| The
First Tuesday Book Group |
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2008 |
Book |
Presenter |
| January 8 |
Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick |
Fitzgerald |
| February 5 |
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing (1) |
-- |
| March 4 |
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing (2) |
-- |
| April 4 (F, 2:30) |
Poetry |
-- |
| May 2 (F, 2:30) |
Fahrenheit 451, Ray
Bradbury |
-- |
| June 3 |
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry |
-- |
| July 1 |
House of Mirth, Edith Wharton |
-- |
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2007 |
Book |
Presenter |
| January 2 |
So Long, see you Tomorrow, William
Maxwell |
Russell |
| February 6 |
Poetry |
Avery/Barch |
| March 6 |
Imaginary Friends, Alison Lurie |
Gluck |
| April 13 (F, 2:30) |
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson |
Morrissey |
| May 4 (F, 2:30) |
The Spiral Staircase, Karen Armstrong |
Carpenter |
| June 5 (12:30) |
The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan |
Rubin |
| July 10 |
Out of Egypt, Andre Aciman |
Stern |
| August 7 |
Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey |
Frankel |
| September 11 |
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides |
Carpenter |
| Oct 5 (F,2:30) |
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison |
Avery |
| Nov 2 (F,2:30) |
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat |
Golomb |
| December 4 |
Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw` |
Gluck |
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2006 |
Book |
Presenter |
| January 3 |
Canceled
(snow) |
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| February 7 |
Howard's
End, E.M. Forster |
Stern |
| March 7 |
Poetry
|
Avery,
Barch |
| April 7
(F, 2:30) |
Nickel and
Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich |
Farrell |
| May 5 (F,
2:30) |
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain |
Taube |
| June 6 |
Women of
the Silk, Gail Tsukiyama |
Rubin |
| July 11 |
Without
Reservation, Jeff Benedict |
Frankel |
| August 1 |
The
Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa |
Bakker
|
| September 5 |
March, Geraldine Brooks |
Fieseler |
| Oct 6 (F, 2:30) |
White Noise, Don DeLillo |
Taube |
| Nov 10 (F, 2:30) |
Canceled |
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| December 5 |
Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
|
Barch |
|
2005 |
Book |
Presenter |
| January 4 |
Mornings on Horseback, David McCullough |
Morrisey |
| February 1 |
Poetry |
Avery |
| March 1 |
Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant |
Frankel |
| April 1 (F, 2:30) |
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini |
Fieseler |
| May 6 (F,
2:30) |
Ward
Number Six and Other Stories, Anton Chekhov |
Bakker |
| June 7 |
In
America, Susan Sontag |
Rubin |
| July 5 |
The Shadow
Man, Mary Gordon |
Avery |
| August 2 |
The
Sleeping Father, Matthew Sharpe |
Morrisey |
| September
6 |
The Master,
Colm Toibin |
Russell |
| Oct 7 (F,2:30) |
Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon |
Carpenter |
| Nov 4
(F,2:30) |
The
Samurai's Garden, Gail Tsukiyama |
Golomb |
| December 6 |
Song of
the Lark , Willa Cather |
Gluck |
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| 2004 |
Book |
Presenter |
| January 6 |
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee |
Golomb |
| February 3 |
Poetry - various |
Barch |
| March 2 |
Empire Falls, Richard Russo |
Fieseler |
| April 6 |
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi |
Stern |
| May 7 (F, 2:30) |
Life of Pi, Yann Martel |
Carpenter |
| June 1 |
Middlemarch, George Eliot |
Bakker |
| July 6 |
Washington Square, Henry James |
Avery |
| August 3 |
Peace Like a River, Leif Enger |
Taub |
| September 7 |
Mansfield Park, Jane
Austen |
Russell |
| Oct 8 (F,2:30) |
Black Dog of Fate, Peter Balakian |
Golomb |
| Nov 5 (F,2:30) |
Waiting for Snow in Havana, Carlos Eire |
Barch |
| December 7 |
Brick Lane, Monica Ali |
Gluck |
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| 2003 |
Book
|
Presenter
|
| January |
In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O'Brien |
Golomb |
| February |
The Hours, Michael Cunningham |
Barch |
| March |
Waiting, Ha Jin |
Frankel |
| April 4 (2:30) |
Atonement, Ian McEwan |
Kroll |
| May 2 (2:30) |
The Soloist, Mark Salzman |
Stern |
| June |
Turbulent Souls, Stephen J. Dubner |
Russell |
| July |
The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen |
Fieseler |
| August |
Hard Times, Charles Dickens |
Avery |
| September 9 |
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey,
Lillian Schliessel |
Bakker |
| October 3: 2:30 |
Larry's Party, Carol Shields |
Rubin |
| November 7: 2:30 |
Desert Queen, Janet Wallach |
Frankel |
| December |
Rise of Silas Lapham, William Dean Howells |
Gluck |
| 2002 |
Book
|
Presenter
|
| January |
One Writer's Beginnings, Eudora Welty |
Gluck |
| February |
Love of a Good Woman, Alice Munro |
Fieseler |
| March |
Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel |
Frankel |
| April |
The Trees, Conrad Richter |
Kroll |
| May |
No Great Mischief, Alistair MacLeod |
Stern |
| June |
Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick |
Russell |
| July |
The Assault, Harry Mulisch |
Bakker |
| August |
Founding Brothers, Joseph Ellis |
Rubin |
| September |
God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy |
Avery |
| October |
Dreams of my Russian Summer, Andrei Makine |
Fieseler |
| November |
Poetry - various |
Barch |
| December |
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf |
Gluck |
| 2001 |
Book
|
Presenter
|
| January |
Stone Diaries, Carol Shields |
Frankel |
| February |
Last of the Wine, Mary Renault |
Vicenzi |
| March |
Composing A life, Mary Catherine Bateson |
Gluck |
| April |
Liar's Club, Mary Karr |
Kroll |
| May |
Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald |
Stern |
| June |
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri |
Fieseler |
| July |
Paula, Isabel Allende |
Rubin |
| August |
Regeneration, Pat Barker |
Bakker |
| September |
The Moor's Last Sigh, Salmon Rushdie |
Avery |
| October,November |
Cancelled (LLI classes) |
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| December |
The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch |
Russell |
| 2000 |
Book |
Presenter |
| February |
Edith Wharton (biography) |
Russell |
| March |
Charterhouse of Parma, Henri Stendhal |
Frankel |
| April |
Pigs In Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver |
Avery |
| May |
Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz |
Stern |
| June |
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston |
Gluck |
| July |
Summer Before The Dark, Doris Lessing |
Rubin |
| August |
Morgan, Jean Strouse |
Fieseler |
| September |
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner |
Avery |
| October |
Speak Memory, Vladimir Nabokov |
Russell |
| November |
Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope |
Kroll |
| December |
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith |
Bakker |
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