~ FIRST TUESDAY BOOK CLUB ARCHIVES ~
~ FIRST TUESDAY BOOK CLUB ARCHIVES ~
The FIRST TUESDAY BOOK CLUB met at 6:30 p.m. on the first
Tuesday of each month from May 2002 through March 2009. The club enjoyed lively discussions of both fiction and
nonfiction, including biographies, classics, and contemporary works covering a variety of genres
and cultures. Visit our Book Blog for a look at
reviews of many of the First Tuesday selections and other books!
| MONTH | FIRST TUESDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS |
| March, 2009 ~ Siblings | The Sisters Mallone (Louisa Ermelino) |
| February, 2009 ~ Siblings | The God of Small Things (Arundati Roy) |
| January, 2009 ~ The Funny Side of Life | Winner of the National Book Award (Jincy Willett) |
| December, 2008 ~ The Funny Side of Life | The Family Tree (Carole Cadwalladr) |
| November, 2008 ~ The Funny Side of Life | Straight Man (Ricard Russo) |
| October, 2008 ~ Passion & Power | Inés of My Soul (Isabel Allende) |
| September, 2008 ~ Passion & Power | Scroll of Seduction (Gioconda Belli) |
| August, 2008 ~ Passion & Power | The Constant Princess (Philippa Gregory) |
| July, 2008 | Summer break - No selection |
| June, 2008 | Men and Angels (Mary Gordon) |
| May, 2008 | The Known World (Edward P. Jones) |
| April, 2008 | A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Marina Lewycka) |
| March, 2008 | Temple of Music (Jonathan Lowry) |
| February, 2008 | Leeway Cottage (Beth Gutcheon) |
| January, 2008 | Fences (August Wilson) |
| December, 2007 | Bribery, Corruption Also (H.R.F. Keating) |
| November, 2007 | Queen Victoria: From Her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort (Cecil Woodham-Smith) |
| October, 2007 | Goodnight, Texas (William J. Cobb) |
| September, 2007 | The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula Le Guin) |
| August, 2007 | Against All Enemies (Richard Clarke) |
| July, 2007 | Sex Wars (Marge Piercy) |
| June, 2007 | March (Geraldine Brooks) |
| May, 2007 | Peyton Place (Grace Metalious) |
| April, 2007 | Goodbye Without Leaving (Laurie Colwin) |
| March, 2007 | The Professor and the Madman (Simon Winchester) |
| February, 2007 | Peace Like a River (Leif Enger) |
| January, 2007 | The Ladies Auxiliary (Tova Mirvis) |
| December, 2006 | Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier) |
| November, 2006 | The Awakening (Kate Chopin) |
| October, 2006 | Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig (Jonathan Eig) |
| Septembert, 2006 | Faceless Killers (Henning Mankell) |
| August, 2006 | Crow Lake (Mary Lawson) |
| July, 2006 | Transplanted Man (Sanjay Nigam) |
| June, 2006 | The Epicure's Lament (Kate Christensen) |
| May, 2006 | Acts of Worship: Seven Stories (Yukio Mishima) |
| April, 2006 | Nothing Like It in the World (Stephen Ambrose) |
| March, 2006 | The Raphael Affair (Iain Pears) |
| February, 2006 | Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri) |
| January, 2006 | Amelia Earhart: A Biography (Doris Rich) |
| December, 2005 | Enduring Love (Ian McEwan) |
| November, 2005 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) |
| October, 2005 | The Plot Against America (Philip Roth) |
| September, 2005 | The Clarinet Polka (Keith Maillard) |
| August, 2005 | The Soldier's Return (Melvyn Bragg) |
| July, 2005 | American Jezebel (Eva LaPlante) |
| June, 2005 | Possessing the Secret of Joy (Alice Walker) |
| May, 2005 | The Biographer's Tale (A.S. Byatt) |
| April, 2005 | Colors of the Mountain (Da Chen) |
| March, 2005 | An American Childhood (Annie Dillard) |
| February, 2005 | Devil in the White City (Erik Larson) |
| January, 2005 | My Antonia (Willa Cather) |
| December, 2004 | On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon (Kaye Gibbons) |
| November, 2004 | The Virginian (Owen Wister) |
| October, 2004 | Stone Diaries (Carol Shields) |
| September, 2004 | Colony (Anne Rivers Siddons) |
| August, 2004 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) |
| July, 2004 | The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan) |
| June, 2004 | The Color of Water (James McBride) |
| May, 2004 | In the Lake of the Woods (Tim O'Brien) |
| April, 2004 | Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) |
| March, 2004 | Will Rogers: A Biography (Ben Yagoda) |
| February, 2004 | Sunday Wife (Cassandra King) |
| January, 2004 | The Christmas Box (Richard Paul Evans) |
| December, 2003 | Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) |
| November, 2003 | The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) |
| October, 2003 | Bee Season (Myla Goldberg) |
| September, 2003 | Black Narcissus (Rumer Godden) |
| August, 2003 | Montana 1948 (Larry Watson) |
| July, 2003 | Night Inspector (Frederick Busch) |
| June, 2003 | We Band of Angels (Elizabeth M. Norman) |
| May, 2003 | Giant (Edna Ferber) |
| April, 2003 | Grass Dancer (Susan Power) |
| March, 2003 | Cold Sassy Tree (Olive Ann Burns) |
| February, 2003 | Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood) |
| January, 2003 | Are You Somebody? (Nuala O'Faolain) |
| December, 2002 | Girl in Hyacinth Blue (Susan Vreeland) |
| November, 2002 | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Ann Tyler) |
| October, 2002 | Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry) |
| September, 2002 | The Shipping News (E. Annie Proulx) |
| August, 2002 | Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen) |
| July, 2002 | Total Control (David Baldacci) |
| June, 2002 | A Room of My Own (Ann Tatlock) |
| May, 2002 | The Good Earth (Pearl Buck) |
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