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Books We Have Read

March 1984 Return of the Native Thomas Hardy


April 1984 Passion Play Jerczy Kosinski


May 1984 Lancelot Walker Percy


June 1984 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky


July 1984 Ironweed William Kennedy


August 1984 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry


Sept. 1984 Rabbit Is Rich John Updike


October 1984 Light in August William Faulkner


Nov. 1984 During the Reign of the Queen of Persia Joan Chase


December 1984 The Color Purple Alice Walker


1985


January 1985 The Tin Drum Gunter Grass


January 1985 The Bend in the River V.S. Naipaul


Feb. 1985 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera


March 1985 Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence


May 1985 A Flag for Sunrise Robert Stone


June 1985 The Memory of Old Jack Wendell Berry


July 1985 July’s People Nadine Gordimer


August 1985 Justine Lawrence Durrell


September 1985 The Oxbow Incident Walter van Tilberg Clark


October 1985 The Quiet American Graham Greene

The Power and the Glory


November 1985 Stones for Ibarra Harriet Doerr


December 1985 Don Quixote Miguel Cervantes


1986


January 1986 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner


February 1986 The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles


March 1986 Civil Wars Rosellen Brown


April 1986 What Maisey Knew Henry James

Washington Square


June 1986 Water Music T.C. Boyle


July 1986 Zorba The Greek Nikos Kazantzakis


August 1986 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirs


September 1986 The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende


November 1986 Moby Dick Herman Melville


December 1986 A Winter’s Tale Mark Halprin


1987


January 1987 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce


February 1987 Waterland Graham Swift


March 1987 A Death In the Family James Agee


April 1987 The Clown Heinrich Bõll


May 1987 Continental Drift Russell Banks


June 1987 The Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty


July 1987 Confessions of Felix Krull Thomas Mann


August 1987 Wind, Sand, and the Stars Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


September 1987 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood


October 1987 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf


November 1987 October Light John Gardner


December 1987 West with the Night Beryl Markham


1988


January 1988 In Patagonia Bruce Chatwin


February 1988 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy


March 1988 The Moons of Jupiter Alice Munro


April 1988 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison


May 1988 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway


June 1988 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry


July 1988 A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter Miller


August 1988 The Great Santini Pat Conroy


September 1988 Some Prefer Nettles Junichiri Tanizaki


October 1988 To a God Unknown John Steinbeck


November 1988 The Violent Bear It Away Flannery O’Connor


1989


January 1989 World’s End Coraghessan Boyle


February 1989 Beloved Toni Morrison


March 1989 Life: A User’s Manual Georges Perec


April 1989 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Taylor


May 1989 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez


June 1989 Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak

In the Night Kitchen

Outside Over There


July 1989 Middlemarch George Eliot


August 1989 What’s Bred in the Bone Robertson Davies


September 1989 Imagining Argentina Laurence Thornton


Oct. 1989 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque


Nov. 1989 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain



1990


January 1990 Bellefleur Joyce Carol Oates


February 1990 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov


March 1990 Humboldt’s Gift Saul Bellow


April 1990 Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury


May 1990 Twilight Elie Wiesel


June 1990 Time and Again Jack Finney


July 1990 Victory Joseph Conrad


August 1990 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh


September 1990 The Beginning and the End Naguib Mahfouz


October 1990 Beyond the Bedroom Wall Larry Woiwode


November 1990 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro


1991


January 1991 Foucault’s Pendulum Umberto Eco


February 1991 Dalva Jim Harrison


March 1991 The Sportswriter Richard Ford


April 1991 Bleak House Charles Dickens


May 1991 Chaos James Gleick


June 1991 Blue Highways William Least Heat Moon


July 1991 Meditations in Green Stephen Wright


September 1991 The Book and the Brotherhood Iris Murdoch


September 1991 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole


October 1991 The Bone People Keri Hulme


November 1991 Islands in the Stream Ernest Hemingway


December 1991 Lincoln Gore Vidal



1992


January 1992 Animal Dreams Barbara Kingsolver


March 1992 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky


May 1992 Sexing the Cherry Jeanette Winterson


June 1992 Tales of the Arabian Nights (adapted from Richard

Burton’s translation)


