Buffalo News Book Club Titles
2013:
January: Heft by Liz Moore
February: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
March: The Fiddler on Pantico Run by Joe Mozingo
2012
January: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
February: Wolf: The Lives of Jack London by James L. Haley
March: The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
April: The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food and Love by Kristin Kimball
May: The Submission by Amy Waldman
June: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and the world of Literary Obsession by Hoover Bartlett.
July: The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman
August: The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
September: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson
October: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
November: The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
December: (classics month) A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor
2011
January: Annie’s Ghosts: Journey Into a Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg
February: Open: an autobiography by Andre Agassi
March: The Once and Future King by T.H. White
April: Aesop’s Mirror: A Love Story by Maryalice Huggins
May: The Bolter by Frances Osborne
June: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
July: Faithful Place by Tana French
August: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
September: The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure
October: Manhunt: The 12-day chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson
November: 52 Loaves: One man’s Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning and a Perfect Crust by William Alexander
December: (classics month) The Dead by James Joyce
2010
January: The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
February: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
March: Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
April: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
May: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
June: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
July: Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe by Jenny Hollowell
August: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
September: A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
October: Dangerously Funny by David Bianculli
November: My Judy Garland Life by Susie Boyt
December: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
2009
January: Still Alice by Lisa Genova
February: Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
March: Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
April: American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White and the Birth of the ‘It’ Girl by Paula Uruburu
May: The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
June: Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm by Mildred Kalish
July: Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
August: The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
September: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
October: Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
November: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: a natural history of four meals by Michael Pollan
December: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
2008
January: Runaway by Alice Munro
February: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
March: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
April: Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
May: Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
June: City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
July: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
August: Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
September: Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
October: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
November: The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
December: Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelus.
2007
January: Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner
February: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
March: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
April: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
May: The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
June: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
July: The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
August: The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
September: The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
October: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
November: The Tummy Trilogy by Calvin Trillin
December: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2006
January: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
February: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
March: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
April: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
May: Cider House Rules by John Irving
June: The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer
July: Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krause Rosenthal
August: The Constant Gardener by John le Carre
September: Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond By Essie Mae Washington-Williams
October: My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
November: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
December: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
2005
January: On Writing: a Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
February: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro
March: We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
April: My Invented Country by Isabel Allende
May: The Columnist by Jeffrey Frank
June: The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
July: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
August: The Story of My Father by Sue Miller
September: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
October: The First Desire by Nancy Reisman
November: The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
December: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling
2004
January: Roscoe by William Kennedy
February: I’ll Take You There by Joyce Carol Oates
March: My Losing Season by Pat Conroy
April: Fat Land by Greg Critser
May: Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott
June: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
July: The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman
August: The Wife: a Novel by Meg Wolitzer
September: The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
October: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
November: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
December: The Last Fine Time by Verlyn Klinkenborg
2003
October: Straight Man by Richard Russo
November: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
December: Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
