"Ecology" Book Group Book List

Meets monthly during lunch in the Washington State Department of Ecology Headquarters Building in Lacey, WA (See notes below)

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Number	M/Y	Book or Books with links to Amazon.com page of reviews	Author	Chooser
134	5/02	Slaughterhouse Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	Tim
133	4/02	My Son's Story	Nadine Gordimer	Gordon
	3/02	Hiatus
132	2/02	The Lovely Bones	Alice Sebold	Holly
131	1/02	Life of Pi	Yann Martel	Terra
130	12/02	A Free Man of Color	Barbara Hambly	Kathy
	11/02	Hiatus
129	10/02	The Songcatcher	Sharyn McCrumb	Tim
128	9/02	Ethan Frome	Edith Wharton	Holly
127	8/02	Malgudi Days	R. K. Narayan	Gordon
	7/02	Hiatus
126	6/2002	Girl with a Pearl Earring	Tracy Chevalier	Terra
125	5/2002	Dandelion Wine	Ray Bradbury	Kathy
124	4/2002	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Ken Kesey	Tim
	3/2002	Hiatus
123	2/2002	The Prodigal Summer	Barbara Kingsolver	Holly
	1/2002	Hiatus
122	12/2001	All Over but the Shoutin'	Rick Bragg	Gordon
121	11/2001	The Pilot's Wife --- Reading Group Guide	Anita Shreve	Debby
120	10/2001	Horse Heaven	Jane Smiley	Robert
	9/2001	Hiatus
119	8/2001	This House of Sky --- Ivandoig.com with readers guides, etc.	Ivan Doig	Terra
118	7/2001	The House of Sand and Fog	Andre Dubus III	Kathy
117	6/2001	Slaves of New York	Tama Janowitz	Kathleen
116	5/2001	Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West	Gregory Maguire	Tim
115	4/2001	Homestead	Annick Smith	Ann
114	3/2001	The Stone Diaries	Carol Shields	Debby?
113	2/2001	The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho	Robert
112	1/2001	The Book of Ruth	Jane Hamilton	Terra?
111	12/2000	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	Mark Twain	Kathy
	11/2000	Group took a hiatus!
110	10/2000	East of the Mountains	David Guterson	Terra
109	9/2000	The Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter)	J. K. Rowling	Kathleen
108	8/2000	The Alienist	Caleb Carr	Tim
107	7/2000	Bridget Jones's Diary	Helen Fielding	Holly
106	6/2000	The Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver	Debby
105	5/2000	Cold Mountain	Charles Frazier	Kathy
104	4/2000	Into the Wild	Jon Krakauer	Terra
103	3/2000	Breaking Blue	Tim Egan	Kathleen
102	2/2000	Little Big Man	Thomas Berger	Robert
101	1/2000	All the Pretty Horses	Cormac McCarthy	Tim
100	12/99	Memoirs of a Geisha	Arthur Golden	Linda
99	11/99	The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood	Rebecca Welles	Holly
98	10/99	Angela's Ashes	Frank McCourt	Debby
97	9/99	The Green Mile	Steven King	Kathy
96	8/99	Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood	Myra
95	7/99	Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury	Mel
94	6/99	She’s Come Undone	Wally Lamb	Terra
93	5/99	The Hot Zone	Richard Preston	Kathleen
92	4/99	Wedding Cakes, Rats, and Rodeo Queens	Anne Cameron	Robert
91	3/99	Cold Comfort Farm	Stella Gibbons	Tim
90	2/99	The Giver	Lois Lowry	Linda
89	1/99	Maximum Bob	Elmore Leonard	Holly
88	12/98	Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	Debbie
87	11/98	Wild Swans	Jung Chang	Kathy
86	10/98	Reservation Blues	Sherman Alexie	Myra
85	9/98	Brideshead Revisited	Evelyn Waugh	Mel
84	8/98	Accidental Tourist	Anne Tyler	Terra
83	7/98	The Education of Little Tree	Forrest Carter	Robert
82	6/98	Devil in a Blue Dress	Walter Mosley	Tim
81	5/98	Undaunted Courage	Stephen Ambrose	Holly
80	4/98	The Far Pavilions	M. M. Kaye	Linda
79	3/98	The House of Seven Gables	Nathaniel Hawthorn	Debbie
78	2/98	A Lesson before Dying	Gaines	Yvonne
77	12/97	Return of the Native	Thomas Hardy	Kathy
76	11/97	Smilla’s Sense of Snow	Peter Hoeg	Mel
75	10/97	Halloween Party	Agatha Christie	Margaret
74	9/97	Animal Dreams	Barbara Kingsolver	Terra
73	8/97	The Meadow	James Galvin	Robert
72	7/97	A Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy Toole	Tim
71	6/97	Cheaper By the Dozen	Gilbreth and Carey	Holly
70	5/97	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	John Berendt	Linda
69	4/97	Dune	Frank Herbert	Debbie
68	3/97	The Runaway Jury	John Grisham	Yvonne
67	2/97	Winesburg Ohio	Sherwood Anderson	Kathy
66	1/97	Baja Oklahoma	Dan Jenkins	Mel
65	12/96	A Holiday for Murder	Agatha Christy	Margaret
