Seven Opinionated Women

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The books 

1. Chimamanda Adichie, Americanah. (Sally) 
2. Renata Adler, Speedboat.  (Susan not-ret)
3. Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building. (Kelly)
4. Paul Beatty, The Sellout.  (Susan ret)
5. Lucia Berlin, Manual for a Cleaning Woman. (Kelly)
6. Kathryn Boo, Beyond the Beautiful Forevers. (Joby, 7/26/2012)
7. Michael Bulgakov, The Master and Margherita. (Joan, April 9, 2019))
8. Eileen Chang, Love in a Fallen City. (Susan ret)
9. Edmund De Waal, Hare with the Amber Eyes. (Sally)
10. Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See. ​(Joby, Oct 2015)
11. Marguerite Duras, The Lover. 
12. Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain. (Susan ret)
13. J.G. Farrel, The Siege of Krishnapur. (Kelly)
14. Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend. (Sally)
15. Karen Joy Fowler, We're All Completely Beside Ourselves. ​(Susan ret, Dec 2015)
16. Amitav Gosh, The Glass Palace. (Susan ret)
17. Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother. (Kelly)
18. Robert Hughes, Goya. (Sally, Oct 2011)
19. Paul Kildea, Chopin's Piano (Sally, Feb 2019)
20. Keri Hulme, The Bone People. (Jamies, Apr, 2016)
21. Lily King, Euphoria. 
22. Dezso Kosztolanyi, Skylark.
23. Nicole Krauss, The History of Love. (Sally)
24. John Lanchester, Capital. (Sally)
25. Andrea Levy, The Long Song. 
26. Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli. (Susan non-ret, March, 2017)
27. Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen here. (Sally, Jan 2017)
28. Hilary Mantel, The Giant O'Brien. (Joan, Feb 2017)
29. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, No One Writes to the Colonel. (Kelly)
30. Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty. (Sally)
31. Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin. (Sally)
32. Fatima Mernissi, Dreams of Trespass. (Susan non-ret)
33. Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder. (Susan non-ret)
34. Alice Munro, Dear Life. (Joan, Feb, 2016)
35. Neil Nakadate, Looking for Minidoka. (Joan, 2018)
36. Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place. (Susan ret, 2017)
37. Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find.
38. Tea Obreht, The Tiger's Wife. (Susan ret)
40. Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family. (Kelly)
41. James Robertson, And the Land Lay Still. (Joby, 2015)
42. Salvatore Scibona, The End.
43. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. (Joan, 2018)
44. Leila Slimani, The Perfect Nanny. (Susan non-ret, 2018)
45. Tracy K. Smith, Ordinary Light.
46. Edward St. Aubyn, The Melrose Novels. (Kelly)
47. Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety. (Sally)
48. Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace. NUMBER 50! (Jamie)
49. Leonid Tsypkin, Summer in Baden-Baden.
50. Robert Verghese, Cutting for Stone. (Joby)
51, Anya Von Bremzen, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking.
52. Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns. (​Sally)