Book Group Selections

Easy Readers Book Group is not directly related to the work of Armchair France, but avid readers love to share what they've read.

Following are our selections over the past years, with our consensus rating on one-to-five scale, with 5 hearts (♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥) superb and one heart (♥) not recommended. The fewer the hearts, the less likely we are to recommend it to a friend.

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Our Selections
1995-2006

Housekeeping: A Novel Marilynne Robinson	Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? Lorrie Moore	Family Matters Rohintin Mistry
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov	Revenge: A Novel Mary Morris	The Namesake: A Novel Jhumpa Lahiri
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini	Clara Callan: A Novel Richard Wright	The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruis Zafon
The Monk Downstairs Tim Farrington	Drowning Ruth Christina Schwarz	Crow Lake Mary Lawson

Mrs. Kimble Jennifer Haigh	Fall On Your Knees Anne-Marie MacDonald	Life of Pi Yann Martell
Middlesex: A Novel Jeffrey Eugenides	The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown	To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry	Enduring Love Ian MacEwan	The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger	All About Love bell hooks	Empire Falls Richard Russo
My Name Is Red Orhan Pamuk	Lambs of God Marele Day	The Dearly Departed Eleanor Lipman
White Teeth Zadie Smith	The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty	Bee Season Myra Goldberg
The Dress Lodger Sheri Holman ♥ ♥ ♥	The Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan ♥ ♥ ♥	Blue Angel Francine Prose ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Ahab's Wife: The Star-Gazer Sean Jeter Naslund ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	The Hundred Secret Senses Amy Tan ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

The Persian Boy Mary Renault ♥ ♥ ♥	The Red Tent Anita Diamant ♥ ♥ ♥	A Trail of Heart's Blood Wherever We Go Robert Olmstead ♥ ♥ ♥
Possession: A Romance A. S. Byatt ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	In the Skin of a Lion Michael Ondaatje ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	Billy Bathgate E. L. Doctorow ♥ ♥ ♥
Icy Sparks Gwen Hyman Rubio ♥ ♥ ♥	House of Sand and Fog Andre Dubus III ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	The Last of the Just Andre Schwarz-Bart ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
The Reader Bernard Schlink ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	Homestead Rosina Lippi ♥ ♥	The Archivist Martha Cooley ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood Rebecca Wells ♥ ♥ ♥	Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	My Antonia Willa Cather ♥ ♥
Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset ♥ ♥ ♥	Ladder of Years Anne Tyler ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	Spending Mary Gordon ♥
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	Original Bliss A. L. Kennedy ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	Talking to the Dead Helen Dinsmore ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Four Letters of Love Nial Williams ♥ ♥ ♥	Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	The Leopard Guiseppe Di Lampedusa ♥ ♥ ♥

The Unconsoled Kazuo Ishiguro ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	Beloved Toni Morrison ♥ ♥ ♥	In the Beauty of the Lilies John Updike ♥ ♥ ♥
The Weight of Water Anita Shreve ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	God of Small Things Arundati Roy ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	Cry the Beloved Country Alan Paton ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
The Cunning Man Robertson Davies ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	Accordion Crimes E. Annie Proulx ♥ ♥ ♥	The Tax Inspector Peter Carey ♥ ♥ ♥
Trailer Park Russell Banks ♥ ♥ ♥	The Woman in White Wilkie Collins ♥ ♥ ♥	The Giant's House Elizabeth McCracken ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

The Moor's Last Sigh Salmon Rushdie ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	Practical Magic Alice Hoffman ♥ ♥	Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson ♥ ♥ ♥	Autobiography of My Mother Jamaica Kincaid ♥	Island of the Day Before Umberto Eco ♥ ♥
The Funeral Makers Cathie Pelletier ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil John Berendt ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley ♥ ♥ ♥
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥	Stones from the River Ursula Hegi ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