Book List
9/2001: Bee Season (Myla Goldberg)
10/2001: The Girl with the Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier)
11/2001: Bless Me, Ultima (Rudulfo Anaya)
1/2002: White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
2/2002: Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)
4/2002: We were the Mulvaneys (Joyce Carol Oates)
5/2002: The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
Summer 2002: Blindness (Jose Saramago)
1/2003: The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
2/2003: Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
4/2003: The Satanic Verses (Rushdie) and The Hours (Michael Cunningham)
5/2003: Life of Pi (Yann Martel) and Blindness (Jose Saramago; we read in '02 but did not discuss)
7/2003: The Quiet American (Graham Greene)
9/2003: American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
10/2003: Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
11/2003: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon)
12/2003: Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee)
1/2004: Waiting for the Barbarians (Coetzee) and Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
2/2004: To Kill a Mocking Bird (Harper Lee) and The Shipping News (E. Annie Proulx)
3/2004: The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman) and Haroun and the Sea of Stories
(Rushdie)
5/2004: Lolita (Nabakov)
6/2004: Immortality (Milan Kundera) and Smilla's Sense of Snow (Peter Hoeg)
6/2004 (Bonus book club for Rebecca's visit): The Alchemist (Coelho)
7/2004: Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
9/2004: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer)
10/2004: The Human Stain (Philip Roth)
12/2004: Empire Falls (Richard Russo)
1/2005: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime (Mark Haddon)
2/2005 - 5/2005: Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
6/2005: Cloud Atlas (David Mitchel)
8/2005: A Bend in the River (V.S. Naipaul)
12/2005: Atonement (Ian McEwan)
1/2006: The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
2/2006: The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
3/2006: This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland (Gretel Ehrlich)
4/2006: Pale Fire (Nabokov)
5/2006: Like Life (Lorrie Moore)
Summer 2006: Ulysses (James Joyce)
7/2006: The Library of Babel (Jorge Luis Borges)
8/2006: Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
9/2006: Black Swan Green (David Mitchell)
10/2006: Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
11/2006: The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
12/2006: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Cormac Mccarthy)
1/2007: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Jon Krakauer)
2/2007: The Blind Assassin (revisted; Margaret Atwood)
3/2007: Amsterdam (Ian McEwan)
4/2007: The Sea (John Banville)
5/2007: Random Family (Adrian Nicole LeBlanc)
6/2007: Three Junes (Julia Glass)
7/2007: What is the What (Dave Eggers)
8/2007: Stumbling on Happiness (Daniel Gilbert)
9/2007: The World to Come (Dara Horn)
10/2007: The Master (Colm Toibin)
11/2007: Book Club: The Food Edition. Pick one food-related book-- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Barbara Kingsolver), The Omnivore's Dilemma (Michael Pollan), or Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)
12/2007: The Yiddish Policeman’s Union (Michael Chabon)
1/2008: The Emperor’s Children (Claire Messud)
2/2008: Borderliners (Peter Hoeg)
3/2008: Digging toAmerica
4/2008: A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
5/2008: The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri)
6/2008: The Septembers of Shiraz (Dalia Sofer)
7/2008: Vernon God Little (D.B.C. Pierre)
8/2008: Run (Ann Patchett)
10/2001: The Girl with the Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier)
11/2001: Bless Me, Ultima (Rudulfo Anaya)
1/2002: White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
2/2002: Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)
4/2002: We were the Mulvaneys (Joyce Carol Oates)
5/2002: The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
Summer 2002: Blindness (Jose Saramago)
1/2003: The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
2/2003: Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
4/2003: The Satanic Verses (Rushdie) and The Hours (Michael Cunningham)
5/2003: Life of Pi (Yann Martel) and Blindness (Jose Saramago; we read in '02 but did not discuss)
7/2003: The Quiet American (Graham Greene)
9/2003: American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
10/2003: Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
11/2003: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon)
12/2003: Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee)
1/2004: Waiting for the Barbarians (Coetzee) and Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
2/2004: To Kill a Mocking Bird (Harper Lee) and The Shipping News (E. Annie Proulx)
3/2004: The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman) and Haroun and the Sea of Stories
(Rushdie)
5/2004: Lolita (Nabakov)
6/2004: Immortality (Milan Kundera) and Smilla's Sense of Snow (Peter Hoeg)
6/2004 (Bonus book club for Rebecca's visit): The Alchemist (Coelho)
7/2004: Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
9/2004: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer)
10/2004: The Human Stain (Philip Roth)
12/2004: Empire Falls (Richard Russo)
1/2005: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime (Mark Haddon)
2/2005 - 5/2005: Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
6/2005: Cloud Atlas (David Mitchel)
8/2005: A Bend in the River (V.S. Naipaul)
12/2005: Atonement (Ian McEwan)
1/2006: The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
2/2006: The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
3/2006: This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland (Gretel Ehrlich)
4/2006: Pale Fire (Nabokov)
5/2006: Like Life (Lorrie Moore)
Summer 2006: Ulysses (James Joyce)
7/2006: The Library of Babel (Jorge Luis Borges)
8/2006: Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
9/2006: Black Swan Green (David Mitchell)
10/2006: Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
11/2006: The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
12/2006: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Cormac Mccarthy)
1/2007: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Jon Krakauer)
2/2007: The Blind Assassin (revisted; Margaret Atwood)
3/2007: Amsterdam (Ian McEwan)
4/2007: The Sea (John Banville)
5/2007: Random Family (Adrian Nicole LeBlanc)
6/2007: Three Junes (Julia Glass)
7/2007: What is the What (Dave Eggers)
8/2007: Stumbling on Happiness (Daniel Gilbert)
9/2007: The World to Come (Dara Horn)
10/2007: The Master (Colm Toibin)
11/2007: Book Club: The Food Edition. Pick one food-related book-- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Barbara Kingsolver), The Omnivore's Dilemma (Michael Pollan), or Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)
12/2007: The Yiddish Policeman’s Union (Michael Chabon)
1/2008: The Emperor’s Children (Claire Messud)
2/2008: Borderliners (Peter Hoeg)
3/2008: Digging to
4/2008: A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
5/2008: The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri)
6/2008: The Septembers of Shiraz (Dalia Sofer)
7/2008: Vernon God Little (D.B.C. Pierre)
8/2008: Run (Ann Patchett)
posted by Books and Brunch | 8:17 PM
3 Comments:
I was wondering how the discussion of Never Let Me Go went?
I really enjoyed it even when it was frustrating. By the third part of the book you desperately want the characters to rebel in some way (a la The Handmaid's Tale) but the very fact that they don't even consider it and the author keeps it narrowly on the personal level becomes all that needs to be said about this dystopian vision.
Hey Bridget-- We had a good discussion, I think. We ended up talking a lot about ethics, cloning, Brits, this human body exhibit at the Science Museum, etc. etc. I think the general opinion was that he's a good writer and it was an interesting idea. Totally frustrating, I agree! I got creeped out by the use of the word "completed"-- very effective, I guess... -- Debbie
Bridget, how's it going?
Julie and I also talked a lot (before book club, we couldn't wait!) about how the book was about the human ability to pursue desires and small, non-practical pleasures (friendship, love, art, etc...) even in the face of certain death and mortality. Though their course was sped up, we're not in a vastly different situation. So, what will we do with the time we have left? What's really vital for us, as individual people, to achieve in whatever undetermined time is allowed to us?
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