Books previously discussed in Castlebar Library Book Club
Book Club previous selections (star rating 1 - 5)
January 2012
Absolute Zero Cool by Declan Burke 3 stars
December 2011
Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Chandler 4 stars
November 2011
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt 3 1/2 stars
October 2011
Last Light by Alex Scarrow 2 stars
September 2011
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin 4 stars
August 2011
Tony & Susan by Austin Wright 3 stars
July 2011
Mr. Rosenblum's List by Natasha Solomons 3 stars
June 2011
The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd 3 stars
May 2011
The Boy in the Gap by Paul Soye 3 stars
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 3 1/2 stars
April 2011
The Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare 3 stars
March 2011
Rupture by Simon Lelic 4 stars
February 2011
Serena by Ron Rash 4 stars
January 2011
One Day by David Nicholls 4 stars
Foster by Claire Keegan 5 stars
December 2010
The Swimmer by Roma Tearne 4 stars
November 2010
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen 4 stars
October 2010
So Much for That by Lionel Shriver 4 stars
Take a Weight Off Your Mind 2 stars
September 2010
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray 3 stars
August 2010
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer 4 stars
July 2010
The Help by Kathryn Stockett 4 stars
June 2010
Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House by John Heileman and Mark Halperin 4 stars
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas 2 stars
May 2010
Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne 4 stars
The Wife's Tale by Lori Lansens 3 stars
April 2010
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese 5 stars
Address Unknown by Kressman Taylor 4 stars
March 2010
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks 4 stars
February 2010
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 4 stars
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty 3 stars
January 2010
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 3 stars
That Old Cape Magic by Ricard Russo 4 stars
December 2009
Winterland by Alan Glynn 3 stars
November 2009
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann 5 stars
October 2009
The Lost Child by Julie Myerson 3 stars
September 2009
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld 3 stars
Disguise by Hugo Hamilton 3 stars
August 2009
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa 4 stars
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carre 2 stars
July 2009
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 4 stars
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin 4 stars
June 2009
Various titles by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
May 2009
Leaving the World by Douglas Kennedy 3 stars
Essays in Love by Alain de Botton 3 stars
April 2009
The Island by Victoria Hislop 3 stars
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner 3 stars
March 2009
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave 4 stars
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3 stars
February, 2009
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 4 stars
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer 3 stars
January, 2009
Home by Marilynne Robinson 4 stars
December, 2008
Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier 3 stars
November, 2008
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry 4 stars
Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup 3 stars
October, 2008
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth 3 stars
September, 2008
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill 2 stars
Coming Up for Air by George Orwell 3 stars
August, 2008
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie 4 stars
July, 2008
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates 4 stars
The First Verse by Barry McCrea 3 stars
June, 2008
Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee 3 stars
Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov 4 stars
May, 2008
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore 4 stars
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones 3 stars
April, 2008
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway 4 stars
My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey by Howard Dully 3 stars
March, 2008
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak 3 stars
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 3 stars
February, 2008
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins 4 stars
Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky 3 stars
December, 2007
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson 4 stars
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 3 stars
November, 2007
Old School by Tobias Wolff 4 stars
Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov 3 stars
October, 2007
The Gathering by Anne Enright 2 stars
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 3 stars
September, 2007
On the Road by Jack Kerouac 4 stars
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman 4 stars
August, 2007 :
The Woman in the Fifth by Douglas Kennedy 3 stars
Engleby by Sebastian Faulks 4 stars
July, 2007:
Julius Winsome by Gerard Donovan 4 stars
Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan 3 stars
June, 2007:
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. 3 stars
The Outsider by Albert Camus. 4 stars
May, 2007 :
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 3 stars
The Secret Life of E.Robert Pendelton by Michael Collins 3 stars
April, 2007:
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo 3 stars
Dirt Music by Tim Winton 4 stars
March, 2007:
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly 3 stars
Suite Francaise by Irene Namirovsky 3 stars
February, 2007:
The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munroe 3 stars
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon 3 stars
December, 2006:
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 3 stars
Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie 3 stars
November, 2006:
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 4 stars
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler 3 stars
October, 2006 :
Zoli by Colum McCann 4 stars
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle 5 stars
September, 2006 :
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 4 stars
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 3 stars
August, 2006:
Q & A by Vikas Swarup 4 stars
July, 2006:
A Life's Music by Andrei Makine 4 stars
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam 4 stars
June 2006:
The Accidential by Ali Smith 3 stars
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch 3 stars
May 2006:
The Visitor by Maeve Brennan 3 stars
Now is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker 1 star
April 2006:
How Many Miles to Babylon by Jennifer Johnston 3 stars
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote 3 stars
March 2006:
Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks 2 stars
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne 5 stars
February 2006:
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 3 stars
Saturday by Ian McEawn 4 stars
January 2006:
A Short History of Tractors in the Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka 3 stars
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 4 stars
December 2005:
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 4 stars
Broken April by Ismail Kadare 4 stars
November 2005:
The Sea by John Banville 4 stars
Receipes for a Perfect Marraige by Kate Kerrigan 3 stars
October 2005:
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver 5 stars
Timoleon Vieta Come Home written by Dan Rhodes 3 stars
September 2005:
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel 3 stars
Becomiong Strangers by Louise Dean 3 stars
August 2005:
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson 4 stars
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 2 stars
July 2005:
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 3 stars
Second Son by Christy Kenneally 1 star
June 2005:
Small Island by Andrea Levy 5 stars
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx 5 stars
May 2005:
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 3 stars
Pinhead Duffy by Helena Close 3 stars
April 2005:
The Master by Colm Toibin 4 stars
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry 4 stars
March 2005:
Empire Falls by Richard Russo 5 stars
Family Matters Rohinton Mistry 4 stars
February 2005:
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 4 stars