VI Book List


Here are the Books that the Village Idiots Book Club have read and discussed. ( Caution: This does not mean that we all liked/recommend all of these titles but they were great discussions!  Enjoy!

Junior Fiction
  • Among the Hidden -  Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade -Diane Lee Wilson
  • Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graham
  • The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Two Princesses of Bamare - Gail Carson Levine
  • Goose Girl - Shannon Hale
  • Enna Burning - Shannon Hale
  • Princess Academy - Shannon Hale
  • Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale
  • Chasing Redbird - Sharon Creech
  • Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series (1-3 and the movie!) - Ann Brashares
  • Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry 
  • Zel - Donna Jo Napoli
 Newbery Books
  • Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
  • Bud Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Tale of Despereaux - Kate Dicamillo
  • Crispin - Avi
  • A Single Shard - Linda Sue Park
  • A Year Down Yonder - Richard Peck
  • Long Way From Chicago (Honor) - Richard Peck
  • Holes - Louis Sachar
  • The View From Saturday - 
  • Watsons go to Burningham - Christopher Paul Curtis
  • The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (Honor) - Nancy Farmer
  • A Girl named Disaster (Honor) - Nancy Farmer
  • Bronze Bow - Elizabeth George Speare
  • Jacob Have I Loved - Katherine Patterson
  • Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech
  • Ella Enchanted (Honor) - Gail Carson Levine
  • Maniac Mcgee - Jerry Spinelli
  • Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor
  • The Giver - Lois Lowry

Science Fiction
  • Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
  • The Memory of Earth - Orson Scott Card
Adult Fiction
  • 13 Reasons Why - Jay Asher
  • The Help - Kathryn Stockett
  • Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
  • To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  • Austenland - Shannon Hale
  • Secret Life of Bees -Sue Monk Kidd
  • The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society -  Mary Ann Shaffer
  • At Home in Midford & A Light in the Window (Midford Series) - Jan Karon
  • #1 Ladies Detective Agency & Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
  • My Anotonia - Willa Cather
  • Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
  • Tara Road - Maeve Binchy
  • Circle of Friends - Maeve Binchy
  • Breathing Lessons - Ann Tyler
  • Back When we were Grownups - Ann Tyler
  • Skipping Christmas - John Grisham
  • Girl with a Pearl Earing - Tracy Chevalier
  • Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitzyn (translation important!)
Non Fiction
  • Five Love Languages - Gary Chapman
  • Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
  • Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
  • Killer Angels (Pulitzer Prize) -Michael Sharra
  • Warriors Don't Cry (Convocations '06) - Melva Patillo Beals
  • Complications (Convocations '07) - Atul Gawande
  • A Long Way Gone (Convocations '08) - Ishmael Beah
  • And the Sea Will Tell - Vincent Bugliosi, Bruce Henderson