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4. The Communist Manifesto - Marx
5. On the Origin of Species - Darwin
6. A Room of One's Own – Woolf
7. The Wealth of Nations - Smith
12. Guns, Germs, and Steel – Diamond
14. Hundred Yrs of Solitude – Marquez
15. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
16. To Kill a Mockingbird – Lee
21. Brothers Karamazov – Dostoevsky
22. Multiple Intelligence – Gardner
28. When Bad Things Happen … – Kushner
29. The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald
31. The Master and Margarita – Bulgakov
34. Things Fall Apart – Achebe
35. Hitchhiker’s Guide .. – Adams
36. Capitalism and Freedom – Friedman
38. Brideshead Revisited – Waugh
40. l'Optimisme (Candide) – Voltaire
42. All Quiet Western Front – Remarque
43. Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
44. Midnight's Children – Rushdie
46. A Tale of Love and Darkness – Oz
49. The Glass Bead Game – Hesse
50. Zen & Art of Motorcycle.. – Pirsig
51. Notre Dame de Paris – Hugo
52. The Grapes of Wrath – Steinbck
54. One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest – Kesey
56. Tipping The Velvet - Waters
58. God Is Not Great... – Hitchens
60. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway
61. Adolf Hitler: My Part..- Milligan
62. Imagined Communities – Anderson
63. Unbearable Lightness Being - Kundera
68. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Wilde
69. Letters To A Young Poet – Rilke
72. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - J le Carre
73. Journey to the end of the night – Celine
74. Kafka on the shore – Murakami
77. Slaughterhouse-Five – Vonnegut
78. Of Mice and Men – Steinbeck
79. And Quiet Flows the Don – Sholokov
80. From Russia With Love – Fleming
83. Orphan Master’s Son – Johnson
84. The Shadow Factory - Bamford
85. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
87. A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens
88. The Selfish Gene – Dawkins
92. The Remains of the Day- Ishiguro
96. Vindication of the Rights of Woman
98. Lord of The Flies – Golding
99. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Hardy
101. The House of The Spirits by Isabel Allende – Isabel Allande
102. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? –Philip K. Dick
103. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
104. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
105. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
106. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
107. The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
108. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland –Lewis Carroll
109. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
110. Postcards From The Edge - Carrie Fisher
111. Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
112. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
113. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
This meeting was organised to discuss planning of the 2019 events. The main agreements included:
1. The club will have two events per month in the first and third Wednesday of each month;
2. In the first Wednesday, a presenter will provide a brief digest of selected new book release of the previous month and the group will choose the read for the following month;
3. In the third Wednesday, the club will discuss a book following a short presentation made by a member covering author's life, past work and a brief summary of the book. Then the group go for drink;
4. The events will be announced for 7pm and starts at 7:30pm to give enough time for members to arrive, grab a drink and settle down.
5. The club alternates between literature classics discussed previously in the club over 2010-2017 and new books selected in the book review meetings
In this meeting Vlad Kovsky did a great job in presenting the best books of 2018 including a short overview of each book and notable critics (+ and -). Then the participants selected the book of next month for the club which is Milkman by Anna Burns.
Booked proposed by Nicole, Angela, Joan, Rosie and Mehran.
114. Milkman by Anna Burns (presenter: Nicole)
1 May2019
Books presented by Angela for selection of next month read
115: The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing (presenter: Rosie)
June 5: book review and selection from classics (presenters: Sean and Mouna)
116. June 19: All That Man Is by David Szalay (presenter: Angela)
Aug 7 Book review and selection from Swiss authors presented by Nicole
Aug 7 Book review and selection from Australian authors presented by Sean
117.August 21: Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (presenter: Joan)
118. Sept 4: To the Back of Beyond by Peter Stamm (presenter: Vlad)
119: The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton (presenter: Sean)
Oct 16: book review and selection from Italian literature (presenter: Silvia)
Book 120: Paradise by Toni Morrison (presenter: Gina)
Book 121 Nov 20: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (presenter: Joan, Nicole, Angela)
Dec 4: Secret Santa book exchange / end-year party - Gifts exchanged:
Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese)
House of Names (Colm Tóibín)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Celestial Bodies (Jokha al-Harthi)
Forest Dark (Nicole Krauss)
Celine: A novel (Peter Heller)
One Hundred Years of Dirt (Rick Morton)
Sacrées sorcières (Roald Dahl)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Stefan Zweig)
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Steven Galloway)
15 Jan: book selection from Russian classics
Book 122: The Last Garden by Eva Hornung (presenter: Sean)
Feb 12: book selection from non-fiction books (presenter: Peter)
Book 122: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (presenter: Félix)
March 11: book selection from Latin America (presenter: Angela)
Book 123: The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coats (presenter: Peter)
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