Book
database organized
by author (answers your questions about whether we've read that author
before).
Excel version of database
2009
- Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys (Jan-09)
- The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy (Feb-09)
2008
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (Dec-08)
- HeartSick by Chelsea Cain (Nov-08)
- Victim of the Aurora by Thomas Keneally (Oct-08)
- Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama (Sep-08)
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (Aug-08)
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (nonfiction) (Jul-08)
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal (Jun-08)
- Kitty & Virgil by Paul Bailey (May-08)
- Persepolis and Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi (Apr-08)
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (Mar-08)
- The Golden Notebook by Doris May Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature (Feb-08)
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Jan-08)
2007
- The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler (Dec-07)
- The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty (Nov-07)
- The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis and/or Friday Night Lights: a Town a Team by H G Bissinger (Oct-07)
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Sept-07)
- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (Aug-07)
- The March by E.L. Doctorow (Jul-07)
- Suite Francais by Irene Nemirovsky (Jun-07)
- Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley (May-07)
- The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Apr-07)
- The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester (Mar-07)
- Little Children by Tom Perrotta (Feb-07)
- The Little Friend by Donna Tartt (Jan-07)
2006
- Desperate Characters by Paula Fox (Dec-06)
- The Hunters by James Salter (Nov-06)
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by
Jared Diamond (Oct-06)
- The
Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle (Aug-06)
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by
Gregory Maguire (July-06)
- The Archivest by Martha Cooley (Jun-06)
- Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks (May-06)
- Paradiso by Jose Lezama Lima (Apr-06)
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy
Toole (Feb-06)
- In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder
and Its Consequences by Truman Capote
(Jan-06)
2005
- The Left Hand of Darkness (Remembering Tomorrow) by
Ursula K. Le Guin (Dec-05)
- Brick Lane by Monica Ali (Nov-05)
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness
at the Fair that Changed America by
Erik Larson (Oct-05)
- A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher
(Sept-05)
- Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
(Aug-05)
- Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (Jul-05)
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Jun-05)
- The Tapestries by Kien Nguyen (May-05)
- Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
(Apr-05)
- The
Known World by Edward P. Jones
(Mar-05)
- Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (Feb-05)
- Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan
Safran Foer (Jan-05)
2000-2004
- The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
(Dec-04)
- About a Boy by Nick Hornby (Nov-04)
- Feed by M.T. Anderson (Oct-04)
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
(Sept-04)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by
Mark Haddon (Aug-04)
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Jul-04)
- Master and Commander by Patrick
O'Brian (Jun-04)
- Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros (May-04)
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Apr-04)
- Blankets by Craig
Thompson (Mar-04)
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
(Feb-04)
- Saints and Villains by Denise
Giardina (Jan-04)
- Three Junes by Julia Glass
- Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented
Architecture by Ross King
- Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest
Gaines
- The Corrections by Jonathan
Franzen
- Open House by Elizabeth Berg
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- Fencing the Sky by James Galvin
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
- True History of the Kelly Gang by
Peter Carey
- The Night Reader by Amistead Maupin
- Make Lemonade and True Believer by
Virginia Euwer Wolff
- A
Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
- Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret
Atwood
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by
Michael Chabon
- Girl With a Pearl Earring by
Tracy Chevalier
- The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
- Waiting by Ha Jin
- The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by
Dave Eggers
- La Dame dans l’Auto avec des Lunettes et
un Fusil (Lady in a Car with Glasses & a
Gun) by Sébastien Japrisot
- The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
- Platero and I by Juan Ramón Jiménez
- This Side of Brightness by Colum
McCann
- Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer
- Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
- American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer
- A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
- The Widow Killer by Pavel Kohout
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- Chocolat by Joanne Harris
- The Magician's Assistant by Ann
Patchett
- Life & Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
1999
-
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone by J. K. Rowling/The
Tempest by William Shakespeare
-
The Poisonwood Bible by
Barbara Kingsolver
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur
Golden
-
July's People by
Nadine Gordimer (1980s)
-
The Executioner's Song by
Norman Mailer (1970s)
- Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
-
The Beach by
Alex Garland
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by
Ken Kesey (1960s)
- The Invisible Man by Ralph
Waldo Ellison (1950s)
- Piano Lessons by Noah Adams
-
The Reader (Der Vorleser) by Bernhard
Schlink
- Native Son by Richard Wright
(1940s)
1998
- The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
- Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
(1930s)
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazer
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
(1920s)
- Betrayed by Rita Hayworth by Manuel
Puig
- Sons & Lovers by D.H.
