action/Adventure - Joe) Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming (192 pp.)
October 7, 2003 - (Biography - Annie) Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand (448 pp.)
November 4, 2003 - (Horror - Susie)
December 2, 2003 - (Short Story Anthology - Doug) Screwjack and Other Stories by Hunter S. Thompson (64 pp.)

Books Read So Far:

January 2000: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
February 2000: Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
March 2000: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
April 2000: High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
May 2000: The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
June 2000: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
June 2000: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
August 2000: Personal History by Katharine Graham
September 2000: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
October 2000: Tuesday with Morrie by Mitch Albom
November 2000: Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
December 2000: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
January 2001:The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
February 2001: Dave Barry's Guide to Life by Dave Barry
March 2001 : Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
April 2001: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
May 2001: Left Behind by Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
June 2001: A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
July 2001: Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
August 2001: The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
September 2001: To Kill A Mockingbord by Harper Lee
October 2001: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
November 2001: The World's Religions by Huston Smith
December 2001: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
January 2002: Salome by Oscar Wilde
February 2002: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
March 2002 Shopgirl by Steve Martin
April 2002 Amanda's Wedding by Jenny Colgan
May 2002 Nigger by Randall Kennedy
June 2002 War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
July 2002 The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
August 2002 Life Is so Good by George Dawson & Richard Glaubman
September 2002 The Autobiography of Ben Franklin by Ben Franklin
October 2002 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
November 2002 Best of H.P. Lovecraft : Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft
( The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Color Out of Space )
December 2002 Maus: A Survivor's Tale Volume 1: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
January 2003 - (Children's Book) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
February 2003 - (Romantic Comedy) New Cardiff by Charles Richard Webb
March 2003 - (Other) The Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold
April 2003 - (Non-fiction) Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking by M. Neil Browne
May 2003 - (Western - Jason) The Day Breakers by Louis L'Amour
June 2003 - (Historical - Veena) The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
July 2003 - (Classic - Stacey) The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
August 2003 - (Fantasy - Mary) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling

Future Possibilities:

Amerika by Franz Kafka (336 pp.)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (276 pp.)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (560 pp.)
Stone Field by Kyoko Mori (288 pp.)
Hooking Up by Tom Wolf (304 pp.)
Night Sky, Morning Star by E. Zuni (235 pp.)
Lucky Gourd Shop by J. Scott (220 pp.)
Taking Lottie Home by T. Kay (304 pp.)
The Powerbook by J. Winterson (304 pp.)
So far Back by P. Durban (256 pp.)
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich (240 pp.)
Prague by Arthur Phillips (400pp.)
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (275pp.)
Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World As a Smartmouth Goddess by Susan Jane Gilman (205pp.)
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (226 pp.)
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle (193pp.)
Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond (407pp.)
Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age by Rosemary Mahoney (336pp.)
The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament by Robert M. Sapolsky (288 pp.)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (386 pp.)
Leadership by Rudolph W. Giuliani (407 pp.)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy (416 pp.)

Interesting Links:

Banned Book Online from the Online Books Page
Oprah's Book Club
Yahoo's Reading Groups
50 Best and Worst Books of the Century
Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet

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Last updated August 12, 2003 by Joe Schirmer