WOMEN FACULTY BOOK CLUB


1991

The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
July’s People by Nadine Gordimer
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P. D. James
Burn Marks by Sara Paretsky
Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

1992

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin
Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan Al-Shaykh
The Living by Annie Dillard
Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
Sugar Cage by Connie May Fowler
Crossing Blood by Nanci Kincaid
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

1993

Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control
Movement in America by Ellen Chesler
Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Behind a Mask by Louisa May Alcott

1994

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Face of an Angel by Denise Chavez
When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Ségu by Maryse Condé
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton

1995

Persuasion by Jane Austen
Open Secrets by Alice Munro
The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
House of Splendid Isolation by Edna O’Brien
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
Choices by Mary Lee Settle
The Fatigue Artist by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Familiar Heat by Mary Hood

1996

Regeneration by Pat Barker
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by Peter Conn
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Quicksand and Passing by Nella Larsen

1997

Le Divorce by Diane Johnson
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River [with John
Rothchild]
A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard by Laurel
Thatcher Ulrich
The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi by Jacqueline Park
Across New Worlds: Nineteenth- Century Women
Travellers and Their Writings
by Shirley Foster
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

1998

Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl
Paradise by Toni Morrison
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a
Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York
by Patricia
Cline Cohen
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
My Home is Far Away by Dawn Powell
New York Mosaic by Isabel Bolton
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

1999

The Secret Names of Women by Lynne Barrett
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by
Sandra Gulland
Ahab’s Wife: Or, the Star Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund
Eleanor Roosevelt, Vols. 1 and 2 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
Daughter of Earth by Agnes Smedley
Iola Leroy by Frances Watkins Harper
Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault

2000

Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
The Music Lesson by Katharine Weber
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Critical
Reader,
Karen Kilcup, Ed.
Niccoló Rising by Dorothy Dunnett

2001

Test Pattern by Marjorie Klein
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by
Louise Erdrich
So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St.Vincent Millay by Nancy
Milford

Favorites

2002

A Woman’s Education by Jill Ker Conway
The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher
The Back Room by Carmen Martín Gaite
The Last Life by Claire Messud
Women Writing About War
Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
Not So Quiet by Helen Zenna Smith
The Face of War by Martha Gellhorn
The Mortal Storm by Phyllis Bottome
The Trap by Ana Maria Matute
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

2003

The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen
Comic, Humorous, and Funny
Black List
by Sara Paretsky
Reading Lolita inTehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi

2004

Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
The Beecher Sisters by Barbara White
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
and
Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Georgiana: Duchess Of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman

2005

Gilead and/or Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Elizabeth Bowen by Neil Corcoran
Summer 05

Pearl by Mary Gordon
The Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt
GIRL SLEUTH: Nancy Drew and The Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak

2006

The Crimson Petal and The White by Michel Farber
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Begums, Thugs & White Mugals by William Dalrymple, Editor
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Summer 06
Intuition by Allegra Goodman
Champions For Peace: Women Winners Of The Nobel Peace Prize by Judith Stiehm
March by Geraldine Brooks

2007

Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Carson Mccullers
Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists
by Jean H. Baker
Women Nobel Laureates in Poetry
Summer 07

The Man In The White Sharkskin Suit
Doris Lessing Nobel Laureate

2008

The Fig Eater by Jody Shields
The Way Forward is With a Broken Heart
by Alice Walker
The Bastard Of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper

Home by Marilynne Robinson

2009

A Mercy by Toni Morrison