2023
"THE EIGHTH LIFE" by Nino Haratischvili (Georgian).
"TOMB OF SAND" by Geetanjali Shree (Indian).
"LE MAGE DU KREMLIN" by Giuliano da Empoli (French)
"MONTEDIDIO" or/and "IMPOSSIBLE" by Erri De Lucca (Italian)
"VICTORY CITY" by Salman Rushdie (American-British from indian origin)
" THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN" by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray ( American)
"BILLY WILDER AND ME" by Jonathan Coe (English)
"THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD" by John le Carré (English)
2022
“THE SUNCATCHER” by Romesh Gunesekera (Shri Lankan)
“ OVERSTORY”or “BEWILDERMENT”or “THE TIME OF OUR SINGING”
by Richard Powers (American)
“PARADISE”, "AFTERLIVES or “THE LAST GIFT”
by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzanian)
"HEAVEN AND HELL" by Jón Kalman Stefansson (Icelandic)
"KLARA AND THE SUN" by Kazuo Ishiguro (British from Japanese origin)
"ORIGINS" by Amin Maalouf (Lebanese born French).
"GRAND HOTEL EUROPA" by llja L. Pfeijffer ( Dutch).
"THE MOUNTAINS SING" by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
2021
"HALF OF A YELLOW SUN" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigerian)
"REBEL HEART: The Scandalous Life of Jane Digby" by Mary S. Lovell (British)
"NEWS OF THE WORLD" by Paulette Jiles (American)
"THE MYSTERY OF CHARLES DICKENS" by A.N. Wilson (English)
"CHARLES DICKENS, A LIFE" by Claire Tomalin (English)
"THE VANISHING HALF" by Brit Bennet (American)
"THE MAN IN THE RED COAT" by Julian Barnes (English)
"GIRL, WOMAN AND OTHER" by Bernadine Evaristo (British)
“INFINITE COUNTRY” by Patricia Engel (Columbian)
2020
"MIDDLE ENGLAND" by Jonathan Coe (British)
"THE HANDMAID'S TALE" by Margaret Atwood (Canadian)
"THE MORAVIAN NIGHT" by Peter Handke (Austrian)
"THE HOME THAT WAS OUR COUNTRY" by Alia Malek (Syrian)
"APEIROGON" by Colum Mc Cann (Irish)
"HOMELAND" by Fernando Aramburu (Spanish)
"HAMNET" by Maggie O'Farrel (Irish-British)
"WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING" by Delia Owens (American)
2019
2018
"EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU" by Celeste Ng (American)
"WHEN THE DOVES DISAPPEARED" by Sofi Oksanen (Finnish-Estonian)
"THE BONFIRE OF VANITIES" by Tom Wolfe (American)
"THE MAP OF LOVE" by Ahdaf Soueif (Egyptian)
"THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC" by Julie Otsuka (American from Japanese origin)
" SING, UNBURIED, SING" by Jesmyn Ward (American)
"EDUCATED" by Tara Westover (American)
"GO, WENT, GONE" by Jenny Erpenbeck (German)
"PACHINKO" by Min Jin Lee (Korean-American)
“AN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD" by Colson Whitehead (USA)
"THE MAGICAL MOUNTAIN" by Thomas Mann (Germany)
"THE HOUSE ON PARADISE STREET" by Sofka Zinovieff (UK)
"THE GOLDEN HOUSE" by Salman Rushdie (British Indian)
"THE GINGER TREE" by Oswald Wynd (Scotland)
"THE RADETZKY MARCH" by Joseph Roth (Austria)
"THE WEDNESDAY CLUB" by Kjell Westö (Finland)
"SPEECHLESS" by Tom Lanoye
DALVA by Jim Harrison (USA)
THE NOISE OF TIME by Julian Barnes (UK)
CENSORING AN IRANIAN LOVE STORY by Shahriar Mandanipour (Iran)
WAR AND TURPENTINE by Stefan Hertmans (Belgium)
THE MEURSAULT INVESTIGATION by Kamel Daoud (Algeria)
THE HISTORY OF RAIN by Niall Williams (Ireland)
THE HOUSE OF WITTGENSTEIN by Alexander Waugh (UK)
THE CORRECTIONS by Jonathan Franzen (USA)
THE ROUND HOUSE by Louise Erdrich (USA)
2016
MOON TIGER by Penelope Lively (UK)
RED LOVE by Maxime Leo (East Germany)
AFRICA HOUSE by Christina Lamb (UK)
THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY by Stefan Zweig (Austria)
ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr (USA)
AN EQUAL MUSIC by Vikram Seth
AMERICANAH by Shimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
WEST WITH THE NIGHT by Beryl Markham (UK-Kenya)
CIRCLING THE SUN by Paula McLain (USA)
STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING by Mary S. Lovell (UK)
THE SANDCASTLE GIRLS by Chris Bohjalian (USA)
2015
MY BRILLIANT FRIEND by Elena Ferrante (Italy)
ALI AND NINO by Kurban Said (Azerbaidjan)
WHAT IS THE WHAT by Dave Eggers (USA)
ON CANAAN'S SIDE by Sebastian Barry (Ireland)
THE INITIALS OF THE EARTH by Jesus Diaz (Cuba)
THE ORIENTALIST by Tom Reiss (U.S.A.)
