Lit & The Island

Lit & The Island is the book club that I established here in Okinawa. It consists of nine women from all different backgrounds who love to read and eat out. So I thought why not start a book club and have a legitimate reason to go out to dinner once a month with the girls!

Category: General | Okinawa, Japan | Started February 2007

Ghostwritten (Vintage Contemporaries)

by David Mitchell

Going Overboard : The Misadventures of a Military Wife

by Sarah Smiley

The Reading Group: A Novel (P.S.)

by Elizabeth Noble

The Devil in the White City

by Erik Larson

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel

by Michael Dorris

D.V.

by George Plimpton, Diana Vreeland

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

by Kim Edwards

Buddha: a Beginner's Guide

by Deepak Chopra

Eat, Pray, Love

by Elizabeth Gilbert

I, Mona Lisa

by Jeanne Kalogridis

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

by Lisa See

The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love (Running Press Miniature Editions)

by Jill Conner Browne

Women of Okinawa: Nine Voices from a Garrison Island

by Ruth Ann Keyso

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

The Bitch in the House

The Emperor's Children

by Claire Messud

Middlesex: A Novel

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath




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