The Brown Bag Book Club meets at Parr Library, 6200 Windhaven Parkway, from 12noon to 1:30 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of the month with the exception of December. This group is for all adult members of the community, 18 years and over, who love to read and discuss what they have read with others. Participants are encouraged to have read the featured book of the month, but it is not required for admission to the meeting. No registration is required. For more information, call or email Peter Jackson, the librarian coordinator, at 972.208.8000, peterj@plano.gov
2009 Selections from the Brown Bag Book Club
January 22 Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
February 26 A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth’s Castle by Liza Campbell
March 26 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
April 23 Little Heathens: Hard Times and High spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
May 28 The Painted Veil by W. Somerst Maugham
June 25 How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill
July 23 And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie and
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
August 27 Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt
September 24 Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace – One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
October 22 The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
November 19 The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
2008 Title Selections from the Brown Bag Book Club
January Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
February Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
March The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
April The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
June Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen
July A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
August Still Life by Louise PEnny
September Einstein by Walter Isaacson
October The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
November The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
2007 Title Selections from the Brown Bag Book Club
January Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
February Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance: Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround by Louis Gerstner
March The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer
April Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Galdwell
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
May The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
June Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy
July Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
August Digging to America by Anne Tyler
September The Year of Magical Thinking: A Memoir by Joan Didion
October Gentleman and Players by Joanne Harris
November Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan
2006 Title Selections from the Brown Bag Book Club
January State of Fear by Michael Crichton
February The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
March Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
April The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
May Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
June His Excellency: George Washington by Josepph Ellis
1776 by David G. McCullough
July Zorro: A Novel by Isabel Allende
August The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. friedman
September The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
October Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
November The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candace Millard
2005 Title Selections from the Brown Bag Book Club
January Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
February An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Merray
March Flyboys by James Bradley
April The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
May The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and his Backyard Nuclear Reactor by Ken Silverstein
June Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia by Carmen Bin Ladin
July Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
August Archangel: A Novel by Robert Harris
September Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
October The Kite Runer by Kahaled Hosseini
November On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
2004 Title Selections from the Brown Bag Book Club
January The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
February Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
March Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
April Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
May Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
June Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut by Emily White
July Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
August Pompeii by Robert Harris
September Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Gina Kolota
The Great Influenza by John Barry
October Plainsong by Kent Haruf
November My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
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