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Past Events
Updated: Feb 24
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
113.1.(Book1).1984 by George Orwell
115: The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing
116. All That Man Is by David Szalay
117. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
118. To the Back of Beyond by Peter Stamm
119.The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton
120. Paradise by Toni Morrison
121. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
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 122.1 (discussed before): 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)
April 15: book selection from books with pandemic themes (Angela, Nicole, Joan, Sean, Vlad)
Book 124: The Ship of Fools by Cristina Peri Rossi (presenter: Nicole)
May 20: book selection from Southeast Asia (presenter: Uma)
Book 125: Grace by Paul Lynch (presenter: Sean)
June 17: book selection from classics (Sean, Vlad and Angela)
Book 126 : The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (presenter: UMA)
Aug 18: book selection: the Travel Memoir
Book 127 : Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Sept 15: book selection: The 1930s
Book 128 : Oct 6: book discussion: The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
Oct 20: book selection: Literary Science-Fiction
Book 129 : Nov 2: Perreira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
Nov 17: Book selection: Turkish literature
Dec 1st: Secret Santa Book exchange
Traveller of the Century (Andrés Neuman)
Simulacron-3 (Daniel F. Galouye)
Gun Island (Amitav Ghosh)
Level4 Virus Hunters of the CDC ( Joseph McCormick & Susan Fisher-Hoch)
Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom (John Boyne)
The Leopard (Tomasi di Lampedusa)
The Magic (Rhonda Byrne)
The Five (Hallie Rubenhold)
The Heart Goes Last (Margaret Atwood)
Memoirs of Hadrian (Marguerite Yourcenar)
Book 130: Jan 12/21 : Machines like Me by Ian McEwan
Jan 26 : Book selection: The Mountain
Book 131: The Time Regulation Institute by A.H. Tanpinar
Feb 23: Book selection: Central European Literature
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