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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Cafe Libre Future Reading List

March 2011 choices
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text @all,cd@phx
Mistress of the Art of Death @all,cd@phx, read previously 8/09 5*
Where the Rain is Made  by Keta Diablo - not on WorldCat or available for sale
Murder in the Marais - have this now!
The Caves of Steel by Asimov - @all,cd@peo

Cafe Libri  (accessed 11/7/10)

Future Reading List
The following is a list of members' book suggestions that were not chosen as reads. This list is an easy way for members to recycle voting suggestions to use for later months. I will also use these suggestions to compile special voting lists throughout the year.

For more information about voting or to join Cafe Libri, please click here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cafelibri
Book Suggestions

aerodaze (Cari):
1. Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3) by Stieg Larsson
3. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2) by Stieg Larsson
4. The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley (re-read)

aliceburca:
1. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
2. War against the Weak by Edwin Black
3. The Course of Human Events by David McCoullagh

annwernerj (Ann):
1. The White Mare by Jules Watson (Book One of the Dalriada Trilogy)

a_soft_flower (Serena):
1. The Masked Man by P.C. Doherty
2. Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
3. Conviction by Elise Title
4. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
5. Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi by David Chotjewitz
6. Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet by Charlotte Gordon
7. Dessa Rose by Sherley A. Williams
8. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
9. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
10. The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
11. The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
12. Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
13. The High King by Lloyd Alexander
13. The Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
14. Briar Rose by Robert Coover
15. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
16. The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox
17. Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival by Velma Wallis
18. The Boleyn Inheritance by Phillippa Gregory
19. The Shakespeare Secret by J.L.Carrell

astra0206 (Jo):
1. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
2. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
3. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

avecessemper:
1. African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe by Doris Lessing
2. Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing
3. Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
4. The Diaries of Jane Somers by Doris Lessing
5. Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
6. Desolation Angels by Jack kerouac
7. Beat Generation: 3 Act Play by Jack kerouac
8. Little Ellen and other Pleasing Poetic Tales by Abby Lee
9. The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam by Bao Ninh

blueearthnannie (Nannie):
1. A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation edited by Richard Peabody
2. The Women by T.C. Boyle
3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3) by Stieg Larsson

bmanousou (Betty Manousou):
1. When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yallom
2. Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robins
3. Le Citta Invisibili by Italo Calvino

bookcrosser_raerae78 (Rachel):
1. Hick by Andrea Portes
2. Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres

booksrmylife8 (Jules):
1. To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife by Caitlin Flanagan

breezenlaura (Sarah):
1. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

broadway245:
1. Darkness Descending by Bethann Korsmit

buddyniu (Adam):
1. The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch

carenome1 (Julie, Chiana, Delenn, and Chloe):
1. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

cjmartin155 (Chris):
1. The Smoke Jumper by Nicholas Evans

clearyfan (Beverly):
1. Frill Kill by Laura Childs
2. No Talking by Andrew Clements
3. Change of Heart by Jodie Piccoult
4. Alcatraz Verses the Evil Librarians by Sanderson
5. Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella
6. Larceny and Lace by Tamar Myers
7. Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq by Kirsten Holmstedt

cshort50:
1. Facing the Giants by Eric Wilson
2. Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand
3. Without a Backward Glance by Kate Veitch

dani.leber (Dani):
1. A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks
2. Lasher by Anne Rice
3. Behold a Pale Horse by William Cooper
4. The Dive from Clausens Pier by Ann Packer
5. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
6. Without a Map by Meredith Hall
7. Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
8. Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
9. Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand
10. Ya Ya's In Bloom by Rebecca Wells
11. A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs
12. A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer
13. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
14. Smashed by Koren Zailckas
15. Eden Close by Anita Schreve

davidscottmilton_writer (David):
1. Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars by Kenneth E. Hartman

demasiado_diamante:
1. Birth of the Firebringer by Meredith Ann Pierce
2. The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
3. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (has an electronic copy to share)
4. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
5. Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
6. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
7. Acacia by David Anthony Durham
8. Messed Up by Janet Nichols Lynch
9. Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

dkfgroup (Kathy):
1. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Jay Fowler

