Fiction Group: Novels Discussed
*Date novel discussed in parenthesis
Aboulela, Leila. The Translator. (Jan. 2007)
Ackroyd, Peter. First Light.
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Half of a Yellow Sun.
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah. (June 2014)
Alameddine, Rabih. An Unnecessary Woman. (June 2015}
Ali, Monica. Brick Lane. (Nov. 2004).
Anaya, Rudolfo. Bless Me, Ultima.
Atwood, Margaret. Alias Grace. (Aug. 2002)
Banks, Russell. The Cloudsplitter. (Jan. 2006)
Banville, John. The Sea. (Oct. 2009)
Barbery, Muriel. The Elegance of the Hedgehog. (2009)
Barker, Pat. Life Class. (2009)
Barker, Pat. The Eye in the Door. (March 1996)
Barnes, Julian. History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters.
Bellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March.
Nobel Prize, 1976
Bernieres, Louis De. Corelli’s Mandolin. (April 1997)
Blum, Jenna. Those Who Saved Us. (2008)
Boll, Heinrich. Billiards at Half Past Nine. Nobel Prize, 1972
Brookner, Anita. Hotel du Lac.
Buechner, Frederick. The Son of Laughter.
Byatt, A. S. Possession. (Nov. 1997)
Calvino, Italo. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. (Sept. 1996)
Carter, Stephen L. The Emperor of Ocean Park. (Sept. 2003)
Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. (Aug. 2009)
Chaudhuri, Amit. Freedom Song: Three Novels. (Aug. 2006)
Chevalier, Tracy. Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Cleave, Chris. Little Bee. (April 2011)
Coetzee, J. M. Disgrace. (April 2001) 1999 Booker prize
Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians. (June 2003)
Cunningham, Michael. The Hours. (May 2000)
Danticat, Edwidge. The Farming of Bones. (Jan. 2000) Dominican Republic
Davies, Robertson. The Cunning Man. (1996)
Davis, Peter Ho. The Welsh Girl. (Sept. 2009)
Dean, Debra. The Madonnas of Leningrad. (March 2009)
DeLillo, Don. The Body Artist. (Oct. 2004)
Desai, Anita. Baumgartner’s Bombay. (Aug. 1996)
Diamant, Anita. The Red Tent.
Diaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. (Nov. 2008)
Doctorow, E. L. The March. (Oct. 2006)
Donoghue, Emma. Room. (Nov. 2012)
Dorris, Michael. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. (June 1994)
Dorris, Michael and Louise Erdrich. The Crown of Columbus.
Drabble, Margaret. Jerusalem the Golden??
Eggers, Dave. Halogram for the King. (July 2013)
Ellison, Ralph. The Invisible Man. (Feb. 2008).
Emecheta, Buchi. The Slave Girl.
Endo, Shusaku. Silence. (Aug. 1995)
Eng, Tan Twan. The Garden of Evening Mists. (April 2015)
Enger, Lief. Peace Like a River. (Feb. 2006)
Enright, Anne. The Gathering. (July 2008)
Enquist, Per Olov. The Royal Physician’s Visit. (July 2003)
Erdrich, Louise. Tracks. (Dec. 2001)
Erdrich, Louise. The Round House. (June 2013)
Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex. (March 2007)
Farah, Nuruddin. Links. (April 2006)
Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom! (Jan. 1996) Nobel Prize, 1949
Farrell, J. G. The Siege of Krishnapur. (Sept. 2010)
Fitzgerald, Penelope. The Bookshop. (Aug. 1998)
Flanagan, Richard. Gould’s Book of Fish. (June 2009)
Foer, Jonathan Safran. Everything is Illuminated. (2005}
Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Ford, Richard. Canada. (April 2013)
Ford, Richard. Independence Day. (Oct. 1996)
Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections. (April 2012)
Frayn, Michael. Headlong. (Nov. 2000)
Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain. (Nov. 1998)
Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying. (May 1998)
Gardam, Jane. Old Filth. (May 2012)
Glass, Julia. Three Junes. (April 2004)
Glendinning, Victoria. Electricity.
Goldberg, Myla. Bee Season. (Sep. 2001)
Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a Geisha.
Gordimer, Nadine. The House Gun. Nobel Prize, 1991
Gordon, Mary. The Rest of Life.
Gosh, Amitav. The Glass Palace. (May 2009)
Grass, Gunter. Crabwalk. (July 2004)
Greene, Graham. The End of the Affair. (1992)
Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter.
