Members of the couples book club gathering after a Fourth of July parade party at our house (the Takoma Park parade always goes down my street) – Michele, Anne, Howard, Bob, Mel, Dee, Jeff, David, Judy, and me. Since 1995, we have read the following books:

THERAPY by David Lodge
A HOUSE FOR MR. BISWAS by V. S. Naipaul
A MAP OF THE WORLD by Jane Hamilton
THE SECRET DIARY OF FRANS HALS by Michael Kernan
CORELLI'S MANDOLIN by Louis de Bernieres
SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson
THE LIAR'S CLUB by Mary Karr
INDEPENDENCE DAY by Richard Ford
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
LUCKY JIM by Kingsley Amis
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER by Jamaica Kincaid
LAST ORDERS by Graham Swift
REGENERATION by Pat Barker
MRS. TED BLISS by Stanley Elkin
ANAGRAMS by Lorrie Moore
THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy
A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT by Sebastien Japrisot
DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN by Thomas Mallon
COLD MOUNTAIN by Charles Frazier
LADDER OF YEARS by Anne Tyler
ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt
IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS by Tim O’Brien
UNDERWORLD by Don DeLillo
LARRY’S PARTY by Carol Shields
BRIGHTON ROCK by Graham Greene
THE MISTRESS OF SPICES by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
CHARMING BILLY by Alice McDermott
CLOUDSPLITTER by Russell Banks
FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES by Nathan Englander
MASTER GEORGIE by Beryl Bainbridge
AFTER LONG SILENCE by Helen Fremont
INTERPRETER OF MALADIES by Jhumpa Lahiri
ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG by Andre Dubus III
A TIME TO BE BORN by Dawn Powell

BOOK IDEAS
SOUTH OF THE BORDER, WEST OF THE SUN by Haruki Murakami
THE LAST VOYAGE OF SOMEBODY THE SAILOR by John Barth
ORIGINAL BLISS by A.L. Kennedy
ALIAS GRACE by Margaret Atwood
THE ACCORDIAN by C. Annie Proulx
GIRLS by Frederick Busch
NATIVE SPEAKER by Chang Rae Lee
THE MOOR'S LAST SIGH by Salman Rushdie
A GOOD MAN IN AFRICA by William Boyd
CONTINENTAL DRIFT by Russell Banks
THE SWEET HEREAFTER by Russell Banks
THE COMEDIANS by Graham Greene
PARADISE by Toni Morrison
THE HALF-LIFE OF HAPPINESS by John Casey
A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR by John Irving
TERRA INFIRMA: A Memoir of My Mother’s Life in Mine by Rodger Kamenetz