Silicon Valley Book Club

2009 Books

Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

2008 Books

Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Who Do You Love: Stories by Jean Thompson
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Cowgirls: Women of the American West by Teresa Jordan
Someone to Run With by David Grossman
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter van Tilburg Clark
The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia

2007 Books

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kid
Fade by Robert Cormier
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Three Junes by Julie Glass
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

2006 Books

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Middlesex by Jeff Eugenides
Joe by Larry Brown
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Catfish and Mandala: A Two Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham
Wickett's Remedy by Myla Goldberg
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
After by Claire Tristram
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life by Alison Weir

2005 Books

Monkey Dancing by Daniel Glick
Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis
Good Grief: A Novel by Lolly Winston
Waiting by Ha Jin
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Corrections by Jonathen Franzen
Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
The Cave by Jose Saramago
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

2004 Books

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Bachelor Girls by Betsy Israel
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The DaVince Code by Dan Brown
The Sky So Big and Black by John Barnes
What Was She Thinking? by Zoe Heller
Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon
Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood
Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner

2003 Books

Cultures @ Silicon Valley by J.A. English-Lueck
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpra Lahiri
Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
The Rector's Wife by Joanna Trollope
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Blues for Cannibals by Charles Bowden
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
Unless: A Novel by Carol Shields
Life of Pi by Yann Martel

2002 Books White Teeth by Zadie Smith Blindness by Jose Saramago The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Anything Considered by Peter Mayle Being Dead by Jim Crace Mangoes and Quince: A Novel by Carol Field The Pleasing Hour by Lily King Ghost of Hannah Mendes by Naomi Regen Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwartz The Red and the Black by Stendhal 2001 Books Only Begotton Daughter by James Morrow Old New York by Edith Wharton The Intuitionists by Colson Whitehead Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The Hours by Michael Cunningham The Nine Tailors: Changes Rung on an Old Theme in Two Short Touches and Two Full Peals by Dorothy Leigh Sayers Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen The Bridge to Terebithia by Katherine Paterson Nothing But the Truth by Avi The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara Pollen by Jeff Noon Under the Skin by Michel Faber The End of the Affair by Graham Greene 2000 Books Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux White Noise by Don DeLillo Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons Poor Things by Alasdair Gray South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett High Fidelity by Nick Hornby London Bridge by Louis Ferdinand Celine City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane Atticus by Ron Hansen 1999 Books Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Hitler and Stalin, Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi Collected Stories, 1939 - 1976 by Paul Fredrick Bowles The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Murial Spark Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake Valis by Philip K. Dick The Leopard by Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Felicia's Journey by William Trevor Bombay Ice by Leslie Forbes 1998 Books Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault After the Fire: The Destruction of the Lancaster County Amish by Randy-Michael Testa Possession by A.S. Byatt Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The Fifth Child by Doris May Lessing Grendel by John Champlin Gardner Omon Ra by Viktor Pelevin 1997 Books Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson The Snapper by Roddy Doyle The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields The Switch by Elmore Leonard The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker The Stain by Rikki Ducornet The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton Savages by Joe Kane The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy by Evelyn Waugh Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernieres 1996 Books Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks The Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer Emma by Jane Austen Death on the Installment Plan by Louis Ferdinand Celine Paula by Isabel Allende The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula le Guin I Dreamt of Africa by Kukki Galman 1995 Books Deliria by Alyn Hall Little, Big by John Crowley The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner The Dork of Cork by Chet Raymo Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg 1994 Books Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Beloved by Toni Morrison Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller A Place Where the Sea Remembers by Sandra Benitez Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides