Lake Forest Book Club Past Selections
2007
| Date | Book Title | Author | Meeting Location and Other Information |
| January 17 | Daughter of Fortune | Isabelle Allende | |
| February 21 | The Memory Keeper's Daughter | Kim Edwards | |
| March 21 | March | Geraldine Brooks | |
| April 18 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | |
| May 16 | One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd | Jim Fergus | |
| June 20 | Literacy & Longing in L.A. | Jennifer Kaufman & Karen Mack | |
| July 18 | Don't Stop The Carnival | Herman Woulk | Host: Jan Breda, Leader: Judy Coyle |
| August 15 | Suite Francaise | Irene Nemirovsk | |
| September 19 | Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell | Janet Wallach | |
| October 17 | Water for Elephants | Sara Green | |
| November 14 | The Madonnas of Leningrad | Debra Dean | Date changed to Nov 14 due to holiday. |
| December 12 | Whistling Season | Ivan Doig | Date changed to Dec 12 due to holiday. |
2006
| Date | Book Title | Author | Meeting Location and Other Information |
| January 18 | TBD | ||
| February 15 | The Other Bolyne Girl | Phillippa Gregory | Home of Sandy Stephens |
| March 15 | My Sister's Keeper | Jodi Picoult | Home of Dail Mengelkoch. Discussion leader Clare Haislip. |
| April 19 | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | Home of Lynda Tolleson. Discussion leader Judy Coyle. |
| May 17 | TBD | ||
| June 21 | TBD | ||
| July 19 | TBD | ||
| August 16 | TBD | ||
| September 20 | Enrique's Journey | Sonia Nazario | |
| October 18 | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See | |
| November 15 | Choosing Civility | P.M. Forni | |
| December 13 | In Case We're Separated | Alice Mattison |
2005
| Date | Book Title | Author | Meeting Location and Other Information |
| January | Leap of Faith, Memoirs of an Unexpected Life | Queen Noor | |
| February | Razor's Edge | Somerset Maugham | Home of Lynda Tolleson |
| March | Sister of my Heart | Chita Divakaruni | Home of Dail Mengelkoch. Discussion leader Dail Mengelkoch |
| April | Mountains Beyond Mountains | Tracy Kidder | Home of Sandy Long |
| May | The Kite Runner | Hosseini | Home of Sue Sereboff. Discussion leader Gladys Cunningham |
| June | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | Home of Shirley Schnitzer. Discussion leader Amy Dean |
| July | Good Grief | Lolly Winston | Home of Libby Chattaway |
| August | Tales from Margaritaville | Jimmy Buffet | Home of Jan Breda |
| September | Reading Lolita in Tehran | Azar Nafisi | Home of Nancy Walker |
| October | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | Home of Joyce Zopolsky. Discussion leader Florence Antoine |
| November | Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner | Home of Lois Rampacek |
| December | Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest | Sandra Day O'Connor | Home of Diane Smith |
2004
| Date | Book Title | Author | Meeting Location and Other Information |
| January | Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | Dail Mengelkoch |
| February | Lies and the Lying Liars | Al Franken | Maureen Berger |
| March | The Raven’s Bride | Elizabeth Crook | Tamara Mattison |
| April | Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | Lynn Johnston |
| May | A Thousand Days in Venice | Marlena di Blasi | Lake Forest Pool Pavilion |
| June | Thundering Sneakers | Prudence Mcintosh | Shirley Schnitzer |
| July | Step-Ball-Change | Jeanne Ray | Judy Coyle |
| August | Murder Must Advertise | Dorothy Sayers | Carol Ablon |
| September | Devil in the White City | Erik Larson | Amy Dean |
| October | East of the Mountains | David Guterson | Joyce Zopolsky |
| November | The Island at the Center of the World | Russell Shorto | Tamara Mattison |
| December | Devil in the White City | Erik Larson | Amy Dean |
2003
| Date | Book Title | Author | Meeting Location and Other Information |
| January | Red Tent | Anita Diamant | Tamara Mattison |
| February | Good to Great | Jim Collins | Lynda Tolleson |
| March | Spilling Clarence | Anne Ursu | Wendy Nishi |
| April | Robert Frost: A life | Jay Parini | Margot Tschantz |
| May | Empire Falls | Richard Russo | Sandy Long |
| June | Bachelor Brothers’ B&B | Bill Richardson | Lake Forest Pool Pavilion |
| July | #1 Ladies Detective Agency | Alex Mc. Smith | Donna Dietz |
| August | Holes The Giver |
Louis Sachar Lois Lowry |
Judy Coyle |
| September | Ali and Nino | Kurban Said | Sue Sereboff |
| October | East of Eden | John Steinbeck | Lynda Tolleson |
| November | The Twentieth Wife | Indu Sandaresan | Nancy Walker |
| December | Skipping Christmas | John Grisham | Diane Smith |
2002
| Date | Book Title | Author | Meeting Location and Other Information |
| March | Judy Coyle - Organizational meeting | ||
| April | The Dress Lodger | Sheri Holman | Wendy Nishi |
| May | Personal History | Katharine Graham | Sue Sereboff |
| June | Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | Lynda Tolleson |
| July | Nanny Diaries | McLaughlin and Kraus | Amy Dean |
| August | Gold Coast | Nelson Demille | Kim Hatch |
| September | Floating Brothel | Sian Rees | Nancy Walker |
| October | Marx Sisters | Barry Maitland | Kathy McGovern |
| November | Drowning People | Richard Mason | Joyce Zopolsky |
| December | Dail Mengelkoch - Cookie exchange and children’s book |