
Book Club
Read On.
Looking for a new read? Join Book Club on the third Wednesday of the month. Below shows our current reads for the year, and all years previously.
Book Club Chair Coordinator:
2016 - Present – Candy Bourgeois
2013 - 2015 – Stephanie Gilbert & Candy Bourgeois
2003 - 2012 – Stephanie Gilbert
'*' indicates the author joined HAA of ZTA Book Club for discussion on their book, research, planning and writing process.
2023
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January 18 – “The Invisible Life of Addie Larue" by V.E. Schwab
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February 15 – “Hotel Nantucket" by Elin Hilderbrand
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March 15 – “Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention-And How to Think Deeply Again" by Johann Hari
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April 19 – “The Kaiju Preservation Society" by John Scalzi
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May 17 – “Woman on Fire" by Lisa Barr
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June 21 – “Jell-O Girls" by Allie Rowbottom
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July 19 – "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar" by Cheryl Strayed
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August 16 – Share your favorite summer read
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September 20 – TBD
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October 18 – “A Good Girl's Guide to Murder" by Holly Jackson
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November 15 – TBD
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December 13 - Reading List Reveal 2024
2022
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January 19 – “Midnight Library" by Matt Haig
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February 16 – “The House in the Cerulean Sea" by TJ Klune
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March 16 – “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI" by David Grann
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April 20 – “Murder Al Dente" by Jennifer Hart
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May 18 – “The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett
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June 15 – “Greenlights" by Matthew McConaughey
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July 20 – Movie Night to see Where the Crawdads Sing
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August 17 – “Klara and the Sun" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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September 21 – “The Chanel Sisters" by Judithe Little
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October 19 – “Verity" by Colleen Hoover
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November 16 – "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus
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December 14 (Tentative Date) - “The Wish" by Nicholas Sparks
2021
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January 20 – “The Giver of Stars" by Jojo Moyes
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February 17 – “Authenticity Project" by Clare Pooley
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March 17 – “The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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April 21 – “Daisy Jones & The Six" by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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May 19 – “American Dirt" by Jeanine Cummins
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June 16 – “Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir" by Ruth Reichl
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July 21 – “Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford" by Clint Hill
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August 18 – Share your favorite summer read
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September 15 – “The Tattooist of Auschwitz" by Heather Morris
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October 20 – “The Silent Patient" by Alex Michaelides
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November 17 – “Old Man's War" by John Scalzi
2020
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January 15 – “Beneath a Scarlet Sky" by Mark Sullivan
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February 19 – “The Bride Test" by Helen Hoang
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March 18 – “I'm Not Dying With You Tonight" by Kimberly Jones & Gilly Segal
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April 15 – “President Is Missing" by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
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May 20 – “Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know" by Malcolm Gladwell
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June 17 – “High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life" by Tiffany Jenkins
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July 15 – “All Fall Down" by Jennifer Weiner
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August 19 – Share your favorite summer read
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September 16 – “The Only Woman in the Room" by Marie Benedict
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October 21 – “Last Time I Lied" by Riley Sager
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November 18 – “The Overdue Life of Amy Byler" by Kelly Harms
2019
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January 16 – “Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens
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February 20 – “Crazy Rich Asians" by Kevin Kwan
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March 20 – “Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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April 17 – “Educated: A Memoir" by Tara Westover
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May 15 – “Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline
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June 19 – “Scrappy Little Nobody" by Anna Kendrick (Audio Book recommended)
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July 17 – “Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen" by Sarah Bird
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August 21 – Share your favorite summer read
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September 18 – “Truly Madly Guilty" by Liane Moriarty
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October 16 – “Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy - The Shocking Inside Story" by Ann Rule
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November 20 – “A Spark of Light" by Jodi Picoult
2018
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January 17 – “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine” by Gail Honeyman
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February 21 – “Emily & Einstein: A Novel of Second Chances” by Linda Francis Lee
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March 21 – “Secrets of a Charmed Life” by Susan Meissner
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April 18 – “Artemis” by Andy Weir
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May 16 – “Kitchen Daughter” by Jael McHenry
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June 20 – “Bossypants” by Tina Fey
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July 18 – “Before We Were Yours” by Lisa Wingate
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August 15 – Share your favorite summer read
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September 19 – “What Alice Forgot” by Liane Moriarty
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October 17 – “Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence” by Galvin de Becker
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November 14 – “Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day” by Winifred Watson
2017
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“A Man Called Ove” by Fredrik Backman
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“When I’m Gone” by Emily Bleeker
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“Big Little Lies” by Liane Moriarity
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“The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah
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“The Nix” by Nathan Hill
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“Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography” by Rob Lowe
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“All-Girl Filling Stations Last Reunion” by Fannie Flagg
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“The Chemist” by Stephanie Meyer
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“Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers” by Mary Roach
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“Cyberstorm” by Matthew Mather
2016
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“Inheritance” by Natalie Danford
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“The Selection” by Kiera Cass
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“A House in the Sky” by Amanda Lindhout
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“Luckiest Girl Alive” by Jessica Knoll
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“Garlic Sapphires - The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise” by Ruth Reichl
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“Desolation Row” by Kay Kendall* (Houston author)
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“Ship of Fools” by Katherine Anne Porter
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“The Promise” by Ann Weisgarber* (Sugar Land author)
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“Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America” by Erik Larson
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“The Law of Moses” by Amy Harmon
2015
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“The Rosie Project” by Graeme Samson
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“Redeeming Love” by Francine Rivers
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“The Signature of All Things” by Elizabeth Gilbert
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“Leaving Time” by Jodie Picoult
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“Far From the Madding Crowd” by Thomas Hardy
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“Looking for Alaska” by John Greene
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“The Language of Flowers” by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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“The Lady of the Rivers” by Philippa Gregory
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“The Secret Keeper” by Kate Morton
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“Wonder” by RJ Palacio
2014
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“The Book Thief” by Markus Zuzak
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“The Longest Ride” by Nicholas Sparks
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Unpublished work by Thomas Foti* (Houston author)
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“The Rosetti Letter” by Christi Phillips
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“Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verges
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“Alas, Babylon” by Pat Frank
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“Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” by Cheryl Strayed
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“The Quiet Roar of a Hummingbird” by Catherine Gentile
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“Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore” by Robin Sloan
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“A Dog Named Christmas” by Greg Kinkaid
2013
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“The Paris Wife” by Paula McLain
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“Saving Gracie” by Terry Lee (Sugar Land author)
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“The Host” by Stephenie Meyer
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“The Kitchen House” by Kathleen Grissom
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“Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn
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“Where’d you go Bernadette?” by Maria Semple
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“Safe Haven” by Nicholas Sparks
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“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green
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“The Art of Hearing Heartbeats” by Jan-Phillip Sender
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“The Snow Child” by Eowyn Ivey
2012
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“Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand
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“A Great and Terrible Beauty” by Libba Bray
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“The Girl Who Fell from the Sky” by Heidi W Durrow
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“Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness” by Alexandra Fuller
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“Moloka'i“ by Allan Brennert
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“Aftertaste: A Novel in 5 Courses” by Meredith Mileti
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“Wrecker” by Summer Wood*
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“Lost December” by Richard Paul Evans
2011
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“Night” by Elie Wiesel
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“Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet” by Jamie Ford
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“These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901” by Nancy Turner
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“Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel” by Susan Gregg Gilbmore
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“A Dog’s Purpose” by W. Bruce Cameron
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“The Wives of Henry Oades” by Joanna Moran
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“Room: A Novel” by Emma Donnoghue
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“Have a Little Faith: A True Story” by Mitch Albom
2010
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“Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist” by Michael J Fox
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“Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“The Help” by Kathryn Stockett
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"Nefertiti: A Novel” by Michelle Moran
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“The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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“Marrying the Mistress” by Joanna Trollope
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“Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Steig Larson
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“The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch
2009
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“The Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein
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“Loving Frank” by Nancy Horan
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“Vanishing Acts” by Jodi Picoult
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“Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana de Rosnay
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“The Ride of Our Lives” by Mike Leonard
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“The Dante Club” by Matthew Pearl
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“Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time” by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
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“Christmas Jars” by Jason F. Wright
2008
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“Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” by Dai Sijie
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“Atonement: A Novel” by Ian McEwan
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“Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona” by Ryan Harty
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“Mr. Darcy’s Diary” by Amanda Grange
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“Bridge of Sighs” by Richard Russo
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“The History of Love: A Novel” by Nicole Krauss
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“The Historian” by Elisabeth Kostova
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“The Gift: A Novel” by Richard Paul Evans
2007
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“The Good The Bad and The Ugly Men I've Dated" by Shane Bolks
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“The Grace That Keeps This World: A Novel” by Tom Bailey
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“Pope Joan” By Donna Cross
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“Memory Keepers Daughter” by Kim Edwards
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“In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel” by Sarah Dunant
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“The Tortilla Curtain” by T.C. Boyle
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“Cowboys are My Weakness” by Pam Houston
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“Weight of Water” by Anita Shreve
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“Nordie's at Noon: The Personal Stories of Four Women ‘Too Young’ for Breast Cancer” by Patti Balwanz, Kim Carlos, Jennifer Johnson and Jana Peters
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“Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen
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“The Book of Bright Ideas” by Sandra Kring
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“Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” by Dai Sijie
2006
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“Sons and Lovers” by DH Lawrence
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“Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini
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“Back When We Were Growups” by Anne Tyler
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“Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel” by Lisa See
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“D is For DeadBeat” by Sue Grafton
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“The Lady and the Unicorn” by Tracy Chevalier
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“Everyone Else’s Girl” by Megan Crane
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“Screwtape Letters” by CS Lewis
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“A Million Little Pieces” by James Frey
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“The Memoirs of Helen of Troy: A Novel” by Amanda Elyot
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“The Grace That Keeps this World” by Tom Bailey
2005
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“Sweet Potato Queens’ Book of Love” by Jill Conner Brown
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“Birth of Venus” by Sarah Dunant
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“The Liar’s Club – A Memoir” by Mary Karr
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“The Last Promise” by Richard Paul Evans
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“Eugene Onegin” by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
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“Icy Sparks” by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
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“Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden
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“Empire Falls” by Richard Russo
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“The Other Boleyn Girl” by Philippa Gregory
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“Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Lucia Graves
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“The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger
2003 - 2004
HAA of ZTA Book Club picked the book at the meeting each month for the next month.