Here’s what the UW Faculty Auxiliary book discussion group has been reading over the years:
1997 – 1998
The Samurai’s Garden – Gail Tsukiyama
A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest J. Gaines
Of Love and Shadows – Isabel Allende
Paula – Isabel Allende
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
A Virtuous Woman – Kaye Gibbons
Ellen Foster – Kaye Gibbons
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother – James McBride
Turkish Reflections: A Biography of Place – Mary Lee Settle
1998 – 1999
Personal History – Katharine Graham
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Hoeg
Walking Across Egypt – Clyde Edgerton
Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
Stones from the River – Ursula Hegi
Independence Day – Richard Ford
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt
Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
1999 – 2000
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Wolfe
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! – Fannie Flagg
Lindbergh – A. Scott Berg
Hanna’s Daughters – Marianne Fredricksson
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family – Thomas Mann
2000 – 2001
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
Dorothy Stimson Bullitt: An Uncommon Life – Delphine Haley
Into the Blue – Robert Goddard
In Pale Battalions – Robert Goddard
The Road from Coorain – Jill Ker Conway
True North: A Memoir – Jill Ker Conway
Fanny Stevenson: Muse, Adventuress and Romantic Enigma – Alexandra Lapierre
Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love – Dava Sobel
Wild Kat (Kat Colorado #5) – Karen Kijewski
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – Jared Diamond