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Novel Ideas

Previous Titles: Year 1 (2004)
Previous Titles: Year 2 (2005)
Previous Titles: Year 3 (2006)
Previous Titles: Year 4 (2007)
Previous Titles: Year 5 (2008)
Previous Titles: Year 6 (2009)
Previous Titles: Year 7 (2010)
Previous Titles: Year 8 (2011)
Previous Titles: Year 9 (2012)
Novel Ideas


Novel Ideas is a book discussion group for adults that meets the first Tuesday of every month at 7:00 pm here at the Library.  If you're interested in joining us, please contact Sandy at sandy.murphy@wadsworthlibrary.com or 330-334-5761 ex. 260.

Upcoming Selections:

December 2012- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

January 2013- Devil In the Junior League by Linda Francis Lee

February 2013- The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin

March 2013- Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish

April 2013- Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

May 2013- The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte

June 2013- The Passion Dream Book by Whitney Otto

July 2013- Riding the Bus With My Sister by Rachel Simon

August 2013- The Book of Lost Things by John Connelly

September 2013- An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff

October 2013-  Look Again by Lisa Scottoline

 

Previous Titles: Year 1 (2004)

TITLE

AUTHOR

Atonement

Ian McEwan

No Horizon is so Far

Liv Arnesen/Ann Bancroft

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Laura Hillenbrand

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café

Fannie Flagg

Nickel & Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich

Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Susan Vreeland

All Over But the Shoutin'

Rick Bragg

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Christopher Moore

Gift From the Sea

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Empire Falls

Richard Russo


Previous Titles: Year 2 (2005)

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

Tulip Fever

Deborah Moggach

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

Bill Bryson

Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod

Gary Paulsen

Kindred

Octavia Butler

March

Geraldine Brooks

Three Junes

Julia Glass

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman

Elizabeth Buchan

A Girl Named Zippy

Haven Kimmel

Will in the World

Stephen Greenblatt



Previous Titles: Year 3 (2006)

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Mark Haddon

The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank

Ellen Feldman

The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde

Seredipity Green

Rob Levandoski

Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

Terry Ryan

Howard's End

E.M. Forster

Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks

The Hours

Michael Cunningham

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

84, Charing Cross Road

Helene Hanff

Fast Food Nation

Eric Schlosser

Pleasant Valley

Louis Bromfield



Previous Titles: Year 4 (2007)

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

Boy on the Bus

Deborah Schupack

The Girls

Lori Lansens

Honeymoon with my Brother

Franz Wisner

Birth of Venus

Sarah Dunant

The Cider House Rules

John Irving

Romance Reader

Pearl Abraham

Garlic and Sapphires

Ruth Reichl

Bastard Out of Carolina

Dorothy Allison

Eats, Shoots, & Leaves

Lynne Truss

Five Quarters of the Orange Five Quarters of the Orange

Joanne Harris

An Unfinished Life

Mark Spragg

My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult

 


 


Previous Titles: Year 5 (2008)

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Lisa See

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

The Friday Night Knitting Club

Kate Jacobs

The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc

Loraine Despres

Almost Moon

Alice Sebold

Rule of Four

Ian Caldwell

Widow of the South

Robert Hicks

Sea Captain's Wife

Martha Hodes

Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Barbara Kingsolver

Life of Pi

Yann Martel

Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert


Previous Titles: Year 6 (2009)

TITLE

AUTHOR

Before I Die

Jenny Downham

Crazy Ladies

Michael Lee West

The Banyan Tree

Christopher Nolan

The Wednesday Letters

Jason Wright

The Coffee Trader

David Liss

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression

Studs Terkel

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

The Hiding Place

Corrie Ten Boom

Crazy in Alabama

Mark Childress

Toujours Provence

Peter Mayle

One For the Money

Janet Evanovich


Previous Titles: Year 7 (2010)

TITLE

AUTHOR

Archivist's Story

Travis Holland

A Bend in the Road

Nicholas Sparks

Confederates in the Attic

Tony Horwitz

Monsters of Templeton

Lauren Groff

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Nice to Come Home to

Rebecca Flowers

Sarah's Key

Tatiana de Rosnay

Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Alan Bradley

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

My Best Friend's Girl

Dorothy Koomson

A Painted House

John Grisham


Previous Titles: Year 8 (2011)

TITLE

AUTHOR

Eat Cake

Jeanne Ray

Julie and Julia

Julie Powell

The Swan Thieves

Elizabeth Kostova

Her Fearful Symmetry

Audrey Niffenegger

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Helen Simonson

The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise

Julia Stewart

A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore

The Kabul Beauty School

Deborah Rodriguez with Kristin Ohlson

The Giver

Lois Lowery

My Antonia

Willa Cather

A Secret Kept

Tatiana de Rosnay


Previous Titles: Year 9 (2012)

TITLE

AUTHOR

Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons

Lorna Landvik

A Good Yarn

Debbie Macomber

The Peach Keeper

Sarah Addison Allen

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

John Boyne

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Aimee Bender

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs

Between, Georgia

Joshilyn Jackson

The Postmistress

Sarah Blake

The Secret Gift

Ted Gup

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn