Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Books under consideration for future discussion

I sent out emails with the list of books suggested for everyone to select at least 5 of their choice. That is the first round. Once I have everyone's selections I will compile a much shorter list from which we will then vote for the final selection.

Below is the list of books from which we voted on at our November meeting. Highlighted text should link you to the Amazon cite describing the book.

2015 January  The Magus by J. Fowles
2015 February The City of Thieves by Benoitt
2015 March      The Candy Bombers by Andrei Chemy
2015 April      The Cuckoo's Calling by R. Galbraith

Round one of suggestions
o   A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal, Ben MacIntyre
o   The Way of the Knife, Mark Mazzetti
o   America’s Great Game, Hug Wilford
o   The Cairo Affair, Olen Steinhauer
o   Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
o   We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
o   The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, T.J. Stiles
o   The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, David Nasaw
o   Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, H. W. Brands
o   Expo 58, Jonathan Coe
o   The Museum of Extraordinary Things, Alice Hoffman
o   Zealot, Reza Azlan
o   Sutton by J.R. Moehringer
o   One Summer by Bill Bryson
o   Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
o   Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
o   Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
o   The Human Age by Diane Ackerman
o   The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
o   Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
o   The Known World by Edward Jones
o   White Teeth by Zadie Smith
o   Wolfe Hall by Hilary Mantel
o   Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 
o   Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
o   The Human Stain by Philip Roth
o   Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
o   Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
o   Paris the Novel by Edward Rutherford
o   The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
o   The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
o   Out Stealing Horses by Per Patterson
o   Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
o   Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
o   anything by William Faulkner, Light in August
o   The Round House by Louise Erdrich
o   Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
o   Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
o   Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
o   Fault in Our Stars by John Green
o   Luminarium - Alex Shakar
o   Night Train to Lisbon - Pascal Mercier
o   How to be Both - Ali Smith
o   Our Mutual Friend, Dickens
o   Bleak House, Dickens
o   Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
o   Great Expectations, Dickens



ü  Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
ü  Doer, All the Light We cannot See
ü  Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
ü  Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
ü  Roth, Patrimony (autobiog)
ü  Atkinson, Life after Life
ü  Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
ü  Waters, The Paying Guests
ü  Doctrow, Andrew’s Brain
ü  Allende, Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel
ü  Shaccochis, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
ü  Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia
ü  Maya, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War
ü  McDermott, Someone
ü  Ozeki, A Tale For the Time Being
ü  Mantel, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
ü  Robinson, Lila
ü  Thomas, The White Hotel
ü  Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
ü  Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country
Glass, Three Junes
ü  Franzen, Freedom
ü  Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
ü  Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Essex
ü  Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
ü  Ciezadlo, Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love and War
ü  Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
ü  Morrell, Murder is a Fine Art
ü  Kulanski, Salt: A World History
ü  Pavone, The Expats

ü  Catton, The Luminaries
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