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We are trying something different this year. We are reading 3 big books along with the monthly books.

big books

 

January 2007

 

 

Jude the Obscure

 

Thomas Hardy

&

War
and
Peace
 
Leo
Tolstoy

 

February 2007

 

 

The Master

 

Colm Toibin

 

March 2007

 

 

The Death of Virgil

 

Hermann Broch

 

April 2007

 

 

Lolita

 

Vladimir Nabokov

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May 2007

 

 

Our Mutual Friend

 

Charles Dickens

&

Buddenbrooks
 
Thomas
Mann

 

June 2007

 

 

Disgrace

 

J. M. Coetzee

 

July 2007

 

 

Victory

 

Joseph Conrad

 

August 2007

 

 

The Emigrants

 

W. G. Sebald

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September 2007

 

 

Crime and Punishment

 

Fyodor Dostoevsky

&

The
Cairo
Trilogy
 
Naguib
Mahfouz

 

October 2007

 

 

This Side of Paradise

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

November 2007

 

 

Fifth Business

 

Robertson Davies

 

December 2007

 

 

The Royal Game (Chess Story)

 

Stefan Zweig

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Previous Years' Books

 

 

December 2006

 

 

War with the Newts

 

Karel Capek

 

November 2006

 

 

Death in Rome

 

Wolfgang Koeppen

 

October 2006

 

 

Decline and Fall

 

Evelyn Waugh

 

September 2006

 

 

The Bridge on the Drina

 

Ivo Andric

 

August 2006

 

Four Hearts

True History of the Kelly Gang

 

Peter Carey

 

July 2006

 

Four

Summer in Baden-Baden

 

Leonid Tsypkin

 

June 2006

 

Four Hearts

I Am a Cat

 

Natsume Soseki

 

May 2006

 

Three-and-a-half Hearts

Saturday

 

Ian McEwan

 

April 2006

 

Four-and-a-half Hearts

Conservationist

 

Nadine Gordimer

 

March 2006

 

Four hearts

Memed My Hawk

 

Yashar Kemal

 

February 2006

 

Three and a half hearts

The Man Who Was Thursday

 

G. K. Chesterton

 

January 2006

 

Three and a half hearts

Snow Country

 

Yasunari Kawabata

 

Nov. - Dec. 2005

 

Five Hearts

The Red and The Black

 

Stendhal

 

Sep. - Oct. 2005

 

Thumb Down

The Kite Runner

 

Khaled Hosseini

 

Jul. - Aug. 2005

 

Four hearts

The Sentimental Education

 

Gustave Flaubert

 

May - Jun. 2005

 

Two and a half hearts

Snow

 

Orhan Pamuk

 

Mar. - Apr. 2005

 

Five

The Magic Mountain

 

Thomas Mann

 

Jan. - Feb. 2005

 

Four and a half hearts

The Master and Margarita

 

Mikhail Bulgakov

 

November 2004

 

Two Hearts

Rituals

 

Cees Nooteboom

 

October 2004

 

Four hearts

Neverwhere

 

Neil Gaiman

 

September 2004

 

Four and a half hearts

Gould's Book of Fish

 

Richard Flanagan

 

August 2004

 

Five

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

 

Jorge Amado

 

July 2004

 

Five

Life: A User's Manual

 

Georges Perec

 

June 2004

 

Three Hearts

Oryx and Crake

 

Margaret Atwood

 

May 2004

 

Five stars

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

 

Mark Haddon

 

April 2004

 

Three and a half

Tender is the Night

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

March 2004

 

Four

A Student of Weather

 

Elizabeth Hay

 

February 2004

 

Four and a half Hearts

Invisible Cities

 

Italo Calvino

 

January 2004

 

Four

Carter Beats the Devil

 

Glen David Gold

 

December 2003

 

Four

The Dream of Scipio

 

Iain Pears

 

November 2003

 

Four

Ferdydurke

 

Witold Gombrowicz

 

October 2003

 

Three and a half

The Same Sea

 

Amos Oz

 

September 2003

 

Three and a half hearts

The Inspector General

 

Nikolai Gogol

 

August 2003

 

Four and a half

Memoirs of Hadrian

 

Marguerite Yourcenar

 

July 2003

 

Four Hearts

Zeno's Conscience

 

Italo Svevo

 

June 2003

 

Three and a half

The Beggar

 

Naguib Mahfouz

 

May 2003

 

Three

Against the Grain

 

Joris-Karl Huysmans

 

April 2003

 

Four hearts

Life of Pi

 

Yann Martel

 

March 2003

 

Three and a half

Shipwrecks

 

Akira Yoshimura

 

February 2003

 

Three and a half hearts

The Golem

 

Gustav Meyrink

 

January 2003

 

Three and a half hearts

Invitation to a Beheading

 

Vladimir Nabokov

 

December 2002

 

Three and a half hearts

In Dubious Battle

 

John Steinbeck

 

November 2002

 

Four and a half hearts

Austerlitz

 

W.G. Sebald

 

October 2002

 

Four hearts

The Sheltering Sky

 

Paul Bowles

 

September 2002

 

Four hearts

The Vivisector

 

Patrick White

 

August 2002

 

Three and a half hearts

Straight Man

 

Richard Russo

 

July 2002

 

Four hearts

A Burnt-Out Case

 

Graham Greene

 

June 2002

 

Four

A Very Long Engagement

 

Sébastien Japrisot

 

May 2002

 

Four and a half

Blindness

 

José Saramago

 

April 2002

 

Five

A House for Mr. Biswas

 

V.S. Naipaul

 

March 2002

 

Four

Black Dogs

 

Ian McEwan

 

February 2002

 

Three and a half

Waiting for my Cats to Die

 

Stacy Horn

 

January 2002

 

Three and a half

The War of the End of the World

 

Mario Vargas Llosa

 

December 2001

 

Four

The Hidden Force

 

Louis Couperus

 

November 2001

 

Three and a half

The Razor's Edge

 

William Somerset Maugham

 

October 2001

 

Three and a half hearts

In The Fall

 

Jeffrey Lent

 

September 2001

 

Four and a half

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

 

Mordecai Richler

 

 

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