PILGRIM AMONGST THE SHADOWS by Boris Pahor (Slovenia)
THE SPACE BETWEEN US by Thrity Umrigar (India)
LIGHT YEARS by James Salters (USA)
SAVUSHUN by Simin Daneshvar (Iran)
THE GARDEN OF EVENING MISTS by Tan Twan Eng (Malaysia)
THE TIGER'S WIFE by Tea Obreht (American of Bosniak/Slovene origin)
WISH YOU WERE HERE by Graham Swift (U.K.)
THE DARLING by Russel Banks (U.S.A.)
MY CENTURY by Gunter Grass (Germany)
THE CSAR'S MADMAN by Jaan Kross (Estonia)
THE LUMINARIES by Eleanor Catton (N.Z.)
AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE or THE DAYLIGHT AND THE DUST by Janet Frame (N.Z.)
THE SPINOZA PROBLEM by Irvin D. Yalom (U.S.A.)
2013
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (British)
To the End of the Land by David Grossman (Israeli)
Red Sorghum by Mo Yan (Chinese)
Love and Summer by William Trevor (Irish)
Please Look After Mum by Kyung Sook Shin (Korean)
Purge by Sofi Oksanen (Finnish/Estonian)
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker (Dutch)
Everyone Dies Alone by Hans Fallada (German)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigerian)
List of all books read and discussed by the group (alphabetical, author surname, author first name, book title):
| NAME | FIRST NAME | TITLE |
| Abdolah | Kader | My Father's Notebook |
| Achebe | Chinua | Things Fall Apart |
| Adichie Ngozi | Shimamanda | Americanah |
| Amado | Jorge | Dona Flor and her Two Husbands |
| Andric | Ivo | The Bridge over the Drina |
| Antunes | Antonio | Didn't See You in Babylon Yesterday |
| Antunes | Antonio | Knowledge of Hell |
| Antunes | Antonio | The Splendor of Portugal |
| Atwood | Margaret | The Blind Assassin |
| Atwood | Margaret | The Handmaid’s Tale |
| Auster | Paul | Moon Palace |
| Auster | Paul | New York Trilogy |
| Axionov | Vassili | A la Voltaire |
| Bakker | Gerbrand | The Twin |
| Banville | John | The Sea |
| Banks | Russel | The Darling |
| Barnes | Julian | Flaubert's Parrot |
| Barnes | Julian | The Sense of an Ending |
| Barnes | Julian | The Noise of Time |
| Barry | Sebastian | On Canaan’s side |
| Bauchau | Henry | Antigone |
| Bauchau | Henry | Le boulevard périphérique |
| Bellow | Saul | Something to Remember Me by |
| Berberova | Nina | The Accompanist |
| Bjørnstad | Ketil | The River |
| Bjørnstad | Ketil | To Music |
| Blixen | Karen | Winter's Tales |
| Bloom | Amy | Away |
| Bloom | Amy | Come To Me |
| Bohjalian | Chris | The Sandcastle Girls |
| Borges | Jorge Luis | The Aleph |
| Boyd | William | Brazzaville |
| Boyd | William | Brazzaville Beach |
| Brady | Joan | Theory of War |
| Brink | André | A Dry White Season |
| Brink | André | Other Lives |
| Brookner | Anita | Hotel du Lac |
| Byatt | Antonia | Possession |
| Calvino | Italo | Under the Jaguar Sun |
| Carter | Angela | The Magic Toyshop |
| Cather | Willa | My Antonia |
| Catton | Eleanor | The Luminaries |
| Chamoiseau | Patrick | Texaco |
| Chang | Yung | Wild Swans |
| Chatwin | Bruce | The Black Hill |
| Claus | Hugo | The Sorrow of Belgium |
| Cleave | Chris | Little Bee |
| Coe | Jonathan | Middle England |
| Coelho | Pedro | The Alchimist |
| Connel | Evan S. | Mrs. Bridge |
| Conrad | Joseph | Nostromo |
| Crowley | John | Beasts |
| Curvers | Alexis | Tempo di Roma |
| d'Ormesson | Jean | Mon dernier rêve sera pour vous |
| Daneshvar | Simin | Savushun |
| Daoud | Kamel | The Meursault Investigation |
| Davies | Robertson | The Cunning Man |
| de Waal | Edmund | The Hare with Amber Eyes |
