REAL LADIES READ
BOOK CLUB
Books and Reviews
2009 Books
2008 Books
| Small Island |
Andree Levy |
***2nd Runner up for 2008 Lady Award for Book of the Year |
| Kept Woman |
Susan Donovan |
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| Tell No One |
Harlan Coben |
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| The Almond Picker |
Simonetta Agnello Horby |
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| Keeper of Secrets...Translation of an Incident |
Anjuelle Floyd |
*** 1st Runner up for 2008 Lady Award for Book of the Year and Winner of the New Real Author Search 08 |
| The Little Lady Agency |
Hester Brown |
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| Broken Paradise |
Cecilia Samartin |
*** Winner of the 2008 Lady Award for Book of the year |
| Black Door |
Velvet | |
| The Confessions of Rick James |
Rick James |
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| Infected | Scott Sigler |
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| Tales of the City |
Armistead Maupin |
2007 Books
 When a Sistahs Fed Up |
Monica Anderson |
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| A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider |
Ishmael Beah |
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| Yeah I Said It |
Wands Skyes |
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| Take Her Man |
Grace Octavia |
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| Irresistible You |
Francis Ray |
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| Virgin Suicides |
Jeffery Eugenides |
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| Caress of a Twilight |
Lauren Hamilton |
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| In Firm Pursuit |
Pamela Samuels-Young |
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| The Girl Next Door |
Jack Kethum |
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| Sold | Patrica McCormick |
2006 Books
| Bliss | Gabrielle Pina |
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| Can You Keep a Secret |
Sophie Kinsella |
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| Sun Flower and the Secret Fan |
Lisa See |
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| Dirty Blonde and Half Cuban |
Lisa Nixon |
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| Fear Itself |
Walter Mosely |
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| Insatiable | Allison Hobbs |
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| Something Wrong with your Scale |
Van Whitfield |
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| The Spirit Catches up and You Fall Down |
Anne Fadiman |
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| Rich Part of Life |
Jim Kokoris |
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| Lullaby | Chuck Palaahnuik |
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| The Glass Castle |
Jeannette Wall |
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| The Keeper of the Keys |
Perri O'Shaughnessy |
2005 Books
| Devil in the White City |
Erik Larson | |
| Prisoner's Wife |
Asha Bandele |
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| Autobiography of a Face |
Lucy Grealy |
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| Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas |
James Patterson |
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| What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day |
Pearl Cleavage |
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| Reading Lolita in Tehran |
Azar Nafisi |
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| Before I Let Go |
Darren Coleman |
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| A Dying in the Dark |
Valerie Wilson |
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| The Myrtle Plantation: The True Story of America's Most Haunted House |
Frances Kermeen |
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| Icarus Girl |
Helen Oyeyemi |
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| The Last Playboy:The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa |
Shawn Levy |
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| Sellevision | Augusten Burroughs |
2004 Books
| Black, White and Jewish |
Rebecca Walker | |
| The Notebook |
Nicholas Sparks |
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| Baggage Claim | David E. Talbert |
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| Crave | Darnella Ford |
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| Simon Says |
Collen Dixon |
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| Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseni |
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| Every Friday Night |
Rita McLaughlin |
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| Drama Queen |
LaJill Hunt |
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| My Sisters Keeper |
Jodi Picoult |
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| Color of Water: The Black Mans Tribute to his White Mother |
James McBride |
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| In the Black-History of AA of Wall Street |
Gregory S. Bell |
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| Memoirs of a Geisha |
Arthur Golden |
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*** Indicates recommended book club favorites.
