Special Report on the 4 1/2 Year Anniversary Dinner
at the The Heights Restaurant, August 18, 2009

Bookclub Dinner, August 19, 2008	Bookclub Dinner, August 18, 2009

Established in January, 2005, the Temple Beth Am Book Club celebrated its 4½ year “anniversary” with a dinner at The Heights restaurant, on Tuesday, August 18^th. Our members shared an evening of great company, excellent food, laughter, silly songs, stories, and jokes, and a sense of camaraderie.

In the 4½ years, the Book Club has read (and discussed) 45 books! These books are as follows (in no particular order):

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger	The Historian by Elizabeth Kostrova
The Haj by Leon Uris	The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs	Haven by Ruth Gruber
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini	Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
1000 Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini	The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Sea Biscuit by Laura Hillenbrand	Mohawk by Richard Russo
Straight Into Darkness by Faye Kellerman	Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold	My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Exile by Richard North Patterson	Daddy by Loop Durand
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides	The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
Zorro by Isabel Allende	Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
History of Love by Nicole Krauss	The Coffee Traders by David Liss
Confederacy of Dunces by J.K. Toole	The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls	Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Foer
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller	Just Revenge by Alan Dershowitz
Decider by Dick Francis	The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel	Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards	People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Sacrifice of Tamar by Naomi Ragen	Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett	Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
March by Geraldine Brooks	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Maryann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
John Adams by David McCullough	The Story of Edgar Sawtell by David Wroblewski
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

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