Empty Nest Book Club

DATE	HOSTESS	*TITLE*	AUTHOR
*2012*
Monday, October 29	at Irish Blessings Coffeehouse	The Appeal	John Grisham
Monday, September 24	at Mary's	Girl in Translation	Jean Kwok
Monday, May 21	at Dayle's	Stanley James	Clyde Henry
Monday, April 30	at Jill's	Wench	Dolen Perkins-valdez
Monday, March 26	at Irish Blessings Coffeehouse	Bel Canto	Ann Patchett
Monday, February 27	at Mary's	Turtle Catcher	Nicole Lea Helget
Monday, January 23	at Delores's	The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir	Kao Kalia Yang
*2011*
Monday, December 5	at Irish Blessings Coffeehouse	Happiness Project	Gretchen Rubin
Monday, October 17	at Irish Blessings Coffeehouse	Wicked River	Lee Sandlin
Monday, September 26	at Linda's	Cutting for Stone	Abraham Verghese
Monday, June 20	at Rose Mary's	People of the Book	Geraldine Brooks
Monday, May 23	at Judy's	Little Bee	Chris Cleave
Monday, April 25	at Opal's	Sarah's Key	Tatiana de Rosnay
Monday, March 28	at Mary's	The Book Thief	Markus Zusak
Monday, February 28	at Gloria's	I, Mona Lisa	Jeanne Kalogridis
Monday, January 24	at Delores'	Every Day is a Good Day	Wilma Mankiller
*2010*
Monday, November 29	at Dayle's	Dreamers of the Day	Mary Doria Russell
Monday, October 25	at Barb's	House Rules	Jodi Piccoult
Monday, September 27	at Jill's	Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society	Mary Ann Shaffer
Monday, June 21	at Rose Mary's	Lacuna	Barbara Kingsolver
Monday, May 24	at Phyl's	Jesus for the Non-Religious	John Shelby Spong
Monday, April 26	at Barb's	Lost Symbol	Dan Brown
Monday, March 29	at Mary's	Honeymoon in Tehran	Azadeh Moaveni
Monday, February 22	at Gloria's	The Help	Katherine Stockett
Monday, January 25	at Linda's	Five Smooth Stones	Ann Fairbairn
*2009*
Monday, November 30th	at Dayle's	The Story of Edgar Sawtelle	David Wroblewski
Monday, October 26th	at Jill's	So Brave, Young and Handsome	Leif Enger
Monday, September 28th	at Phyl's	Shack	William P. Young
Monday, June 1st	at Rose Mary's	The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding	Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner
Monday, April 27th	at Marlene's	The View from Mount Joy	Lorna Landvik
Monday, March 30th	at Linda's	Years of Wonder	Geraldine Brooks
Monday, February 23rd	at Mary's	Until They Bring the Streetcars Back	Stanley Gordon West
Monday, January 5th	at Gloria's	Eat, Pray, Love	Elizabeth Gilbert
*2008*
Monday, November 24th	at Jill's	A Woman of Independent Means	Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Monday, October 27th	at Jan's	Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress	Susan Jane Gilman
Monday, September 29th	at Dayle's	Plum Wine	Angela Davis-Gardner
Monday, June 2nd	at Rose Mary's	Out Stealing Horses	Per Petterson
Monday, April 28th	at Linda's	Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ...One School at a Time	Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Monday, March 31, 2008	at Jan's	A Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Hosseini
Friday, March 7, 2008	at Gloria's	One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd	Jim Fergus
Monday, January 28, 2008	at Jill's	Moloka'i	Alan Brennert
*2007*
Monday, November 26, 2007	at In Hot Water	Tell No One	Harlan Coben
Monday, October 29, 2007	at Linda's	Rise and Shine	Anna Quindlen
Monday, September 24, 2007	at Dayle's	Oh My Stars	Lorna Landvik
Monday, June 4, 2007	at Rose Mary's	Middlesex	Jeffrey Eugenides
Monday, April 30, 2007	at Jan's	A Girl Named Zippy	Haven Kimmel
Monday, March 26, 2007	at Jill's	Water for Elephants	Sara Gruen
Monday, February 26, 2007	at In Hot Water	Whale Caller	Zakes Mda
Monday, January 29, 2007	at In Hot Water	Glass Castle	Jeanette Walls
*2006*
Monday, November 27, 2006	at In Hot Water	Broken for You	Stephanie Kallos
Monday, October 30, 2006	at In Hot Water	Memory Keeper's Daughter	Kim Edwards
Monday, September 25, 2006	at In Hot Water	Animal Dreams	Barbara Kingsolver
Monday, May 22, 2006	at In Hot Water	Ellen Foster	Kaye Gibbons
Monday, April 24, 2006	at In Hot Water	The Year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion
Monday, March 27, 2006	at In Hot Water	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Mark Haddon
Monday, February 27, 2006	at In Hot Water	Class Action	Clara Bingham and Laura Leed Gansler
Monday, January 30, 2006	at In Hot Water	Master Butchers Singing Club	Louise Erdich
*2005*
Monday, November 28, 2005	at In Hot Water	Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting by in America	Barbara Ehrenreich
Monday, October 31, 2005	at Mary I's house	Let Me Whisper in Your Ear	Mary Jane Clark
