Book Club: Twentieth Century
Here's a compilation of 20th Century readings, by year, from the inception of the book club. (Let me know if you see any mistakes or omissions... I'll catch up eventually.)
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| YYYY-MM | Book Author | Presenter @ Host | Joined | Left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977-10 | Lancelot: A Novel Walker Perry | Joined: Martin | ||
| 1977-11 | Painted Bird Jerzey Kosinski | Joined: Coenen | ||
| 1977-12 | Sanctuary William Faulkner | Joined: Welch | ||
| 1978-01 | The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway | Joined: Patrykus | ||
| 1978-02 | Denial of Death Ernest Becker | |||
| 1978-05 | Pigeon Feathers John Updike | |||
| 1978-07 | Spy in the House of Love Anäis Nin | |||
| 1978-08 | Katie Mulholland Catherine Cookson | |||
| 1978-09 | Daniel Martin John Fowles | |||
| 1978-10 | Cracker Factory Joyce Rebeta-Burditt | |||
| 1978-11 | Women's Room Marilyn French | |||
| 1978-12 | Enemies, A Love Story Isaac Singer | |||
| 1979-01 | Of Human Bondage, Rain Somerset Maugham | |||
| 1979-02 | Journey to America Alexis de Tocqueville | |||
| 1979-03 | Ragtime E.L. Doctorow | Joined: Irvine | ||
| 1979-04 | Blackberry Winter Margaret Mead | |||
| 1979-06 | Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner | |||
| 1979-07 | World According to Garp John Irving | |||
| 1979-09 | Essays of E. B. White E.B. White | |||
| 1979-10 | Life on the Mississippi Samuel Clemens | |||
| 1979-12 | Hazards of Being Male Herb Goldberg | |||
| 1980-01 | Man's Search for Meaning Victor Frankl | |||
| 1980-02 | Woman of Independent Means Liz Hadley | |||
| 1980-03 | Rendezvous with Rama Arthur Clarke | |||
| 1980-04 | Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Joined: Tim-Jean | ||
| 1980-05 | Miss Lonelyhearts Nathaniel West | |||
| 1980-07 | Journal of a Solitude May Sarton | |||
| 1980-08 | Hunger for Justice: the politics of food and faith Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer | |||
| 1980-09 | Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis | |||
| 1980-10 | End of a Mission Heinrich Böll | |||
| 1980-11 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig | |||
| 1980-12 | Under Milkwood; Christmas in Wales Dylan Thomas | Left: Jack (dies) | ||
| 1981-02 | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce | |||
| 1981-02 | Children's Hour Lillian Hellman | |||
| 1981-03 | Crucible Arthur Miller | |||
| 1981-04 | Daisy Miller Henry James | |||
| 1981-05 | Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus | |||
| 1981-06 | Third Wave Alvin Toffler | |||
| 1981-08 | Père Goriot Honoré De Balzac | |||
| 1981-09 | The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde | |||
| 1981-10 | Humbolt's Gift Saul Bellow | Left: Jo | ||
| 1981-11 | Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor | |||
| 1981-12 | Narcissus & Goldmund Hermann Hesse | |||
| 1982-01 | Cannery Row John Steinbeck | |||
| 1982-02 | Tell Me a Riddle Tillie Olsen | |||
| 1982-03 | Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë | |||
| 1982-05 | Tent of Miracles Jorge Amado | |||
| 1982-06 | Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzakis | |||
| 1982-07 | After Many a Summer Dies the Swan Aldous Huxley | |||
| 1982-08 | So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell | |||
| 1982-09 | Death of Artemio Cruz Carlos Fuentes | |||
| 1982-11 | Heaven has no Favorites Erich Maria Remarque | |||
| 1982-12 | The Takeover Muriel Spark | |||
| 1983-01 | Out of Africa Isaak Dinesen | |||
| 1983-02 | My Ántonia Willa Cather | |||
| 1983-03 | Theophilus North Thornton Wilder | |||
| 1983-06 | October Light John Gardner | |||
| 1983-07 | Dad William Wharton | |||
| 1983-08 | The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence | |||
| 1983-09 | Going After Cacciato Tim O'Brien | |||
| 1983-10 | Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert | |||
| 1983-12 | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler | |||
| 1984-01 | The Color Purple Alice Walker | |||
| 1984-02 | Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters J.D. Salinger | |||
| 1984-03 | For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway | |||
| 1984-04 | Growing Up Russell Baker | |||
| 1984-05 | A Bend in the River V.S. Naipaul | |||
| 1984-06 | The Name of the Rose Umberto Ecco | |||
| 1984-09 | Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad | |||
| 1984-10 | The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy | |||
| 1984-11 | The Defense Vladimir Nabokov | |||
| 1984-12 | Ironweed William Kennedy | |||
| 1985-02 | Housekeeping Marilyn Robinson | |||
