Meeting Schedule

• Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant
• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (Janet)
• The Fraud by Zadie Smith
• “The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party” by Daniel James Brown
• Icelandic mysteries
• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling (Eric)
• Knowledge Of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh (Eric)
• Driving Over Lemons Trilogy #2 & #3: A Parrot in the Pepper Tree and The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society by Chris Stewart
• The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Allan)
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Lois) – mystery
• Light Years by James Salter (Jo)
• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (Robin)
• The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson (Eric)
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (Eric)
• These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore (Carol)
• We the Corporations How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler (Lois)
• Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (Eric)
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (Janet)
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (Eric)
• The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe (Lois)
• The Plot Against America or another novel by Philip Roth. We read American Pastoral – see Philip Roth’s Best Book, NY Times
• They Came Like Swallows by Williams Maxwell
• The 10 Best Books of 2017 from the NYTimes
• On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee (Janet)
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson – memoir/nonfiction (Lois)
• Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary. Nonfiction. (Robin)
• Harold Fry Series (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy) by Rachel Joyce (Jo)
• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman. From the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove, a novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother’s fairy tales. (Jo)
• The Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (Allan)
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Deanna)
• Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood memoir by Fatima Marnissi (Deanna)
• Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks (Nina)
• A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe (1964) – Entertainment Weekly
• Money by Martin Amis (1985) – Entertainment Weekly
• The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse (1943) – Entertainment Weekly
• Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison – Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction (1993), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1992)
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (Jo)
• War by Sebastian Junger
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan – history, nonfiction
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion – memoir
• The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David Mccullough
• Bloodmoney: A Novel of Espionage by David Ignatius
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (2009)
• Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves
• The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean

Authors to read:

• Don DeLillo: Libra, White Noise, Pafko at the Wall, The Names
• Carl Hiaasen (satirical novelist, books based in Florida)
• Grace Paley
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Saul Bellow
• John Updike
• Gay Talese
• Suzan Lori-Parks
• Ivan Doig
• Stanislav Lemm
• John Cheever