LAVA Archives and Reading Resources

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 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