Friday, January 9, 2009

Broadway Book Club Blog

Greetings,
Below you will find the books listed that we have read for the book club. They are in random order until you get to the end. There you will find the books for the upcoming months, and the dates we will be meeting. You will find a seperate posting related to January's book - In Defense of Food.

The Broadway Book Club Selections
Listed in random order

13 Moons – Chas. Frazier
Any biography of Benjamin Franklin – reader’s choice
Any biography of Geronimo – reader’s choice
The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven – Fannie Flagg
At Home in Mitford – Jan Karon
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – Barbara Kingsolver
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
The Handmaid and the Carpenter – Elizabeth Berg
Night of Sorrows – Francis Sherwood
Giants in the Earth – O.E Rolvaag
Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
Boom – Tom Brokaw
The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama
Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
American Pastoral – Phillip Roth
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
44 Scotland Street
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society --- November 2008
The Shack---December 2008
In Defense of Food---January 2009

UPCOMING BOOKS

February 11, 2009 (location - parsonage) -In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash
This is a collection of Short Stories by Indiana author Jean Shepherd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Shepherd, who may be best known as the writer/narrator of A Christmas Story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Story.

March 11, 2009 (location TBA) Vanity Fair by William Thackerary, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray

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