Gruen, Sara. Water for Elephants. (Sept. 2007)
Gutterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars.
Ha Jin. Waiting. (June 2002) 1999 National Book award
Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
Hamilton, Jane. A Map of the World.
Hansen. Brooks. The Chess Garden. (Jan. 1999)
Harbach, Chad. The Art of Fielding. (Aug. 2012)
Haruf, Kent. Plainsong. (Oct. 2000)
Hazzard, Shirley. The Great Fire. (March 2005) National Book Award
Hegi, Ursula. Stones from the River. (July 1997)
Hijuelos, Oscar. Mr. Ives’ Christmas.
Horan, Nancy. Loving Frank. (Feb. 2009)
Hosseine, Khalid. The Kite Runner. (Sept. 2004)
Hurston, Zora Neal. Their Eyes Were Watching God. (1995)
Hustvedt, Siri. Sorrows of an American. (Dec. 2013)
Irving, John. A Prayer for Owen Meany.
Ishiguro, Kazuo. Remains of the Day.
James, P. D. The Children of Men. (March 1994)
Johnson, Adam. The Orphan Master’s Son. (2014?) Pulitzer Prize, 2013
Johnson, Diane. Le Mariage.
Jones, Edward P. The Known World. (2007)*
Kennedy, William. Ironweed. (May 1997)
Khoury, Elias. Gate of the Sun. (Aug. 2007)
Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees. (March 2004)
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Poisonwood Bible. (Sept. 1994)
Kingsolver, Barbara. Prodigal Summer. (Jan. 2002)
Klima, Ivan. The Ultimate Intimacy.
Krauss, Nicole. The History of Love: A Novel. (Dec. 2011)
Krueger, William Kent. Ordinary Grace. (Oct. 2014)
Kundera, Milan. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. (June 1997)
Lahire, Jhumpa. The Namesake. (June 2005)
Lamb, Wally. She’s Come Undone. (1997)
Lee, Chang-rae. A Gesture Life. (Jan. 2001)
Lee, Janice Y. K. The Piano Teacher. (Jan. 2010)
LeGuin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness. (Sept. 1995)
Lessing, Doris. The Fifth Child. (Aug. 1994) Nobel Prize, 2003
Lively, Penelope. Moon Tiger. (July 1994) Booker Prize
Lodge, David. Therapy. (July 1996)
Lurie, Alison. Foreign Affairs. (Nov. 1996)
McCann, Colum. Let the Great World Spin. (2009} National Book Award
MacColl, Mary-Rose. In Falling Snow. (Jan. 2015}
McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. (Dec. 1994)
McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. (June 2006)
McDermott, Alice. Charming Billy. (Jan. 1999)
McDermott, Alice. Someone. (March 2014)
McEwan, Ian. Amsterdam. (Feb. 2000)
McEwan, Ian. Atonement. (April 2003)
Mahfouz, Naguib. Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy. (July 1995) Nobel Prize, 1988
Mann, Thomas. The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man. (Oct. 2005)
Mantel, Hillary. Wolf Hall. (Jan. 2011)
Mantel, Hillary. Bring Up the Bodies. (Nov. 2014)
Marias, Javier. Infatuations. (May 2014)
Marquez, Garcia. Love in the Time of Cholerea. (March 2003) Nobel Prize, 1982
Martin, Valerie. Trespass: A Novel . (Jan. 2012)
Mason, Daniel. The Piano Tuner. (Nov. 2003)
Maugham, W. Somerset. The Razor’s Edge. (Dec. 2006)
Mengestu, Dinaw. All Our Names. (Sept. 2014)
Messud, Claire. The Emperor’s Children. (July 2010)
Meyer, Philipp. American Rust. (Aug. 2010)
Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance. (Aug. 2003)
Mitchell, David. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. (2012)*
Moore, Brian. The Colour of Blood. (May 1996)
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. (Oct. 1994) Nobel Prize, 1993
Morrison, Toni. Home. (Aug. 2013)
Mueenuddin, Daniyal. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. (June 2011)
Muller, Herta. The Land of Green Plums. (2011) Nobel Prize, 2009
Munroe, Alice. Friends of My Youth. (Dec. 1995)
Murdock, Iris. The Green Knight.
