The Country Dozen Book Club
We are located in the community of Priddis Alberta, just west of Calgary. We started our book club in 1995 - just celebrated 10 years in January. We are local women that have raised our kids together and now are enjoying watching them all leave home - leaving more time to read. We started out with 11 members and are down to 8 and seem to be content with this number. We have enjoyed reading and meeting monthly to discuss the books - by doing so have become good friends and have supported each other through many of lifes trials. We try to do a weekend run-a-way at least once a year and pick an interesting place to go and "chill".
You will see our book list is quite extensive - we try to read Canadian books but certainly don't stop there. We read both fiction and non-fiction. We try to read some of the classics, or older books that are easier to get ahold of - and are often pleasently surprised! It always surprises us what books bring on the best discussions -this is something that cannot be predicted. We have no intention of stopping anytime soon and look forward to celebrating 15 years before we know it!
Reading List
Established December 1994
1995
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
Mutant Message Down Under
Marlo Morgan
Not Wanted on the Voyage
Timothy Findlay
Follow the River
Thom Alexander
Away
Jane Urquhart
The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy
The Wild Swans
Jung Chan
Funny Boy
Shyam Selvadurai
New Moon Rising
Eugena Price
1996
Emma
Jane Austen
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Louis deBernieres
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson
A Discovery of Strangers
Rudy Wiebe
Beach Music
Pat Conroy
The Horse Whisperer
Nicholas Evans
Men for the Mountains
Sid Marty
The Piano Man's Daughter
Timothy Findlay
1997
A Thief of Time
Tony Hellerman
Homesick
Guy Vanderhaeghe
To The Wedding
John Berger
A Women's Worth
Marianne Williamson
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
Virgins of Paradise
Barbara Wood
1998
Englishman's Boy
Guy Vanderheeghe
A Cure for Death by Lightning
Gail Anderson Dargatz
Judith Hearne
Brian Moore
Elephant Winter
Kim Echlin
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
Possession
A. S. Byatt
Larry's Party
Carol Sheilds
Swamp Angel
Ethel Wilson
God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
1999
The Underpainter
Jane Urquhart
A Death in the Family
James Agee
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence
Accordian Crimes
E. Annie Proulx
The Gospels
Holy Bible
A Fine Daughter
Catherine Simmons Niven
Fionavar Tapestry
Guy Gavrbiel Kay
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
Brigette Jones Diary
Helen Fielding
2000
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
Beyond the Sky and the Earth
Jamie Zeppa
Barney's Version
Mordicei Richler
Lust for Life
Irving Stone
Bachelor brothers' bed and breakfast
Bill Richardson
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson
Hidden In Plain View
J Tobin/R Dobard
Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez
2001
Catcher in the Rye
J.D.Salinger
Beneath the Faceless Mountain
Roberta Rees
Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende
The Hot Zone
Richard Preston
A Star Called Henry
Roddy Doyle
Written on the Body
Jeannette Winterson
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Irving Stone
Stones from the River
Ursula Hegiv
The Baroness of the Canadian Rockies
(Lizzie Rummel)
Ruth Oltmann
2002
No Great Mischief
Alistair MacLeod
Confessions from a Jericho Jail
Stephen Langfur
The Red Tent
Anita Diamant
Five Quarters of the Orange
Joanne Harris
Midwives
Chris Bohjalian
Monkey Beach
Eden Robinson
Silk
Alessandro Baricco
When We Were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro
Guilty Addictions; A Political Mystery
Garrett Wilson
2003
The Glass Palace
Amitav Ghosh
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows Of Josephine B.
Sandra Gulland
Life of Pi: a novel
Yann Martel
The Lost Garden
Helen Humphries
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolfe
The Final Confession of Mable Stark
Robert Hough
Short & Tall Tales "Moose Country Legends"
Lilian Jackson Braun
The Middle Ground
Margaret Drabble
2004
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
5 People you meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom
The DaVinci Code
Dan Brown
The Bonesetters Daughter
Amy Tan
Donna Morrisey
The Three Junes
Julia Glass
East of Eden
John Steinbech
Deafening
Francis Itani
The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time
Mark Haddon
2005
The Constant Gardener
(10th Anniversary Meeting)
John Le Carre
Brother & Sister
Joanna Trollope
Crones Don't Whine
Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen
Time Traveller's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
Naked
David Sedaris
Lilac Moon
Sharon Butala
