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2009 Reading Schedule

We read the book during the month indicated and discuss it the following month.

 

All Year 2009 (1)

 

 

A Suitable Boy

 

Vikram Seth

 

All Year 2009 (2)

 

 

The Complete Short Stories

 

Ernest Hemingway

 

January 2009

 

 

The Road

 

Cormac McCarthy

 

February 2009

 

 

Jealousy and In the Labyrinth

 

Alain Robbe-Grillet

 

March 2009

 

 

The Planetarium

 

Nathalie Sarraute

 

April 2009

 

 

The Black Tulip

 

Alexandre Dumas

 

May 2009

 

 

The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi)

 

Hermann Hesse

 

June 2009

 

 

The Sea

 

John Banville

 

July 2009

 

 

De Niro's Game

 

Rawi Hage

 

August 2009

 

 

Midnight's Children

 

Salman Rushdie

 

September 2009

 

 

The Vicar of Wakefield

 

Oliver Goldsmith

 

October 2009

 

 

The Witches of Eastwick

 

John Updike

 

November 2009

 

 

What Maisie Knew

 

Henry James

 

December 2009

 

 

Any collection containing
"The Gentleman from San Francisco"

 

Ivan Bunin

 


Previous Years' Books

 

December 2008

 

 

I Malavoglia (The House by the Medlar Tree)

 

Giovanni Verga

 

November 2008

 

 

Arthur & George

 

Julian Barnes

 

October 2008

 

 

Pedro Páramo

 

Juan Rulfo

 

September 2008

 

 

Zorba the Greek

 

Nikos Kazantzakis

 

August 2008

 

 

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

 

Mario Vargas Llosa

 

July 2008

 

 

Embers

 

Sándor Márai

 

June 2008

 

 

Suite Française

 

Irène Némirovsky

 

May 2008

 

 

Mist

 

Miguel de Unamuno

 

April 2008

 

 

A Confederacy of Dunces

 

John Kennedy Toole

 

March 2008 (1)

 

 

The Street of Crocodiles

 

Bruno Schulz

 

March 2008 (2)

 

 

Home of the Gentry

 

Ivan Turgenev

 

February 2008

 

 

The Inheritance of Loss

 

Kiran Desai

 

January 2008

 

 

Persuasion

 

Jane Austen

 

December 2007

 

 

The Royal Game (Chess Story)

 

Stefan Zweig

 

November 2007

 

 

Fifth Business

 

Robertson Davies

 

October 2007

 

 

This Side of Paradise

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

September 2007

 

 

Crime and Punishment

 

Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

Sept. - Dec. 2007

 

 

The Cairo Trilogy

 

Naguib Mahfouz

 

August 2007

 

 

The Emigrants

 

W. G. Sebald

 

July 2007

 

 

Victory

 

Joseph Conrad

 

June 2007

 

 

Disgrace

 

J. M. Coetzee

 

May 2007

 

 

Our Mutual Friend

 

Charles Dickens

 

May - Aug. 2007

 

 

Buddenbrooks

 

Thomas Mann

 

April 2007

 

 

Lolita

 

Vladimir Nabokov

 

March 2007

 

 

The Death of Virgil

 

Hermann Broch

 

February 2007

 

 

The Master

 

Colm Tóibín

 

January 2007

 

 

Jude the Obscure

 

Thomas Hardy

 

Jan. - Apr. 2007

 

 

War and Peace

 

Leo Tolstoy

 

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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