| 1985-03 | Encounters with the Archdruid John McPhee | Left: Jean | ||
| 1985-04 | The Honorary Consul Graham Greene | |||
| 1985-05 | Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson | |||
| 1985-06 | God's Grace Bernard Malamud | |||
| 1985-08 | Difficult Loves Italo Calvino | |||
| 1985-09 | Mickelsson's Ghosts John Gardner | |||
| 1985-11 | Moby Dick Herman Melville | |||
| 1986-01 | Manhatten Transfer Dos Passos | |||
| 1986-02 | Love Medicine Louise Erdrich | |||
| 1986-03 | J.B./Job Archibald MacLeish | |||
| 1986-04 | The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty | |||
| 1986-05 | A Room with a View E.M. Forrester | |||
| 1986-06 | Pictures From a Trip Tim Rumsey | |||
| 1986-08 | Cold Sassy Tree Olive Anne Burns | |||
| 1986-09 | Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald | |||
| 1986-10 | All the King's Men R. Penn Warren | |||
| 1986-11 | Linden Hills Gloria Naylor | |||
| 1986-12 | Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |||
| 1987-03 | Captain Pantoja and the Special Service Mario Vargas Llosa | |||
| 1987-04 | Simon's Night John Hassler | |||
| 1987-06 | The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch | |||
| 1987-07 | The Sea Wolf Jack London | |||
| 1987-08 | The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton | |||
| 1987-10 | Miracle at Philadelphia C. Drinker Bowen | |||
| 1987-11 | To Your Scattered Bodies Go Philip José Farmer | |||
| 1987-12 | On Moral Fiction John Gardner | |||
| 1988-01 | Wild Berries Yevgeny Yevtushenko | |||
| 1988-02 | Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset | |||
| 1988-03 | A Women of Pharisees François Mauriac | |||
| 1988-04 | The Joke Milan Kundera | |||
| 1988-05 | Milagro Bean Field War John Nichols | |||
| 1988-07 | Cry Beloved Country Alan Paton | |||
| 1988-08 | The Trees Conrad Richter | |||
| 1988-09 | West with the Night Beryl Markham | |||
| 1988-10 | Enderby Anthony Burgess | |||
| 1988-11 | Giants in the Earth Ole Edvart Rølvaag | |||
| 1988-12 | A Death in the Family James Agee | |||
| 1989-01 | Burger's Daughter Nadine Gordimer | |||
| 1989-02 | The Cape Ann Faith Sullivan | |||
| 1989-04 | The Year of the French Thomas Flanagan | |||
| 1989-05 | Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe | Joined: Grina | ||
| 1989-06 | A Far Cry From Kensington Muriel Spark | Left: Patrykus | ||
| 1989-07 | Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Márquez | |||
| 1989-08 | The Short Reign of Pippin IV John Steinbeck | |||
| 1989-10 | The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future Raine Eisler | |||
| 1989-11 | Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Márquez | |||
| 1990-01 | Essay Tom Wolff | |||
| 1990-02 | A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving | Joined: Scotts | ||
| 1990-03 | Keep the Change Tom McGuane | |||
| 1990-04 | And Again? Sean O'Faolain | |||
| 1990-05 | Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain | Left: Tim | ||
| 1990-06 | Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris | |||
| 1990-08 | Prince of Tides Pat Conroy | |||
| 1990-09 | Beloved Toni Morrison | |||
| 1990-10 | The Rebel Angels Robertson Davies | |||
| 1990-11 | The Golden Apples Eudora Welty | |||
| 1990-12 | The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Brian Moore | |||
| 1991-01 | The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro | |||
| 1991-02 | The Road from Coorain Jill Ker Conway | |||
| 1991-03 | The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan | |||
| 1991-04 | Crossing to Safety Wallace Stegner | |||
| 1991-06 | The Haj Leon Uris | |||
| 1991-07 | The Bell Iris Murdoch | |||
| 1991-08 | Valentine George Sand | |||
| 1991-09 | Robinson Crusoe Daniel DeFoe | |||
| 1991-10 | The Abbess of Crewe Muriel Spark | |||
| 1991-10 | Summit D. M. Thomas | |||
| 1991-11 | A Guest of Honour Nadine Gordimer | |||
| 1991-12 | Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe | |||
| 1992-01 | A Reckoning:A Novel May Sarton | Mary | Joined: Baumanns | |
| 1992-02 | The Web and the Rock Thomas Wolfe | |||
| 1992-03 | The Lost World of Kalahari Laurens van der Post | |||
| 1992-04 | Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope | |||
| 1992-06 | Selected Stories De Bus | |||
| 1992-07 | Solomon Gursky Was Here Mordecai Richler | |||
| 1992-08 | North of Hope Jon Hassler | |||
| 1992-09 | To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf | |||
| 1992-10 | The Awakening Kate Chopin | |||
| 1992-11 | Metamorphosis Franz Kafka | |||
| 1992-12 | Piano Lesson August Wilson | |||
| 1993-01 | The Beet Queen Louise Erdrich | |||
| 1993-02 | The Dean's December Saul Bellow | |||
| 1993-03 | Coming Home Crazy Bill Holm | |||
