Up the Creek Book Club

Prior Book List

(Alphabetical)

Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund (May 2001) 
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (January 1998) 
All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg (March 2004) 
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (December 2000) 
All We Know of Heaven by Remy Rougeau (May 2003) 
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (January 2002) 
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout (September 1999) 
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (October 1997) 
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik (July 2005) 
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje (November 2001) 
The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg (December 2005)
Audrey Hepburn's Neck by Alan Brown (April 1998) 

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (June 2003) 
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (January 2003) 
Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison (May 2002) 
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks (September 1997) 
Bitter Grounds by Sandra Benitez (January 2000) 
Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris (July 2001) 
Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (November 2002) 
Blindness by Jose Saramego (April 2000) 
Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald (August 1999) 
Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad (January 2007) 
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo (February 2009) 

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (December 2009)
Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott (August 2004)
Coastliners by Joanne Harris (December 2002) 
The Coffee Trader by David Liss (August 2009) 
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (May 1998) 
Corrections by Johnathan Franzen (July 2002) 
Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber (December 2003) 
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (March 2000) 

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl (July 2006) 
Day of the Bees by Thomas Sanchez (August 2001) 
Death in Summer by William Trevor (July 1999) 
The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell (March 2005) 
The Distinguished Guest by Sue Miller (April 2006) 
Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (September 2004) 
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell (June 2009) 

East of Eden by John Steinbeck (February 2006) 
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel (March 1998) 

Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier (October 2005) 
A Far Country by Daniel Mason (April 2009) 
Fires in the Dark by Louise Doughty (February 2007) 
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem (February 2005) 
Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund (November 2005) 

Gesture Life by Chang Rae Lee (March 2003) 
Girl from the South by Joanna Trollope (July 2004) 
The Girl With No Shadow by Joanne Harris (March 2009) 
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (November 2009) 
The Girls by Lori Lansens (March 2007) 
God of the Rodeo by Daniel Bergner (June 1999) 
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (August 2005) 
The Great Man by Kate Christensen (May 2009) 

Handyman by Carolyn See (December 1999) 
Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley (June 2000) 
Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner (February 2001) 
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (September 2000) 

In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant (April 2007) 
Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman (June 2002) 
Isabel's Daughter by Judith Ryan Hendricks (December 2006) 

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (October 2004) 
The Known World by Edward P. Jones (May 2005) 

Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant (November 2006) 
Last Life by Claire Messud (November 2000) 
Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve (August 2002) 
Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines (June 1997) 
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (July 2003) 
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (November 1999) 
Love Again by Doris Lessing (August 1997) 
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (October 2002) 

Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett (February 2000) 
The March by E.L. Doctrow (September 2006) 
Martin Dressler, the Tale of An American Dreamer by Stephen Millhauser (February 1998) 
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (April 1999) 
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (May 2006) 
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (May 2004) 
Midwives by Christopher Bohjalian (December 1998) 
Miss Alcott's Email by Kit Bakke (August 2008)
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lithem (April 2001) 
Museum Guard by Howard Norman (January 1999) 
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki (November 1998) 

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (June 2005) 
Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier (January 2009) 

Old Dogs and Children by Robert Inman (August 2000) 
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Martez (January 2001) 
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus (April 2003) 
One True Thing by Anna Quindlan (October 1998) 
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (December 2004)
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (September 2009)

Passage to India by E.M. Forster (Feburary 2002) 
Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett (August 2006) 
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (September 2008) 
Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason (November 2003) 
Possession by AS Byatt (April 2002) 

The Quiet American by Graham Greene (November 2004) 

Range of Motion by Elizabeth Berg (December 1997) 
Red Water by Judith Freeman (October 2003) 
Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz (September 2001) 
Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison (January 2008)
River King by Alice Hoffman (March 2002) 
Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham (July 1997) 
Run by Ann Patchett (October 2008) 

Saving Grandma by Frankey Schaeffer (September 1998) 
The Sea by John Banville (October 2006) 
Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (September 2002) 
Seasons of Sun and Rain by Marjorie Dorner (June 2001) 
The Second Death of Unica Aveyano by Ernesto Mestre-Reed (June 2004) 
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (October 2009) 
Sky Burial by Xinran (March 2006) 
Sleep Toward Heaven by Amanda Eyre Ward (November 2007) 
Small Island by Andrea Levy (January 2006) 
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg (April 1997) 
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht (April 2004) 
Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (February 1999) 
Spies by Michael Frayn (February 2003) 
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon (October 2007) 
Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg (August 2003) 
Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi (May 1997) 
Straight Man by Richard Russo (June 2008)
A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher (July 2009)
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (September 2007) 

Theft by Peter Carey (May 2007) 
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (April 2008) 
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell (September 2005) 
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (December 2007) 
Three Junes by Julia Glass (September 2003) 
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (April 2005)  
Tran-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian (October 2001) 
The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan (February 2004)  

Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell (December 2008) 
The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro (May 2008) 

Waiting by Ha Jin (March 2001) 
Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (July 1998) 
Was it Something I Said by Valerie Block (May 2000) 
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (February 2008) 
The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald (January 2005) 
Weight of Water by Anita Shreve (June 1998) 
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller (May 1999) 
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig (March 2008) 
White Bone by Barbara Gowdy (October 2000) 
White Teeth by Zadie Smith (December 2001) 
Whole World Over by Julia Glass (June 2007) 
Wrack by James Bradley (July 2000) 

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (June 2006) 

Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman (November 2008)