Here is the list of books that we have read in our past years. Ratings are on a 1-5 scale, 1 meaning dislike and 5 meaning very much enjoyed!

2008

January — Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See — 4.83
February — Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy — 3.20
March — What Paul Said About Women: The Apostle’s Liberating Views on Equality in Marriage, Leadership, and Love by John Bristow – 1.40
April — Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson  – 4.00
May — A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini – 4.67
June — Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach — 4.71
July — Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury – 4.00
August — The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield – 4.78
September — The Shack by William P. Young – 3.71
October — Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled–and More Miserable Than Ever Before by Jean M. Twenge – 4.00
November– The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger – 4.50

2009

December/January– Chick Flick Road Kill by Alicia Bettensdorf – 1.20
February– The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold – 3.67
March– The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – 3.50
April– In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan – 4.71
May– The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson – 4.40
June–Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen Dubner/ The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell – 4.67
July– Anthem by Ayn Rand – 3.75
August– The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb – 2.75
September– The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman – 3.60
October– The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson – 4.50
November– Devil in the White City by Eric Larson – 4.80

2010

December/January– Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde – 3.33
February– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll – 2.57
March– Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi – 3.43
April– The Girls from Ames: A Story of WOmen and Friendship by Jeffrey Zaslow – 1.86
May– Trail of Crumbs by Kim Zunee – 1.50
June– Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte – 4.22
July– The Host by Stephanie Meyer – 4.86
August– Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah – 3.17
September– The Help by Kathryn Stockett – 4.89
October– Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich – 4.00
November– The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot – 4.13

2011

December/January– Little Women by Louisa May Alcott – 4.33
February– Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach – 3.38
March– My Life in France by Julia Child – 4.13
April– Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery – 3.43
May– The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – 5.00
June– A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg – 3.38
July– The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown – 2.00
August– Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond – 4.29
September– Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte – 3.71
October– Midwives by Chris Bohjalian – 3.83
November– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fizgerald – 3.86

2012

December/January– In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson – 3.00