Brown Bag Book Club (Nelson Memorial Branch of JMRL)
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On the fourth Monday of the month bring your lunch to the Nelson Memorial Branch of JMRL and discuss fiction and non-fiction books. Library staff will provide value-added content and lead the discussion. Send an email to be added to our mailing list.
March 25, 2013 12:00 TO 2:30 PM
Come join The Brown Bag Book Club For a Pot Luck Lunch (bring Chinese food you'd like to share) as we discuss THE BIG READ/"The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan and enjoy a film about four remarkable friends!
Selections for 2013
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (January)
- Collapse by Jared Diamond (February)
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (March - Big Read)
- Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt (April)
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (May)
Selections for 2012
- About Face by Donna Leon (January)
- Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson (February)
- Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (March - Big Read)
- Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks (April)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (May)
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (June)
- Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards (July)
- The Eleventh Man by Ivan Doig (August)
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt (September)
- Coming Up for Air by Patti Callahan Henry (October)
- The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl (November)
[No December selection]
Selections for 2011
- The March by E.L. Doctorow (January)
- Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler (February)
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (March - Big Read)
- Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny (April)
- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (May)
- The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (June)
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (July)
- The King's Speech by Mark Logue (August)
- Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble (September)
- The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (October)
- The Plague by Albert Camus (November)
[No December selection]
Selections for 2010
- Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell (January)
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (February)
- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (March - Big Read)
- The Girl with No Shadow by Joanne Harris (April)
- The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (May)
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (June)
- The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (July)
- The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts (August)
- When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton (September)
- Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips (October)
- Oxygen by Carol Casella (November)
[No December selection]
Selections for 2009
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (January)
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (February)
- The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian (March)
- Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle (April)
- Never Enough by Joe McGinniss (May)
- Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith (June)
- God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène (July)
- Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts (August)
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett (September)
- Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron (October)
[No November selection]
- An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor (December)
Selections for 2008
- The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (January)
- In the Woods by Tana French (February)
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (March)
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (April)
- The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (May)
- Carpe Diem by Autumn Cornell (June)
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (July)
- Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson (August)
- Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky (September)
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (October)
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (November)
[no December selection]
Selection for 2007
- Sole Survivor by Derek Hansen (January)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (February)
- March by Geraldine Brooks (March)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (April)
- The Jade Hook by Jack Shea (May)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston(June)
- Scent of Suspicion by Irene Hughes (July)
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (August)
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver (September)
- The Fall Line by Errol Burland (October)
- The Wedding Officer by Anthony Capella (November)
- The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones (December)
Selections for 2006
- The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (January)
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (February)
- Sign In for Murder by Irene Hughes (March)
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (April)
- The Hornet's Nest by Jimmy Carter (May)
- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (June)
- 1776 by David G. McCullough (July)
- Charming Billy by Alice McDermott (August)
- Housekeeping and Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (September)
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (October)
- In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke (November)
[no December selection]
Selections for 2005
- The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (May)
- The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love by Joan A. Medlicott (June)
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flag (July)
[no August meeting]
- Keeper's Son by Homer Hickam (September)
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (October)
- The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy (November)
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (December)
