MUM Book Discussion Group

(all meetings are held from 12-1 in the Reference/Current Periodicals Area, GHL)

Book Discussion Resources

Books and Authors We Might Read: Nickel and Dimed Memoirs of a Geisha The Red Tent Tom Sawyer The Final Solution Gregory Maguire (anything) The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier Running with Scissors The Reader Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Comfort and Joy Tom Robbins Fahrenheit 451 Winesburg, OH The Chocolate War Catch-22 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Member of the Wedding The Chosen The Time Machine The Color Purple Robinson Crusoe Madame Bovary Lord of the Flies Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography Profiles in Courage Walden A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman Anything on the College Bound Reading List, compiled by the Arrowhead Library System Redemption, Frederick Turner What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution Sacred Hoops, Phil Jackson Tony Hillerman Kurt Vonnegut The Glass Castle Previous Miami Summer Reading Program books Corrections to My Memoirs, Michael Kun Diana Gabaldon Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky Anything by Dominick Dunne (The Two Mrs. Grenvilles) Beach Music, Pat Conroy Anything by Maeve Binchy Anything by Mary Higgins Clark Anything by Richard North Patterson Zeno's Conscience: A Novel, Italo Svevo Three Cups of Tea God Is Dead Marley Everything is Illuminated Eureka, Jim Lehrer One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez Forest Gump, Winston Groom Curious Lives: Adventures from the Ferret Chronicles, Richard Bach Nevada Barr Ballad of Frankie Silver A Hole in Texas The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Haven Kimmel Loving Frank, Nancy Horan One Door From Heaven, Dean Koontz Alexander McCall Smith Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout Slammerkin, Emma Donoghue Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris Right of Thirst, Frank Huyler

Books We've Read: Liars and Saints, Maile Meloy The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini In Cold Blood, Truman Capote The Water is Wide, Pat Conroy Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver My Antonia, Willa Cather The Giver, Lois Lowry The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, Caroline Alexander To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova The Ponder Heart, Eudora Welty Life of Pi, Yann Martel The Murder Room, P.D. James Skinny Dip, Carl Hiaasen The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, Jorge Amado The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson Between Two Worlds: Escape From Tyranny : Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam, Zainab Salbi and Laurie Becklund Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie Tru, Eric Melbye The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Charming Billy, Alice McDermott The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch (with Jeffrey Zaslow) The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows An Irish Country Doctor, Patrick Taylor A Time To Kill, John Grisham The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie Second Glance, Jodi Picoult Enemy Women, Paulette Jiles

(please email your additional suggestions to burkejj@muohio.edu)