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Women's
Center Book Group
Master Reading List, October 1986- January 2004
1986
October Journal of a Central American Woman, Maria de la Jesus
December Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie
1987
January A Remarkable Woman: A Biography of Katharine Hepburn, Anne
Edwards
February In the Last Analysis, Amanda Cross
March Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean Auel
April Family Linen, Lee Smith
May The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
June The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler
July Stranger in Two Worlds, Jean Harris
August Legs, William Kennedy
September Mayflower Madam, Sidney Biddle Barrows
October And So It Goes: Adventures in Television, Linda Ellerbe
November Shiloh and Other Stories, Bobbie Ann Mason
December ?
1988
January A Door into Ocean, Joan Slonczewski
February A Lover Scorned, Isabelle Holland
March The Awakening, Kate Chopin
April West with the Night, Beryl Markham
May Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
June Choose books
July The Group, Mary McCarthy
August Of Love and Shadows, Isabelle Allende
September Hot Flashes, Barbara Raskin
October The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
November During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, Joan Chase
December A Southern Family, Gail Godwin
1989
January Middlemarch, George Eliot
February Choose books
March A Woman of Independent Means, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
April Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
May You Must Remember This, Joyce Carol Oates
June The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts, Maxine
Hong
Kingston
July The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
August Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey, Lillian Schlissel
September Choose books
October The Small Room, May Sarton
November Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, Fannie
Flagg
December Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Phyllis Rose
1990
January Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers
February Homeplace, Anne Rivers Siddons
March Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns
April Heartbreak Hotel, Gabrielle Burton
May Crimes of the Heart, Beth Henley
June Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy
July ?
August ?
September Choose books
October The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
November Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
December The Dirty Duck, Martha Grimes
1991
January The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
February Postcards from the Edge, Carrie Fisher
March Womenfolks: Growing up down South, Shirley Abbott
April My Antonia, Willa Cather
May Writing a Woman’s Life, Carolyn Heilbrun
June Choose books
July Lakota Woman, Mary Crow Dog
August Discussion of "Thelma and Louise"
September A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women’s Liberation in
America, Sylvia Hewlett
October The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial
New England,
Carol Karlsen
November John Dollar, Marianne Wiggins
December Silence in Hanover Close, Anne Perry
1992
January A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons
February Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
March Choose books
April The Road from Coorain, Jill Ker Conway
May Composing a Life, Mary Catherine Bateson
June Quicksand and Passing, Nella Larsen
July You Just Don’t Understand, Deborah Tannen
August Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
September The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
October The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Fay Weldon
November The Women of Brewster Place, Gloria Naylor
December Busman’s Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers
1993
January Choose books
February A Life without Fear, Laura C. Martin
March The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used against Women,
Naomi Wolf
April Clover, Dori Sanders
May Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women, Susan Faludi
June Possession: A Romance, A. S. Byatt
July Willa Cather: 24 Stories, Willa Cather
August The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula LeGuin
September Women’s Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self,
Voice, and Mind,
Mary Field Belenky
October In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action, Ellen Alderman
and Caroline
Kennedy
November The Optimist’s Daughter, Eudora Welty
December The Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn, Joan Hess
1994
January Choose books
February Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan
March A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
April Black Ice, Lorene Carey
May Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
June The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Riane Eisler
July Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
August A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War, Susan Griffin
September The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York
Times, Nan
Robertson
October The Patron Saint of Liars, Ann Patchett
November Bone, Fae Myenne Ng
December Grave Mistake, Ngaio Marsh
1995
January Choose books
February Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years,
Sarah Louise and
A. Elizabeth Delany
March Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
April Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1933, Blanche Wiesen Cook
May The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
June Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
July The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
August Motherless Daughers: The Legacy of Loss, Hope Edelman
September The Piano, Jane Campion
October Hidden Children: Forgotten Survivors of the Holocaust, Andre
Stein
November One True Thing, Anna Quindlen
December Body of Evidence, Patricia Cornwell
1996
January Choose books
February The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
March The Wedding, Dorothy West
April The Beardstown Ladies’ Common-Sense Investment Guide,
Beardstown
Ladies
May Rameau’s Niece, Cathleen Schine
June A Woman’s World, Marybeth Bond
July How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez
August Anabasis: A Journey to the Interior, Ellen Gilchrist
September Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife’s Story, Onnie Logan
and Katherine
Clark
October Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
November From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their
Tellers, Marina
Warner
December Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey
1997
January Choose books
February The Liar’s Club: A Memoir, Mary Karr
March Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, Jane Mayer
April The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry, Judith Ortiz Cofer
May Come Go Home with Me, Sheila Adams
June Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi
July View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems, Wislawa Szymborska
August The Funeral Makers, Cathie Pelletier
September The Temple Bombing, Melissa Fay Greene
October To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
November Sister, A. Manette Ansay
December The Best Defense, Kate Wilhelm
1998
January Choose books
February Beaming Sonny Home, Cathie Pelletier
March Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
April Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary
McCarthy, Carol Brightman, editor
May Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
June Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of
Savannah, Lady Chablis
July Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
August Love across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice Hanley to
Channing
Lewis, Helen Horowitz, editor
September A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
October Sleeping at the Starlite Motel and Other Adventures on the
Way Back
Home, Bailey White
November Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine, Bebe Moore Campbell
December She Walks These Hills, Sharyn McCrumb
1999
January Choose books
February Esperanza’s Box of Saints, Maria Amparo Escandon
March Ladder of Years, Anne Tyler
April Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness, Suellen
Hoy
May White Rabbit, Kate Phillips
June Phoenix Café, Gwyneth Jones
July The Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
August The Cloister Walk, Kathleen Norris
September Einstein’s Wife: Work and Marriage in the Lives of
Five Great Twentieth-
Century Women, Andrea Gabor
October Charming Billy, Alice McDermott
November The Foreign Student, Susan Choi
December A Darker Shade of Crimson, Pamela Thomas-Graham
2000
January Choose books
February How to Cook a Wolf, M. F. K. Fisher
March Lady Moses, Lucinda Roy
April Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J. K. Rowling
May Where the Girls Are, Susan Douglas
June The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
July The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Melissa Bank
August The Archivist, Martha Cooley
September Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl
October The Million Dollar Mermaid, Esther Williams
November In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
December An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence, Jamie Harrison
2001
January Choose books
February The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
March White Oleander, Janet Fitch
April Ahab’s Wife: The Star Gazer, Sena Jeter Naslund
May Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
June The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
July Evening, Susan Minot
August Midnight Champagne, A. Manette Ansay
September The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
October Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
November The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
December Choose books
2002
January A Great Deliverance, Elizabeth George
February Bailey’s Café, Gloria Naylor
March Personal History, Katharine Graham
April Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim
May Back When We Were Grownups, Anne Tyler
June Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
July No Ordinary Time, Doris Kearns Goodwin
August The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Amy Tan
September Dear Shameless Death, Latife Tekin
October Father Melancholy’s Daughter, Gail Godwin
November Children of God, Mary Doria Russell
December Choose books
2003
January Long Time No See, Susan Isaacs
February The Book of Fred, Abby Bardi
March Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nancy
Milford
April Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
May Persuasion, Jane Austen
June Getting a Life, Helen Simpson
July The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Louise
Erdrich
August Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
September The Last American Man, Elizabeth Gilbert
October Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, Jane Kenyon
November From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American
