SWE-PD Book Club
Potential Books List
Here is the list of books that we are considering reading. The list of
books we have already read can be found on our homepage. Note that the published dates are of the
most recent paperback edition unless otherwise noted.
Nonfiction
- Infidel (2008), by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (rec'd 3/07)
- To the End of the Earth: Our Epic Journey to
the North Pole and the Legend of Peary and Henson (2009),
by Tom Avery (rec'd 7/09, currently in hardcover)
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2006), by Doris Kearns Goodwin (rec'd 7/08)
- Ganga: A Journey Down the Ganges River, by Julian Crandall Hollick (rec'd 7/08 by CLM; may only be hardcover)
- Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (2003), by Tony Horowitz (rec'd 7/08)
- The Boy who Harnessed the Wind (2009), by William Kamkwamba (rec'd 10/09 by dmt)
- The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life (2005), by Tom Reiss (rec'd 10/09 by dmt)
- Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts (rec'd 5/08)
- The Plug-In Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life (2002) by Marie Winn (rec'd 6/07)
Fiction
- Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai (rec'd 8/08)
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (rec'd 4/08)
- What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal (2003),
by Zoe Heller (rec'd 3/09)
- The Ritual Bath, by Faye Kellerman (rec'd 4/08)
- Snow flower and the Secret Fan (2005), by Lisa See (rec'd 1/09)
- Evening is the Whole Day: A Novel by Preeta Samarasan (rec'd 8/08)
- The Thirteenth Tale (2007), by Diane Setterfield (rec'd 3/09)
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2009),
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (rec'd 7/09)
- Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story, by Leonie Swann (rec'd 7/08)
- Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (rec'd 8/08)
Note: Suggestions that languish on this page for three years are removed.
10/25/09 dmt