Lawrence (1910s)
- The Sky Fisherman by Craig Lesley
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
- The Bone People by Keri Hulme
- Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
1997
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum by
Kate Atkinson
- Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee
- Into the Wild by Jon Krackauer
- The Talented Mr. Ripley by Barbara
Hightower
- The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
- Independent People by Haldor Laxness
- Last Orders by Graham Swift
- She’s Come Undone by Wally
Lamb
- Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil by
John Berendt
- Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
- Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor M Dostoevsky
1996
-
The Woman Lit by Fireflies by
Jim Harrison
- Stones from the River by Ursula
Hegi
- Praying for Sheetrock by
Melissa Fay Greene
- The Paperboy by Pete Dexter
- Independence Day by Richard Ford
- Arcadia (play) by Tom Stoppard
- Corelli’s Mandolin by
Louis De Bernieres
- Open Secrets by Alice Munro
- In the Lake of the Woods by
Tim O’Brien
- Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
- Snow Falling on Cedars by
David
Guterson
1995
- The Alienist by Caleb Carr
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
- Cowboys Are My Weakness by
Pam Houston
- Body & Soul by Frank Conroy
- Killer Angels by Michael Shara
1994
-
Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling (book & movie)
- The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
- Goat Brothers by Larry Colton
- All the Pretty Horses by
Cormack McCarty
- Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones
- Venus Envy by Rita Mae Brown
- The English Patient by
Michael Ondaatje
- Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies
1993
- Where the Bluebird Sings in the Lemonade Springs by
Wallace Stegner
- A Story like the Wind by
Lawrence Vanderpost
- Age of Innocence by Edith
Wharton (book & movie)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by
Julia Alvarez
- Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm
X
- Pilgrim’s Harbor by Floyd
Skloot
- Great Plains by Ian Frazier
1992
- The Brothers K by David
James Duncan
- Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
- Natural Selection by
Frederick Barthelme
- Immortality by Milan Kundera
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiari
- Possession by A.S. Byatt
- Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
Also read ...
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel
Allende
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by
Willa Cather
- Smilla’s Sense of Snow by
Peter Høeg
- Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
- Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry
- Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- Ordinary Love & Good Will by
Jane Smiley
- A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael
Dorris
- Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart
- Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
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Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Deanna)
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn, possibly combined with Industry of Souls by Martin Booth.
- Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean (Jo)
- The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan (Allan)
- Stories by Grace Paley (Jo)
- Books by Kurt Vonnegut
- Books by Saul Bellow
- Books by J D Salinger
- Books by John Updike
- Books by Joan Didion
- Books by Gay Talese
- Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks (Jo, Michele)
- Fiasco by Thomas E Ricks
- Book by Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, others (Michele)
- Broken for You by Stephanie
Kallos
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Jeff)
- Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
- Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
- a literary mystery (Jo) {group has read this author}
- Books by John le Carre, including Constant Gardener, A Most Wanted Man (Allan)
- Books by Don DeLillo, including Underworld
- Books by Ivan Doig (This House of Sky, Dancing
at the Rascal Fair, others)
- Books by Stanislav Lemm (science fiction)
- Mating by Norman Rush
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- The Secret Life of Bees by
Sue Monk Kidd
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