September 2010, our book was Kathryn Stockett's novel, The Help.

Spring 2010, we discussed Elizabeth Kostova's novel, The Historian.

January 2010 we discussed Terry Ryan's The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less.

November 2009 we talked about Charlotte Brontë's The Professor.

Sepember 2009, we discussed Jung Chang's Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China.

May 2009 was our annual poetry reading.

March 2009, we met at Sarah's to discuss A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller.

In January 2009, we met at Betsy's to consider Markwalds', Katharina Von Bora: A Reformation Life, a biography of the wife of Martin Luther.

At our November 8, 2008, meeting, we discussed Suite Française by French writer Irène Némirovsky, set in WWII France. Here is a New York Times article on an exhibit of her writing, and some controversy regarding her work.[Thanks, Anna!]

In early October 2008, we met at Christy's and talked about The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.

In June 2008, we had our second poetry brunch.

March 29, 2008, we feasted and discussed My Life in France by Julia Child.

In February 2008, we discussed Paul Johnson's Art: A New History.

In November 2007, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini was the topic.

September 2007, The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason.

At our June 2007 Poetry brunch,the readings included:

• "The Pulley" by George Herbert,
• "A Prayer" by Emily Dickinson,
• Canto 26 from Inferno by Dane Alighieri,
• "For I Consider by Cat Jeoffry," excerpt from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart
  [c.f. "Pangur Bán"~
  "I and Pangur Ban my cat,
  ‘Tis a like task we are at:
  Hunting mice is his delight,
  Hunting words I sit all night....,
  from a poem found in the margins of an old manuscript in an Austrian monastary, apparently written by an 8th or 9th Century Irish monk],
• "Winken, Blinken, and Nod" by Eugene Field, from the anthology Poetry Speaks to Children,
• "The Swing" and "Rain" by Robert Louis Stevenson, from A Child's Garden of Verses,
• "Timor Mortis Conturbat Me," Anonymous, from A Sacrifice of Praise, p. 31,
• "Son of My Soul" by John Keble from A Sacrifice of Praise, p. 423-4.

March 2007: Walker Percy's The Moviegoer and Flannery O'Connor's short story, "Revelation." "The Writer Who Was Full of Grace," by Jonathan Yardley, introduces O'Connor.

January 2007: The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr. Learn more about this painting, which was displayed in Washington in 1999, here.

November 2006: The Life of the Rev. John Newton Written by himself to A.D. 1763, and continued to his death in 1807 by Rev. Richard Cecil. Learn more about Newton here.

September 2006: A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance.

May 2006 was our first poetry brunch. Readings from many sources, including James Trott's anthology of Christian poetry, A Sacrifice of Praise: An Anthology of Christian Poetry in English from Caedmon-Mid-Twentieth Century.

March 2006: George Macdonald's fairy tale, The Wise Woman, or The Lost Princess: A Double Story.

January 2006: Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, (1959). PBS has interesting webpages on this voyage. Caroline Alexander's book, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, (1999) is not as well written, but has details unavailable to Lansing, and has hundreds of outstanding photographs by Frank Hurley, the official expedition photographer. Along with an IMAX film documentary based on her book , there is a dramatization starring Kenneth Branagh.

November 2005: Tolstoy, Death of Ivan Ilych.

September 2005: Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness.

June 2005: Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

April 2005: Ron Hansen, Atticus. Hansen was interviewed by Ken Myers twice on the Mars Hill Audio Journal, in volumes 21 and 59.

January 2005: C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters.

January 2004: Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary.

Ronald Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther.

Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time. Who kill the boys in the tower? Was King Richard framed?

Charles Williams, Many Dimensions.