Cooks
and Meals, Barbara Haber
December Choose books
2004
January The Potter’s Field, Ellis Peters
Women's
Center Book Group
Master Reading List, October 1986 – January 2004
By Author
Abbott,
Shirley Womenfolks: Growing up down South, March 1991
Adams, Sheila Come Go Home with Me, May 1997
Alcott, Louisa May Little Women, May 1994
Alderman, Ellen and Caroline Kennedy In Our Defense: The Bill of
Rights in Action,
October 1993
Allende, Isabelle Of Love and Shadows, August 1988
Allison, Dorothy Bastard out of Carolina, March 1995
Alvarez, Julia How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, July 1996
Alvarez, Julia In the Time of the Butterflies, November 2000
Ansay, A. Manette Midnight Champagne, August 2001
Ansay, A. Manette Sister, November 1997
Arendt, Hannah and Mary McCarthy Between Friends: The Correspondence
of
Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy; editor, Carol Brightman, April
1998
Atwood, Margaret Alias Grace, May 1998
Atwood, Margaret The Handmaid’s Tale, May 1987
Auel, Jean Clan of the Cave Bear, March 1987
Austen, Jane Persuasion, May 2003
Austen, Jane Sense and Sensibility, October 1996
Bank, Melissa The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, July
2000
Bardi, Abby The Book of Fred, February 2003
Barrows, Sidney Biddle Mayflower Madam, September 1987
Bateson, Mary Catherine Composing a Life, May 1992
Beardstown Ladies The Beardstown Ladies’ Common-Sense Investment
Guide, April
1996
Belenky, Mary Field Women’s Ways of Knowing: The Development
of Self, Voice, and
Mind, September 1993
Bond, Marybeth A Woman’s World, June 1996
Bradley, Marion Zimmer The Mists of Avalon, October 1988
Brooks, Geraldine Year of Wonders, August 2003
Brown, Rita Mae Rubyfruit Jungle, July 1994
Burns, Olive Ann Cold Sassy Tree, March 1990
Burton, Gabrielle Heartbreak Hotel, April 1990
Byatt, A. S. Possession: A Romance, June 1993
Campbell, Bebe Moore Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine, November 1998
Campion, Jane The Piano, September 1995
Carey, Lorene Black Ice, April 1994
Cather, Willa My Antonia, April 1991
Cather, Willa 24 Stories, July 1993
Chase, Joan During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, November 1988
Choi, Susan The Foreign Student, November 1999
Chopin, Kate The Awakening, March 1988
Cofer, Judith Ortiz The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry, April 1997
Conway, Jill Ker The Road from Coorain, April 1992
Cook, Blanche Wiesen Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1933, April 1995
Cooley, Martha The Archivist, August 2000
Cornwell, Patricia Body of Evidence, December 1995
Cross, Amanda, In the Last Analysis, February 1987
Crow Dog, Mary Lakota Woman, July 1991
de la Jesus, Maria Journal of a Central American Woman, October
1986
Delany, Sarah Louise and A. Elizabeth Having Our Say: The Delany
Sisters’ First 100
Years, February 1995
Diamant, Anita The Red Tent, November 2001
Dillard, Annie Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, August 1992
Douglas, Susan Where the Girls Are, May 2000
Dunn, Katherine Geek Love, July 1998
Edelman, Hope Motherless Daughers: The Legacy of Loss, August 1995
Edwards, Anne A Remarkable Woman: A Biography of Katharine Hepburn,
January
1987
Eisler, Riane The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future,
June 1994
Eliot, George Middlemarch, January 1989
Ellerbe, Linda And So It Goes: Adventures in Television, October
1987
Erdrich, Louise The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse,
July 2003
Erdrich, Louise Love Medicine, February 1992
Escandon, Maria Amparo Esperanza’s Box of Saints, February
1999
Fadiman, Anne The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, June 2001
Faludi, Susan Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women,
May 1993
Fisher, Carrie Postcards from the Edge, February 1991
Fisher, M. F. K How to Cook a Wolf, February 2000
Fitch, Janet White Oleander, March 2001
Flagg, Fannie Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café,
November 1989
Friedan, Betty The Feminine Mystique, January 1991
Gabor, Andrea Einstein’s Wife: Work and Marriage in the Lives
of Five Great
Twentieth-Century Women, September 1999
George, Elizabeth A Great Deliverance, January 2001
Gibbons, Kaye A Virtuous Woman, January 1992
Gibbons, Stella Cold Comfort Farm, April 2003
Gilbert, Elizabeth, The Last American Man, September 2003
Gilchrist, Ellen Anabasis: A Journey to the Interior, August 1996
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins The Yellow Wallpaper, February 1996
Godwin, Gail Father Melancholy’s Daughter, October 2002
Godwin, Gail A Southern Family, December 1988
Goodwin, Doris Kearns No Ordinary Time, July 2002
Greene, Melissa Fay The Temple Bombing, September 1997
Graham, Katharine Personal History, March 2002
Griffin, Susan A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War, August
1994
Grimes, Martha The Dirty Duck, December 1990
Haber, Barbara From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History
of American
Cooks and Meals, November 2003
Hailey, Elizabeth Forsythe A Woman of Independent Means, March 1989
Hanley, Alice Love across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice Hanley
to Channing
Lewis; Helen Horowitz, editor, August 1998
Harris, Jean Stranger in Two Worlds, July 1987
Harrison, Jamie An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence, December 2000
Hegi, Ursula Stones from the River, June 1997
Heilbrun, Carolyn Writing a Woman’s Life, May 1991
Henley, Beth Crimes of the Heart, May 1990
Hess, Joan The Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn, December
