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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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