eddie_fan2004 (Betty Racine):
1. The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey
2. Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart
3. Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
4. Saving Cece Honeycutt by Beth Hofman
5. How High the Moon by Sandra Kring

eryckuu:
1. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

florencer (Florence):
1. The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

gidoudahere (Penny Irwin):
1. Martha Quest (1st in a series) by Doris Lessing
2. Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
3. Man in the Wheatfield by Robert Laxalt
4. The Watchful Gods by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
5. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
6. The Quarry by Damon Galgut
7. The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
8. Come Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie
9. Chester's Last Stand by Richard Prawn
10. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
11. The Killjoy by Anne Fine
12. The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin

glcraig (Gretchen):
1. A Respectable Trade by Phillipa Gregory

gricord (Glenda Ricord):
1. Stolen by Lucy Christopher
2. The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
3. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
4. Under the Dome by Stephen King

hannahblue13:
1. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
2. Waiting by Ha Jin

henryholt1:
1. The Messiah of Morris Avenue by Tony Hendra

hstull82:
1. The Epicure's Lament by Kate Christensen
2. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
3. Mrs Kimble by Jennifer Haigh

irishmaverick2003:
1. Seize the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

jatta97 (Jeffrey Taylor):
1. Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
2. South of Broad by Pat Conroy
3. A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation edited by Richard Peabody
4. Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
5. Exodus by Leon Uris
6. The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley (re-read)

j.crane (Cathy):
1. All the Living by C. E. Morgan

jexiebee:
1. The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by H. Khaled Hosseini
4. I Know this Much Is True by Wally Lamb
5. In the Woods by Tana French
6. Mind's Eye by Hakan Nesser
7. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
8. The Condition by Jennifer Haigh
9. The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller
10. The China Garden by Liz Berry

jkwriter1624:
1. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates

joseandizzy (Sofia):
1. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

karana_20:
1. The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momoday (A collection of Kwoiwa Myths)
2. The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
3. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
4. Otherwise Engaged by Eileen Goudge
5. Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
6. The Corset Diaries by Katie Macalister
7. The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble
8. Slaughter House-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
9. Sebastian by Anne Bishop
10. Caress of Twilight (Merry Gentry #2) by Laurell K. Hamilton
11. Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
12. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
13. Chemistry for Beginners by Anthony Strong
14. Lake of Sorrows by Erin Hart
15. Haunted Ground by Erin Hart
16. False Mermaid by Erin Hart
17. The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
18. The Genesis Secret by Tom Knox
19. The Beatitudes by Lyn LeJeune
20. How to Seduce a Ghost by Hope McIntyre
21. How to Marry a Ghost by Hope McIntyre
22. How to Murder a Millionaire (The Blackbird Sisters Mysteries #1) by Nancy Martin
23. Journal: Amy Zoe Mason found by Kristine Atkinson and Joyce Atkinson
24. Alphabet Weekends: Love on the Road from A to Z by Elizabeth Noble

karenhorvath (Karen):
1. The Memory of Running by Ron Mclarty

klaassenbd (Brenda):
1. Bread Alone by Judith Ryan Hendricks
2. The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman
3. One Nation Under God by Vincent M. Wales
4. The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
5. The Lonely Girls Club by Suzanne Forster
6. The Stones Cry Out by Sibella Giorello
7. The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard

kpeterk2003 (Peter):
1. Byzantium by Stephen Lawhead
2. Leo's Girl by Victor Pemberton
3. On Beauty by Zadie Smith

ladyhawk5002001 (Paula):
1. Murder Carries a Torch by Anne George
2. Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
3. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

ladytink_534 (Jenn):
1. The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc by Loraine Despres
2. The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
3. The Christmas Shoes by Donna VanLiere
4. Between Friends by Debbie Macomber
5. The Last Girls by Lee Smith
6. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
7. Waifs and Strays by Charles de Lint

lark58:
1. The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
2. Murder in Marais by Cara Black
3. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
4. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
5. Midnight's Children by Salmon Rushdie

lindseypiereder:
1. Lucky by Alice Sebold
2. Her Last Death by Susanna Sonnenberg
3. Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction by Luke Davies

