Melissa_W
Just a reading schedule and a list of our past selections so newer additions to the group can see what we've been up to (or for those of us who may need to refresh our memories after a while
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2007
February/March: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
*****technically, this was part of the "British Classics" group but with a second round of P&P occuring under the guidance of the editor David M. Shapard in May/June 2007 and the "Spring of Austen" in 2008, we should give it some space lest we wear the poor thing out*********
April/May: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
May/June: Possession by A.S. Byatt
June/July: The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
August: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
September: Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley
October: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
November: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
December/January 2008: Middlemarch by George Eliot
2008
February: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
March: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
April: Beloved by Toni Morrison
May: The Black City by George SandJune: Persuasion by Jane Austen
July: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
August: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
September: The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch
October: Brick Lane by Monica Ali
November: The Gathering by Anne Enright
December/January 2009: The Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe
2009
February: Silas Marner by George Eliot
March: Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
April: Emma (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Jane Austen
May: Wives and Daughters (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Elizabeth Gaskell
June: The Nine Tailors (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) by Dorothy Sayers
July: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
August: The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
September: Frankenstein (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Mary Shelley
October: The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
November: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
December/January 2010: The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
2010
February: Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
March: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
April: North and South (Norton Critical Edition Series) by Elizabeth Gaskell
May: Runaway by Alice Munro
June:Children of the New World by Assia Djebar
July: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
August: The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
September: Purge by Sofi Oksanen
October: Orlando by Virginia Woolf
November: Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
December: The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty
2011
January: Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
February: Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
March: Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
April: Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
May: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
June: The Bone People by Keri Hulme
August: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
September: South Riding by Winifred Holtby
2012
January: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
February: The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obrecht
March: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
April: The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
May/June: Jane Austen's minor works and juvenilia
July: The Master Butcher's Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
August: The Girl Who Heard Dragons by Anne McCaffrey
October: The Doll: The Lost Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier
November: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (and Children of God, the sequel, by request)
December: We share our favorite Christmas-y/holiday stories
2013
January/February: Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
March: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
April: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
May: Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
June: Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