| Dean | Debra | The Madonnas of Leningrad |
| DeLillo | Don | The Body Artist |
| DeLillo | Don | White Noise |
| Déon | Michel | Un taxi mauve |
| Desai | Anita | Fasting, Feasting |
| Diaz | Jesus | The Initials of the Earth |
| Diderot | Denis | Le neveu de Rameau |
| Doer | Anthony | All the Lights We Cannot See |
| Dostoievsky | Fyodor | The Idiot |
| Duong | Thu Huong | No Man's Land |
| Eco | Umberto | Foucault's Pendulum |
| Eco | Umberto | The Name of the Rose |
| Eggers | Dave | What is the What |
| Enright | Anne | The Forgotten Waltz |
| Eng | Tan Twan | The Garden of Evening Mists |
| Enzensberger | Hans Magnus | The Silences of Hammerstein |
| Erdrich | Louise | The Round House |
| Erpenbeck | Jenny | Go, Went, Gone |
| Fallada | Hans | Everyone Dies Alone |
| Ferrante | Elena | My Brilliant Friend |
| Frame | Janet | An Angel at my Table |
| Franzen | Jonathan | The Corrections |
| Gaines | Ernest | A Lesson Before Dying |
| Galloway | Steven | The Cellist of Sarajevo |
| Garcia Marquez | Manuel | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Gary | Romain | Your Ticket is no longer Valid |
| Gaudé | Laurent | Le soleil des Scorta |
| Gibbons | Kay | On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon |
| Giroud | Françoise | Jenny Marx |
| Glendinning | Victoria | Vita Sackeville-West |
| Goethe | J. W. | The Sorrows of Young Werther |
| Golding | William | Lord of the Flies |
| Goldoni | Carlo | Arlequin serviteur de deux maîtres |
| Gordimer | Nadine | My Son's Story |
| Gosh | Amitav | The Calcutta Chromosome |
| Gosh | Amitav | The Glass Palace |
| Gosh | Amitav | The Hungry Tide |
| Grass | Gunter | My Century |
| Grøndahl | Jens Christian | Silence in October |
| Grossman | David | To the End of the Land |
| Haag | Peter | Miss Smilla's Feelings for Snow |
| Haasse | Hella | In a Dark Wood Wandering |
| Haasse | Hella | The Lords of Tea |
| Hamsun | Knut | Victoria |
| Handke | Peter | The Moravian Night |
| Hanff | Helene | 84 Charing Cross Road |
| Harpman | Jacqueline | La plage d'Ostende |
| Harris | Joanne | Chocolat |
| Harrison | Jim | The Road Home |
| Harrison | Jim | Dalva |
| Hertmans | Stefan | War and Turpentine |
| Hochschild | Adam | King Leopold's Ghost |
| Horan | Nancy | Loving Frank |
| Hosseini | Khaled | A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| Hosseini | Khaled | The Kite Runner |
| Hulme | Keri | The Bone People |
| Huston | Nancy | Fault Lines |
| Hustvedt | Siri | What I Loved |
| Irving | John | A Prayer for Owen Meany |
| Ishiguro | Kazuo | Never Let Me Go |
| Ishiguro | Kazuo | The Remains of the Day |
| Ishiguro | Kazuo | The Remains of the Day |
| Jacobson | Howard | The Finkler Question |
| Kawabata | Yasunari | The Dancing Girl of Izu |
| Kawabata | Yasunari | The Lake |
| Kenzaburo | Oe | Teach Us to Outgrow our Madness |
| Kincaid | Jamaica | My Brother |
| Kross | Jaan | The Csar’s Madman |
| Kundera | Milan | Immortality |
| Kundera | Milan | The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| Lacouture | Jean | Montaigne à cheval |
| Lamb | Christina | Africa House |
| Lambron | Marc | L'Oeil du Silence |
| Lanoye | Tom | Speechless |
| Lee | Min Jin | Pachinko |
| Lessing | Doris | The Golden Notebook |
| Leo | Maxime | Red Love |
| Levi | Primo | If This is a Man |
| Lively | Penelope | Moon Tiger |
| Lively | Penelope | City of Mind |
| Livingstone | Angela | Lou Andreas-Salomé |
