The Nature Conservancy Book Group
Partial
list of titles read over the years and things to come.
Brown bag lunch
discussion at TNC in Boulder. For further information contact Jeannie at jpatton@tnc.org.
2012
January:
The Art of Racing in the Rain,
by Garth Stein
February:
The Selected Poems of Edna St.
Vincent Millay, Everyman edition
March:
Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
April: Blood
and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West,
by Hampton Sides
2011
January:
Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri
February: The
Thirteenth Tale: A Novel, by Diane Setterfield
March: The Third Man Factor: Surviving the
Impossible, by John Geiger
April: Sky
Bridge, by Laura Pritchett
May: Lost on
Planet China, by J. Maarten Troost
June: A
Visit from the Goon Squad. Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan joined by
conference phone.
July: The Lacuna: A Novel,
by Barbara Kingsolver
August: Let
the Great World Spin: A Novel, by Colum McCann
September: The
Living, by Annie Dillard
October: The
Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
November: Ghost
Train to the Eastern Star, by Paul Theroux
December:
Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen
2010
February: 1776,
by David McCullough
March: Highwire Moon, by
Susan Straight
April: Pride
and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
May: Where
Rivers Change Direction, by Mark Spragg
June: Here
If You Need Me, by Kate Braestrup
July: Three
Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
August: The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
September: Claiming
Ground, by Laura Bell
October: The
Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
2009
January: Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad
Decisions, and Hurtful Acts, by Carol Tavris
and Elliot Aronson
February: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization,
3rd. Edition, by Lester Brown
March: The Inheritance of Loss,
by Kiran Desai
April: Mountains Beyond Mountains, Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul
Farmer, by Tracy Kidder
May: A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled
Hosseini
June: Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and
Why No One Saw It Coming, by Paul Hawken
July:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by
Michael Chabon
August: The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold, by Gretel
Ehrlich
September: My
Life in France, by Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme
October: The
Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski
November: The
Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of
Labor and His Moral Conscience, by Kirstin Downey
December: Out
Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson
2008
January: The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
February: A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, by
Isabella Bird
March: Nature's Keepers (The
Remarkable Story of How The Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental
Organization in the World), by Bill Birchard
April: The Good Earth, by Pearl Buck
May: Two in the Far North, by
Margaret E. Murie
June: From
Here You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant, by
Michael S. Sanders
July: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells
August: Animal,
Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
September: Traveling
Mercies, by Annie LaMotte
October: Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters and How to Talk About It,
by Krista Tippett
December: The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman
2007
January: The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
February: When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, by Le Ly Hayslip, Jay
Wurts
March: The
Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the
World,
by A.J. Jacobs
April: Isabel's Daughter, by Judith Hendricks
May: New and Selected Poems, by Mary Oliver
June: River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, by Peter Hessler
July: The Secret Knowledge of Water, by Craig Childs in the Bistro or north patio
August: Size 12 Is Not Fat, by Meg Cabot
September: The Shadow of Man, by
Jane Goodall
October: The
Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
November: The Dive from Clausen's Pier, by Ann
Packer
December: The Land of Little Rain,
by Mary Hunter Austin
2006
January: Snow, by
Orhan Pamuk
February: Tales of
a Female Nomad, by Rita Golden Gilman
March: Daughter of
the Saints, by Dorothy Allred Solomon
April: Finding Darwin's God, by Kenneth Miller
May: A Match to the
Heart, by Gretel Ehrlich
June: The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
July: A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle
August: The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
September: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by
John Perkins
December: Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an
Extraordinary Family, A Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became
Theodore Roosevelt, by David McCullough.
2005
January: Memoires
of a Geisha, by Golden and Our Lady of the Forest, by Guterman
February: The Flight of the Iguana,
by David Quammen
March: Refuge, by Terry Tempest Williams
April: I Don't Know How She Does It, by Allison Person
May: The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Kidd
June: The Beak of
the Finch, by Jonathan Weiner
August: Latina, by Lillian Castillo-Speed
September: The Devil Wears Prada, by Lauren Weisberger
November: The
Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
December: Hard
Truth, by Nevada Barr
2004
November: Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi.
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Founder Jeannie's favorites from this list:
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