Murdock, Iris. The Black Prince. (Oct. 2010)
Nabokov, Vladimir. Pnin. (Aug. 2008)
Naipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River. (Nov. 2001) Nobel Prize
Narayan, R. K. The Guide. (July 2000)
Naylor, Gloria. The Women of Brewster Place.
Ndiaye, Maria. Three Strong Women. (March 2013)
Niffengger, Audrey. The Time Traveler’s Wife. (Oct. 2006)
Nemirovsky, Irene. Suite Francaise. (June 2007)
Oates, Joyce Carol. Them. (Oct. 2013)
Obreht, Tea. The Tiger’s Wife. (Feb. 2012)
O’Brien, Edna. The House of Splendid Isolation. (April 2005)
Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient or Never Let Me Go.?
Oz, Amos. The Same Sea. (Feb. 2003)
Ozick, Cynthia. Heir to the Glimmering World. (Nov. 2005)
Pamuk, Orhan. My Name is Red. (Dec. 2002) Nobel Prize, 2006
Pamuk, Orhan. The Black Book. (2005)
Patchett, Ann. Bel Canto. (Sept. 2002)
Percy, Walker. The Moviegoer. (Sep. 1999)
Phillips, Arthur. Prague: A Novel. (Feb. 2007)
Phillips, Caryl. A Distant Shore. (May 2005)
Powers, Kevin. Yellow Birds. (Aug. 2014)
Price, Reynolds. Kate Vaiden. (Sept. 1998)
Prose, Francine. A Changed Man. ? (April 2007)
Proulx, Annie. The Shipping News. (Jan. 1995)
Pym, Barbara. Quartet in Autumn.
Robinson, Marilyn. Gilead. (May 2006) Pulitzer prize
Roth, Philip. Human Stain. (Jan. 2004)
Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. (1998)*
Rushdie, Salman. The Moore’s Last Sigh. (March 1997)
Russo, Richard. Empire Falls. (Dec. 2003) 2002 Pulitzer prize
Russo, Richard. Straight Man. (Aug. 2001)
Saramago, Jose. Blindness.
(May 2008)
Saramago, Jose. The History of the Siege of Lisbon. (June 2004) Nobel Prize, 1998
Schlink, Bernhard. The Reader. (June 2000)
Schulz, Bruno. Street of Crocodiles. (Aug. 2004)
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. Disturbances in the Field. (Nov. 2010)
Sebald, W. G. The Emigrants. (April 2002)
Smilie, Jane. A Thousand Acres.
Smith, Zadie. White Teeth. (March 2002)
Sofer, Dalia. The Septembers of Shiraz. (Feb. 2010)
Sontag, Susan. The Volcano Lover. (2005)
Spark, Muriel. Momento Mori. (Oct. 2012)
Stegner, Wallace. The Spectator Bird. (Oct. 2011)
Stockett, Kathryn. The Help. (June 2010)
Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge. (Nov. 2009)
Tartt, Donna. The Goldfinch. (March 2015)
Tilghman, Christopher. The Right-Hand Shore. (April 2014)
Toibin, Colm. Brooklyn: A Novel. (May 2010)
Toole, John Kennedy. Confederacy of Dunces. (Nov. 2007)
Trevor, William. The Silence in the Garden. (June 1998)
Trollope, Joana. The Rector’s Wife. (1998)*
Tyler, Anne. Saint Maybe.
Tyler, Anne. The Accidental Tourist.
Tyler, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
Udall, Brady. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint. (Jan. 2005)
Updike, John. In the Beauty of the Lilies. (Aug. 1997)
Vargas Llosa, Mario. The Feast of the Goat. (Jan. 2008)
Vargas Llosa, Mario. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. (March 1998)
Verghese, Abraham. Cutting for Stone. (Sept. 2011)
Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat’s Cradle. (July 2007)
Vreeland, Susan. Girl in Hyacinth Blue.
Walker, Alice. Possessing the Secret of Joy.
Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the Bones. (Jan. 2013) hurricane Katrina
Wells, Rebecca. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
Welty, Eudora. The Optimist’s Daughter. (April 1994)
Welty, Eudora. The Golden Apples. (Sept. 2005)
Williams, John. Stoner. (March 2010)
Wolfe, Tom. A Man in Full. (Oct. 2002)
Wolfe, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities.
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. (March 1998)
Wright, Richard. Native Son. (July 2006)
Yates, Richard. Revolutionary Road. (Feb. 2004)
Yehoshua, Y. B. A Woman in Jerusalem. (March 2008)
Young, William P. The Shack. (March 2009)