For 2015, our booklist was presented as a kind of diary of my best friends favorite fiction. I asked each of the ladies to share a short list of their favorite books, either books they’d read and loved long ago or something new. After we had everyone’s lists, I picked two from each list, wrote short summaries for them and then the whole group voted on which of the two they preferred to read.
Our reading list for 2015 was:
January: Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
February: A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
March: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
April: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
May: The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
June: March by Geraldine Brooks
July: In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens by Alice Walker
August: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
September: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
October: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
November: 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
December: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant