Swampscott Library Book Group List

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood–Rebecca Wells
Amy and Isabelle–Elizabeth Strout
The House of the Spirits–Isabel Allende
Angela’s Ashes–Frank McCourt
The Deep End of the Ocean–Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Rapture of Canaan–Sheri Reynolds
Memoirs of a Geisha–Arthur Golden
Into Thin Air–Jon Krakauer
Snow in August–Pete Hamill
A Civil Action–Jonathan Harr
Alias Grace–Margaret Atwood
She’s Come Undone–Wally Lamb
The Great Gatsby–F. Scott Fitzgerald
Snow Falling on Cedars–David Guterson
The Reader–Bernhard Schlink
The Inn at Lake Devine–Elinor Lipman
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil–John Berendt
The Scarlet Letter–Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anywhere But Here–Mona Simpson
The Giver–Lois Lowry
The Bell Jar–Sylvia Plath
Girl, Interrupted–Susanna Kaysen
The Pilot’s Wife–Anita Shreve
A Map of the World–Jane Hamilton
Midwives–Chris Bohjalian
White Oleander–Janet Fitch
Three Women–Marge Piercy
While I Was Gone–Sue Miller
Law of Similars–Chris Bohjalian
Daughter of Fortune–Isabel Allende
The Alienist–Caleb Carr
One True Thing–Anna Quindlen
Jephte’s Daughter–Naomi Ragen
The Color of Water–James McBride
Fortune’s Rocks–Anita Shreve
City of Light–Lauren Belfer
Here on Earth–Alice Hoffman
The Red Tent–Anita Diamant
The Hate Crime–Phyllis Karas
I Know This Much Is True–Wally Lamb
Under the Tuscan Sun–Frances Mayes
Personal History–Katharine Graham
Corelli’s Mandolin–Louis de Bernieres
Girl in Hyacinth Blue–Susan Vreeland
Girl With a Pearl Earring–Tracy Chevalier
Ice Bound–Dr. Jerri Nielsen
Stolen Lives–Malika Oufkir
House of Sand and Fog–Andre Dubus III
We were the Mulvaneys–Joyce Carol Oates
The Bonesetter’s Daughter–Amy Tan
To Kill a Mockingbird–Harper Lee
Passion of Artemisia–Susan Vreeland
Mists of Avalon–Marion Zimmer Bradley
Empire Falls–Richard Russo
Falling Angels–Tracy Chevalier
Nickel and Dimed–Barbara Ehrenreich
The Nanny Diaries–Emma McLaughlin
Martha, Inc.–Christopher Byron
The Perfect Storm–Sebastian Junger
The Lovely Bones–Alice Sebold
Seabiscuit–Laura Hillenbrand
I Don’t Know How She Does It–Allison Pearson
Running with Scissors: a memoir–Augusten Burroughs
Middlesex–Jeffrey Eugenides
The Pursuit of Alice Thrift:a novel–Elinor Lipman
Forever: a novel–Pete Hamill
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time–Mark Haddon
The Namesake–Jhumpa Lahiri
Different Seasons–Stephen King
My Sister’s Keeper: a novel–Jodi Picoult
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud–Ben Sherwood
The Amateur Marriage: a novel–Anne Tyler
The Devil in the White City: murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America–Erik Larson
The Da Vinci Code: a novel–Dan Brown
Kate Remembered–A. Scott Berg
Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson–Mitch Albom
A tree grows in Brooklyn–Betty Smith
The devil wears Prada–Laura Weisberger
The plot against America–Philip Roth
A Fine Balance: a novel–Rohinton Mistry
The Other Boleyn Girl: a novel–Philippa Gregory
Princess: a true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia–Jean P. Sasson
This side of Paradise–F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ten Hours Until Dawn: the true story of heroism and tragedy aboard the Can Do–Michael J. Tougias
Black, White, and Jewish: autobiography of a shifting self–Rebecca Walker
The Mermaid Chair–Sue Monk Kidd
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd–Jim Fergus
How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life–Mameve Medwed
Sex Wars: a novel of the turbulent post-civil war period–Marge Piercy
A Long Way Down–Nick Hornby
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: a novel–Lisa See
Eat, Pray, Love: one woman’s search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia–Elizabeth Gilbert
March–Geraldine Brooks
Those Who Save Us–Jenna Blum
Rise and Shine: a novel–Anna Quindlen
The Emperor’s Children–Claire Messud
I Feel Bad About My Neck–Nora Ephron
What is the What: the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: a novel–Dave Eggers
The Double Bind: a novel–Chris Bohjalian
The History of Love–Nicole Krauss
The Thirteenth Tale: a novel–Diane Setterfield
Exile–Richard North Patterson
On Chesil Beach–Ian McEwan
Three Cups of Tea: one man’s mission to promote peace-one school at a time–Greg Mortenson
A thousand splendid suns–Khaled Hosseini
Breakfast with Buddha: a novel–Roland Merullo
Water for elephants: a novel–Sara Gruen
The queen’s fool: a novel–Philippa Gregory
The abstinence teacher–Tom Perrotta
The book thief–Markus Zusak
Loving Frank: a novel–Nancy Horan
The garden of last days: a novel–Andre Dubus III
Unaccustomed earth: stories–Jhumpa Lahiri
The 19th wife: a novel–David Ebershoff
Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance–Barack Obama
Testimony: a novel–Anita Shreve
The condition: a novel–Jennifer Haigh
The zookeeper’s wife: a war story–Diane Ackerman
Bridge of sighs–Richard Russo
The lace reader: a novel–Brunonia Barry
Skeletons at the feast: a novel–Chris Bohjalian
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Societyl–Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows