Westville Pub Beers and Books
Original Westville Pub Book Club, established right after Westville Pub opened, we have been drinking beers and reading books for six years now.
Join the rest of the Asheville drinkers and readers every second Thursday of each month.
Reading isn't just for libraries and coffee shops anymore! We have coffee too if that's your thing...
Upcoming Books
December 9 Half-Broke Horses Jeanette Walls
There is talk of Crime and Punishment for January and February. What do you think??
Book List
Below is our, rather long, list of books that we have read in the Beers and Books club.
What can we say, we really like to read... or maybe its the couple beers we have while we sit around talking about it.
| Date | Book | Author | Suggested By |
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May 2004 |
The Piano Teacher |
Lynn York |
Mary |
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June 2004 |
The Red Tent |
Anita Diamant |
Louise |
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July 2004 |
The Secret Life of Bees |
Sue Monk Kidd |
Lu |
|
August 2004 |
Middlesex: A Novel |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
Lu |
|
September 2004 |
The Poisonwood Bible*** |
Barbara Kingsolver |
Louise |
|
October 2004 |
Reading Lolita in Teheran |
Azar Nafisi |
Bob |
|
November 2004 |
Life of Pi** |
Yan Martel |
Bob C |
|
January 2005 |
Confederacy of Dunces |
John Kennedy Toole |
Bob |
|
February 2005 |
The Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
Lu |
|
March 2005 |
The Curious Incident of the Dog*** |
Mark Haddon |
Bob C |
|
May 2005 |
Bee Season |
Myla Goldberg |
Group |
|
June 2005 |
The Master Butchers’ Singing Club |
Louise Erdrich |
Laura |
|
July 2005 |
Love in the Time of Cholera |
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez |
Bob |
|
August 2005 |
A Widow for One Year |
John Irving |
Patti |
|
September 2005 |
Great Expectations** |
Charles Dickens |
Peg |
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October 2005 |
The Color of Water |
James McBride |
Lu |
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November 2005 |
The Namesake |
Jhumpa Lahiri |
Bob |
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December 2005 |
The Food Taster |
Peter Elbling |
Louise |
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January 2006 |
The Interpreter of Maladies The Overcoat |
Jhumpa Lahiri Nikolai Gogol |
Bob Bob |
|
February 2006 |
The Cave** |
Jose Saramago |
Leslie |
|
March 2006 |
The Cave Close Range: Wyoming Stories |
Jose Saramago E. Annie Proulx |
Bob |
|
April 2006 |
Close Range: Wyoming Stories Snow |
E. Annie Proulx Orhan Pamuk |
Lu |
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May 2006 |
Snow |
Orhan Pamuk |
|
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June 2006 |
The Education of Little Tree |
Forrest Carter |
Louise |
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July 2006 |
Chronicles: Volume One |
Bob Dylan |
Bob |
|
August 2006 |
Ishmael |
Daniel Quinn |
Andy |
|
September 2006 |
Their Eyes were Watching God |
Zora Neale Hurston |
Lu |
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October 2006 |
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall |
Anne Fadiman |
Linda |
|
November 2006 |
Saints at the River |
Ron Rash |
Linda |
|
December 2006 |
Saturday |
Ian McEwan |
Patti |
|
January 2007 |
The Good Earth |
Pearl S. Buck |
Louise |
|
February 2007 |
The Winter of our Discontent |
John Steinbeck |
Sue |
|
April 2007 |
Dreams from my Father |
Barack Obama |
Linda |
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May 2007 |
Silence |
Shusaku Endo |
Leslie |
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June 2007 |
A Dangerous Friend |
Ward Just |
Patti |
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July 2007 |
The Quiet American |
Graham Greene |
Louise |
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August 2007 |
A Love Apart (local author event) |
Rachelle Rogers |
Bob |
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September 2007 |
Mrs. Dalloway (film event) |
Virginia Woolf |
Bob |
|
October 2007 |
The Inheritance of Loss |
Kiran Desai |
Lu |
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November 2007 |
None to Accompany Me |
Nadine Gordimer |
Patti |
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December 2007 |
The Grass is Singing** |
Doris Lessing |
Lu |
|
January 2008 |
My Sister’s Keeper |
Jodi Picoult |
Sandy/Frank |
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February 2008 |
Wild Swans |
Jung Chang |
Linda |
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March 2008 |
Wild Swans |
Jung Chang |
|
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April 2008 |
Disgrace |
J.M. Coetzee |
Leslie |
|
May 2008 |
Waiting |
Ha Jin |
Bob |
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July 2008 |
A Passage to India (film event) |
E.M. Forster |
Bob |
|
August 2008 |
The Glass Castle |
Jeanette Walls |
Louise |
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September 2008 |
Kindred |
Octavia Butler |
Lu |
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October 2008 |
Three Cups of Tea |
Greg Mortenson |
Louise |
|
November 2008 |
Oryx and Crake** |
Margaret Atwood |
Maryellen |
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December 2008 |
Bel Canto |
Ann Patchett |
Kate |
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January 2009 |
American Pastoral |
Philip Roth |
Maryellen |
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February 2009 |
Under the Tuscan Sun |
Frances Mayes |
Kate |
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March 2009 |
The Death of the Heart |
Elizabeth Bowen |
Marjo |
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April 2009 |
The Gathering |
Anne Enright |
Lu |
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May 2009 |
A Very Long Engagement |
Sebastien Japrisot |
Marcia |
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June 2009 |
Q & A (film event) |
Vikas Swarup |
Bob |
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July 2009 |
Olive Kitteridge |
Elizabeth Strout |
Sandy/Frank |
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August 2009 |
Blindness |
Jose Saramago |
Sandy/Frank |
|
September 2009 |
The Alchemist (60th Book) |
Paulo Coelho |
Lu |
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October 2009 |
Unaccustomed Earth |
Jhumpa Lahiri |
Bob |
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November 2009 |
Cataloochee (local author event) |
Wayne Caldwell |
Louise |
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December 2009 |
The Enigma of Arrival |
V.S. Naipaul |
Leslie |
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January 2010 |
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges |
Nathan Englander |
Marjo |
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February 2010 |
Crow Lake |
Mary Lawson |
Patti |
|
March 2010 |
Amsterdam |
Ian McEwan |
Lu |
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April 2010 |
White Tiger |
Aravind Adiga |
Maryellen |
|
May 2010 |
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship |
Alice Munro |
Patti |
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June 2010 |
My Life in France |
Julia Child |
Bob |
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July 2010 |
Leaves of Grass |
Walt Whitman |
Bob |
