2005
My Name is Asher Lev
Atonement
In the Time of Butterflies
Disgrace
The God of Small Things
Fortress of Solitude
Middlesex
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Proof

2006
Gilead
An Invisible Sign of My Own
History of Love
Pinkerton’s Sister
The Dive from Clausen’s Pier
Seven Gothic Tales
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
On Beauty

2007
The Brother’s Karamazov (read half)
The Devil in the White City
A Handbook of American Prayer
The Book of Daniel
The Book Thief
The Beantrees
Howard’s End
The Namesake

2008
The Maltese Falcon
Waiting
Luncheon of the Boating Party
The Secret River
The Eyre Affair
Fahrenheit 451
Jane Eyre
Sister Carrie

2009
Then We Came to the End
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (only got through a quarter of)
Song of the Lark
New England White
Run
The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
Vanity Fair
Three Junes

2010
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Sophie’s Choice
Heat
Cutting for Stone
Moon Tiger
South of Broad
Founding Brothers
Agaat (started didn't finish)

2011
Ghostwritten

as you can see there every year there was usually a book or two that i didn't get too. either i was on vacation, having a baby, or couldn't attend for some other reason. i do have to make a comment about pinkerton's sister and seven gothic tales..... we actually pulled those books. which means....no one read them. now we actually say, "the book wasn't great but at least it wasn't a pinkerton's sister." it took mary years to recommend another book after that one.

i hightlighted some of my favorites.
my least favorite books from that list were disgrace and on beauty....but i can say i didn't love atonement either.

and now the next chapter begins... what will we read for the next 50.

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