Updated
September 13, 2013
Posted March 9, 2005

Ohio Avenue Book Shelf

Denizens from Ohio Avenue, Talmadge Street and Dunning Street have been meeting monthly since at least 2002, to discuss a selected tome. This is the list, as best as they can recollect.

Author

Title

Meeting

Andre Agassi Open November 2011
Mitch Albom Five People You Meet in Heaven  
Julian Barnes Sense of an Ending June 2013
Abby Bardi Book of Fred  
Aimee Bender Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake August 2011
Christopher Bohjalian Buffalo Soldier  
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 March 2009
James Campbell The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Artic Wilderness  
Tracy Chevalier Girl With the Pearl Earring
 
Chris Cleave Little Bee August 2010
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games April 2010
Suzanne Collins Catching Fire and Mocking Jay March 2011 (February meeting canceled)
Martin Davies Conjurer’s Bird November 2009
Joan Didion Year of Magical Thinking  
Jennifer Donnelly Northern Light  
Emma Donoghue Room September 2011
Dave Eggers Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius  
Leif Enger Peace Like a River  
Louise Erdrich Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse  
Louise Erdrich Master Butcher Singing Club  
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
 
Anne Fadiman
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
 
Jim Fergus One Thousand White Women  
Ann Fessler
The Girls Who Went Away January 2010
Alexandra Fuller Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood  
Sara Gruen Water for Elephants February 2009
Jennifer Haigh Mrs. Kimble
March 2005
Joanne Harris Chocolat May 2009
Ursula Hegi Stones from the River October 2010
Tobias Hill Love of Stones  
Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God July 2011
Siri Hustvedt
What I Loved  
Hosseini Khaled Kite Runner May 2005
Sue Monk Kidd Secret Life of Bees  
Tracy Kidder
Hometown  
Barbara Kingsolver Poisonwood Bible  
Erik Larson Devil in the White City  
Harper Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird December 2010
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Eryn Loeb 2011?
Ann-Marie MacDonald Fall On Your Knees  
Gregory Maguire Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West  
Yann Martel Life of Pi  
Emma McLaughlin The Nanny Diaries June 2005
Toni Morrison
A Mercy February 2010
Kate Mosse Labyrinth October 2009
Louise Murphy True Story of Hansel and Gretel  
Stuart O'Nan Last Night at the Lobster July 2009 (postponed?)
Ann Packer Dive From Clausen's Pier  
Ann Patchett Bel Canto  
Randy Pausch Last Lecture May 2013

Nancy Peacock

Home Across the Road  
Michael Perry
Population 485  
Frank Portman King Dork (extra credit) January 2009
Sara Rath Night Sisters October 2010
Lucinda Rosenfeld What She Saw  
Meg Rosoff How I Live Now  
Meg Rosoff What I Was April 2009
Richard Russo Empire Falls June and July 2009
J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye January 2009
Marjane Satrapi Percepolis  
Danzy Senna Caucasia  
Mary Ann Shaffer The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society May 2010
Lee Smith Lost Girls April 2005
Patti Smith Just Kids June 2011 (postponed from May due to April's political discussion)
Kathryn Stockett The Help January 2011
Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge September 2010
Amy Tan Bonesetter's Daughter  
Jill Bolte Taylor My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey June 2010
Abraham Verghese Cutting For Stone May 2011 (moved from April 2011 due to politics)
Rebecca Wells Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood  
Elizabeth Wein Code Name Verity August & September 2013
David Wroblewski
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle March 2010
Irene Zabytko The Sky Unwashed November 2010