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NOONDAY NOSH ARCHIVES

The Noonday Nosh Book Club began in 1995 at the Roswell Library. It meets on the third Tuesday of each month in the meeting room. New members are always welcome!


1995/1996

Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
Christmas Memories by Truman Capote
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress
True North by Jill Ker Conway
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Snow Falling On Cedars by David Guterson
Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Possession by A. S. Byatt
The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans


1997

One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Liar's Club by Mary Karr
Life on the Road by Charles Kuralt


1998

The Color of Water by James McBride
Tales of Burning Love by Louise Erdrich
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
White Rabbit by Kate Phillips
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
Palindrome by Stuart Woods
The Living is Easy by Dorothy West
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Personal History by Katherine Graham
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells


1999

I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Run with the Horseman by Ferrol Sams
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Lambs of God by Marele Day
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
Celestine Sibley, selected works


2000

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
Coming Home by Rosamund Pilcher
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Trinity by Leon Uris
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
The Hours by Michael Cunningham


2001

Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tarcy Chevalier
Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast by Bill Richardson
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
To Dance with a White Dog by Terry Kay


2002

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
A Short History of a Small Place by T. R. Pearson
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham


2003

Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Old Men at Midnight by Chaim Potok
John Adams by David McCullough
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Odyssey by Homer
Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love by Joan Pendicott
Emma's War by Deborah Scroggins
Tending Roses by Lisa Wingate


2004

The Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island by Linda Greenlaw
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck


2005

Daisy Miller by Henry James
The Amber Room by Steve Berry
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Valley of Light by Terry Kay
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
The Year the Lights Came On by Terry Kay


2006

The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam (Roswell Reads 2006 Selection)
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Life Studies: Stories by Susan Vreeland
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Run With the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory


2007

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Valley of Light by Terry Kay (Roswell Reads 2007 Selection)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: a novel by Lisa See
West of Kabul, East of New York: an Afghan American story by Mir Tamim Ansary
Water for Elephants: a novel by Sara Gruen
Running with Scissors: a memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Climbing the Mango Trees by Madhur Jaffrey
Honeymoon with My Brother by Franz Wisner
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Suite Française by Irčne Némirovsky


2008

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (Roswell Reads 2008 Selection)
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations - One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith.
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Floating in My Mother's Palm: A Novel by Ursula Hegi
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Baudy
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan




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