1993
Hewlett, Sylvia A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women’s Liberation
in America, September
1991
Holland, Isabelle A Lover Scorned, February 1988
Hoy, Suellen Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness,
April 1999
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God, April 1989
Isaacs, Susan Long Time No See, January 2003
Jones, Gwyneth Phoenix Café, June 1999
Karlsen, Carol The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in
Colonial New
England, October 1991
Karr, Mary The Liar’s Club: A Memoir, February 1997
Kaysen, Susanna Girl, Interrupted, June 1995
Kennedy, William Legs, August 1987
Kenyon, Jane Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, October 2003
Kingsolver, Barbara The Bean Trees, July 1989
Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible, September 2001
Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among
Ghosts,
June 1989
Lady Chablis Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress
of
Savannah, June 1998
Lahiri, Jhumpa Interpreter of Maladies, May 2001
Larsen, Nella Quicksand and Passing, June 1992
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird, October 1997
LeGuin, Ursula The Left Hand of Darkness, August 1993
Logan, Onnie and Katherine Clark Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife’s
Story,
September 1996
Lurie, Allison Foreign Affairs, December 1986
Markham, Beryl West with the Night, April 1988
Marsh, Ngaio Grave Mistake, December 1994
Martin, Laura C. A Life without Fear, February 1993
Mason, Bobbie Ann Shiloh and Other Stories, November 1987
Mayer, Jane Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, March
1997
McCarthy, Mary The Group, July 1988
McCrumb, Sharyn She Walks These Hills, December 1998
McDermott, Alice Charming Billy, October 1999
McMillan, Terry Waiting to Exhale, February 1994
Milford, Nancy Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay,
March 2003
Minot, Susan Evening, July 2001
Moore, Lorrie Birds of America, October 2001
Morrison, Toni Song of Solomon, May 1988
Naslund, Sena Jeter Ahab’s Wife: The Star Gazer, April 2001
Naylor, Gloria Bailey’s Café, February 2002
Naylor, Gloria The Women of Brewster Place, November 1992
Ng, Fae Myenne Bone, November 1994
Norris, Kathleen The Cloister Walk, August 1999
Oates, Joyce Carol You Must Remember This, May 1989
Patchett, Ann Bel Canto, June 2002
Patchett, Ann The Patron Saint of Liars, October 1994
Pelletier, Cathie Beaming Sonny Home, February 1998
Pelletier, Cathie The Funeral Makers, August 1997
Peters, Ellis, The Potter’s Field, January 2004
Perry, Anne Silence in Hanover Close, December 1991
Phillips, Kate White Rabbit, May 1999
Piercy, Marge Woman on the Edge of Time, June 1990
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar, September 1992
Proulx, E. Annie The Shipping News, July 1995
Quindlen, Anna One True Thing, November 1995
Raskin, Barbara Hot Flashes, September 1988
Reichl, Ruth Tender at the Bone, September 2000
Rhys, Jean The Wide Sargasso Sea, July 1999
Robertson, Nan The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New
York Times,
September 1994
Robinson, Marilynne Housekeeping, November 1990
Rose, Phyllis Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, December
1989
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, April
2000
Roy, Lucinda Lady Moses, March 2000
Russell, Mary Doria Children of God, November 2002
Russell, Mary Doria The Sparrow, June 2000
Sanders, Dori Clover, April 1993
Sarton, May The Small Room, October 1989
Sayers, Dorothy Busman’s Honeymoon, December 1992
Sayers, Dorothy Gaudy Night, January 1990
Schine, Cathleen Rameau’s Niece, May 1996
Schlissel, Lillian Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey,
August 1989
Siddons, Anne Rivers Homeplace, February 1990
Simpson, Helen Getting a Life, June 2003
Slonczewski, Joan A Door into Ocean, January 1988
Smiley, Jane A Thousand Acres, March 1994
Smith, Lee Family Linen, April 1987
Spark, Muriel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, February 2001
Stein, Andre Hidden Children: Forgotten Survivors of the Holocaust,
October 1995
Szymborska, Wislawa View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems, July
1997
Tan, Amy The Bonesetter’s Daughter, August 2002
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club, October 1990
Tannen, Deborah You Just Don’t Understand, July 1992
Tekin, Latife Dear Shameless Death, September 2002
Tey, Josephine Daughter of Time, December 1996
Thomas-Graham, Pamela A Darker Shade of Crimson, December 1999
Tyler, Anne The Accidental Tourist, June 1987
Tyler, Anne Back When We Were Grownups, May 2002
Tyler, Anne Ladder of Years, March 1999
von Arnim, Elizabeth Enchanted April, April 2002
Warner, Marina From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and
Their Tellers,
November 1996
Weldon, Fay The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, October 1992
Wells, Rebecca Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, March 1998
Welty, Eudora The Optimist’s Daughter, November 1993
West, Dorothy The Wedding, March 1996
Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence, May 1995
White, Bailey Sleeping at the Starlite Motel and Other Adventures
on the Way Back
Home, October 1998
Wiggins, Marianne John Dollar, November 1991
Wilhelm, Kate The Best Defense, December 1997
Williams, Esther The Million Dollar Mermaid, October 2000
Wolf, Naomi The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used against
Women,
March 1993
Woolf, Virginia A Room of One’s Own, September 1998
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