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 CROWN POINT COMMUNITY LIBRARY ADULT BOOK DISCUSSION GROUPS: TITLES READ WITH RATINGS

Ratings are average of votes 1-5 by attendees, with 5 being highest rating.  (beginning in 2007 voting is by .5 increments)

AUTHOR  TITLE   COPIES  RATINGS  (CP/WIN)

Allende. Daughter of Fortune  14 3.3/4.4

Atwood. Alias Grace  12 3.8/NR

de Bernieres. Corelli’s Mandolin  10 3.8/NR

Bohjalian, Chris Midwives  10 NR/NR

Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451  10 3.4/3.9

Bronte. Jane Eyre  17 3.9/

Brooks. March  15 3.6/3.6

  Year of Wonders  16 3.8/3.9

Bryson.Notes from a Small Island  15 2.3/3.1

Buck. The Good Earth  15 NA/4.6

Cather. My Antonia  10 4.1/NR

Chabon. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and

  Clay  15 2.0/3.0

Cross. Pope Joan  13 4.3/4.0

Dallas. Prayers for Sale  17 3.9/4.2

Dean.The Madonnas of Leningrad  16 3.9/3.6

Diamant.The Red Tent  12 3.6/NR

Doctorow. Ragtime  11 NR/NR

Doig.The Whistling Season  15 3.5/4.3

Earley. Jim the Boy  15 3.2/4.2

Edgerton.Walking across Egypt  15 3.8/3.4

Edwards.The Memory Keeper’s Daughter  15 2.9/3.3

Enger. Peace Like a River  10   4.0/4.0

Erdrich.The Master Butchers Singing Club  16 3.0/3.7

Fergus.One Thousand White Women  10 5.0/4.1

Flotz.A Pebble in My Shoe  10 NR/NR

Frazier. Cold Mountain  NA 3.6/4.2

Gaines. A Lesson before Dying      15   3.9/3.4

Gilbert. Eat, Pray, Love  16 3.2/2.2

Glass.Three Junes  16 3.7/3.0

Golden. Memoirs of a Geisha  NA

Gregory.The Other Boleyn Girl  14 3.9/4.3

Gruen. Water for Elephants  16 4.4/4.1

Gunning.The Widow’s War  16 4.1/4.5

Guterson.Snow Falling on Cedars  6 4.6/NR

Haddon.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the

Night-time  16 3.8/4.2

Harris. Chocolat  12 3.6/NR

Haruf. Plainsong  11 3.5/NR

Hegi. Stones from the River  10 4.2/NR

Hegland. Into the Forest  15 2.4/2.9

Hickam. October Sky  10 4.5/4.5

Hillenbrand. Seabiscuit  10 4.2/4.2

Horan. Loving Frank  16 4.2/3.9

Hosseini.The Kite Runner  14 4.7/4.8

Kallos,.Broken for You  15 3.8/3.0

Kidd.The Secret Life of Bees  10 3.8/4.8

Kimmel. A Girl Named Zippy    10 3.7/2.9

King.The Beekeeper’s Apprentice  15 3.7/3.4

Kingsolver. Animal Dreams  11 3.6/NR

Kingsolver. Poisonwood Bible    10 4.5/NR

Kokoris. The Rich Part of Life  NA 3.8/4.4

Krakauer.Under the Banner of Heaven  13 4.3/3.6

Krauss.The History of Love  15 3.8/3.8

Kurson. Shadow Divers  NA 5.0/4.3

Lahiri. Interpreter of Maladies    16 3.1/3.7

Larson. The Devil in the White City  12 4.2/4.5

Lawson. Crow Lake  15 4.1/4.2 

Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird  12 4.6/3.9

Leonard. Ride of Our Lives  15 3.5/3.9

Mason. The Piano Tuner   14   2.9/3.4

McCall Smith. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency 14

McCrumb, Sharyn Ballad of Frankie Silver  15 4.2/3.2

McCullers, Carson The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter  5 2.9/NR

McEwan, Ian Atonement  11 2.7/2.5

Moehringer, J.R. The Tender Bar  16 3.5/3.4

Mortenson, Greg 3 Cups of Tea  16 3.5/4.0

Nafisi, Azir Reading Lolita in Tehran  13 3.0/3.2

Nemirovsky, Irene Suite Francaise  16 3.3/4.0

Otsuka, Julie When the Emperor Was Divine  14 3.6/3.8

Packer, Ann The Dive from Clausen’s Pier  12 3.7/2.6

Patchett, Ann Bel Canto  14 3.9/4.8

Patchett, Ann Run  17 4.1/3.1

Penny, Louise Still Life  17 /3.6

Peters, Elizabeth Crocodile on the Sandbank  5 3.2/NR

Picoult, Jodi My Sister’s Keeper  14 4.5/4.4

Picoult, Jodi Plain Truth  4.2/3.4

Proulx, E. Annie The Shipping News  10 2.2/NR

Quindlen, Anna Blessings  14 3.6/3.6

Roberts, Cokie Founding Mothers  15 3.6/2.4

Robinson, Marilynne Gilead  14 2.4/3.0

Rowland, Laura Joh The Concubine’s Tattoo  4 NR/NR

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 7 3.8/NR 

Russell, Mary Doria The Sparrow  11 3.7/NR

Russo, Richard Empire Falls  13 3.7/2.8

Saylor, Steven Roman Blood (mystery) 7 3.0/NR

See, Lisa Snow Flower and the Secret Fan  15 4.2/4.5

Shaffer, Mary Ann The Guernsey Literary and Potato

  Peel Pie Society  15  4.0/4.6

Shields, Carol The Stone Diaries  16 4.0/3.6

Shreve, Anita The Pilot’s Wife  4 3.3/NR

Sijie, Dai Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 14 3.6/3.1

Smith, Zadie White Teeth  14 1.4/2.3

Stegner, Wallace Angle of Repose  10 2.6/NR

Stegner, Wallace Crossing to Safety  14 3.5/4.2

Stein, Garth The Art of Racing in the Rain  17 4.3/3.7

Steinbeck, John East of Eden  7 4.3/NR

Stockett, Elizabeth  The Help  18  4.2/

Strout, Elizabeth Olive Kitteridge  15 3.9/3.9

Tan, Amy The Bonesetter’s Daughter  10 3.6/3.6

Tsukiyama, Gail The Samurai’s Garden  11 4.4/3.6

Tyler, Anne Saint Maybe  12 4.0/3.8 

Verghease, Abraham  Cutting for Stone   18     /4.3

Vreeland, Susan Girl in Hyacinth Blue  13 3.7/NR

Wallace, Daniel Big Fish (OROB) 10 2.5/2.1

Walls, Jeannette The Glass Castle  15 4.2/4.0

Watson, Larry Montana 1948  10 4.5/4.5

Wells, Rebecca Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 8 3.8/NR

Wharton, Edith Summer  15 3.0/

Winchester, Simon The Professor and the Madman 14   4.1/3.5

Zusak, Markus The Book Thief  15 4.3/4.2