First Unitarian Church of Memphis | 292 W Virginia Avenue, Memphis, Tn 38103
Date Title Author
03-2002 The Red Tent Anita Diamant
04-2002 Ahab's Wife Sena Jeter Naslund
06-2002 The Fig Eater Jody Shield
07-2002 Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Ben Carson
08-2002 No Place for a Woman Janann Sherman
09-2002 Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner
10-2002 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstres Dai Sijie
Special Event: Heard Ben Carson speak
Date Title Author
01-2003 My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk
02-2003 Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
03-2003 Crossing Into Safety Wallace Stegner
04-2003 Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand
05-2003 Bone Setter’s Daughter Amy Tan
06-2003 Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver
08-2003 My Losing Season (read, did not meet) Pat Conroy
09-2003 Cane River Lalita Tademy
10-2003 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
Special Events: Dinner at Lulu Grille; movie, Seabiscuit
Date Title Author
01-2004 Winter of Our Discontent John Steinbeck
02-2004 The DaVinci Code> Dan Brown
03-2004 The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
05-2004 In the Tennessee Country Peter Taylor
06-2004 Einstein’s Dream Alan Lightman
09-2004 Life of Pi Yann Martel
10-2004 Blessings Anna Quindlen
Special Events: Saw movies--Cold Mountain in January; Finding Neverland in December
Date Title Author
01-2005 Anil’s Ghost Michael Ondaatje
02-2005 Love Toni Morrison
03-2005 It’s All True David Freeman
04-2005 Amazing Adventures of Kavelier's Clay Michael Chabon
05-2005 Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi
08-2005 Middlesex Jeffry Eugenides
09-2005 The Falls Joyce Carol Oates
10-2005 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
Special Event: Sekisui and movie
Date Title Author
01-2006 Wild Swans Jung Chang
02-2006 Beloved Toni Morrison
03-2006 Gilead Marilynne Robinson
04-2006 A Coffin for Dimitrios Eric Ambler
05-2006 Bird by Bird Anne Lamott
06-2006 The Lone Ranger; Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Sherman Alexie
08-2006 Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
10-2006 Pretty Birds Scott Simon
Date Title Author
01-2007 Chalktown Melinda Haynes
02-2007 West with the Night Beryl Markham
03-2007 The Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty
04-2007 The Way the Crow Flies Ann-Marie MacDonald
05-2007 Atonement Ian McEwan
06-2007 Devil in the White City Erik Larson
09-2007 The Asiatics Frederic Prokosch
10-2007 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Barbara Kingsolver
Special Event: Toured the Welty House in Jackson, Mississippi
Date Title Author
01-2008 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
02-2008 An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods/Madness Kay Redfield Jamison
03-2008 The Reivers William Faulkner
04-2008 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
05-2008 Lie Down in Darkness William Styron
06-2008 On Beauty Zadie Smith
Special Event: Toured Faulkner's home, Rowan Oaks, in Oxford, Missippi