July 1992 Spartina John Casey


September 1992 The Earthsea Trilogy Ursula Le Guin

-A Wizard of Earthsea

-The Tombs of Atuan

-The Farthest Shore

--Tehanu


October 1992 Emma Jane Austen


November 1992 A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley


December 1992 Mating Norman Rush



1993


January 1993 Foreign Affairs Alison Lurie


February 1993 Light in August William Faulkner


March 1993 The Gold Bug Variations Richard Powers


April 1993 You Must Remember This Joyce Carol Oates


May 1993 The Lost Father Mona Simpson


June 1993 Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner


July 1993 October Light John Gardner


September 1993 Alma Rose Edith Forbes


October 1993 Mama Day Gloria Naylor


November 1993 All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy


December 1993 The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzakis



1994


January 1994 A Message to the Planet Iris Murdoch


March 1994 Possession: A Romance A.S. Byatt


April 1994 Kate Vaiden Reynolds Price


May 1994 White Noise Don DeLillo


June 1994 The Living Anne Dillard


July 1994 The Shipping News Annie Proulx


August 1994 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte


September 1994 The Risk Pool Richard Russo


October 1994 The Night Manager John Le Carré


November 1994 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje


December 1994 A Case of Curiosities Allen Kurzweil




1995


January 1995 Smilla’s Sense of Snow Peter Hoeg


February 1995 The Famished Road Ben Okri


March 1995 The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence


April 1995 A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris


May 1995 The Volcano Lover Susan Sontag


June 1995 The Bird Artist Howard Norman


August 1995 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James


September 1995 Memories of the Ford Administration John Updike


October 1995 The Big Rock Candy Mountain Wallace Stegner


November 1995 Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson


December 1995 Remembering Babylon David Malouf


1996


January 1996 Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Berniers


February 1996 Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie


March 1996 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy


April 1996 Banished Children of Eve Peter Quinn


May 1996 Felicia’s Journey William Trevor


June 1996 Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth


July 1996 Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison


August 1996 A Way in the World V.S. Naipaul


September 1996 Typee Herman Melville

Of Love and Other Demons Gabriel Marquez


October 1996 Beloved Toni Morrison


November 1996 Regeneration Pat Barker



1997


January 1997 Stones from the River Ursula Hegi


February 1997 A Winter’s Tale Mark Helprin


March 1997 Panama Eric Zencey


April 1997 The Chess Garden Brooks Hansen


May 1997 Last Orders Graham Swift


June 1997 Undaunted Courage Stephen Ambrose


July 1997 The Hamlet William Faulkner


August 1997 The Names Don DeLillo

September 1997 Martin Dressler Steven Millhauser


October 1997 Antarctic Navigation Elizabeth Arthur


November 1997 The Coming Plague Laurie Garrett


December 1997 The Robber Bride Margaret Atwood



1998


January 1998 Going After Cacciato Tim O’Brien


February 1998 Birdsong Sebestian Faulks


March 1998 Cold Mountain Charles Frazier


April 1998 We Were the Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates


May 1998 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce


July 1998 Memoirs from an Antproof Case Mark Helprin


August 1998 Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels


September 1998 After Hannibal Barry Unsworth


October 1998 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy


December 1998 Mason-Dixon Thomas Pynchon


1999


January 1999 Nostromo Joseph Conrad


February 1999 The Blue Flower Penelope Fitzgerald


March 1999 Outerbridge Reach Robert Stone


May 1999 The Surface of the Earth Reynolds Price


June 1999 A Widow for One Year John Irving


July 1999 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver


August 1999 Charming Billy Alice McDermott

Einstein’s Dreams Alan Lightman


September 1999 The Archivist Martha Cooley


October 1999 The Conservationist Nadine Gordimer


