I always have trouble deciding what book to pick up. I hate finishing a book for this very reason. That's why I love book club. These women pick great books -- some light and frothy, others that are very serious. One member of the book club keeps an ongoing list of the books we've read. I haven't read all of these books -- I joined right around the time of "Shop Girl" by Steve Martin. But it's a great list of good books. Any favorites? Use it to choose your next book!

And speaking of books, Christopher got his first library card this week. You should see his excitement at having his very own card. He slipped it into his wallet with glee at the thought of what a big kid he is.

BOOK CLUB BOOK LIST:

The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat
Daughter of Time Josephine Tey May, 1999
Undaunted Courage Stephen Ambrose
Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom
Crossing to Safety Wallace Stegner
Tender at the Bone Ruth Reichl
The Bell Iris Murdoch
Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
The Good Husband Gail Godwin
Bigfoot Dreams Francine Prose
A Thief of Time Tony Hillerman
The Good Mother Sue Miller
Dinner at the Homesick Anne Tyler
Restaurant
The Mind-Body Problem Rebecca Goldstein
Woman: An Intimate Geography Natalie Angier
Close Range: Wyoming Stories Annie Proulx
Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer July, 2000
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Anatoli Boukreev July, 2000
Mount Everest
The Last Thing He Wanted Joan Didion Aug. 29, 2000
The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Melissa Bank Oct. 1, 2000
Fishing
The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead Oct. 30, 2000
The Country Life Rachel Cusk Nov. 29, 2000
Operating Instructions Anne Lamott Jan. 10, 2001
Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem Feb. 13, 2001
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien Mar. 14, 2001
Waiting Ha Jin Apr. 25, 2001
Reservation Blues Sherman Alexie May 23, 2001
We Were the Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates July 11, 2001
For the Time Being Annie Dillard Aug. 14, 2001
Bee Season Myla Goldberg Sept. 11, 2001
Behind the Scenes at the Museum Kate Atkinson Oct. 15, 2001
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Nov. 13, 2001
Five Moral Pieces Umberto Eco Jan. 8, 2002
We Die Alone David Howarth Feb. 12, 2002
The Reader Bernhard Schlink Mar 26, 2002
The Man Who Swam with Beavers Nancy Lord Apr. 30, 2002
Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris May 21, 2002
Moon Tiger Penelope Lively June, 2002
Personal History Katharine Graham July 23, 2002
The Professor and the Madman Simon Winchester Aug. 20, 2002
Shopgirl Steve Martin Sept. 17, 2002
Bel Canto Ann Patchett Oct. 29, 2002
Good Harbor Anita Diamant Nov. 20, 2002
Lamb in Love Carrie Brown Jan. 21, 2003
The Hours Michael Cunningham Feb. 18, 2003
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
Jim, the Boy Tony Earley Mar. 18, 2003
Gods Go Begging Alfredo Véa April 22, 2003
Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand May 20, 2003
Blackberry Winter Margaret Mead June 24, 2003
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith July 22, 2003
Atonement Ian McEwan Aug. 26, 2003
The Bone People Keri Hulme Sept. 30, 2003
Blue Shoe Anne Lamott Oct. 28, 2003
In the Forest Edna O'Brien Nov. 25, 2003
These Is My Words Nancy E. Turner Jan. 14, 2004
Riding the Bus with My Sister Rachel Simon Feb. 15, 2004
Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier Mar 17, 2004
Three Junes Julia Glass April 21, 2004
The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd May 26, 2004
Under the Banner of Heaven Jon Krakauer July 7, 2004
East of Eden John Steinbeck Sept. 1, 2004
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton Oct. 13, 2004
Blindness José Saramago Nov. 9. 2004
Lying on the Couch Irvin D. Yalom Dec. 15, 2004
The Persian Pickle Club Sandra Dallas Jan. 19, 2005
The Curious Incident of the Dog Mark Haddon Feb. 23, 2005
in the Night-time
The Cruelest Miles Gay Salisbury & Mar. 15, 2005
Laney Salisbury
The Meadow James Galvin April 5, 2005
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini May 24, 2005
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Mary Roach June 28, 2005
Cadavers
Dress Your Family in Corduroy David Sedaris July 26, 2005
and Denim
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Sept. 20, 2005
About Grace Anthony Doerr Oct. 18, 2005
Truth & Beauty [a friendship] Ann Patchett Nov. 30, 2005
Life of Pi Yann Martel Jan. 3, 2006
The Egyptologist Arthur Phillips Feb. 7, 2006
Snow Orhan Pamuk Mar. 14, 2006
Plainsong Kent Haruf April 11, 2006
Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri May 9, 2006
Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi June 13, 2006
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Ruth Reichl July 25, 2006
Life of a Critic in Disguise
Drop City T.C. Boyle August
This House of Sky Ivan Doig Sept. 27, 2006
Mountains Beyond Mountains Tracy Kidder Oct. 25, 2006
The River of Doubt Candice Millard Nov. 29, 2006
The Spirit Catches You and You Anne Fadiman Jan. 16, 2007
Fall Down
On Beauty Zadie Smith Feb. 28, 2007
The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffennegger March, 2007
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury April 24, 2007
The Devil in the White City Erik Larson May 22, 2007
A Short History of Tractors in Marina Lewycka June 26, 2007
Ukrainian
The Amateur Marriage Anne Tyler July 24, 2007
Peace Like a River Leif Enger Aug. 29, 2007
The Known World Edward P. Jones Sept. 25, 2007
Suite Française Irène Némirovsky Oct. 23, 2007
Through Yup’ik Eyes Colin Chisholm Nov. 27, 2007
Water for Elephants Sara Gruen Jan. 16, 2008
Wild Swans: Three Daughters Jung Chang Feb. 19, 2008
of China
Ada Blackjack Jennifer Niven April 8, 2008Five Quarters of the Orange Joanne Harris