Monday, September 26, 2005	Jan - at In Hot Water	The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency	Alexander McCall Smith
Monday, July 25, 2005	Dayle - at In Hot Water	The Birth of Venus	Sarah Dunant
Monday, June 27, 2005	trip to Bound to Be Read, bookstore in St. Paul on Grand Avenue
Monday, May 23, 2005	reading various books about Benjamin Franklin
Monday, April 25, 2005	Jill - at In Hot Water	One For the Money	Janet Evanovich
Monday, March 28, 2005	Linda - at In Hot Water	Three Junes	Julia Glass
Monday, February 28, 2005	Patti - at In Hot Water	Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood	Alexandra Fuller
Tues, February 1, 2005	at In Hot Water	Monkeewrench	P.J. Tracy
Mon, Jan. 3, 2005	at In Hot Water	Anthem	Ayn Rand
*2004*
Wed., Dec. 1, 2004	Jill	bring children's bks to give away	various
Tues., Nov. 2, 2004	Jan	Second Glance	Jodi Picoult
Mon., Oct. 4, 2004	Judy	Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress	Dai Sijie
Wed., Sept. 8, 2004	Marlene	Last Juror	John Grishom
Mon., Aug. 2, 2004	Sharon	Tending Roses	Lisa Wingate
July, 2004	Rose Mary	The Sprit Catches You and You Fall Down	Anne Fadiman
June, 2004	Jill	A Prayer for Owen Meany	John Irving
May, 2004	Char	Gai-Jin - Part One	James Clavell
April, 2004	Dayle	Gods and Generals	Jeffrey Sharra
March, 2004	Patti	Sacajewea	Anna Waldo
February, 2004	Mary	Romance Reader	Pearl Abraham
January, 2004	Judy	Life of Pi	Yann Martel
*2003*
December, 2003	Linda	Xmas books	various
November, 2003	Jan	Cold Sassy Tree	Olive Ann Burns
October, 2003	Jill	The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown
September, 2003	Rose Mary	Five Quarters of an Orange	Joanne Harris
August, 2003	Marlene	Forever Ours	Janis Amatuzio
July, 2003	Sharon	Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons	Lorna Landvik
June, 2003	Kathy	Holes	Louis Sachar
May, 2003	Dassel	Secret Garden	Frances H. Burnett
April, 2003	Sauk Center	Main Street	Sinclair Lewis
March, 2003	In Hot Water	The Secret Life of Bees	Sue Monk Kidd
February, 2003	In Hot Water	The Tapestries	Kien Nguyen
January, 2003	Sharon	Lovely Bones	Alice Sebold
*2002*
December, 2002	Linda	Xmas books	various
November, 2002	Jan	Pope Joan	Donna Woolfolk Cross
October, 2002	Jill	White Oleander	Janet Fitch
September, 2002	Patti	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	Allan Gurganus
May, 2002	In Hot Water Coffeeshop	Seasons of Sun and Rain	Marjory Dorner
April, 2002	Sharon	Alias Grace	Margaret Atwood
March, 2002	Kathy	Plain Truth	Jodi Picoult
February, 2002	Linda	Peace Like a River	Leif Enger
January, 2002	Char	Circle of Three	Patricia Gaffney
*2001*
June, 2001	Jill	Diary of Ann Frank	Ann Frank
May, 2001	In Hot Water Coffeeshop	Memoirs of a Geisha	Arthur Golden
April, 2001		Pull of the Moon	Elizabeth Berg
February, 2001		Red Tent	Anita Daimant
January, 2001		All the Pretty Horses	Cormac McCarthy
*2000*
November, 2000		Greatest Generation	Tom Brokow
October, 2000		Oxalis - A Story of Renewal	Keith Davis
September, 2000		Rapture of Canaan	Sheri Reynolds
August, 2000		Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Bk 1)	J.K. Rowling
July, 2000	In Hot Water Coffeeshop	10 Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went out in the Real World	Maria Shriver
June, 2000	In Hot Water Coffeeshop	The Fig Eater	Jody Shields
April, 2000	Maple Lake Coffeeshop	Green Mile	Steven King
March, 2000	Maple Lake Coffeeshop	Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver
February, 2000	Char	assorted works about Eleanor Roosevelt	various
January, 2000	Mary	Plainsong	Kent Haruf
*1999*
November, 1999	Kathy	Catcher in the Rye	J. D. Salinger
October, 1999	Jill	Angela's Ashes	Frank McCourt
June, 1999	Marlene	The Edible Woman	Margaret Atwood
May, 1999	Char	The Reader	Bernhard Schlink
February, 1999	Mary	Tuesdays with Morrie	Mitch Albom
January, 1999	Laurel	Midwives	Chris Bohjalian
*1998*
December, 1998	Jill	Joshua by Joseph Girzone and Mark of the Maker by Tom Hegg
		Joshua by Joseph Girzone and Mark of the Maker by Tom Hegg
November, 1998	Patti	The Notebook	Nicholas Sparks
October, 1998	Marlene	Mutant Message Down Under	Marlo Morgan
September, 1998	Linda	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	Rebecca Wells

EMPTY NEST BOOK CLUB
	The Empty Nest Book Club began in the fall of 1998 when a group of us met to rejoice sending our youngest children out into the world and/or off to college. Hence the name. Below are the books we are reading and have read. CLICK HERE to see a list of books we are considering reading. CLICK HERE to see our club policies. CLICK HERE to see other book lists and book resources.