| 1993-04 | Selected Writings Ralph Waldo Emerson, et. al. | |||
| 1993-05 | Time Will Darken It William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. | |||
| 1993-06 | Pale Horse, Pale Rider Katherine Anne Porter | |||
| 1993-08 | The Quiet American Graham Greene | |||
| 1993-09 | The Stranger Albert Camus | |||
| 1993-11 | The Prince Nicolò Machiavelli | |||
| 1993-12 | Berlin Stories Christopher Isherwood | |||
| 1994-01 | Burden of Proof Scott Turow | |||
| 1994-02 | Point Counter Point Aldous Huxley | |||
| 1994-03 | Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen | |||
| 1994-04 | Lie Down in Darkness William Styron | |||
| 1994-05 | The All of It Jeannette Haien | |||
| 1994-06 | The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy Evelyn Waugh | |||
| 1994-07 | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder Evelyn Waugh | |||
| 1994-08 | The Bone People Keri Hulme | |||
| 1994-10 | Ghosts; Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen | |||
| 1994-10 | A Day in the Life of Ivan Denesovich Aleksander Solzhenitsyn | |||
| 1994-11 | The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien | |||
| 1994-12 | The Power of One Bryce Courtenay | |||
| 1995-01 | Children of Men P.D. James | |||
| 1995-02 | Little Dorrit Charles Dickens | |||
| 1995-04 | King Lear William Shakespeare | |||
| 1995-05 | The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx | |||
| 1995-07 | What's Bred in the Bone Robertson Davies | |||
| 1995-08 | Cat's Eye Margaret Atwood | |||
| 1995-09 | The English Patient Michael Onaatje | |||
| 1995-10 | Sexing the Cherry Jeanette Winterson | |||
| 1995-11 | The Visit Friedrich Durrenmatt | |||
| 1995-12 | Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger | |||
| 1996-01 | My Family and Other Animals Gerald Durrell | |||
| 1996-02 | Milroy the Magician Paul Theroux | |||
| 1996-03 | All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy | |||
| 1996-04 | Grendel John Gardner | |||
| 1996-05 | Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis | |||
| 1996-06 | Stones from the River Ursula Hegi | |||
| 1996-08 | Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson | |||
| 1996-09 | Nausea Jean Paul Sartre | |||
| 1996-10 | Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner | |||
| 1996-11 | Fitzgerald: Short Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald | |||
| 1997-02 | A Dead Man in Deptford Anthony Burgess | |||
| 1997-03 | The Autobiography of My Mother Jamaica Kincaid | |||
| 1997-04 | The Statement Brian Moore | |||
| 1997-05 | In the Beauty of the Lilies John Updike | |||
| 1997-07 | A Soldier of the Great War Mark Helprin | Joined: Wattmans | ||
| 1997-08 | Heart of the Matter Graham Greene | |||
| 1997-09 | Don't Stop the Carnival Herman Wouk | |||
| 1997-11 | Short Stories Tennessee Williams | |||
| 1997-12 | The Trial Franz Kafka | |||
| 1998-01 | Expensive People Joyce C. Oates | |||
| 1998-02 | The Reader Bernard Schlink | |||
| 1998-04 | Straight Man Richards Russo | |||
| 1998-05 | Witness Wittaker Chambers | |||
| 1998-06 | Undaunted Courage Stephen Ambrose | Judy Wattman @ Coenens | ||
| 1998-08 | The Flanders Panel Arturo Pérez-Reverte | Rick Wattman @ Martins | ||
| 1998-10 | Snow in August Pete Hamil | Jean Irvine @ Baumanns | ||
| 1998-11 | Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler | Larry @ Fishmans | ||
| 1998-12 | Scoop Evelyn Waugh | Maryellen @ Martins | ||
| 1999-01 | Montana 1948 Larry Watson | Phil @ Wattmans | ||
| 1999-02 | No Ordingary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II Doris Kearns Goodwin | Mike @ Scotts | ||
| 1999-04 | In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez | Sheila @ Mike's | ||
| 1999-06 | Cold Mountain Charles Frazier | Carol @ Fishmans | ||
| 1999-07 | The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver | Jim S. @ Martins | ||
| 1999-08 | Invisible Man Ralph Ellison | Ruth @ Grina | ||
| 1999-10 | Barney's Version Mordecai Richler | Jim M. @ Wattmans | ||
| 1999-11 | Angela's Ashes: A Memoir Frank McCourt | Judy @ Coenens | ||
| 1999-12 | Ford Tramps Seegar Swanson | Rick @ Scotts | ||
| 2000-02 | Great Books - Part I David Denby | Larry @ Fishmans | ||
| 2000-02 | Great Books - Part II David Denby | Larry @ Baumans | ||
| 2000-04 | The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett | Jean @ Grina | ||
| 2000-04 | Dubliners James Joyce | Maryellen @ Martins | ||
| 2000-09 | The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures Anne Fadiman | Mike @ Scotts | ||
| 2000-10 | The Ghost Road Pat Barker | Sheila @ Grina | ||
| 2000-12 | Essays of E.B. White: One Man's Meat E. B. White | Carol @ Coenen |