January 8, 2016

Book discussion reading list

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