Book Group
The Mother’s Center of Central New Jersey’s Book Group meets on the first Thursday evening of the month usually at members’ homes. New members may join the book group at any time. For more information, please contact Tina at: mccnj@westfieldnj.com.
Here are some of the books read in the past year or so:
The Traveler’s Gift by: Andy Andrews
The Namesake by: Jhumpa Lahiri
Little Children by: Tom Perotta
A Million Little Pieces by: James Frey
The Mermaid Chair by: Sue Monk Kidd
Someone Not Really Her Mother by: Harriet Scott Chessman
Bee Season by: Myla Goldberg
White Teeth by: Zadie Smith
I Don’t Know How She Does It by: Allison Pearson
Nickel and Dimed in America by: Barbara Ehrenrich
The Year of Magical Thinking by: Joan Didion
The Red Tent by: Anita Diamant
The Alchemist by: Paolo Coelho
We are all Welcome Here by: Elizabeth Berg
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by: Michael Chabon
Year of Wonder by: Geraldine Brooks
The Handmaids Tale by: Margaret Atwood
Down Came The Rain by: Brooke Shields
Life of Pi by: Yann Martel
Cold Sassy Tree by: Olive Ann Burns
The Memory Keepers Daughter by: Kim Edwards
A Thousand Splendid Suns by: Khaled Hosseini
The Witch of Portobello by:Paulo Coelho
Snowflower and the Secret Fan by: Lisa See
Suite Francaise by: Irene Nemirovsky
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by: Jeannette Walls
Eat, Pray, Love by: Elizabeth Gilbert
The Piano Tuner by: Daniel Mason
The Space Between Us by: Thrity Umrigar
Love in the Time of Cholera by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by: Barbara Kingsolver
Never Let Me Go by: Kazuo Ishiguro
To Kill a Mockingbird by: Harper Lee
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by: Betty Smith
Big Russ and Me by: Tim Russert
Loving Frank: A Novel by: Nancy Horan
Water for Elephants by: Sara Gruen
Blindness by: Jose Saramago
In The Woods by: Tara French