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RIM Book Group


If you are looking for books to read, why not read one of the upcoming selections and join in the discussion?  See your M'Ocean for the meeting location and directions.  See below for list of previously discussed selections.

Month Author Title Host(ess)
Apr. 26 Elizabeth Gilbert Eat Pray Love Ron & Lori
May 17 Stewart O'Nan Last Night at the Lobster Joan
June 14 David Baldacci The Camel Club Tom P.

This event meets monthly at a member's home.
Time: Saturday, 2pm - date and location vary.


List of books that the Book Club has previously read and discussed:

1984 by George Orwell

All True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton by Jane Smiley
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Atonement by Ian McEwan

Back When We were Grownups by Anne Tyler
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam and Lewis M. Feldstein

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Charmed Circle by Dolores Riccio
Circle of Five by Dolores Riccio
The Clock Winder by Anne Tyler
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
The Divine Circle of Ladies Making Mischief by Dolores Stewart Riccio
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch
The Horned Man by James Lasdun
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus II
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Intuition by Allegra Goodman

The Kite Runner by Kahled Hosseini

Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
Lake Woebegone Days by Garrison Keillor
A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Sparks

Man in Full by Thomas Wolfe
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faolain
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Painted House by John Grisham
Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White

Saturday by Ian McEwan
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Shop Girl by Steve Martin
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Snow Falling On Cedars by David Guterson
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Spot of Bother, A by Mark Haddon

Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Waiting by Ha Jin
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
Wish You Well by David Baldacci




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