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.

Book Title

Author

Meeting

Bel Canto Ann Patchett  
Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan  
Book of Fred Abby Bardi  
Buffalo Soldier Christopher Bohjalian  
Catcher in the Rye; King Dork as extra credit J.D. Salinger; Frank Portman January 2009
Catching Fire Suzanne Collins March 2011 (with Mockingjay; February meeting canceled)
Caucasia Danzy Senna Dane County Big Read 2002
Chocolat Joanne Harris May 2009
Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein August & September 2013
Conjurer’s Bird Martin Davies November 2009
Cutting For Stone Abraham Verghese May 2011 (postponed from April due to political discussion)
Devil in the White City Erik Larson  
Dive From Clausen's Pier Ann Packer  
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Rebecca Wells the first book?
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Alexandra Fuller  
The Falls Joyce Carol Oates  
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury March 2009
Fall On Your Knees Ann-Marie MacDonald  
Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Artic Wilderness James Campbell  
Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom  
Girl With the Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier  
The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler January 2010
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer May 2010
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers  
The Help Kathryn Stockett January 2011
Home Across the Road

Nancy Peacock

 
Hometown Tracy Kidder
 
How I Live Now Meg Rosoff  
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins April 2010
Just Kids Patti Smith June 2011 (postponed from May 2011)
Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini May 2005
Labyrinth Kate Mosse October 2009
Last Girls Lee Smith January 2005
Last Lecture Randy Pausch May 2013
Last Night at the Lobster Stuart O'Nan July 2009 (postponed?)
Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse Louise Erdrich  
Little Bee Chris Cleave August 2010
Life of Pi Yann Martel  
Love of Stones Tobias Hill  
A Mercy Toni Morrison February 2010
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides  
Mrs. Kimble
Jennifer Haigh March 2005
Mockingjay Suzanne Collins March 2011 (with Catching Fire; February meeting canceled)
My Stroke of Insight; A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey Jill Bolte Taylor June 2010
Mockingjay Suzanne Collins March 2011 (with Catching Fire)
Nanny Diaries Emma McLaughlin June 2005
Northern Light Jennifer Donnelly  
Olive Kitterdge Elizabeth Strout September 2010
One Thousand White Women Jim Fergus  
Open Andre Agassi November 2011
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Aimee Bender August 2011
Peace Like a River Leif Enger  
Persepolis Marjane Satrapi  
Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver  
Population 485 Michael Perry
 
Room Emma Donoghue September 2011
Runaway: Stories Alice Munro  
Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd  
Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes June 2013
The Sky Unwashed Irene Zabytko November 2010
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman
 
Stones from the River Ursula Hegi October 2010
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
David Wroblewski March 2010
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston July 2011
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee December 2010
True Story of Hansel and Gretel Louise Murphy  
Water for Elephants Sara Gruen February 2009
What I Loved Siri Hustvedt
 
What I Was Meg Rossof April 2009
What She Saw Lucinda Rosenfeld  
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Gregory Maguire February 2005
Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion  
Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks July 2005