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We have a book club that meets once a month to discuss a variety of books.
The group meets on the last Wednesday of each month at 7:30pm. We have selected the following books for the 2008-2009 school year.
- August 2008: "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life" by Barbara Kingsolver
- September 2008: "The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss
- November 2008: "Twilight" by Stephanie Meyer
- Decebmer 2008: no book, stay tuned for details on our holiday dinner plans.
- January 2009: "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
- February: "A Spot of Bother" by Mark Haddon
- March: "Infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- April: "A Very Long Engagement" by Sebastien Japrisot
- May: "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga
The book club is open to all past and present members of Tauxemont Preschool. A love of reading and conversation is the only additional requirement. If you would like to be placed on our mailing list, please contact our Book Club Coordinator.
Previous books read by the Tauxemont Book Club...
1999
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 11/99
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons 12/99
2000
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 01/00
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 02/00
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester 03/00
Ruby by Ann Hood 04/00
Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine by Ann Hood 04/00
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marqeuz 05/00
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian 06/00
Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott 07/00
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 08/00
The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastain Faulks 09/00
10/00
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 12/00
2001
Trap for Cinderella by Sebastien Japrisot 01/01
Waiting by Ha Jin 01/01
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 02/01
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alverez 03/01
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Bubus III 04/01
Daughter of Fortune by Isabele Allende 05/01
Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 06/01
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 07/01
Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter 08/01
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama 09/01
The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde 10/01
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver 11/01
2002
Chocolat by Janne Harris 01/02
Bridget Jones Diary: A Novel by Helen Fielding 02/02
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 03/02
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 04/02
Shopgirl by Steve Martin 06/02
Eleanor Rooselvelt Biography (Your Choice) 07/02
Ladies Auxilliary by Tova 08/02
One Hundred Years of Solitude by G G Marquez 09/02
Frankenstein by M. Shelly 10/02
A Widow for One Year by John Irving 11/02
2003
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod 01/03
Barefoot Heart by Elva Trevino Hart 02/03
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 03/03
The Hours by Michael Cunningham 04/03
A Walk in the Wood by Bill Bryson 05/03
Atonement by Ian McEwan 06/03
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund 07/03
08/03
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel 09/03
Life of Pi by Yann Martel 10/03
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 11/03
2004
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo 01/04
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis 02/04
The Last Girls by Lee Smith 03/04
The Gypsy Man by Robert Bausch 04/04
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi 05/04
Any book about Ben Franklin 06/04
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 07/04
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks 08/04
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 09/04
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov 10/04
Tender is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald 11/04
2005
January - Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
February - Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith
March - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
April - Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
May - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
June - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
July - In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais
August - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
September - Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks
October - The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare & A Morbid Taste for Bones: The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters
November - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2006
January - Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley
February - Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
March - Hershey : Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams by Michael D'Antonio
April - The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
May - You're Wearing That? : Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation by Deborah Tannen
June - Self-Made Man : One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back by Norah Vincent
July - Tears of the Giraffe (No.1 Ladies Detective Agency) by Alexander McCall Smith
August - Holes by Louis Sachar and Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
September - The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
October - The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
November - Sacrifice of Isaac by Neil Gordon
2007
January 2007: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
February 2007: The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
March 2007: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
April 2007: March by Geraldine Brooks
May 2007: Truman by David McCullough
June 2007: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
July 2007: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
August 2007: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
September 2007: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and/or Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles Shields
October 2007: Stiff by Mary Roach
November 2007: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
2008
January 2008: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
February 2008: Evening by Susan Minot
March 2008: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
April 2008: "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert
May 2008: "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
June 2008: "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
July 2008: "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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