The Tampa Bay Book Babes, a local book club, was founded in March, 1999. We rotate choice of books and hostess homes each meeting. There are typically about a dozen members who attend each meeting. There are four founding members still in the Club.
1. Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
2. She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
3. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
4. Perfect Town, Perfect Murder - Lawrence Schiller
5. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
6. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
7. Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells
8. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone - J. K. Rowling
9. Sacred Hoops - Phil Jackson
10. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
11. The Saving Graces - Patricia Gaffney
12. Cassidy's Run - David Wise
13. Fortunes Rocks - Anita Shreve
14. The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
15. Left Behind - Tim LeHaye
16. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
17. A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
18. Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
19. Caucasia - Danzy Senna
20. White Oleander - Janet Fitch
21. The Pact - Jodi Picoult
22. Sweet Potato Queens, Book of Love - Jill Conner Browne
23. Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
24. Where the Heart Is - Billy Letts
25. Tell No One - Harlan Coben
26. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
27. The Fortune Catcher - Susanne Pari
28. Wicked - Gregory Maguire
29. Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler
30. Letters For Emily - Camron Wright
31. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
32. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
33. Dreaming in Cuban - Cristina Garcia
34. Tender at the Bone - Ruth Reichl
35. Winter Range - Claire Davis
36. Pope Joan - Donna Cross
37. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - David Eggers
38. Peace Like A River - Leif Enger
39. The Dive From Clausen's Pier - Ann Packer
40. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
41. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
42. Three Junes - Julia Glass
43. Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand
44. Revenge of the Middle Age Woman - Elizabeth Buchen
45. Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
46. Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton
47. Katherine - Anya Seton
48. Blessings - Anna Quindlen
49. The Blessing - John Trent & Gary Smalley
50. The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
51. Finding Manaña - Mirta Ojito
52. One Thousand White Women - Jim Fergus
53. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
54. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
55. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
56. Atonement - Ian McEwan
57. Lucky Man - Michael J. Fox
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
59. Big Cherry Holler - Adriana Trigiani
60. The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
61. Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
62. Broken for You - Stephanie Kallos
63. When the Emperor was Divine - Julie Otsuka
64. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
65. The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama
66. Sister of My Heart - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
67. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
68. The Way the Crow Flies - Anne Marie MacDonald
69. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
70. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
71. The Myth of You and Me - Leah Stewart
72. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
73. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcom Gladwell
74. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
75. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
76. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah
77. The Divide - Nicholas Evans
78. Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
79. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
80. A Painted House - John Grisham
81. The Killer Angels - Michael Shaare
82. The Great Influenza - John M. Barry
83. Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
84. Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement - Rodney Rothman
85. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
86. Loving Frank - Nancy Horan
87. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing
88. Those Who Save Us - Jenna Blum
89. The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb
90. Escape - Carolyn Jessop
91. Enslaved by Ducks - Bob Tarte
92. Crossing to Safety - Wallace Stegner
93. Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
94. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
95. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
96. Luncheon of the Boating Party - Susan Vreeland
97. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
98. The Big House: A Century in the Life of An American Summer Home - George Howe Colt
99. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar - Robert Alexander
100. Ahab's Wife - Sena Jeter Naslund
101. Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
102. Summer at Tiffany - Marjorie Hart
103. The Immortal Life of Hernrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
104. Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
105. Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
106. A Land Remembered - Patrick D. Smith
107. Room: A Novel - Emma Donoghue
108. The Paris Wife - Paula McLain
109. Other Desert Cities - John Robin Baitz
110. Too Close to the Falls - Catherine Gildiner
111. The Dovekeepers: A Novel - Alice Hoffman
112. Extremely Loud and Incredibily Close - Jonathan Foer
113. and Ladies of the Club - Helen Hoover Santmyer
114. 11/22/63 - Stephen King
115. Fall of Giants - Ken Follett
116. Wild - Cheryl Strayed
117. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
118. The Art Forger - B.A. Shapiro
119. Defending Jacob - William Landay
120. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
121. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
122. The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty
123. Twelve Rooms of the Nile - Enid Shomer
124. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce
125. Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
126. Miriam's Words - Miriam Judd & Mary Lou Carpenter
127. Still Alice - Lisa Genova
128. Gentlemen and Players - Joanne Harris
129. The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
130. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats - Jan-Phillip Sendker
131. The Storied Life of A.J. Fickrey - Gabrielle Zevin
132. The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd
133. All the Light You Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
134. The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult
135. My Stroke of Insight - Jill Bolte Taylor
136. Sycamore Row - John Grisham
137. H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
138. People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
139. The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown
140. Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee
141. The Rosie Project - Graeme Samson
142. The Lake House - Kate Morton
143. The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
144. Circling the Sun - Paula McLain
145. Devil in the Grove - Gilbert King
146. A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
147. The Worst Hard Times - Timothy Egan
148. Before the Fall - Noah Hawley
149. When We Were Strangers - Pamela Schoenewaldt
150. Fates and Furies - Lauren Groff
151. The Paris Architect - Charles Belfoure
152. The Winter People - Jennifer McMahon
153. Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance
154. My Cousin Rachel - Daphne DuMaurier
155. Sotah - Naomi Ragen
156. Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
157. Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate
158. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
159. The Last Days of Night - Graham Moore
160. Molokai - Alan Brennert
161. The Alice Network - Kate Quinn
162. The Woman in the Window - A.J. Finn
163. The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah
164. Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
165. The Castle of Water - Dane Huckelbridge
166. The Girl with Seven Names - Hyeonseo Lee
167. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
168. Educated - Tara Westover
169. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
170. And Then You Loved Me - Inglath Cooper
171. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
172. Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
173. The Guest Room - Chris Bohjalian
174. The Flight Girls - Noelle Salazar
175. One Second After - William Forstchen
176. Long Way Gone - Charles Martin
177. Giver of Stars - JoJo Moyes
178. The $80 Champion - Elizabeth Letts
179. The Guest List - Lucy Foley
180. Inheritance - Dani Shapiro
181. I am Watching You - Teresa Driscoll
182. The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
183. American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins
184. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
185. The Color of Water - James McBride
186. The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
187. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
188. The Exiles - Christine Baker Kline
189. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
190. The Rent Collector - Camron Wright
191. The Only Woman in the Room - Marie Benedict
192. The Good Sister - Sally Hepwo
193. The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey - Walter Mosley
194. Carnegie’s Maid - Marie Benedict
195. Rising Out of Hatred - Eli Saslow
196. The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner
197. The Magnolia Palace - Fiona Davis
198. Verity - Colleen Hoover
199. Horse - Geraldine Brooks
200. The Boys from Biloxi - John Grisham
201. Follow the River - James Alexander
202. Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
203. Tom Lake - Ann Patchett
204. The Radium Girls - Kate Moore
205. An Elephant in the Garden - Michael Morpurgo
206. Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
207. She Taught Me Everything - Amy Smith Linton
208. The Gown - Jennifer Robso
209. The Good Nurse - Charles Graeber
210. The Women - Kristin Hannah
211. The Lion Women of Tehran - Marjan Kamili
212. The Frozen River - Ariel Lawhon
213. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women - Lisa See
214. Let’s Call Her Barbie - Renée Rosen
215. The Secret Life of Sunflowers - Marta Molnar
216. City of Nightbirds - Juhea Kim
217. Broken Country - Claire Leslie Hall
218. Go As a River - Shelley Read
219. Seven Perfect Things - Catherine Ryan Hyde
