GREAT MATES BOOK CLUB
LIST OF BOOKS WE’VE READ
• The Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein (November 2010)
• The Help – Kathryn Stockett (December 2010)
• One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd – Jim Fergus (January 2011)
• Water For Elephants – Sara Gruen (February 2011)
• Bitter Legacy – H. Terrell Griffin (March 2011)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini (April 2011)
• Mistress of the Art of Death – Ariana Franklin (May 2011)
• Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay (June 2011)
• The Red Tent – Anita Diamant (July 2011)
• The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (August 2011)
• Cutting For Stone – Abraham Verghese (September 2011)
• Ahab’s Wife – Sener Jeter Naslund (October 2011)
• The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield (November 2011)
• Shantarum – Gregory David Roberts (December 2011)
• Henry’s Sisters – Cathy Lamb (January 2012)
• The Shack – William P. Young (February 2012)
• The Invisible Bridge – Julie Orringer (March 2012)
• Little Bee – Chris Cleave (April 2012)
• The Call of the Wild – Jack London (May 2012)
• A Prisoner of Birth – Jeffrey Archer (June 2012)
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford (July 2012)
• East of Eden – John Steinbeck (August 2012)
• The Dressmaker – Kate Alcott (September 2012)
• The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes (October 2012)
• The Paris Wife – Paula McLain (November 2012)
• In The Garden of Beasts – Erik Larson (December 2012)
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson (January 2013)
• Skeletons on the Zahara: A true Story of Survival – Dean King (February 2013)
• The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach (March 2013)
• Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn (April 2013)
• She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb (May 2013)
• Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand (June 2013)
• The Kitchen House – Laura Grisson (July 2013)
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards (August 2013)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver (September 2013)
• Swerve – Stephen Greenblatt (October 2013)
• The Motion of the Ocean… – Janna Esarey (November 2013)
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (December 2013)
• The Buddha in the Attic – Julie Otsuka (January 2014)
• The Art of Hearing Heartbeats – Jan-Phillip Sendker (February 2014)
• Wind, Sand & Stars / The Petite Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupry (March 2014)
• Me Before You – Jojo Moyes (April 2014)
• Replay – Ken Grimwood (May 2014)
• Zealout – Reza Aslan (June 2014)
• The Aviator’s Wife – Melanie Benjamin (July 2014)
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff – Chris Moore (August 2014)
• A Farwell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway (September 2014)
• The Roundhouse – Louise Erdrich (October 2014)
• Hidden Wives – Clare Avery (November 2014)
• The Shadow Queen – Rebecca Dean (December 2014)
• The Dovekeepers – Alice Hoffman (January 2015)
• The Invention of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd (February 2015)
• Crunch & Des – Philip Wylie (March 2015)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith (April 2015)
• The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck (May 2015)
• Shadow Country – Peter Matthiessen (June 2015)
• The Shipping News – Annie Proulx (July 2015)
• West With the Night – Beryl Markham (August 2015)
• The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern (October 2015)
• 11/22/63 – Stephen King (November 2015)
• Orphan Train – Christina Baker Kline (December 2015)
• At the Water’s Edge – Sara Gruen (January 2016)
• Circle of Friends – Maeve Binchy (February 2016)
• Crossing the Borders of Time – Leslie Maitland (March 2016)
• The Kennedy Detail – Gerald Blaine (April 2016)
• Dead Wake – Eric Larson (May 2016)
• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger (June 2016)
• The Forgotten Garden – Kate Morton (July 2016)
• Circling the Sun – Paula Mclain (August 2016)
• The World Gone By – Dennis Lehane (September 2016)
• Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng (October 2016)
• After You – Jojo Moyes (November 2016)
• The Snow Leopard – Peter Matthiessen (December 2016)
• Such Mad Fun – Robin Cutler (January 2017)
• Euphoria – Lily King (February 2017)
• The Boys in the Boat – Daniel James Brown (March 2017) – 5 stars
• Lust for Life – Irving Stone (April 2017)
• Night – Elie Wiesel (May 2017) – 4.5 stars
• Stoner – John Williams (June 2017) – 4 stars
• The Deep Blue Good By – John D. McDonald (July 2017) – 4.5 stars
• The Sympathizer – Viet Than Nguyen (August 2017) – 4.5 stars
• Be Frank With Me, by Julia Claiborne Johnson (January 2018) – 4.5 stars
• Delaney’s People, by Beth Duke – the author is a friend of Casey McClash and will come speak to us and lead (February 2018)
• COMMODORE’S PICK: Gentleman in Moscow: A novel, by Amor Towles – (March 2018)
• The Lonely Silver Rain, by John D. MacDonald (last of the Travis McGee series) – (April 2018)
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt (non fiction) – (May 2018)
• Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat – (June 2018)
• Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance (non fiction) – Keri Hockett (July 2018)
• Lila, by Marilyn Robinson – (August 2018)
• September 11, 2018 – Highwire Moon, by Susan Straight – (September 2018)
• October 9, 2018 – Butcher’s Crossing, by John Williams – (October 2018)
• 1984, by George Orwell – (November 2018)
• Holidays on Ice, by David Sedaris – (December 2018)