Titles discussed at the Book Club

1996 / 1997/ 1998 / 1999
2000/ 2001 / 2002 / 2003
2004/ 2005 / 2006 / 2007
2008 / 2009 / 2010

 

2010

"Waterland" by Graham Swift

"The God of Small Things" by Arundati Roy

"The Easter Parade" by Richard yates

"The Secret Scripture" by Sebastian Barry

"Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel

"Tender is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Deaf sentence" by David Lodge

"The whereabouts of Eneas McNulty" by Sebastian Barry

  “The Help ”  by Catherine Stockett

"The Last Life" by Claire Messud

"My Antonia" by Willa Cather

2011

"July’s People” by  Nadine Gordimer 

“Beethoven was one Sixteenth Black”   by Nadine Gordimer

“American Rust” by Philipp Meyer

“Song of Solomon” by Toni Morrison

“The Quiet American” & “The Heart of the Matter” by Graham Greene

“The Yacoubian Buildingby Alaa Al Aswany

“The Finkler Question” by Howard Jacobson

 

2008

Poisonwood bible by Barbara Kingsolver,

Victory by Joseph Conrad,

The island by Victoria Hislop,

Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,

Felicia's Journey by William Trevor.

Mr Pip by LLoyd Jones

Exit Ghost by Philip Roth

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

Silas Marner by George Eliot

2009

Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing

'The Book Thief' is by Markus Zusak

The Road' by Cormac McCarthy

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

'The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

'Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

"A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry

"Caleb Williams" by William Godwin

"Under the Volcano" by Malcom Lowry

"The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton

2006

The Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (Jan)

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (Feb. 13)

Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton (Mar. 13)

Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul (Apr.)

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado (May)

 

2007

Snow by Orhan Pamuk,

Passage to India by E.M. Foster,

The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason,

N°1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander Mc Smith,

Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky,

Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney,

Arthur & George by Julian Barnes,

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears,

What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe .

2004

The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Jan. 12)

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (Feb. 16)

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh (Mar. 15)

The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor (Apr. 19)

Any Human Heart by William Boyd ( may 24)

The Hours by Michaël Cunningham ( Sept. 13)

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowls (Oct. 18)

The Siege by Helen Dunmore (Nov. 22)

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (Dec. 20)

 

2005

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (Jan. 17)

Old Wives Tales by Arnold Bennett (Feb. 21)

Polish Officer by Alan Furst (Mar. 21)

The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard (Apr. 25)

Justine by Lawrence Durell (May 23)

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Sept. 12)

Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett (Oct. 17)

Herzog by Saul Bellow (Nov. 21)

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Dec. 19)

2002

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Jan. 14)

Lies of Silence by Brian Moore (March. 18)

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (Apr. 14)

An Equal Music by Vikram Seth (May 27)

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (Sept. 16)

The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd (Oct. 14.)

The Soldier's Return by Melvin Bragg (Nov. 18)

Vera by Stacy Schiff (Dec. 16)

2003

Emma by Jane Austen (Jan. 20)

Atonement by Ian McEwan (Feb. 17)

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell (Mar. 17)

The Human Stain by Philip Roth (May 26)

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (Sept. 15)

Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers (Oct. 13)

The Ambassadors by Henry James (Nov. 17)

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (Dec. 15)

2000

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (Jan. 17)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Feb. 14)

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Mar. 1)

Therapy by David Lodge (Apr. 10)

Sir Vidia’s Shadow by Paul Theroux (May 22)

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz (Sept. 18)

Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach (Oct. 16)

Mendel’s Dwarf by Simon Mawer (Nov. 13)

Jigsaw : an Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford (Dec. 11)

2001

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (Jan. 15)

The African Queen by C.S. Forester (Feb. 19)

The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd (Mar. 19)

In Siberia by Colin Thubron (Apr. 23)

Love, Again by Doris Lessing (May 21)

Air and Fire by Ruppert Thomson (Sept. 17)

Bird Song by Sebastian Faulks (Oct. 15)

The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville (Nov. 19)

The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (Dec. 17)


1998

As I walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee (Jan. 19)

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley (Feb. 23)

The Color of Water by James McBride (Mar. 23)

An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd (Apr. 20)

Le Divorce by Diane Johnson (May 18)

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (June 22)

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (Sept. 14)

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Oct. 12)

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Nov. 16)

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore (Dec. 14)

1999

The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux (Jan. 11)

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis (Feb. 8)

An Instant in the Wind by Andre Brink (Mar. 8)

Angela’s Ashes by Franck McCourt (Apr. 26)

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford (May 31)

The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Sept. 13)

The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch (Oct. 18)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (Nov. 15)

Larry’s Party by Carol Shields (Dec. 13)

1996

Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (Jan.8)

Fragile Glory by Richard Bernstein (Feb. 12)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Mar. 11)

French or Foe by Polly Platt (Mar. 11)

The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag (Apr. 1)

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (May 6)

The Country of Last Things by Paul Auster (June 3)

Tender is the Night by F.S. Fitzgerald (Sept. 16)

The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy (Oct. 14)

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (Nov. 18)

The Years by Virginia Woolf (Dec. 16)

1997

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Jan. 13)

Howard's End by E.M. Forster (Feb. 17)

The Gods Arrive by Edith Wharton (Mar. 17)

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (Apr. 7)

The Old Man and the Sea by E. Hemingway (May 12)

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (June 16)

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence (Sept. 15)

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by C. McCullers (Oct. 13)

Staying on by Paul Scott (Nov. 17)

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul (Dec. 15)

 

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