The Country Dozen Book Club

Reading List

Established December 1994

1995

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields

Mutant Message Down Under
Marlo Morgan

Not Wanted on the Voyage
Timothy Findlay

Follow the River
Thom Alexander

Away
Jane Urquhart

The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy

The Wild Swans
Jung Chan

Funny Boy
Shyam Selvadurai

New Moon Rising
Eugena Price

1996

Emma
Jane Austen

Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Louis deBernieres

Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson

A Discovery of Strangers
Rudy Wiebe

Beach Music
Pat Conroy

The Horse Whisperer
Nicholas Evans

Men for the Mountains
Sid Marty

The Piano Man's Daughter
Timothy Findlay

1997

A Thief of Time
Tony Hellerman

Homesick
Guy Vanderhaeghe

To The Wedding
John Berger

A Women's Worth
Marianne Williamson

Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks

A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry

Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood

Virgins of Paradise
Barbara Wood

1998

Englishman's Boy
Guy Vanderheeghe

A Cure for Death by Lightning
Gail Anderson Dargatz

Judith Hearne
Brian Moore

Elephant Winter
Kim Echlin

Outlander
Diana Gabaldon

Possession
A. S. Byatt

Larry's Party
Carol Sheilds

Swamp Angel
Ethel Wilson

God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy

Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier

1999

The Underpainter
Jane Urquhart

A Death in the Family
James Agee

Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence

Accordian Crimes
E. Annie Proulx

The Gospels
Holy Bible

A Fine Daughter
Catherine Simmons Niven

Fionavar Tapestry
Guy Gavrbiel Kay

Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden

Brigette Jones Diary
Helen Fielding

2000

The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver

Beyond the Sky and the Earth
Jamie Zeppa

Barney's Version
Mordicei Richler

Lust for Life
Irving Stone

Bachelor brothers' bed and breakfast
Bill Richardson

Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson

Hidden In Plain View
J Tobin/R Dobard

Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez

any of her books Penelope Fitzgerald

2001

Catcher in the Rye
J.D.Salinger

Beneath the Faceless Mountain
Roberta Rees

Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende

The Hot Zone
Richard Preston

A Star Called Henry
Roddy Doyle

Written on the Body
Jeannette Winterson

The Agony and the Ecstasy
Irving Stone

Stones from the River
Ursula Hegiv

The Baroness of the Canadian Rockies
(Lizzie Rummel) Ruth Oltmann

2002

No Great Mischief
Alistair MacLeod

Confessions from a Jericho Jail
Stephen Langfur

The Red Tent
Anita Diamant

Five Quarters of the Orange
Joanne Harris

Midwives
Chris Bohjalian

Monkey Beach
Eden Robinson

Silk
Alessandro Baricco

When We Were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro

Guilty Addictions; A Political Mystery
Garrett Wilson

2003

The Glass Palace
Amitav Ghosh

The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows Of Josephine B.
Sandra Gulland

Life of Pi: a novel
Yann Martel

The Lost Garden
Helen Humphries

To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolfe

The Final Confession of Mable Stark
Robert Hough

Short & Tall Tales "Moose Country Legends"
Lilian Jackson Braun

The Middle Ground
Margaret Drabble

2004

A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson

5 People you meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom

The DaVinci Code
Dan Brown

The Bonesetters Daughter
Amy Tan

Kits Law
Donna Morrisey

The Three Junes
Julia Glass

East of Eden
John Steinbech

Deafening
Francis Itani

The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time
Mark Haddon

2005

The Constant Gardener
(10th Anniversary Meeting) John Le Carre

Brother & Sister
Joanna Trollope

Crones Don't Whine
Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen

Time Traveller's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger

Naked
David Sedaris

Lilac Moon
Sharon Butala