Here you can see what my real-life book club is reading, or has read. We pick 12 books at annually but one year we picked more than that so there is a little bit of overlap into the next year. As I read them, review links will be added beside each title. I haven’t been in a in-real-life meeting in some time but I still try to read the books.
2014 Book Club Reading List (ongoing)
Jan – Canada by Richard Ford
Feb – The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(rest of the 2014 list to be determined in January 2014)
2013 Book Club Reading List
Jan – Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Feb – The Submission by Amy Waldman
Mar – Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell (my 4th time reading it)
Apr – The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson [review]
May – The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
Jun – Arcadia by Lauren Groff
Jul – Stone’s Fall by Ian Pears
Aug – The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Sep – Moloka’I by Alan Brennert
Oct – The Round House by Louise Erdrich [review]
Nov – Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dec – The River Swimmer (novellas) by Jim Harrison
2012 Book Club Reading List
Jan – The Lost City of Z by David Grann [review] (chosen last year)
Feb – The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee (chosen last year)
Mar – The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds [review] (my pick from last year)
Apr – The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
May – The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Heidi Durrow [review]
Jun – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (my 4th time reading it)
Jul – The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham
Aug – Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami [review]
Sep – The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
Oct – The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Nov – The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
Dec – The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
2011 Book Club Reading List
Jan – Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving [review]
Feb – The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Murial Barbery [review]
Mar – The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon [review]
Apr – A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot
May - A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller [review]
Jun – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell [review]
Jul – Pearl of China by Anchee Min [review]
Aug – Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese [review]
Sep – Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oct – Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez [review]
Nov – Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand [review]
Dec – Room by Emma Donoghue [review]
2010 Book Club Reading List
Note: there was a small change for April. The Shadow of the Wind was replaced with The Book Thief.
Jan – Finn by Jon Clinch [review]
Feb – Case Histories by Kate Atkinson [review]
Mar – True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Apr - The Book Thief by Markus Zusack
May – First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung [review]
Jun – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Jul – Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink [review]
Aug – The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Sep - Invisible by Paul Auster [review]
Oct – Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Nov – Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
Dec – Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton [review]
2009 Book Club Reading List
Jan – Cane River by Lalita Tademy [review]
Feb – The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Mar – Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama [review]
Apr – Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult [review]
May – Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [review]
Jun – Prayers for Bobby by Leroy Aarons [review]
Jul – Netherland by Joseph O’Neill [review]
Aug – Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo [review]
Sep – The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff [review]
Oct – A Mercy by Toni Morrison [review]
Nov – In The Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Dec – The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Just found your site. Noticed you eliminated Shadows of the Wind. It is a MUST READ. Loved it and your site too!!!
I know! It actually got pushed into the next year to make room for another book. I loved it but we will definitely be reading it as a group.
Loved The Elegance of the Hedgehog,,,,and The Book Thief was a favorite also.
I recently published a book called “Nightshift in the ER”. It is a compliation of my experiences on the nightshift in a busy trauma center. Every morning, I would come home and write about things that happened that night. It is filled with information about treating emergency conditions, along with anecdotes and comments by ER personnel as they get through their shift. Some is funny. Some is sad. Some is excitement. Some is exhausting. But that is ER and that is what I tried to convey.