| Lodge | David | Deaf Sentence |
| Lodge | David | Therapy |
| London | Jack | White Fang |
| Lovell | Mary S. | Straight On Till Morning |
| Lurie | Alison | The Truth about Lorin Jones |
| Maalouf | Amin | In the Name of Identity |
| Maalouf | Amin | Samarkand |
| Maalouf | Amin | The Crusades Through Arab Eyes |
| Maalouf | Amin | The Gardens of Light |
| Maalouf | Amin | The Rock of Tanios |
| Maddox | Brenda | Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom |
| Magris | Claudio | Danube |
| Mahfouz | Naguib | Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth |
| Mahfouz | Naguib | Palace of Desire |
| Mahfouz | Naguib | Palace Walk |
| Mahfouz | Naguib | Respected Sir |
| Mahfouz | Naguib | Sugar Street |
| Mahjoub | Jamal | In the Hour of Signs |
| Mandanipour | Shahriar | Censoring an Iranian Love Story |
| Mann | Thomas | The Magical Mountain |
| Marai | Sandor | Divorce à Buda |
| Marias | Javier | A Heart So White |
| Markham | Beryl | West with the Night |
| Martel | Yann | The Life of Pi |
| McCarthy | Cormac | All the Pretty Horses |
| McCourt | Frank | Angela's Ashes |
| McCullers | Carson | The Ballad of the Sad Café |
| McEwan | Ian | Solar |
| McLain | Paula | Circling the Sun |
| Mendoza | Ed | The City of Marvels |
| Meyer | Doris | Victoria Ocampo |
| Michaels | Anne | Fugitive Pieces |
| Miller | Henry | Maloussi's Colossus |
| Miller | Henry | The Colossus of Maroussi |
| Mishima | Yukio | Confessions of a Mask |
| Mistry | Rohinton | A Fine Balance |
| Mitchell | David | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet |
| Momaday | N. Scott | House Made of Dawn |
| Morrison | Toni | Beloved |
| Mulisch | Harry | Siegfried |
| Müller | Herta | The Appointment |
| Müller | Herta | The Passport, Serpent's Tail |
| Munro | Alice | Runaway |
| Murakami | Haruki | A Wild Sheep Chase |
| Murakami | Haruki | Kafka on the Shore |
| Murakami | Haruki | Norwegian Wood |
| Murakami | Haruki | South of the Border, West of the Sun |
| Nabokov | Vladimir | Lolita |
| Nafisi | Azar | Reading Lolita in Teheran |
| Nafizi | Azar | Things I've been Silent About |
| Nahai | Gina B. | Cry of the Peacock |
| Naipaul | V.S. | Half A Life |
| Nakhjavani | Bahiyyih | The Saddlebag |
| Narayan | R.K. | The Painter of Signs |
| Ng | Celeste | Everything I never told You |
| Noteboom | Cees | Rituals |
| Obreht | Tea | The Tiger’s Wife |
| O'Brien | Edna | House of Splendid Isolation |
| O'Riodan | Kate | Involved |
| Oates | Joyce Carol | The Falls |
| Obama | Barack | Dreams from My Father |
| Okri | Ben | The Famished Road |
| Oksanen | Sofi | Purge |
| Orieux | Jean | Voltaire |
| Osborne | John | Look Back in Anger |
| Oksanen | Sofi | When the Doves disappeared |
| Otsuka | Julie | The Buddha in the Attic |
| Oz | Amos | To Know a Woman |
| Paasilinna | Arto | The Year of the Hare |
| Pahor | Boris | Pilgrim amongst the Shadows |
| Pamuk | Orhan | My Name is Red |
| Pamuk | Orhan | Snow |
| Pamuk | Orhan | The Museum of Innocence |
| Pears | Iain | The Dream of Scipio |
| Pessoa | Fernando | The Book of Disquiet |
| Pomerantz | Sharon | Rich Boy |
| Proulx | Annie | Heart Songs |
| Proulx | Annie | The Shipping News |
| Reiss | Tom | The Orientalist |
| Roth | Philip | American Pastoral |
| Roth | Philip | The Human Stain |
| Roth | Joseph | The Radetzky March |
| Rushdie | Salman | East,West |
| Rushdie | Salman | Fury |
| Rushdie | Salman | Midnight's Children |