November 1999 The Essence of the Thing Madeleine St. John


December 1999 A Man in Full Tom Wolfe


2000


January 2000 The Thanatos Syndrome Walker Percy


February 2000 The History of the Siege of Lisbon Jose Saramago


March 2000 The Hours Michael Cunningham

Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf


April 2000 The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead


May 2000 The Lost Language of Cranes David Leavitt


July 2000 Casanova in Love Andrew Miler


August 2000 The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth


September 2000 Swann’s Way Marcel Proust


October 2000 Headlong Michael Frayn


November 2000 Damascus Gate Robert Stone



2001


January 2001 Another World Pat Barker


February 2001 Echo House Ward Just


March 2001 Charlotte Gray Sebastian Faulks


April 2001 Girl With a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier

Girl in Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland



May 2001 Being Dead Jim Crace


July 2001 The Human Stain Philip Roth


August 2001 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton


September 2001 Empire Falls Richard Russo


October 2001 The Map of Love Ahdaf Soueif


November 2001 The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood


December 2001 Ghostwritten David Mitchell




2002


January 2002 Soul Mountain Gao Xingjian


February 2002 The Golden Compass Philip Pullman

The Subtle Knife

The Amber Spyglass


March 2002 My Dream of You Nuala O’Faolian


April 2002 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen


May 2002 Hotel World Motorcycle Motorcycle Ali Smith


June 2002 The Story of a Million Years David Huddle


August 2002 John Henry Days Colson Whitehead


September 2002 Beowulf Seamus Heaney (translator)

Grendel John Gardner


October 2002 Bel Canto Ann Patchett


November 2002 The Fall of a Sparrow Robert Hellenga


December 2002 Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks



2003


January 2003 House of the Spirits Isabel Allende


March 2003 The True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey


April 2003 Atonement Ian McEwan


May 2003 The Grand Complication Allen Kurzweil


June 2003 Life of Pi Yann Martel


July 2003 Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain


August 2003 The Emperor of Ocean Park Stephen Carter


September 2003 The Amazing Adventures of Michael Chabon

Kavalier and Clay


October 2003 The Riders Tim Winton


December 2003 The Dream of Scipio Iain Pears


2004


January 2004 Ravelstein Saul Bellow


February 2004 Dark Star Alan Furst


March 2004 Vernon God Little DBC Pierre


May 2004 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides


June 2004 The Three Junes Julia Glass


July 2004 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez


September 2004 The Known World Motorcycle Edward P. Jones


October 2004 Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte


November 2004 The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri


December 2004 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini



2005


January 2005 A Summons to Memphis Peter Taylor


March 2005 The Lighthouse At the End

of the World Stephen Marlowe

Selected Stories Edgar Allan Poe


May 2005 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy


June 2005 The Birth of Venus Sarah Dunant


August 2005 Aloft Chang-Rae Lee


September 2005 White Teeth Zadie Smith


November 2005 The Book of Illusions Paul Auster


December 2005 The Lover A. B. Yehoshua



2006


January 2006 Snow Orhan Pamuk


February 2006 Case Histories Kate Atkinson


March 2006 Gilead Marilyn Robinson


May 2006 The History of Love Nicole Krauss


June 2006 Shoeless Joe W. P. Kinsella

Franny and Zooey J. D. Salinger


July 2006 Wicked Gregory McGuire


September 2006 Arthur and George Julian Barnes


November 2006 Blindness Jose Saramago


December 2006 Hour of the Cat Peter Quinn



2007


January 2007 All the King’s Men Robert Penn Warren


February 2007 The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai


March 2007 Plainsong Kent Haruf


May 2007 The Master Butchers Singing Club Louise Erdrich


June 2007 The Master Colm Toibin


July 2007 Freddy and Fredericka Mark Helprin


August 2007 The Last Unicorn Peter Beagle


October 2007 Special Topics in Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl


November 2007 The March E. L. Doctorow

March Gwendolyn Brooks


2008


January 2008 Suite Francaise Irene Nemirovsky


February 2008 Water For Elephants Sara Gruen


March 2008 The Emperor’s Children Claire Messud


April 2008 My Antonia Willa Cather


May 2008 The Gathering Ann Enright


June 2008 Therese Raquin Emile Zola


July 2008 Bridge of Sighs Richard Russo


August 2008 The Yiddish Policemen’s Union Michael Chabon


Sept-Oct 2008 Moby Dick Herman Melville


November 2008 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck


December 2008 Never Go Back Robert Goddard



2009


January 2009 Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson


February 2009 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga


March 2009 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz


April-May 2009 I Am Charlotte Simmons Tom Wolfe

A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini


June 2009 The Feast of Love Charles Baxter


July 2009 The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery


Aug-Sept 2009 Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout


October 2009 The Gravedigger’s Daughter Joyce Carol Oates


November 2009 Life Class Pat Barker


December 2009 The Beggar Maid Alice Munro



2010



January 2010 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold


March 2010 Family Matters Rohinton Mistry


April 2010 Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann


June 2010 The Given Day Dennis Lehane


July 2010 The Outlander Gil Adamson


August 2010 Cutting for Stone Verghese


October 2010 Mansfield Park Jane Austen


December 2010 The Eden Hunter Skep Horack


2011

January 2011 Netherland Joseph O’Neill


February 2011 Little Bee Chris Cleave


June 2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Eagan


July 2011 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel


September 2011 Old Filth Jane Gardam


October 2011 State of Wonder Ann Patchett


November A Cat’s Tale Michael Ondaatje


December 2011 Dissolution C.J. Samson



2012


January 2012 Every Man Dies Alone Hans Fallada


February 2012 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes


March 2012 Freedom Jonathan Franzen


April 2012 Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera


May 2012 Snowdrops by A.D. Miller


June 2012 Half Blood Blues by


July 2012 Run Rabbit Run by John Updike


August 2012 The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart


October 2012 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway


December 2012 The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern


2013

January 2013 The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard


February 2013 The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper


March 2013 The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West


April 2013 Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver


May 2013 Canada by Richard Ford


June 2013 Shadow of the Wind by Zaffon


July 2013 Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst


August 2013 Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev


October 2013 The Flame Throwers by Rachel Kushner


November 2013 Stoner by John Williams


December 2013 The Round House by Louise Erdich


2014


January 2014 The Sister's Brothers by Patrick DeWit


February 2014 The Unlikely Pilgrimmage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce


April 2014 Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan


May 2014 The Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole


June 2014 The Quiet American by Graham Green


July 2014 The Middle Parts of Fortune by Frederic Manning


Sept 2014 Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


November 2014 The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad


December 2014 The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan



2015


January 2015 An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine


February 2015 The Death of the Black Haired Girl by Robert Stone


March 2015 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr


April 2015 My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante


June 2015 The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis De Bernier


July 2015 The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach


August 2015 Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving


September 2015 City of Thieves by David Benioff


October 2015 The Natural by Bernard Malmud


December 2015 The Rector of Justin by Louis Anchincloss



2016


January 2016 The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner


February 2016 Digging to America by Anne Tyler


April 2016 Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller


May 2016 The Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness


June 2016 A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman


August 2016 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen


October 2016 Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo


November 2016 Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie


January 2017 Commonwealth by Anne Patchett


February 2017 Someone by Alice McDermott


March 2017 Justine by Lawrence Durrell


April 2017 The Fig Eater by Jody Shields


July 2017 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles


August 2017 Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer


October 2017 Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi


November 2017 Disappearances by Howard Frank Mosher


January 2018 News of the World by Paulette Jiles


February 2018 Transatlantic by Colum McCann


April 2018 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee


May 2018 The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch


July 2018 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders


August 2018 Circe by Madeline Miller


October 2018 Who is Rich? by Matthew Klam


December 2018 Less by Andrew Sean


February 2019 Washington Black by Esi Edugyan


March 2019 Milkman by Anna Burns


May 2019 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens


June 2019 An American Marriage by Tayari Jones


July 2019 The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin


August 2019 Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
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