Readers' Review
This book-club-style discussion is held once a month, usually on the third Wednesday. A panel of authors, professors, and book-lovers joins Diane to talk about their reactions to the month's selection.
Readers' Review: Aug. 26, 2009
The Readers' Review will be on vacation in July, returning on August 26. Please send the title of your favorite summer read by email to drshow@wamu.org. Put "Beach Book" in the subject line, and stay tuned to find out our choice for the August Readers' Review.
All books are available in paperback unless otherwise noted. If you'd like to suggest a book, please tell us about it.
Previous Readers' Reviews
2009
- "Olive Kitteridge: Fiction" by Elizabeth Strout
- "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle
- "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery
- "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
- "Rabbit Run" by John Updike
- "Dreams From My Father A Story of Race and Inheritance" by Barack Obama
2008
- "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga
- "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth
- "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
- "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery
- "One Writer's Beginning" by Eudora Welty
- "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren
- "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
- "The Prince" by Nicollo Machiavelli
- "Gift from the Sea" by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
2007
- "A Wrinkle In Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
- "What is the What" by Dave Eggers
- "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
- "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
- "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
- "Villette" by Charlotte Brontë
- "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut
- "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
- "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
- "Your Blues Ain't Like Mine" by Bebe Moore Campbell
- "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
2006
- "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
- "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
- "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards
- "Case Histories" by Kate Atkinson
- "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
- "My Brilliant Career" by Miles Franklin
- National Poetry Month
- "The Sea" by John Banville
- "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage" by Alice Munro
- "Snow" by Orhan Pamuk
2005
- "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis
- "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
- "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
- "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
- "Fair and Tender Ladies" by Lee Smith
- "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula LeGuin
- "The Wife" by Meg Wolitzer
- "Housekeeping" by Marilynne Robinson
- "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller
- "The Known World" by Edward P. Jones
- "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
2004
- "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown
- "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
- "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau
- "So Big" by Edna Ferber
- "Ulysses" by James Joyce
- "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
- "The All of It" by Jeannette Haien
- "Middle Passage" by Charles Johnson
- "The Dead" by James Joyce
2003
- "A Bell for Adano" by John Hersey
- "Three Junes" by Julia Glass
- "1984" by George Orwell
- "Bee Season" Myla Goldberg
- "Palace Walk" Naguib Mahfouz
- "The Life of Pi" Yann Martel
- "Peace Like A River" Leif Enger
- "Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress" Sijie Dai
- "The Quiet American" by Graham Greene
- "Go Tell It On The Mountain" by James Baldwin
- "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier
