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Excellent Women
(named in honor of the Barbara Pym novel.)

Convened by Sue Lerdal, January 2001

Currently meeting the first Monday of the month.


Reading List
The list of books read by the members of the Excellent Women Reading Circle


August, 2004: The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
November, 2004: Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom) and Girl with A Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier)
December, 2004: Year of Wonders (Geraldine Brooks)
February, 2005: What's the Matter With Kansas? (Thomas Frank)
April, 2005: The Master Butchers Singing Club (Louise Erdrich)
June, 2005: Gilead: A Novel (Marilynne Robinson)
August, 2005: The Alienist (Caleb Carr) and The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson)
October, 2005: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Gregory Maguire)

Books read prior to August, 2004:

Change Me into Zeus's Daughter (Barbara Robinette Moss)
The Other Boleyn Girl (Philippa Gregory)
The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan)
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
Farewell to Manzanar (Jeanne and James D.Houston)
When the Emperor Was Divine (Julie Otsuka)
The Chosen (Chaim Potok)
The Golden Notebook (Doris M. Lessing)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
Excellent Women (Barbara Pym)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
My Antonia (Willa Cather)
The Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
The Makioka Sisters (Junichiro Tanizaki)
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)


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Created: August 31, 2004
Updated: April 20, 2005
Maintained by: Susan Lerdal