2015 Morning Book Group Suggested Titles
We Will Pick 10 Titles.
(Any selections over 550 pages would need to be read over the group's summer vacation.)
- Austen, Jane - Sense and Sensibility
- Baldwin, James - Go Tell it on the Mountain
- Ball, Edward - Slaves in the Family
- Bekett, Samuel - Murphy
- Bradley, Alan - The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Novel, No. 2
- Brink, Andre - Philida
- Brown, Daniel James - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- Dinesen, Isak - Out of Africa
- Fink, Sheri - Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- Fuentes, Carlos - The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel
- George, Elizabeth - A Great Deliverance: Inspector Lynley Mystery, No. 1
- Gibbons, Stella - Nightingale Wood: A Novel
- Glendinning, Victoria - Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West
- Hall, Donald - Life Work
- Heaney, Seamus - Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996
- Heinlein, Robert A. - Stanger in a Strange Land
- Holman, Sheri - The Dress Lodger
- Holsinger, Bruce - A Burnable Book: A Novel
- Horan, Nancy - Under the Wide and Starry Sky: A Novel
- Kahneman, Daniel - Thinking Fast and Slow
- Kingsolver, Barbara - The Bean Trees: A Novel
- Lepore, Jill - Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
- Marshall, Megan - Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
- Matthiessen, Peter - The Snow Leopard
- McEwan, Ian - Saturday: A Novel
- Menand, Louis - Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
- Merullo, Roland - The Talk-Funny Girl: A Novel
- Picketty,Thomas - Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Pollan, Michael - Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
- Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity's Rainbow
- Rich, Louise Dickinson - We Took to the Woods
- Richardson, Samuel - Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Julia's Note: If selected this would need to be a book spread over Summer Break plus an additional month due to size. It is the longest book ever written in English.)
- Rumi, Jellalundi - Essential Rumi
- Sarton, May - Journal of Solitude
- Semple, Maria - Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel
- Steinbeck, John - East of Eden
- Stegner, Wallace - The Spectator Bird
- Swiss, Deborah J. - The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
- Thoreau, Henry David - The Maine Woods
- Vanderbilt II, Arthur T. - Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
- Wickenden, Dorothy - Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
- Whitman, Walt - The Complete Poems (Song of Myself)
- Wilson, Harriet E. - Our Nig, Or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
- Rash, Wolitzer, Meg - The Interestings: A Novel
- Yousafzai, Malala - I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
- Gloss, Susan - Vintage: A Novel
- Graham, Peret - Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century
- Macaulay, David - Motel of the Mysteries
