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Hey Girls!

I've wanted to start a blog to chronicle our book club for a long time and in purging files recently I came across a "Book Club" file last updated in 2002 during our New York Book Club years. It listed the members and their info and the books we'd read since 1998.

With this blog I'd like to list the hostess, who attended, the book we read, what we ate or any stand out recipe, funny stories, maybe a pic? Simple. I think we have such a special, vibrant group and I'd love of keep track of it!

Okay, here's the backlog of all the books some of us have read since '98. Maybe we could even revisit some!

1998:
Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
Le Divorce - Diane Johnson
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
Henry and June - Anais Nin

1999:
Hell - Henri Barbusse
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Cape Ann - Faith Sullivan
Anywhere But Here - Mona Simpson
Gut Symmetries - Jeanette Winterson
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
London Fields - Martin Amis
The Cider House Rules- John Irving


2000:
The Weight of Water - Anita Shreve
A Map of the World - Jane Hamilton
Human Croquet - Kate Atkinson
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Egers
I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
An Ocean in Iowa - Peter Hedges
All Tomorrow 's Parties - William Gibson
A Star Called Henry - Roddy Doyle

2001:
Shop Girl - Steve Martin
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Bee Season - Myla Goldberg
A Personal History - Katharine Graham
Political Fictions- Joan Didion

2002:
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
Charming Billy - Alice McDermott
Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
Desperate Characters - Paula Fox
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem

Ok, so here's where I get cloudy. I joined L.A. Book Club sometime in 2004 and my log is based on my not so good memory and what's on my designated Book Club shelf. Basically I have no idea when we read what so please add to and correct this list!

2004-2011:
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
What is the What - Dave Egers
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Saffron Foer
The Hisory of Love - Nicole Krause
The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve
A Thousand Splendid Suns -Khalid Houseini
The Kite Runner - Khalid Houseini
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Good Men - Charmaine Craig
The Human Stain - Philip Roth
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Valley of the Dolls - Jaqueline Susann
The Known World - Edward P. Jones
Zeitoun - Dave Egers
Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
This is Where I Leave You - Jonathan Tropper
Happens Every Day - Isabel Gillies
Orange is the New Black - Piper Kerman
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
Drop City - T.C. Boyle
Bossy Pants - Tina Fey
Just Kids - Patti Smith
The Paris Wife - Paula Maclain

I know there are some holes here as I was missing for all of '03. When did this Book Club start anyway?