FIRST MONDAY MORNING OF THE MONTH BOOK CLUB
Suggestions from the November 7, 2011 Gathering
~ Being a reader gives one a vastly enriched interior life. ~
Fiction:
BEN Make Way for Lucia: Queen Lucia, Lucia in London, Miss Mapp, The Male Impersonator, Mapp and Lucia, The Worshipful Lucia and Trouble for Lucia by E.F. Benson, introduction by Nancy Mitford.
HOR Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
OBR Aubrey / Maturin Series by Patrick O’Brian: Master and Commander (1970), Post Captain (1972), H.M.S. Surprise (1973), The Mauritius Command (1977), Desolation Island (1978), The Fortune Of War (1979), The Surgeon's Mate (1980), The Ionian Mission (1981), Treason's Harbour (1983), The Far Side Of The World (1984), The Reverse Of The Medal (1986), The Letter Of Marque (1988), The Thirteen Gun Salute (1989), The Nutmeg Of Consolation (1991), The Truelove (1992) aka Clarissa Oakes, The Wine-Dark Sea (1993), The Commodore (1995), The Yellow Admiral (1996), The Hundred Days (1998), Blue At The Mizzen (1999), The Final, Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (2004)
SIT American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
STO The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Nonfiction:
020.75 GOL Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
In OSL System: Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by Nancy Goldstone
324.973 HEI Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann
364.106/LEH Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill
594.3 BAI The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
616.81/BAU The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
818.5 TRI Quite enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff by Calvin Trillin
822.33 B GRE Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
In OSL System: A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me about Love, Friendship, and the Things that Really Matter by William Deresiewicz
919.404 BRY In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
940.21 GRE The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
943.086 LAR In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
On Order as of 11/7/11: The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States by Gordon S. Wood
B RICE Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family by Condoleezza Rice
On Order in OSL System: No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington by Condoleezza Rice
DVD Suggestions:
~ 12 Angry Men
~ The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
~ The Help