2008 Reading List

1. "Shame" by Salman Rushdie
2. "The Genizah at the House of Shepher" by Tamar Yellin
3. "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett
4. "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev
5. "The Story of Forgetting" by Stefan Merrill Block
6. "The Virgin Suicides" by Jeffrey Eugenides
7. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
8. "Oscar and Lucinda" by Peter Carey
9. "Half a Yellow Sun" by Chinamanda Ngozi Adichie
10. "The Enchantress of Florence" by Salman Rushdie
11. "The Plague of Doves" by Louise Erdrich
12. "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens
13. "The Beast in the Jungle" by Henry James
14. 'The Altar of the Dead" by Henry James
15. "A Week in October" by Elizabeth Subereadeauz
16. "The Good Thief" by Hannah Tinti
17. "The Penelopiad" by Margaret Atwood
18. "The Zahir" by Paulo Coelho
19. "Felicia's Journey" by William Trevor
20. "The American Dream" by Edward Albee
21. "The Zoo Story" by Edward Albee
22. The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo
23. "The Blue Flower" by Penelope Fitzgerald
24. "Loving Frank" by Nancy Horan
25. "Kristin Lavransdatter" by Sigrid Undset
26. "The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
27. "Fear and Trembling" by Amelie Nothomb
28. "Nervous Conditions" by Tsitsi Dagarmbza
29. "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
30. "The seasons of Beento Blackbird" by Akosua Busia
31. "The Sea Wolf" by Jack London
32. "The Whole Truth" by David Baldacci
33. "The Song of the Lark" by Willa Cather
34. "The Titian Committee" by Iain Pears
35. "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh
36. "night" by Elie Wiesel
37. "The Crow Road" by Iain Banks
38. "Uncle Vanya" by Anton Chekhov
39. "The Mysteries of Udolpho" by Ann Radcliffe
40. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stief Larsson
41. "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos
42. "The Bostonians" by Henry James
43. "Little Herr Friedemann" by Thoma Mann
44. "Classic German Short Stories" by Mann, Schiller, Goethe.....
45. "The Trial" by Franz Kafka
46. "On Chesil Beach" by Ian McEwan
47. "Soldier's Hear" by Elizabeth Samet
48. "Blindsided" by Richard M. Cohen
49. "Blood and Smoke" by Stephen King
50. "The Feast of the Goat" by Mario Vargas Llosa
51. "The Scarlet Pimpernel" by Countess Orczy
52. "The King's General" by Daphne DuMaurier
53. "Origin" by Diana Abu-Jaber
54. "Our Mutual Friends" by Charles Dickens
55. "Astrid & Veronika" by Linda Olsson
56. "The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox" by Maggie O'Farrell
57. "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
58. "Medea" by Euripedes
59. "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare
60. "Locked Rooms" by Laurie R. King
61. "Matters of Honor" by Louis Begley
62. "The Ministry of Special Cases" by Nathan Englander
63. "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
64. "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky
65. "Black & White" by Dani Shapiro
66. "The Last Town on Earth" by Thomas Mullen
67. "The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story" by Diane Ackerman
68. "The Art Thief" by Noah Charney
69. "Intrusions" by Ursula Hegi
70. "Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits" by Laila Lalami
71. "The Black Book" by Orhan Pamuk
72. "The Air We Breeathe" by Andrea Barrett
73. "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell
74. "Into The Wild" by Jon Krakauer
75. "Blood Meridian or Evening Redness in the West" by Cormac McCarthy
76. "From The Coffee House of Jewish Dreamers" by Isodore Century
77. "The Mapmaker's Opera" by Bea Gonzalez
78. "Life and Times of Michael K" by J.M. Coetzee
79. "The War of the End of the World" by Mario Vargas Llosa
80. "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner
81. "The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz 1957-1987" by Octavio Paz
82. "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" by Pablo Neruda
83. "Red Lights" by Georges Simenon
84. "After Dark" by Haruki Murakami
85. "Sacred Time" by Ursula Hegi
86. "Call of the Wild" by Jack London
87. "Middlemarch" by George Eliot
88. "The Piano Teacher" by Elfriede Jelinek
89. "Silas Marner" by George Eliot
90. "The Magnificent Ambersons" by Booth Tarkington
91. "Children of God" by Mary Doria Russell
92. "Divisadero" by Michael Ondaatje
93. "Mistress of the Art of Death" by Ariana Franklin
94. "The Grass is Singing" by Doris Lessing
95. "The Size of the World" by Joan Silber
96. "The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night" by Mark Haddon
97. "The House of the Seven Gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
98. "The Widow's War" by Sally Gunning
99. "Two Little Girls in Blue" by Mary Higgins Clark
100. "My Antonia" by Willa Cather
101. "Elizabeth Costello" by J.M. Coetzee
102. "Mao II" by Don DeLillo
103. "The Mountain Wreath" by Petar II Petrovic Jnegos
104. "Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire" by Ruth Downie
105. "Black Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and How It Saved Them" by John & Jean Silverwood
106. "The Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy
107. "Snow Flower & the Secret Fan" by Lisa See
108. "A Lost Lady" by Willa Cather
109. "Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation" by Cokie Roberts
110. "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
111. "The Space Between Us" by Thrity Umrigar