Liz:
1. The Shakespeare Secret by J. L. Carrell (American title= Interred with Their Bones by J. L. Carrell)

lrsretired:
1. True Believer by Nicholas Sparks

lulu_chickenbone:
1. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson

lyncarr2003 (Lynda):
1. Our Kind by Kate Walbert
2. The Gate to Women's Country by Sherri Tepper
3. Three Eggs on a Stick by Jackie Fischer
4. The Courts of Love by Jean Plaidy
5. Buried Alive by Myra Friedman
6. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
7. How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
8. Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie

mango_lolo:
1. Confessions of a Teen Nanny by Victoria Ashton

marcelazimerman:
1. The Bad Mother's Handbook by Kate Long
2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
3. I Loved up the Villa by Sommerset Maugham

markhamanne (Anne):
1. Northern Lights by Howard Norman

marjifay (Marge):
1. Exodus by Leon Uris

mentisthemagnificent:
1. The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
2. The Charmer by Patrick Hamilton

mom225020022003 (Mary B.):
1. Wild Animals by Rich Shapero

monferrato88 (Kate):
1. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
2. Alice by Alice Roosevelt Longworth
3. Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon

mtanasky (Annet):
1. Bind, Torture, Kill by Roy Wenzl, Tim Potter, L.Kelly, Hurst Laviana Annette
2. Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards
3. Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know by Meg Md Meeker

needler (Shelleen):
1. T Is for Trespass by Sue Grafton

nross_91 (Nikki):
1. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
2. The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld

outil59b
1. My Year off by Robert McCrum (Picador)

reganaddie (Addie):
1. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
2. Night by Elie Wiesel

rette_monti:
1. Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

sally906 (Sally):
1. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (Dystopian)
2. The Time of the Hunter's Moon by Victoria Holt (Romantic Thriller)
3. The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost (Non-Fiction travel)
4. The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov (Classic Science Fiction)
5. Fifty Acres and a Poodle by Jeanne Marie Laskas (Memoir)

salviaspirit (Sheila):
1. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
2. The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay

sapphydragon (Kat):
1. Crimson Moon by Rebecca York
2. Narcissus in Chain by Laurel K. Hamilton
3. Empress' New Clothes by Jaid Black

sexipunkgrl:
1. The Secret History by Donna Tart
2. Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
3. Little Children by Tom Perrotta
4. Without A Map by Meredith Hall

shout4 (Teri):
1. Prague by Arthur Phillips
2. Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson
3. I Am Snowing by Pavel Kohut

silver_moonlight_n_roses:
1. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

stocktontomalonefan (Terri):

1. Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
2. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
3. Under the Dome by Stephen King
4. Jantsen's Gift: A True Story of Grief, Rescue, and Grace by Pam Cope (Non-fiction)
5. I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
6. Ahab's Wife or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Nashund
7. Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg
8. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
9. A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
10. The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullin
11. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
12. Paradise by Toni Morrison
13. Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett (Non-fiction)
14. The King of Lies by John Hart
15. Down River by John Hart
16. The Stand (The Complete and Uncut Edition) by Stephen King
17. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
18. Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
19. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
20. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
21. One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
22. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
23. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
24. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
25. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
26. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
27. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
28. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J.K. Rowling

suebluesue (Sue):
1. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
2. Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger
3. The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster

SWY105 (Wil):
1. Blindness by Jose Saramago
2. The Cave by Jose Saramago
3. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlof

tanyalondonred (Ann):
1. Q&A by Vikas Swarup

theunveiler:
1. Keeper of the Celtic Secrets by Betty Rhodes

tinishasmail:
1. Searchable Whereabouts by Tinisha Nicole Johnson

trinicapini (Trish):
1. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
2. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
3. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Brendt
4. All the Kings's Men by Robert Penn Warren
5. We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
6. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
7. The World According to Garp by John Irving
8. Sea Glass by Anita Shreve

tuxedo_mask221979 (Mamoru/James):
1. The Maid of the White Hands by Rosalind Miles
2. The Tale Of The Body Thief by Anne Rice (The third book of the Vampire Chronicles)
3. Mistral's Kiss by Laurell K. Hamilton
4. The Prince Kidnaps A Bride by Christina Dodd
5. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

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