MOIRA'S BOOK CLUB
Welcome to the web page for Moira's Book Club! Although this club certainly does not belong to Moira herself, nor is she in complete control of it (would that she could!), I call it Moira's because she was the original organizer, motivator, and inspiration for the club. At the hub of a rather impressive network of highly educated and mostly professional women, Moira brought together a core group of reading fanatics. Initially at what became her annual Christmas Tea, followed by monthly/bi-monthly meetings, we have managed to cover a range of books, both fiction and non-fiction, from best-sellers and prize-winners, to little known works. Proudly, we have avoided most of Oprah's books, or at least we read them before she selected and publicized them. Below is a list of books read, with no endorsement or recommendations as yet. Any interested club member is welcome to supplement or embellish this list and page as they see fit--just give me your changes and I'll post them.
· Angels and Insects (A.S. Byatt)
· Map of the World (Jane Hamilton)
· All God's Children Have Travelin' Shoes (Maya Angelou)
· Foreign Affairs (Alison Lurie)
· All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)
· Ellen Foster (Kaye Gibbons)
· The Liar's Club (Mary Karr)
· Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
· Middlemarch (George Elliott)
· Sperm Wars (Robin Baker)
· Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
· Stones from the River (Ursula Hegi)
· A Thousand Acres (Jane Smiley)
· ?The Man who Listens to Horses (Monty Roberts)
· Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)
· Conversations
with Graham Greene
· Various books by Graham Greene
· Under the Tuscan Sun (Frances Mayes)
· I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
· Memoirs of a Geisha (Andrew Golden)
· The Color of Water (James McBride)
· Cavedweller (Dorothy Allison)
· She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
· A Man in Full (Tom Wolfe)
· Corelli's Mandolin (Louis deBerniere)
· A World Lit Only by Fire (William Manchester)
· When Memory Speaks (Jill Kerr Conway)
· Various Autobiographies of Men and Women
· Jane Austen Autobiography (Claire Tomlinson)
· Various books by Jane Austen
· Various Edna Ferber books
· Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady (Florence King)
· Disgrace (J.C. Coetzee)
· Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
· I
Dreamed of
· In the Shadow of Man (Jane Goodall)
· The Culture of Fear (Barry Glassner)
· The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
· Palace Walk (Naguib Mahfouz)
· Theodore Rex (Edmund Morris)
· Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha (Roddy Doyle)
· House of Sand and Fog (Andre Dubus III)
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· Education of a Felon (Edward Bunker)
· Various books by Edward Bunker
· An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
· Sex & Power (Susan Estrich)
· Confessions of Nat Turner (William Styrone)
· The History of God (Karen Armstrong)
· Ignorance
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· A Fine Balance (Mistry)
· The Tale of Murasaki (Liza Daley?)
· The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
· The Sea, the Sea (Iris Murdoch)
· The Financier (Theodore Dreiser)
· The
Crimson Petal and the White
· The Key to My Neighbor's House (Elizabeth Neuffer)
· May
You Be the Mother of 100 Sons
· The
Falls
· Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Ross King)
· The Missing Peace (Dennis Ross)
· Guns, Germs & Steel (Jared Diamond)
· Life
of Pi
· Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
· Continental Drift (Russell Banks)
· Under the Banner of Heaven (John Krakauer)
· Cry the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
· What’s
the Matter with
· You Can’t Go Home Again (Thomas Wolfe)
· All the King’s Men (William Warren Penn)
· Atonement (Ian McEwan)
· Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
· The God Gene (Dean Hamer)
In addition to our books for discussions, the following are lists of books recommended at Moira's Christmas Tea Parties: