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2011 Recommended Reading Lists

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Winter 2011 Reading List 2666 by Roberto Bolano All The Devils Are Here by Bethany McLean An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris At Home by Bill Bryson Bad Blood by John Sandford Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Covenant Hall by Kathryn R. Wall Cross Fire by James Patterson Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick Don't Blink by James Patterson Earth (The Book) by Jon Stewart Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King Getting To Happy by Terry McMillan I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Life by Keith Richards Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella My Last Days as Roy Rogers by Pat Devoto Pope John Paul II by Tad Szulc Prayer of the Dragon by Eliot Pattison Room by Emma Donoghue Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks Sante Fe Edge by Stuart Woods Side Jobs by Jim Butcher The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen The Fall by Guillermo del Toro The Last Boy by Jane Leavy The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen The Reversal by Michael Connelly Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Voices of Protest by Alan Brinkley Warlord by Ted Bell Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich Written in Bone by Simon Beckett Zero History by William Gibson	Winter 2011 Featured Book The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen During the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, the residents of a small northwest logging town takes drastic actions in an attempt to protect themselves from the deadly virus. The author, Thomas Mullen will be on hand for this book discussion on March 8, 2011 at 7:00 PM. SOURCE: FOSL Volunteer
Spring 2011 Reading List A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren American Pastoral by Philip Roth An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips Close Range by Annie Proulx Damage by John Lescroart Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy Dead Run by Erica Spindler Dead Zero by Stephen Hunter Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson Hell s Corner by David Baldacci In the Blink of an Eye by Michael Waltrip Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer Mr Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow My Father At 100 by Ron Reagan Old School by Tobias Wolff Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell Room by Emma Donoghue Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead Secrets to the Grave by Tami Hoag The Confession by John Grisham The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer The Longest War by Peter L. Bergen The Outlaws by W. E. B. Griffin The Pioneer Woman by Ree Drummond The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman The Social Animal by David Brooks The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks The Wilding by Benjamin Percy Three Seconds by Anders Roslund Tick Tock by James Patterson What The Night Knows by Dean Koontz Ya-Yas in Bloom by Rebecca Wells	Spring 2011 Featured Book Digging to America by Anne Tyler Like Ms. Tyler's best novels, Digging to America gives us an intimate picture of middle-class family life: its satisfactions and discontents, its ability to suffocate and console. But at the same time the story ventures into territory more usually associated with writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and Gish Jen. It looks at the promises and perils of the American Dream and the knotty, layered relationship made up in equal parts of envy, admiration, resentment and plain befuddlement that can develop between native-born Americans and more recent immigrants intent on making their way through the often baffling byways of the New World. SOURCE: Copyright © New York Times. All rights reserved.
Summer 2011 Reading List 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want You To Read by Jesse Ventura A Death in the Family by James Agee An Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Beloved by Toni Morrison Brighton Rock by Graham Greene Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker Cold Vengeance by Preston & Child Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Flannery O'Connor edited by Sarah Gordon Folly by Susan Minot How the Water Feels by Paul Eggers How to be Good by Nick Hornby Idea Man by Paul Allen If You Ask Me by Betty White In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson Middlesex byJeffrey Eugenides Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business by Dick Van Dyke Open Secrets by Alice Munro Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter Sunset Park by Paul Auster The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingslover The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum The Circus in Winter by Cathy Day The Client by John Grisham The English Major by Jim Harrison The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing The Final Martyrs by Shusaku Endo The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Heart and The Fist by Eric Greitens The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich The Shining by Stephen King The White Album by Joan Didion Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett	Summer 2011 Featured Book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta's family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories? --Tom Nissley SOURCE: Copyright 2010 Amazon.com.All rights reserved.
Fall 2011 Reading List 1493 by Charles C. Mann A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess A First-Rate Madness by Nassir Ghaemi A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard Absolute Monarchs by John Julius Norwich After America by Mark Steyn Against All Enemies Tom Clancy Back of Beyond by C.J.Box Betrayal of Trust by J. A. Jance Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver City of Thieves by David Benioff Coming Up For Air by Patti Callahan Henry Escape by Barbara Delinsky Fallen by Karin Slaughter Fay by Larry Brown Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close Happy Birthday by Danielle Steel Life is Short, but Wide by J. California Cooper Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan Moscow, December 25, 1991 by Conor O'Clery Now You See Her by James Patterson One Summer by David Baldacci P is for Peril by Sue Grafton Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva Rules of Civility by Amor Towles Sex on the Moon by Ben Mezrich Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares Skellig by David Almond Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich State of Wonder by Ann Patchett The Devil Colony by James Rollins The Foreigners by Maxine Swann The Ideal Man by Julie Garwood The Secrets of the FBI by Ronald Kessler The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams	Fall 2011 Featured Book Skellig by David Almond Amidst the intensity and anxiety of his world, Michael is a normal kid. He goes to school, plays soccer, and has friends with nicknames like Leakey and Coot. It's at home where his life becomes extraordinary, with the help of Skellig and Mina, the quirky, strong-willed girl next door. Skellig was the Whitbread Award's 1998 Children's Book of the Year, and this haunting novel is sure to resonate with readers young and old. SOURCE: Copyright 2010 Amazon.com.All rights reserved.