Seven Opinionated Women
2010
March, 2021
August 23, 2021
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The books1. Chimamanda Adichie, Americanah. (SJM) 2. Renata Adler, Speedboat. (SGM) 3. André Alexis, Fifteen Dogs (SGM, 6/19/24) 4. Isabelle Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea (Jamie, 5/11/20) 5. Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building. (Kelly) 6. Paul Beatty, The Sellout. (SLM) 7. Lucia Berlin, Manual for a Cleaning Woman. (Kelly) 8. Kathryn Boo, Beyond the Beautiful Forevers. (Joby) 7/26/2012 9. Michael Bulgakov, The Master and Margherita. (Joan) 4/9, 2019) 10. Albert Camus, Le Peste (Joan, 4/20 zoom) 11. Albert Camus, Le premier homme (SGM, 5/20, zoom) 12. Eileen Chang, Love in a Fallen City. (SLM) 13. Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (SJM, 2018). 14. Edmund De Waal, Hare with the Amber Eyes. (SJM) 15. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. (Joby, 10/26/21) 16. Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See. (Joby Oct 2015) 17. Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land (SJM, Jan 4, 2022) 18.. Marguerite Duras, The Lover. (Jamie?) 19. Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain. (SLM) 20. J.G. Farrel, The Siege of Krishnapur. (Kelly) 21. Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend. (SJM) 22. Karen Joy Fowler, We're All Completely Beside Ourselves. (SLM, Dec 2015) 23. Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Kelly, 9/28/20, zoom). 24. Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace. (SLM) 25. Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse. (Jamie, 5/17/22) 26. Abdulrazak Gurnah, Adminiring Silence (Joan, 8/15/24) 27. Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother. (Kelly) 28. Sara Hendren, What a Body Can Do (SLM, Jan '21) 29. Robert Hughes, Goya. (SJM, Oct 2011) 30. Keri Hulme, The Bone People. (Jamies, Apr, 2016) 31. Zora Neal Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (SLM). 32. Gayle Jones, The Birdcatcher (Joby, Dec 13, 2022). 33. Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These (SJM, Feb 28, 2023). 34. Paul Kildea, Chopin's Piano (SJM, Feb 2019) 35. Lily King, Euphoria. (Jamie) 36. Dezso Kosztolanyi, Skylark. (Joan) 37. Nicole Krauss, The History of Love. (SJM) 38. John Lanchester, Capital. (SJM) 39. Andrea Levy, The Long Song. (SJM) 40. Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli. (SGM, March, 2017) 41. Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen here. (SJM, 1/2017) 42. Hilary Mantel, The Giant O'Brien. (Kelly, Feb 2017) 43. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, No One Writes to the Colonel. (Joan) 44. Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty. (SJM, 8/11/11) 45. James McBride, Deacon King Kong (Joby, 10/29/20, zoom) 46. Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin. (SJM, 2010?) 47. Fatima Mernissi, Dreams of Trespass. (SGM) 48. Madeline Miller, Circe (Jamie, 5/13/2019). 49. Susan G. Miller: Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime Morocco (SGM, 3/23/22 50. Charles Mills, The Racial Contract (SLM, Dec 2, 2021) 51. Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder. (SGM) 52. Jan Morris, Allegorizings (Kelly, 8/23/21) 53. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye. (SLM) 1/20/20 54. Alice Munro, Dear Life. (SLM, Feb, 2016) 55. Neil Nakadate, Looking for Minidoka. (Joan, 2018) 56. Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place. (SLM, 2017) 57. Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find. (Joan) 58. Tea Obreht, The Tiger's Wife. (SLM) 59. Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family. (Kelly) 60. Sembene Ousmane, God's Bits of Wood (Joan, 4/8/23) 61. George Packer, Our Man: Richard Holbrook and the End of te American Century (SGM, 9/2019). 62. Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist. (SGM) 63. Marcel Proust, Stéphane Heuet, In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way (SJM, March, 2020). 64. Homeira Qaderi, Dancing in the Mosque (Joan, Mar 2021, first in-person meeting after pandemic). 65. James Robertson, And the Land Lay Still. (Joby, 2015) 66. Mark Sakamoto, Forgiveness: A Gift from My Grandparents (Joby, 2018). 67. Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members. (Joan, Feb 2022) 68. Salvatore Scibona, The End. (Joan) 69. Mary Ann Shaffer; Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (SLM, 1/31/23) 70. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. (Joan, 2018) 71. Leila Slimani, The Perfect Nanny. (SGM, 2018) 72. Tracy K. Smith, Ordinary Light. (SLM) 73. Edward St. Aubyn, The Melrose Novels. (Kelly) 74. Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety. (SJM) 75. Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll (Kelly, 10/11/22) 76. Colm Toíbin, The Magician (6/20/23, SGM) 77. Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace. NUMBER 50! (Jamie) 78. Leonid Tsypkin, Summer in Baden-Baden. (SGM) 79. Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene (SJM, 5/1/24) 80. Robert Verghese, Cutting for Stone. (Joby) 81, Anya Von Bremzen, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking. 82. Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns. (SLM) 83. Yu Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station (SJM, 2/15/21). |
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