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Kathy Diamond Book Club Titles
Some of these book reviews have been recorded, and are available to borrow on compact disc (CD) or audio-cassette (AC) as indicated.
2012 January The Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst
2011

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Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler (-)

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (-)

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobsen (-)

Love and Summer by William Trevor (-)

The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa

Sanctuary line by Jane Urquhart

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Foreign Bodies
by Cynthia Ozick

Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow

     
2010

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Still Alice by Lisa Genova (-)

The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels (-)

Pictures at an Exhibition by Sara Houghteling (-)


The Madonnas of Leningrad
by Debra Dean (-)

Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones (-)

Songs for the Butcher's Daughter by Peter Manseau (-)

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (-)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (-)

The Soloist by Steve Lopez (-)


The Help
by Kathryn Stockett (-)

My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar (-)


Little Bee
by Chris Cleave (-)

2009

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People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (CD)

Nada by Carmen Laforet (CD)

The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian (CD)

The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker

The Zookeeper's Wife by Dianne Ackerman

Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

2008

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Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen (CD)

The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill (CD)

Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (CD)

October by Richard B. Wright (CD)

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (CD)


The Ministry of Special Cases
by Nathan Englander (CD)

A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev (-)

Run by Ann Patchett (-)


Lost City Radio
by Daniel Alarcón(-)


The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar (CD)


Septembers of Shiraz
by Dalia Sofer (CD)


The Gathering by Anne Enright (CD)

2007

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The Sea by John Banville (-)

The Birth House by Ami McKay (-)

Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky (CD)

Arthur & George by Julian Barnes (CD)

The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson (CD)

Digging to America
by Anne Tyler (CD)

The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (CD)

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (-)

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (-)

The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gien (-)

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (CD)

The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro (CD)


2006

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Small Island by Andrea Levy (AC)

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (AC)

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (-)

The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (AC)

Runaway: Stories
by Alice Munro (-)

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (AC)

The Rent Collector by Glen Rotchin (-)

A Perfect Pledge by Rabindranath Maharaj (AC)

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (-)

Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan (-)

The Tree Bride by Bharatee Mukherjee (CD)

Intuition by Allegra Goodman (CD)

2005

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Brick Lane by Monica Ali (AC)

The Book of Salt by Monique Truong (AC)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (AC)

Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen by Kate Taylor (AC)


The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri (-)

The Amateur Mariage by Anne Tyler (AC)

I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti (AC)

Charming Billy by Alice McDermott (AC)

Reading Lollita in Tehran by Azar Naafisi (AC)

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews (AC)

Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick (AC)

Journey From the Land of No by Raya Hakakian (AC)

2004

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Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (AC)

The Dark Room by Rachel Seifert (-)

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (AC)

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (AC)

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Kidd Monk (AC)

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (AC)

A Rhinestone Button by Gail Anderson-Dargatz (-)

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (-)

Embers by Sándor Márai (AC)

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (AC)

Fateless by Imre Kertész (-)

A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay (AC)

2003

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Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright (AC)

Atonement by Ian McEwan (AC)

The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman (AC)

Sister Crazy by Emma Richler (AC)

Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks (AC)

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro (AC)

The Bay of Angels by Anita Brookner (AC)

Life of Pi by Yann Martel (AC)

The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock (AC)

Unless by Carol Shields (AC)

The Last of the Just by André Schwartz-Bart (AC)

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson (AC)

2002

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Baltimore’s Mansion: A Memoir by Wayne Johnston (AC)

The Photographer’s Wife by Robert Solé (AC)

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (AC)

The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln by Glückel of Hameln (AC)

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières (AC)

Ravelstein by Saul Bellow (AC)


The Mark of the Angel
by Nancy Huston (AC)

Focus by Arthur Miller (AC)

The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman (AC)

1185 Park Avenue by Anne Roiphe (AC)

What Remains by Nicholas Delbanco (AC)

We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (AC)

2001

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Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (AC)

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester (AC)

Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (AC)

Miriam's Kitchen: a Memoir by Elizabeth Erlich (-)

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (AC)

Pilgrim by Timothy Findley (AC)

I, Dreyfus by Bernice Rubens (AC)

A Good House by Bonnie Burnard (AC)

Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai (AC)

Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel (AC)

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg (AC)

My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki (AC)

2000

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In the Memory of the Forest by Charles T. Powers (AC)

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (AC)

Larry's Party by Carol Shields (AC)

The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro (AC)

Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks (AC)

A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz (AC)

Another World by Pat Barker (AC)

A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler (AC)

Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge (AC)

Lying on the Couch by Irvin E. Yalom (AC)


A Journey to the End of the Millennium
by Abraham B. Yehoshua (AC)

Blindness by José Saramago (AC)

1999

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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (AC)

Imagining Robert by Jay Neugeboren (AC)

Enduring Love by Ian McEwen (AC)

Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andreï Makine (AC)

Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser (AC)

The Bacon Fancier by Alan Isler (AC)

Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler (AC)

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (AC)

Tortilla Curtain by Coraghessan T. Boyle (AC)

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (AC)

The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick (AC)

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (AC)

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