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The reading group I belong to has read these books over the last five years:
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Marquez*
Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee*º
God's Bits of Wood Sembene Ousmane
The Cave Jose Saramago*
My Year of Meats Ruth Ozeki
Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy~†
End Zone Don Delillo~
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
The Silent Cry Kenzeboro Oe
Under Milkwood Dylan Thomas
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
The Master and Marguerita Mikhail Bulgakov
The Quiet American Graham Greene
The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri†
Black Rain Masugi Ibuse
Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow*~†
Miramar Naguib Mahfouz*
Snow Orhan Pamuk*
Free Fall William Golding*º
The Waves Virginia Woolf
Family Pa Chin
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner*†~
Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole†
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
Whose Body? Dorothy L Sayers
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Known World Edward Jones†
Lost City Radio Daniel Alarcon
Our Man in Havana Graham Greene
The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
The Brief Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao Junot Diaz†
Empire Falls Richard Russo†
Silence Shusaka Endo (Tanizaki prize)
A Mercy Toni Morrison
Everything that Rises must
Converge Flannery O'Connor
The Plague of Doves Louise Erdrich
Beyond Black Hilary Mantel
*Nobel Prize for Literature
†Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
~National Book Award for Fiction
°Booker Prize for Fiction
†Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
~National Book Award for Fiction
°Booker Prize for Fiction
and we'll be discussing Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout next week. I've not read some of the books on the list; and of course I've read others on my own . . .
2 comments:
No, but Love in the Time of Cholera, top of the list, was probably my favourite ever book until I saw a film interpretation and realised how somebody else saw it. So it always good to get other viewpoints in a reading or writing group in order to get beyond yourself.
I'm not in a book club either. Though I would love to find one.
I wanted to say that I enjoyed Love in the Time of Cholera as well. I read it years before I saw the movie, so the book wasn't fresh in my mind when I saw the movie, and I was able to enjoy the movie more.
I really enjoy Marquez' work. I also like Vonnegut, though I've not read that piece.
If you ever want a fun piece to read let me know.
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