List of previously read Books
2011 Excelsior Book Club Readings
May: City of Thieves by David Benioff
April: The Ethical Assassin by David Liss
March: Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
February: The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian
January: The French Revolution by Matt Stewart
2010 Excelsior Book Club Readings
November: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson
October: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
August-September: The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
July: Moo by Jane Smiley
June: Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
May: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
April: Help Kathryn Stockett
March: The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
February: Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
January: Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
2009 Excelsior Book Club Readings:
November: "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrow
October: “Out Stealing Horses” by Per Petterson
August-September: "Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis
July: “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga
June: “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
April & May: “The Sea” by John Banville
March: “The Egg And I” by Betty McDonald
February: “The Living” by Annie Dillard
January: “Under the Tuscan Sun” by Frances Mayes
2008 Excelsior Book Club Readings :
November: “The World Without Us” by Alan Weisman
October: “Blindness” by José Saramago
September: “Pope Joan” by Donna Woolfolk Cross
July: “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollen
May-June: “Divisadero” by Michael Ondaatje
April: “A Conspiracy of Paper” by David Liss
March: “The Audacity of Hope” by Barack Obama
February: “Saturday” by Ian McEwan
January: “The Man In The High Castle ” by Philip K. Dick
2007 Excelsior Book Club Readings :
November: “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and “American Jezebel” by Eve LaPlante
October: “Stiff” by Mary Roach
August - September: “Reading Lolita in Tehran ” by Azar Nafisi, and “I Saw Ramallah” by Mourid Barghouti
July: “Uncommon Carriers” by John McPhee
June: “Assassination Vacation” by Sarah Vowell
May: “The Piano Tuner” by Daniel Mason
April: “The Jane Austen Book Club” by Karen Joy Fowler
March: “When The Emperor Was Divine” by Julie Otsuka
February: “Bel Canto” by Ann Patchett
January: “The Confessions of Max Tivoli” by Andrew Sean Greer
2006 Excelsior Book Club Readings :
December: “Ballad of the Whiskey Robber” by Julian Rubinstein
November: "The Inheritance of Loss” by Kirin Desai
October: “On Beauty” by Zadie Smith
August – September: “The Italian Secretary” by Caleb Carr
July: "Garlic and Sapphires" by Ruth Reichl
June: "The Geographer's Library" by John Fasman
May: "The Secret Lion" by Chris Gortner
April: "The Peace War" by Vernor Vinge
March: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
February: "Carter Beats the Devil" by Glen David Gold
January: "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
