Beekman BookWomen 2004 - 2009
Year One: 2004
The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
1000 White Women by Jim Fergus
Seabiscuit by Lauren Hillenbrand
the DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
The Last Girls by Lee Smith
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Godless by Pete Hautmann

Year Two: 2005
Blue Shoe
by Anne Lamott
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman
The House on Mango Street by Julia Alvarez

Year Three: 2006
Friendship Cake
by Lynne Hinton
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
 
Year Four: 2007
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Seraglio by Janet Wallace
The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Tender Bar by D. R. Moehringer
History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Any holiday book for December
 
Year Five: 2008
Other People's Children by Joanna Trollope
Three Daughters by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Our Lady of the Lost and Found by Diane Schoemperlen
Take Big Bites by Linda Ellerbee
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
The Caliph's House: a year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah,
A New Earth  by Eckhart Tolle
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
 Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
 Holiday selection of your choice

Year Six: 2009

 Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

 Julie and Julia by Julie Powell blogs

 Craft night, see the results at Craft Fail

 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

 A Fatal Grace  by Louise Penny
 The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
 One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson, a mystery
 Gentleman and Players by JoAnne Harris
 Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas
 Sarah's Key by Tatiana deRosnay
 Holiday reading

* Recommended

Year Seven: 2010

Anne's  book recommendations, reviews,
                           favorite quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists

 
Buster's Diaries, the true story of a dog and his man as told to Roy Hattersly. "Lord Hattersly has a title, but he needs Buster to make sure he doesn't get into trouble." - Addie (rating: 4 dogbones)
 
What the Dog Did by Emily Yoffe. "Beagles are cute, but not the smartest biscuit in the cookie jar..." - Addie (rating: 5 dogbones)
 
Marley and Me by John Grogan. "Marley has severe separation anxiety; Kongs work for me." - Addie (rating: 4 dogbones)

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate diCamillo. "Winn-Dixie can burp and smile too, gotta love that dog!" - Addie (rating: 5 dogbones)
 
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst "Never try to teach your dog to speak hunam; if you live with a dog, you should learn how to speak its language." - Addie (rating: 3 dogbones)
 
Walking in Circles before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe "The people in this book are way crazier than the dogs, very realistic..." - Addie (rating: 3 dogbones)
 
Dog Gone It, a Chet and Bernie Mystery by Spencer Quinn "Chet the dog tells the story of helping Bernie be a better detective" -Addie (rating 4 dogbones)
 
The Highly Effective Detective Goes to the Dogs by Richard Yancey. "Teddy, the clueless detective, adopts a pound dog. That should help him, see above book." -Addie (rating: 4 dogbones)
 
New Tricks by David Rosenfelt. "N.J. lawyer adopts dog and solves mysteries."-Addie (rating: 3 dogbones)
 
 

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