First Monday Morning of the Month Club Meeting 

 April 2, 2012

Suggestions from “Around the Circle”

~ Our theme for this month - The Mysteries of Life and Death ~

Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower

Franklin and Eleanor: an Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley

Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash

Swamplandia by Karen Russell

The Hunger Games Trilogy: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Coral Glynn by Peter Cameron

Newport Villas: The Revival Styles 1885-1935 by Michael C. Kathrens

Theophilus North by Thornton Wilder

Charles Dickens: a Life by Claire Tomalin

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Elegy for Iris by John Bayley

Left Neglected by Lisa Genova

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Naked in Baghdad by Anne Garrels

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Also on PBS now, via 

Masterpiece Theater)

Tea Shop Mysteries, a series by Laura Childs; one recommended title from the series: Agony of the Leaves

Gaslight Mystery Series by Victoria Thompson; one recommended title from the series: Murder in Waverly Place

Angels of Darkness by Nalini Singh

Inspector Pitt Mystery Series by Ann Perry; first in the series: 

The Cater Street Hangman

Molly Murphy Mysteries by Rhys Brown; first in the series: Murphy’s Law

Royal Spyness Mystery Series by Rhys Brown; first in the series: Her Royal Spyness

Wicked Autumn: A Max Tudor Mystery Novel, &, Death of a 

 Cozy Writer: a St. Just Mystery by G. M. Malliet    

Father Dowling Mystery Series by Ralph McInery; first in the series: Her Death of Cold

Don’t miss acclaimed mystery writer Louise Penny’s Blog at: http://louisepenny.blogspot.com/

How Starbucks Saved My Life:  A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill

Body of Work by Christine Montross

Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh