Northville District Library

Between The Lines Previous Book Discussions:

2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002| 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996

2011

• Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada
• Room: A Novel, by Emma Donoghue
  
• Eden's Outcasts, by John Matteson
• Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
• Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home, by Matthew Pinsker
• Moloka'i, by Alan Brennert
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel, by Helen Simonson
• The Good Old Days - They Were Terrible!, by Bettmann, Otto
• Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
• Your Call Is (not that) Important to Us: Customer Service and What It Reveals About Our World and Our Lives, by Emily Yellin

2010

• Loving Frank: A Novel by Nancy Horan
  
• The Professor and the Madman:  A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
• Still Alice: A Novel by Lisa Genova
• Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do (And What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt
• The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction by Tim O'Brien
• Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah MacDonald
• The Disappearance by Philip Wylie
• The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue by Lauren Weber

2009

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Stealing Lincoln's Body by Thomas Craughwell
• The Eight: A Novel by Katherine Neville
• Finding My Voice by Diane Rehm
• Gone to Soldiers: A Novel by Marge Piercy
• Nine by Jeffrey Toobin
• The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
• The Linguist and the Emperor: Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to Decipher the Rosetta Stone by Daniel Meyerson
• Various Flavors of Coffee by Anthony Capella
• Frames: A Valentino Mystery by Loren D. Estleman
• Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron

2008

• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Measure of a Man: a Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poitier
• Beekeeper's Apprentice, or, on the Segregation of the Queen by Laurie R. King
• The Worst Hard Time:  The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
• True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
• The Cork Boat by John Pollack
• Falling Man: a novel by Don DeLillo
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
• Travels With Charley: in Search of America by John Steinbeck
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
• Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogran

2007

• Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
• Leaving Cecil Street: A Novel by Dianne McKinney-Whetstone
• Arc of Justice: A Saga of race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
• A Thread of Grace: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell
• The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See
• The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J. R. Moehringer
• The Dollmaker by Hariette Arnow
• Riding the Bus with my Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
• Across a Hundred Mountains: A Novel by Reyna Grande
• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
• Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen

2006

• Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door by Lynne Truss
• Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey through Autism by Dawn Prince-Hughes
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
• In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
• Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran by Roya Hakakian
• A Breath of Fresh Air by Amulya Malladi
• The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Friedman
• The Ha-Ha by Dave King

2005

• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Known World: A Novel by Edward P. Jones
• Big Russ and Me by Tim Russert
• The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Jane Fowler
• Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie
• The Five Men Who Broke My Heart by Susan Shapiro
• The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal
• The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides

2004

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
• Househusband by Ad Hudler
• When Katie Wakes by Connie May Fowler
• The Twins by Tessa de Loo
• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
• Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter
• Are you Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman by Nuala O'Faolain
• What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell
• Icebound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole by Jerri Neilsen

2003

• The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
• Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
• Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
• Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
• Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
• Tepper Isn't Going Out by Calvin Trillin
• Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah
• Bee Season by Myra Goldberg
• Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Beals
• The Lucky Gourd Shop by Joanna C. Scott

2002

• The Inextinguishable Symphony by Martin Goldsmith
• The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
• The Map that Changed the World by Simon Winchester
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• Inspired Sleep by Robert Cohen
• Europa, Europa by Shlomo Perel
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
• The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
• Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
• The Seeing Glass: A Memoir by Jacquelin Gorman
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf

2001

• The Truest Pleasure by Robert Morgan
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The Mammy by Brendan O'Carroll
• As Nature Made Him : The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl by John Colapinto
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• A Walk In the Woods by Bill Bryson
• The Shunning by Beverly Lewis
• Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
• Bodies in Motion and at Rest by Thomas Lynch
• Learning to Fly by Sam Keen

2000

• At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
• Singing Away the Hunger by Mpho 'M'atsepo Nthunya
• Mary McGreevy by Walter Keady
• The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
• The Pleistocene Redemption by Dan Gallagher
• After Silence : Rape and My Journey Back by Nancy Venable Raines
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
• Purple America by Rick Moody
• A Child Called "It" by David J. Pelzer
• The Jump-Off Creek by Molly Gloss
• Rethinking Life and Death by Peter Singer

1999

• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• Independence Day by Richard Ford
• Tangerine by Edward Bloor
• Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean
• Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
• An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
• Patty Jane's House of Curl by Lorna Landvik
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
• The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
• A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
• Evening by Susan Minot
• Web of Life by Richard Louv

1998

• Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
• Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser
• We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Color of Water by James McBride
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
• Possession by A. S. Byatt
• God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Open Secrets by Alice Munro
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
• The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris

1997

• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• Praying for Sheetrock by Melissa Faye Greene
• The Writings of Jane Austen
• Alias, Grace by Margaret Atwood
• Last Orders by Graham Swift
• The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
• Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
• Notes from a Small Planet by Bill Bryson
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
• Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross

1996

• Beach Music by Pat Conroy
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt