Books we have read


The Greater Westford Book Society

1984

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


October 2019  The Sellout by Paul Beatty

November 2019 Swimming Home by Deborah Levy

January 2020 Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Eagan

February 2020 North of Dawn by Nuruddin Farah

March 2020 Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh

April 2020 The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

May 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

June 2020 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

August 2020 American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

September 2020 Love by Roddy Doyle

October 2020 The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

November 2020 The French Exit by Patrick DeWitt

December 2020 Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

February 2021 Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

April 2021 Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

May 2021 Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

June 2021 The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

July 2021 Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

August 2021 Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry

October 2021 Deacon King Kong by James McBride

December 2021 Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

January 2022 Cold Millions by Jess Water

March 2022 The Promise by Damon Galgut

April 2022 The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

May 2022  Universe of Two by Stephen Kiernan

June   2022 True Biz by Sara Novic

August 2022 The Overstory by Richard Powers

September 2022 Midcoast by Adam White

November 17, 2022 Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare

January 19, 2023 Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

March 6, 2023 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

April 11, 2023 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka


1 comment:

  1. Very nostalgic to go through the list...we'll have to do our top ten lists and compare!

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