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 to America (Anne Tyler)
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)

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