| Rushdie | Salman | The Golden House |
| Said | Kurban | Ali and Nino |
| Salters | James | Light Years |
| Saramago | José | All the Names |
| Saramago | José | Baltasar and Blimunda |
| Saramago | José | Blindness |
| Saramago | José | The Elephant's Journey |
| Saramago | José | The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis |
| Saviano | Roberto | Gomorrah |
| Schlinke | Bernard | The Reader |
| Sebald | W. G. | Austerlitz |
| Sebald | W. G. | The Emigrants |
| Seth | Vikram | An Equal Music |
| Seymour | Miranda | Ottoline Morrell |
| Shafak | Elif | The Forty Rules of Love |
| Shalev | Meir | A Pigeon and a Boy |
| Shields | Carol | The Stone Diaries |
| Shin | Kyung Sook | Please Look After Mum |
| Sijie | Dai | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
| Singer | Isaac Bashevis | The Certificate |
| Skarmeta | Antonio | The Poet's Wedding |
| Smiley | Jane | A Thousand Acres |
| Smith | Zadie | On Beauty |
| Sollers | Philippe | Dictionnaire amoureux de Venise |
| Sollers | Philippe | Le cavalier du Louvre |
| Solzhenitsyn | Alexander | Matryona's Place |
| Sontag | Susan | The Volcano Lover |
| Soueif | Ahdaf | The Map of Love |
| Spark | Muriel | The Ballad of Peckham Rye |
| Spark | Muriel | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| Styron | William | A Tidewater Morning |
| Styron | William | Sophie's Choice |
| Styron | William | The Confessions of Nat Turner |
| Sutherland | Christine | Enchantress |
| Swift | Graham | Wish You Were Here |
| Tabucchi | Antonio | Indian Nocturne |
| Tabucchi | Antonio | Pereira Maintains |
| Tamaro | Susanna | Follow Your Heart |
| Tanizaki | Jun'ichiro | In Praise of Shadows |
| Tillyard | Stella | Aristocrats |
| Tomalin | Claire | Samuel Pepys |
| Tomasi di Lampedusa | Giuseppe | The Leopard |
| Trevor | William | The Silence in the Garden |
| Love and Summer | ||
| Turner Hospital | Janette | Charades |
| Umrigar | Thrity | The Space Between Us |
| Unsworth | Barry | Stone Virgin |
| Van der Cruysse | Dirk | Jean Chardin |
| Vargas Llosa | Mario | The Feast of the Goat |
| Vargas Llosa | Mario | The Storyteller |
| Voltaire | Candide | |
| Walcott | Derek | The Bounty |
| Ward | Jesmyn | Sing, Unburied, Sing |
| Waugh | Alexander | The House of Wittgenstein |
| Welty | Endora | The Ponder Heart |
| Wesley | Mary | The Camomile Lawn |
| West | Dorothy | The Wedding |
| Westö | Kjell | The Wednesday Club |
| Westover | Tara | Educated |
| Whitehead | Colson | An Underground Railroad |
| Wiesel | Elie | A Beggar in Jerusalem |
| Wiesel | Elie | All Rivers Run to the Sea |
| Williams | Niall | The History of rain |
| Wolfe | Tom | The Bonfire of Vanities |
| Wynd | Oswald | The Ginger Tree |
| Yalom | Irvin D. | The Spinoza Problem |
| Yan | Mo | Red Sorghum |
| Yashimoto | Banana | Kitchen |
| Yasushi | Inoue | Confucius |
| Yasushi | Inoue | The Hunting Gun |
| Yourcenar | Marguerite | Alexis |
| Yourcenar | Marguerite | Archives du nord |
| Yourcenar | Marguerite | L'Oeuvre au noir |
| Yourcenar | Marguerite | Mémoires d'Hadrien |
| Yourcenar | Marguerite | Souvenirs pieux |
| Zafon | Carlos Ruiz | The Shadow of the Wind |
| Zinoviev | Sofka | The House on Paradise Street |
| Zweig | Stefan | 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman |
| Zweig | Stefan | Confusion of Feelings |
| Zweig | Stefan | The World of Yesterday |
| Updated | 10-Jan-21 |
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