Past Book Club Titles: Fiction

1984  by George Orwell

The Alchemist’s Daughter by Katharine McMahon

All Adults Here by Emma Staub

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Amy & Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawk

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon

Back Roads by Tawni O’Dell

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai

Beach Read by Emily Henry

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Birdy by William Wharton

Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman

Blindness by Jose Saramargo

The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Book of Salt by Monique Truong

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian

Caravans by James Michener

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje

The Caretaker by A.X. Ahmad

Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks

China Boy by Gus Lee

Claire of the Sea Light by Edwige Danticat

Color of Water by James McBride

The Conjurer’s Bird by Martin Davies

Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber

Criminals by Margot Livesey

Crooked Little Heart by Anne Lamott

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott

The Darling by Russell Banks

The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri

The Debt to Pleasure by John Lancaster

Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay

Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy

The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst

Double Play by Robert Parker

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dreaming In Cuban by Cristina Garcia

The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Enlightenment by Maureen Freeley

Finding Casey by Jo-Ann Mapson

Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris

The Floating Feldmans by Elyssa Friedland

Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Funeral Makers by Cathie Pelletier

Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani

Garden Spells by Sarah Addision Allen

Gardens of Water by Alan Drew

The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

The Girl Behind the Red Rope by Ted Dekker and Rachel Dekker

Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti

Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

The Great House by Nicole Krauss

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Harland’s Half Acre by David Malouf

Harriet and Isabella by Patricia O’Brien

Harvard Square by Andre Aciman

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Heaven Lake by John Dalton

Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow

The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erickson

The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

The House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

The Illuminator by Brenda Rickman Vantrease

Innocent Traitor: a novel of Lady Jane Grey by Alison Weir

In Honor Bound by Gerald Seymour

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Indian Summer by William Dean Howells

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Jim the Boy by Tony Earley

Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry

Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

Larry’s Party by Carol Shields

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan

The Lightkeeper’s Wife by Sarah Anne Johnson

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

Little Children by Tom Perrotta

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe

Lottery by Patricia Wood

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips

Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett

The Magician’s Lie by Greer Macallister

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonsen

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark

The Master by Colm Toibin

The Master of Petersburg by J. M. Coetzee

The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty

Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander

The Mirage by Soheir Khashoggi

Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones

Mistler’s Exit by Louis Begley

Morningside Heights by Cheryl Mendelson

The Mortifications by Derek Palacio

The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

Moviegoer by Walker Percy

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Music Room by Dennis McFarland

My Antonia by Willa Cather

My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk

Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Netherland by Joseph O’Neill

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

Northern Borders by Howard Mosher

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik

Old School by Tobias Wolff

The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich

Palace Walk by Najib Mahfuz

Paradise News by David Lodge

Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland

People of the Whale by Linda Hogan

The Persian Bride by James Buchan

The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason

The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer

A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline

A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

Pompeii by Robert Harris

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds

The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham

Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier

The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss

Regeneration by Pat Barker

Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

Remember Me by Laura Hendrie

Rich in Love by Josephine Humphreys

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Rose by Martin Cruz Smith

The Royal Physician’s Visit by Per Olov Enquist

Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay

Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud

The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward

Sea of Grass by Conrad Richter

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Serena by Ron Rash

Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble

The Shark Club by Ann Kidd Taylor

She Flew the Coop by Michale Lee West

Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga

Small World by David Lodge

Snow in August by Pete Hamill

Snow Island by Katherine Towler

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

A Spanish Lover by Joanna Trollope

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James

The Sportswriter by Richard Ford

A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon

Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor

Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra

There There by Tommy Orange

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann

Time and Again by Jack Finney

Tin Horse by Janice Steinberg

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante

An Unfinished Season by Ward Just

Unraveling by Elizabeth Graver

Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet

Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton

The Wangs vs. The World by Jade Change

Washington Square by Henry James

The Waterworks by E. L. Doctorow

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Wedding by Dorothy West

A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

While I Was Gone by Sue Miller

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

With the Fire on High

A Woman of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

The World to Come by Dara Horn

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

A Yellow Raft In Blue Water by Michael Dorris