Sunday, June 7, 2009

Reading List

Recent Book Club Member Recommendations

The Twin, by Gerbrand Bakker

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer

Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam

Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier

Arthur & George by Julian Barnes

Sense of an Ending, the new novel by Julian Barnes

Case Histories is a 2004 detective novel by Kate Atkinson

One Day by David Nicholls

The Blackhouse is a crime novel by Peter May

Sex & Stravinsky by Barbara Trapido

Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut

Scoop Evelyn Waugh

Disgrace J. M. Coetzee

The Citadel A. J. Cronin

We Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver

The Dig John Preston

A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

The Other Hand by Chris Cleave

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

The Savage Garden Mark Mills

Chocolat Joanna Harris

Memory Keepers Daughter Kim Edwards

Lovely Bones Alice Sebold

Teacher Man Frank McCourt

Ask the Dust John Fante

A Tuscan Childhood Kinta Beevor

Child 44 Tom Rob Smith

Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith

Doctor Olaf van Schuler’s Brain Kirsten Menger-Anderson

Falling Leaves Adeline Yen Mah

Daughters of Brittania Katie Hickman



Contemporary Fiction


Atonement Ian McEwan

The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath

Beloved Toni Morrison

The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood

Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler

The Cider House Rules John Irving

Cloud Atlas David Mitchell

A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole

The Corrections Jonathan Franzen

The Country Girls Edna O'Brien

Disgrace J.M. Coetzee

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Rebecca Wells

The Famished Road Ben Okri

The Giant's House Elizabeth McCracken

Gilead Marilynne Robinson

The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy

The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing

The History of Love Nicole Krauss

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters Julian Barnes

Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner

The Hours Michael Cunningham

The Idea of Perfection Kate Grenville

The Jane Austen Book Club Karen Joy Fowler

Larry's Party Carol Shields

Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden

Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides

Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie

Miss Garnet's Angel Salley Vickers

Moon Tiger Penelope Lively

Notes on a Scandal Zoe Heller

Possession A.S. Byatt

Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver

The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx

What a Carve Up! Jonathan Coe

What's Bred in the Bone Robertson Davis

Wise Children Angela Carter

Engleby Sebastian Faulks

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon

The Bone People Keri Hulme