Hawkes Family Book Club

"There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic." -- from Diane Setterfield's "The Thirteenth Tale"

Any book you own (Dec 2008)

  • I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)

Biography/Memoir: 100+ years gone (Nov 2008)

  • John Adams (David McCullough)

Scary Fiction/Non-Fiction (Oct 2008)

  • 50 True Tales of Terror
  • The Bodysnatcher (Robert Louis Stevenson)
  • The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Simon Winchester)

Science Fiction (Sep 2008)

  • Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
  • Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
  • Ringworld
  • The Positronic Man (Isaac Asimov)
  • The Songs of Distant Earth (Arthur C. Clarke)

Fantasy (Aug 2008)

  • A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle)
  • Elantris
  • Ergaon (Christopher Paolini)
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (J.K. Rowling)
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J.K. Rowling)
  • The Golden Compass
  • Twilight Series (Stephenie Meyer)

Nonfiction per your locale (Jul 2008)

  • Hiroshima (John Hersey)
  • Massacre at Mountain Meadows (Richard Turley)
  • Nine Who Survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Robert Trumbull)
  • The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond Virginia 1954-89

YA/Juvenile Fiction (Jun 2008)

  • Babe, the Gallant Pig
  • I Houdini: The Amazing Story of an Escape-Artist Hamster
  • James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)
  • Stuart Little (E.B. White)
  • The Whipping Boy (Sid Fleischman)

Cookbooks (May 2008)

  • 50 Ways to Take the Junk out of Food (Julie Whittingham)
  • Deceptively Delicious (Jessica Seinfeld)
  • Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook: Feasting With Your Slow Cooker (Dawn J. Ranck, Phyllis Pellman Good)
  • Hallelujah! The Welcome Table (Maya Angelou)
  • Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio)
  • Olive Trees and Honey: A Treasury of Vegetarian Recipes from Jewish Communities Around the World
  • The New Book of Middle Eastern Food

Newbery Winners & Nominees (Apr 2008)

  • Esperanza Rising (Pam Munoz Ryan)
  • Holes (Louis Sachar)
  • Peak (Roland Smith)
  • Penny from Heaven (Jennifer Holm)
  • The Westing Game (Ellen Raskin)
  • The Wheel on the School (Meindert DeJong)

Romantic Fiction (Feb 2008)

  • Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
  • Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
  • New Moon (Stephenie Meyer)
  • The Shadow Wife (Dorothy Eden)
  • Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)

Foreign-Born Authors (Nov 2007)

  • Inkheart (Cornelia Funke)
  • The Little Prince (Antoine de St. Exupery)
  • The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (Umberto Eco)
  • The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
  • The Thief Lord (Cornelia Funke)

Music (Oct 2007)

  • Amazing Grace (Eric Metaxas)
  • Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (James R. Gaines)
  • Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
  • Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection (Toby Faber)

Award Winners (Sep 2007)

  • Madame Curie (Eve Curie)
  • The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
  • The March (E. L. Doctorow)

Education/Teaching (Aug 2007)

  • Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Francine Prose)
  • Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 (Rafe Esquith)

Historical Fiction/Colonial America (Jul 2007)

  • In Gallant Company (Alexander Kent)
  • Shadow Patriots (Lucia St. Clair Robson)
  • The Winthrop Woman (Anya Seton)

Biographies/Memoirs (Jun 2007)

  • Boyd K. Packer: A Watchman on the Tower (Lucile C. Tate)
  • Catch Me If You Can (Frank W. Abagnale)
  • Every Secret Thing (Patricia Campbell Hearst)
  • Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
  • Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (Charles J. Shields)

Classic Fiction (May 2007)

  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
  • Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
  • The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)

Side Reads

  • Dragonwyck (Anya Seton)
  • History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (Deborah E. Lipstadt)
  • How to Read and Why (Harold Bloom)
  • If You Want To Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit (Brenda Ueland)
  • Mrs. Mike (Benedict & Nancy Freedman)
  • On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined (David Roberts)
  • The Complete Book Of Running For Women (Claire Kowalchik)
  • The Mobius Strip: Dr. August Mobius's Marvelous Band in Mathematics, Games, Literature, Art, Technology, and Cosmology
  • The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words of Less (Terry Ryan)
  • The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands (Dr. Laura Schlessinger)
  • You Can Never Get Enough of What You Don't Need (Mary Ellen Edmunds)
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Why is Stradivari so hard to spell?! sorry. . .

