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Click below for reading and discussion resources for books that LAVA has read (or will soon read) since 2004. Less information is available for
earlier books
.
2012
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
The Madonnas of Leningrad
by Debra Dean
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr
The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle
2011
The Glass Castle
by Jeanette Walls
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Other Side of the Bridge
by Mary Lawson
People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks
Too Close to the Falls
by Catherine Gildiner
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
Here if You Need Me
by Kate Braestrup
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by M. A. Shaffer and Annie Barrows
2010
Biography of Ben Franklin
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
Loving Frank
by Nancy Horan
Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Netherland
by Joseph O'Neill
The House on Fortune Street
by Margot Livesey
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
Eventide
by Kent Haruf
Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
2009
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
Jim the Boy
by Tony Earley
Free Lunch
by David Cay Johnston
Waiting
by Ha Jin
The Sea
by John Banville
The Omnivore's Dilemma
by Michael Pollan
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski
The Moral Instinct
by Steven Pinker
Out Stealing Horses
by Per Petterson
2008
Crow Lake
by Mary Lawson
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
by Laila Lalami
The Ghost Map
by Steven Johnson
Intution
by Allegra Goodman
Mapping Human History
by Steve Olson
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
Collapse
by Jared Diamond
The Human Stain
by Philip Roth
March
by Geraldine Brooks
2007
The Feast of Love
by Charles Baxter
The Buffalo Soldier
by Chris Bohjalian
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brian
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
The Forgetting: Alzheimer's
by David Shenk
Snow
by Orhan Pamuk,
Dreams from My Father
by Barack Obama
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
2006
The Origin of Satan
by Elaine Pagels
Name All the Animals
by Alison Smith
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
A Summons to Memphis
by Peter Taylor
The Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
Love in the Time of the Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Copies in Seconds
by David Owen
Stones for Ibarra
by Harriet Doerr
2005
The Rise of the Creative Class
by Richard Florida
Servants of the Map
by Andrea Barrett
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi
Arabian Nights and Days
by Naguib Mahfouz
A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
Last Orders
by Graham Swift
2004
A Student of Weather
by Elizabeth Hay
Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
Bee Season
by Myla Goldberg
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Personal History
by Katharine Graham
The Plague
by Albert Camus
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusas
1994 through 2003