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