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Book Group Books April Arnošt Lustig, Lovely Green Eyes May Donna Tartt, The Little Friend 1998 September Michael Pye, The Pieces from Berlin October Monique Truong, The Book of Salt February Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain November Jane Smiley, Good Faith March Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things December Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner April Rick Bragg, All Over but the Shoutin’ May Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow 2004 September October February Edward P. Jones, The Known World November March J. M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello December April Mario Vargas Llosa, The Way to Paradise May Antonio Munoz Molina, Sepharad September Seth Kantner, Ordinary Wolves 1999 October Anne Tyler, Amateur Marriage February Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full November Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club March Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible December Nuruddin Farah, Links April John Burnham Schwartz, Reservation Road May Alice McDermott, Charming Billy 2005 September Bernard Schlink, The Reader February Russell Banks, The Darling October Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet March Lily Tuck, News from Paraguay November Michael Cunningham, The Hours and Virginia April Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway May Ha Jin, War Trash December Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth September Marilynne Robinson, Gilead October Orhan Pamuk, Snow 2000 November Lorraine Adams, Harbor February Ken Haruf, Plainsong December Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown March Henri Stendahl, The Charterhouse of Parma April Richard Powers, Gain 2006 May Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life February John Banville, The Sea September Jeffrey Lent, In the Fall March E. L. Doctorow, The March October Anita Desai, Fasting, Feasting April Francine Prose, A Changed Man November, Ha Jin, Waiting May Zadie Smith, On Beauty December Zadie Smith, White Teeth September Jay McInerney, The Good Life October Jose Saramago, Seeing 2001 November Zadie Smith, On Beauty, and E.M. Forster, February Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans Howard's End March Carlos Fuentes, The Years with Laura Diaz December Camilla Gibb, Sweetness in the Belly April Mark Salzman, Lying Awake May Helen DeWitt The Last Samurai 2007 September Amy Tan, The Bonesetter’s Daughter February Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land October Brad Kessler, Lick Creek March Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss November Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain April Cormac McCarthy, The Road December Andre Dubus, House of Sand and Fog May Chimananda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun September Don Delillo, Falling Man 2002 October Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher February V. S. Naipaul, Half a Life November Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Cases March Joyce Weatherford, Heart of the Beast December Andrea Barrett, The Air We Breathe April Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague 2008 May Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections February Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke September Hari Kunzru, The Impressionist March Anne Enright, The Gathering October Ian McKuen, Atonement April Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist November Bharath Mukherjee, Desirable Daughters May Annie Dillard, The Maytrees December Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang September Rabih Alameddine, The Hakawati October Joseph O’Neil, Netherland 2003 November Riva Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances February Paulette Jiles, Enemy Women December Nam Le, The Boat March Yann Martel, Life of Pi 2009 November Jennifer Clement, Prayers for the Stolen February Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger December Henry James, The Ambassadors March Toni Morrison, A Mercy April Christoph Hein, Settlement 2015 May Hannah Tinti, The Good Thief February Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep September Attica Locke, Black Water Rising North October Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Angel’s Game March Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki November John Banville, The Infinities & His Years of Pilgrimage December Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter April Colm Tóibín, Nora Webster May William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses 2010 September T.C. 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Le Clezio, Desert October Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins March Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood November Yu Hua, The Seventh Day April John Banville, The Infinities December Michel Houllebecq, Submission May Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary September Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America 2016 October David Mitchell, Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet February Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies November Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand March David Mitchell, Slade House December Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse April Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen May Albert Camus, The Stranger, 2011 and Kamel Dauod, The Mersault Investigation February Jonathan Franzen, Freedom September Sunjeev Sahota, Year of the Runaways March Emma Donoghue, Room October Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer April Cynthia Ozick, Foreign Bodies November Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing May Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons December Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone September Tea Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife October Stephen Harrigan, Remember Ben Clayton 2017 November Ann Patchett, State of Wonder February Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing December Eudora Welty, Delta Wedding March Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad April Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven 2012 May Paulette Jiles, News of the World February Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding September Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow March Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones October Mohsin Hamid, Exit West April Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending November Omar El Akkad, American War May William Faulkner, The Unvanquished December Shanthi Sekaran, Lucky Boy September Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies October Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk 2018 November Herta Müller, The Hunger Angel February Orhan Pamuk, The Red-Haired Woman December Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western March Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing Front April Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach May Ali Smith, Autumn 2013 September Michael Ondaatje, Warlight February Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King October Luis Urrea, The House of Broken Angels March Louise Erdrich, The Round House November Kate Atkinson, Transcription April Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior December Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered May Graham Greene, The Quiet American September Philipp Meyer, The Son 2019 October Elizabeth Strout, The Burgess Boys February Tayari Jones, An American Marriage November Laleh Khadivi, The Walking March Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country December Dave Eggers, The Circle April Tommy Orange, There There May Sarah Bird, Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen 2014 September Richard Powers, The Overstory February Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being October Sigrid Nunez, The Friend March Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland November Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift April Jim Crace, Harvest December Esi Edugyan, Washington Black May Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 September James McBride, The Good Lord Bird 2020 October Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena February Salman Rushdie, Quichotte March Susan Choi, Trust Exercise April Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police May Ben Lerner, The Topeka School .
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