Wide ranging historical periods and subjects discussed today. Here is a list of most of them (titles were hot and heavy and I may have missed some of them). I generally feel that just giving you a title without any content isn’t as helpful as we’d like to be but there are way too many titles to provide a description. For that, you need to come to the book group and hear people talk about why they like or dislike a book.
The Yellow-lighted Bookstore – Lewis Buzbee
Pink Chimneys: A Novel of Nineteenth Century Maine – Ardeana Hamlin Knowles
When Red is Black – Qui Xiaolong
The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in China before Mao – Charles N. Li
The History of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma – Thant Myint-U
Where China Meets India: Burma and the new Crossroads of Asia – Thank Myint-U
The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds – Jonathan D. Spence (not recommended)
A History of China – J. A. G. Roberts (recommend the 2nd half)
Mao Zedong – Jonathan D. Spence
The Wobbling Pivot: China since 1800 – Pamela Kyle Crossley (not recommended)
The Chinese Century: A photographic history of the last hundred years – Jonathan D. Spence, Annping Chin
Wealth & Power: China’s Long March to the 21st Century – Orville Schell – John Delury (highly recommended)
The Question of Hu – Jonathan D. Spence
Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci – Jonathan D. Spence
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
Garden of the Beasts – Erik Larson
Berlin Embassy – William Russell
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
First with the Most – Robert Selph Henry
Hawaii and Centennial – James A. Michener
And the Band Played on – Randy Shilts
The Sand Castle Girls – Chris Bohjalian
Good Lord Bird – James McBride
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
Killing Mister Watson – Peter Matthiessen
To Say Nothing of the Dog – Connie Willis
Books by R. F. Delderfield – God is an Englishman, Serve Them All My Days
Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay
Georgette Heyer – April Lady, The Nonesuch
A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
Claude & Camille – Stephanie Cowell
The Aviator’s Wife – Melanie Benjamin
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie – Ayana mathis
Rules of Civility – Amor Towles
Thunderstruck – Eric Larson
The Devil and the White City – Erik Larsson
The Paris Wife – Paula McLain
The Lost City of Z – David Grann
River of Doubt, Destiny of the Republic – Candice Millard
State of Wonder – Ann Patchett
Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
Smoking Ears & Screaming Teeth – Trevor Norton
Ahab’s Wife – Sena Jeter Naslund
The Tapir’s Morning Bath – Elizabeth Royte
Two Years Before the Mast – R. H. Dana, Jr
In the Fall – Jeffrey Lent
At Some Disputed Barricade – Anne Perry
We Shall Not Sleep – Anne Perry
Strength in What Remains – Tracy Kidder
The Air We Breathe – Andrea Barrett
Skeletons at the Feast – Chris Bohjalian
Stones from the River – ursula Helgi
Bird Song – Charlotte Gray, Girl at the Lion D’or, Human Traces – Sebastian Faulks
Sea Biscuit – Laura Hillenbrand
The Given Day, Live by Night – Dennis Lehane
In the Heart of the Sea, Mayflower – Nathaniel Philbrick
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million – Daniel Mendelsohn
Marching Home – Kevin Coyne
Ghost Soldiers – Hampton Sides
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Annie Barrows
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Slacks – Rebecca Skloot
The Hare with Amber Eyes – Edmund de Waal
Unbroken – Lauren Hillenbrand
People of the Book, Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks
The Warmth of other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson
Lost in Shangri-La – Mitchell Zuckoff
Caleb’s Crossing – Geraldine Brooks
The Things We Cherished, The Kommandant’s Girl – Pam Jenoff
The Time in Between – Maria Duenas
The Madonnas of Leningrad – Debra Dean
The Lady in Gold – Ann-Marie O’Connor
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper – Harriet Scott Chessman
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb – Melanie Benjamin
The Glass Room – Simon Mawer
Garden of Evening Mist, The Gift of Rain – Tan Twan Eng
The Winds of War – Herman Wouk
Yellow Birds – Kein Powers
Citizens of London – Lynn Olson
Pale Battalions – Robert Goddard
The Son – Philipp Meyer
Frozen in Time – Mitchell Zuckoff
The Spy Who Loved the Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville – Clare Mulley
Hellhound on his Trail – Hampton Sides
The Black Count – Tom Reiss
The Long Way Home – David Laskin
The Avengers: A Jewish War Story – Rich Cohen
The Boys in the Boat – Daniel James Brown
The Boy on the Wooden Box – Leon Leyson
The Hot Country, The Star of Istanbul – Robert Olen Butler
The Cartographer of No Man’s Land – P. S. Duffy
The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century – David Laskin
I am Malala – Malala Yousafzai
Mrs. Poe – Lynn Cullen
The Monuments Men – Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter
Dancing with the Enemy – Paul Glasser
The Wind is Not a River – Brian Payton
The Invention of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd
Gone to Soldiers – Marge Piercy
The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory
The Secret River – Kate Grenville
The Path Between the Seas – David McCullough
Cleopatra – Stacy Shciff
A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove – Laura Schenone
