GRAB BAG Book Club The "Grab Bag Book Club" was born on chilly November 7th, 2002 in Wolfeboro New Hampshire. Gathered by the fire, the founding members framed the now-famous reading organization. The group meets the first Thursday of every month to eat cheese and crackers, drink alcohol and water, and to maybe squeeze in some time to talk about books they've read.

Members	This Month's Book	Next Meeting
Click on a name to send individual emails: Mark Herbert Kim Herbert Melissa Wells Tina Dussault Suze Repplier Susanne Winslade (522-6814) Brian Herbert Janet Seaver ...Or click here to email all members	Collapse by Jared Diamond (civilization)	Date: Thursday January 5th Time: 7:00 P.M. Location: WolfeDen Directions: Downtown Wolfeboro. Feel free to ignore any books that Mark suggests.

Here are titles that have been suggested for the queue:
The Games Do Count	Big Sur	Dracula	Angle of Repose	Star of the Sea
by Brian Kilmeade	by Jack Kerouac	by Bram Stoker	by Wallace Earle Stegner	by Joseph O'Connor
(US's best on sports)	(Drunken Ramblings)	(scary)	(east woman out west)	(Irish novel of the year)
Love In the Time of Cholera	Lonesome Dove	Brideshead Revisited	One Hundred Years of Solitude	The Climb
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez	by Larry McMurty	by Evelyn Waugh	by Gabriel Garcia Marquez	by Anatoli Boukreev
(2nd chance on love?)	(western)	(British)	(fairytale)	("Into Thin Air" response)
The Painted Bird	Dominion	Possessing the Secret of Joy	Various writings	Soul of a New Machine
by Jerzy Kosinski	by Matthew Scully	by Alice Walker	of Edgar Allen Poe	by Tracey Kidder
(author of 'Being There')	(policy)	(female circumcision)	(short stories, poems)	(pulitzer prize)
ALSO...
	Recommendations from Meetings:   Ahab's Wife, by Sena Jeter Naslund   Sophie's World, by Jostein Gaarder   Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver   Various novels by Anita Shreve (the Portsmouth author)   Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, by Tom Robbins (humor)   The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, by Christopher Moore (humor)   The March, by E.L. Doctorow   One Thousand White Women, by Jim Fergus (white women brides of Indian men)   Self Made Man, by Nora Vincent (woman goes undercover as a man) By Titia's endorser, Ursula Hegi:   Floating in my mother's Palm, (post-WWII German small town)   The Vision of Emma Blau, (German family in NH) TINA's LISTS:   The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner   Light in August, by William Faulkner   Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky   The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky   The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir   True Believer, by Eric Hoffer   The Ordeal of Change, by Eric Hoffer   The Temper of Our Time, by Eric Hoffer   The Culture of Disbelief, by Stephen Carter   The Emperor of Ocean Park, by Stephen Carter   Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, by Stephen L. Carter   The Pearl, by John Steinbeck   The Marble Faun, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (soap opera in Italy)   Nausea, by Jean Paul Sartre (existentialism)   Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, by Allan Gurganus   Richard III, by William Shakespeare   Hamlet, by William Shakespeare   Out of India, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (short story collection)   True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, by Breyton Breytonbach (prison story)   Magic Mountain, by Thoman Mann   Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey   Grayson, by Lynnne Cox   Swimming to Antarctica, by Lynnne Cox   The Cantebury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer   Tom Jones, by Henry Firelding   I, Claudius, by Robert Graves   The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O'Neill   The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath   Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings, by Chuang Tzu, translated by Burton Watson California stories:   After Many Years Dies the Swan, by Aldous Huxley (Brave New World author)   Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck   Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck By John le Carre: (spy thrillers...summer reads?)   The Little Drummer Girl   Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy   Smiley's People, Doppleganger Theme: (autumn reads?)   William Wilson, by Edgar Allen Poe   The Shadow, by Hans Christian Andersen   The Double, by Fyodor Dostoevsky   Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde   Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson More scary, scary: (autumn reads?)   Helter Skelter, by Vincent Bugliosi   Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux   The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne Apocolyptic:   Postman, by David Brin   Random Acts of Senseless Violence, by Jack Womack   Glimmering, by Elizabeth Hand