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  • 20000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • A Room Made of Windows
  • A Room of One's Own
  • A Thousand Acres
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns
  • A Wrinkle in Time
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Alice's Tulips
  • Amazing Grace
  • Anna Quindlen
  • Anne Perry
  • Awakenings
  • Baby Girl
  • Beowulf
  • Blessings
  • Book of Mormon
  • Boyd K. Packer
  • Brer Rabbit
  • Brisingr
  • Bronte
  • Catch Me if You Can
  • Catching Fire
  • Choosing a book for Book Clubs
  • Conan
  • Confessions of a Shopaholic
  • Confronting the Myth of Self-Esteem
  • Cricket in Times Square
  • Da Vinci Code
  • Dandelion Wine
  • Danny the Champion of the World
  • David Copperfield
  • Dr. Terr
  • Dracula
  • Dragonwyck
  • Eclipse
  • Eco
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Emma
  • Ender's Game
  • English Patient
  • Evening in the Palace of Reason
  • Every Secret Thing
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Fannie Flagg
  • favorite books
  • First Nights Five Musical Premiers
  • Follow the River
  • Gone With the Wind
  • Great Expectations
  • Gregor the Overlander
  • Harry Potter
  • Hearing the Voice of the Lord
  • History on Trial
  • How to Read and Why
  • I Claudius
  • I Houdini
  • Icy Sparks
  • If You Want To Write: A Book about Art
  • In Gallant Company
  • Independence and Spirit
  • James and the Giant Peach
  • Jane Eyre
  • Janet Evanovich
  • Jasper Fforde
  • John Bellairs
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
  • Julie Beck
  • King Lear
  • Kingsolver
  • Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Levitin
  • Life of Pi
  • Lion Witch and the Wardrobe
  • Little House
  • Lovely Bones
  • Lund
  • Madame Curie
  • Madeleine Brent
  • Magic Treehouse
  • Magical Moments
  • Man's Search for Meaning
  • Mansfield Park
  • Marley and Me
  • Mary Higgins Clark
  • Migraine
  • Moby Dick
  • Mockingbird
  • Mockingjay
  • Moonraker's Bride
  • Mouse and the Motorcycle
  • Mozart: A Life
  • Mrs. Mike
  • Musicophilia
  • Nancy Drew
  • New Moon
  • Nightlight
  • Old Testament
  • Oliver Sacks
  • On the Ridge Between Life and Death
  • Orson Scott Card
  • Over Easy
  • P.G. Wodehouse
  • Parenting the Ephraim's Child
  • Peace Like a River
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Ray Bradbury
  • Reading Like a Writer
  • Roald Dahl
  • Robert Jordan
  • Sandra Dallas
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Shadow of the Wind
  • Shadow Patriots
  • Shel Silverstein
  • Spiderwick Chronicles
  • Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers
  • Stradivari's Genius
  • Stranger at Wildings
  • Stuart Little
  • Subversive Literature
  • Subvocalizing
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Tarzan
  • Terry Ryan
  • The BFG
  • The Birth House
  • The Book Thief
  • The Chili Queen
  • The Diary of Mattie Spenser
  • The Doll People
  • The Giraffe the Pelly and Me
  • The Golden Compass
  • The Good Earth
  • The Help
  • The Hidden Flower
  • The Hiding Place
  • The Historian
  • The Host
  • The Hunger Games
  • The Infinite Atonement
  • The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
  • The Kite Runner
  • The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • The Little Prince
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
  • The March
  • The Mobius Strip
  • The Mouse and the Motorcycle
  • The Mysterious Benedict Society
  • The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
  • The Name of the Wind
  • The Persian Pickle Club
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio
  • The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands
  • The Story of Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist
  • The Wind in the Willows
  • The Winthrop Woman
  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond
  • Then There Were Five
  • These Is My Words
  • This is Your Brain on Music
  • Thursday Next
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Tregaron's Daughter
  • Truman
  • Twilight
  • Two Sisters of Persephone
  • Uncle Tungsten
  • Vienna by Eva Menasse
  • Welcome to the World
  • Westing Game
  • Wheel of Time
  • Wizard of Oz
  • Woolfe
  • Wuthering Heights
  • You Can Never Get Enough of what You Don't Need
  • Zafon

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