64	11/96	Ishmael	Daniel Quinn	Terra
63	10/96	The Bean Trees	Barbara Kingsolver	Robert
62	9/96	Snow Falling on Cedars	David Guterson	Tim
61	8/96	Last of the Breed	Louis Lamour	Linda
60	7/96	The Thornbirds	Colleen McCullough	Yvonne
59	6/96	The Shining	Steven King	Debbie
58	5/96	1984	George Orwell	Dorothy
57	4/96	Cry The Beloved Country	Alan Paton	Kathy
56	3/96	Like Water For Chocolate	Laura Esquivel	Mel
55	2/96	Screw Tape Letters	C. S. Lewis	Margaret
54	1/96	Crossing To Safety	Wallace Stegner	Terra
53	12/95	The Virginian	Owen Wister	Robert
52	11/95	The Shipping News	E. Annie Proulx	Tim
51	10/95	The Chamber	John Grisham	Yvonne
50	9/95	Any Anne McCaffrey Book	Anne McCaffrey	Debbie
49	8/95	The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Dorothy
48	7/95	To Kill A Mockingbird	Harper Lee	Kathy
47	6/95	House Made of Dawn	N. Scott Momaday	Mel
46	5/95	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou	Margaret
45	4/95	Desolation Angels	Jack Kerouac	Terra
44	3/95	Green Grass, Running Water	Thomas King	Robert
43	2/95	Red Storm Rising	Tom Clancy	David
42	1/95	The Devil Drives	Fawn M. Brodie	Nancy
41	12/94	Middle Passage	Charles Johnson	Tim
40	11/94	The Good Earth	Pearl Buck	Debbie
39	10/94	Dracula / Frankenstein	Bram Stoker / Mary Shelley	Dorothy
38	9/94	Salem's Lot	Steven King	Mel
37	8/94	Huck Finn	Mark Twain	Margaret
36	7/94	The Martian Chronicles	Ray Bradbury	Kathy
35	6/94	The Ginger Man	J. P. Donleavy	Tim
34	5/94	Desert Solitaire	Edward Abbey	Bill
33	4/94	The N***** of the Narcissus	Joseph Conrad	Yvonne
32	3/94	Sea Wolf	Jack London	Dorothy
31	2/94	Sometimes a Great Notion	Ken Kesey	Nancy
30	1/94	Nueromancer	William Gibson	Mel
29	12/93	Far From the Madding Crowd	Thomas Hardy	Tim
28	11/93	Death Comes to the Archbishop	Willa Cather	Kathy
27	10/93	Ligaea, Telltale Heart, Pit and Pendulum, Murders in Rue Morgue	Edgar Allen Poe	Yvonne
26	9/93	Red Sky in the Morning	Richard Bradford	Margaret
25	8/93	At Play in the Fields of the Lord	Peter Mathiessen	Bill
24	7/93	The Mysterious Island	Jules Verne	Mel
23	6/93	Green Mansions	W.H. Hudson	DeLynne
22	5/93	The Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling	Kathy
21	4/93	John Brown's Body	Steven Vincent Benet	Julia
20	3/93	Richard III	Shakespeare	Marsh
19	2/93	The Big Rock Candy Mountains	Wallace Stegner	Tim
18	1/93	Letters From the Earth	Mark Twain	Bill
17	12/92	The Pawnbroker	Edward Wallant	Nancy
16	11/92	Reader's Choice of books by:	H.P. Lovecraft	Tim
15	10/92	The Olde Curiosity Shop	Charles Dickens	Yvonne
14	9/92	East of Eden	John Steinbeck	Kathy
13	8/92	Abel Sanchez	Miguel Unamuno	Bill
12	7/92	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	DeLynne
10, 11	6/92	Lysystrata / Oedipus Rex	Aristophanes / Sophocles	Julia
9	5/92	The Sunlight Dialogues	John Gardener	Tim
8	4/92	The Odyssey	Homer	Marsh
7	3/92	The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemmingway	Mel
6	3/92	A Soldier's Play	Charles Fuller	Bill
5	2/92	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Kathy
4	1/92	Lord Jim	Joseph Conrad	Bill
3	12/91	Autobiography of...	Bevenuto Cellini	Tim
2	11/91	Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	DeLynne
1	10/91	Elmer Gantry	Sinclair Lewis	Marsh

Notes:

Tim = Tim Hilliard, Robert = Robert Garrigues, Terra = Terra Hegy, Mel = Mel Lick, Kathy = Kathy Hamel, Yvonne = Yvonne Oliva, Debby = Debby Sargeant, Linda = Linda Bradford, Holly = Holly Sullivan, Myra = Myra Barker, Kathleen = Kathleen Kaynor.
New or returning members are "certified" for choosing books after showing up for three discussion meetings.
Books should be chosen and the club members notified of that choice by at least two meetings prior to the discussion date. For example, if the discussion date is in October, the book choice should be announced no later than the August discussion meeting. If a person cannot decide on a book choice within this time frame then she/he "passes" and the choice is up to the next person in the line.
Discussion meetings are held at noon on the second Tuesday of each month (location up in the air).

The new order for choosing is:

1. Tim

2. Ann

3. Kathleen

4. Kathy

5. Terra

6. Debby

7. Gordon

8. Holly

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