January = A Good Time To Read

Ahhhhh......these snowy winter days. Time to snuggle by the fire and read a good book. Luckily for me I belong to a book club where the members share favorite books as well as discuss the current book of the month. Here is a list of the books we have read since getting our group slowly off the ground in 2001. And the book selections that have a star were one of the top five books in my opinion for that particular year. And since we only had five selections for 2001 I only gave a star to two selections for 2001.
Take a look. You might find a book that you want to snuggle up with by the fire this winter.

2001

She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb*

The Shell Seekers, by Rosamund Pilcher

The Winter Solstice, by Rosamund Pilcher

White Oleander, Janet Fitch

Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden*

2002

Till We Have Faces, by C.S. Lewis

The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien*

A Day Late and a Dollar Short, Terry Mcmillan

A Long Total Love Chase, by Louisa M. Alcott

The Girl With The Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier

The Red Tent, by Anita Diamont*

Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells

The Nanny Diarys, by E. McLaughlin and N. Kraice

The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold*

The Painted House, by John Grisham

Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett*

The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen*

2003

Skipping Christmas

Princess: A True Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson*

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen*

Gods and Generals, by Jeff Shaara*

House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III

The Dress Lodger, by Sheri Holman

The Third Witch, by Rebecca Reisert

The Morality Play, by Barry Unsworth

The Power of One, by Bryce Courtenay*

Outfoxed, by Fern Michaels

Seabiscuit, by Lauren Hillenbrand*

Standing in the Rainbow, by Fanny Flag

2004

It's Not About The Bike, by Lance Armstrong*

One For The Money, by Janet Evanovich

The Pull of the Moon, by Elizabeth Berg

The Other Boleyn Girl, by Philippa Gregory*

Awakening, by Kate Chepin

The Bitch in the House, by Cathi Hanauer

Years of Wonder, by Geraldine Brooks

Blackberry Wine, by Joanne Harris*

The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart

Buffalo Winged, by Patricia Reilly Panera

Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides*

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini*

2005

The Monk Downstairs, by Tim Farrington

The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver*

Little Indiscretions, by Carmen Posadas

The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kid*

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, by Mark Haddon

The Reading Group, by Elizabeth Noble

Cane River, by Sue Tademy*

Pleasure of My Company, by Steve Martin

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis

The Wife, by Meg Wolitzer

Leap of Faith, Memoirs of an Unexpected Life, by Queen Noor of Jordan*

The Plain Truth, by Jodi Picoult*

2006

My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult

The Crocodile on the Sandbank, by Elizabeth Peters

Wicked: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by G. Maguire

Gardenias for Breakfast, by Robin Jones Gunn

My Losing Season, by Pat Conroy*

The Interpretor of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri*

The Pat Conroy Cookbook, Recipes of My Life, by Pat Conroy*

The Mermaid Chair, by Sue Monk Kidd

The Triumph of the Sun, by Wilbur Smith*

The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown*

The Widow of the South, by Robert Hicks

The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho

2007

Under Orders, by Dick Francis

Timeline, by Michael Crichton*

The Witching Hour, by Anne Rice

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, by Thad Carhart

The Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, by Jung Chang*

The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Painted Veil, by Somerset Mougham

The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls*

A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini*

The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway*

The Memory Keeper's Daughter, by Kim Edwards

Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn