The return of The Un-Named Book Group!

Next Meeting: Thursday, June 25, Ian & Mo's New Place

The next book: The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll

Previously read books

...and what we thought of them

TITLE
AUTHOR
NYT REVIEW
SEX
ETHNICITY
The Dew Breaker
Edwidge Danticat
Tue., Sun.
F
Haitian-American
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
Tue., Sun.
M
Dominican-American
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Sun.
F
British
The Emperor's Children
Claire Messud
Tue., Sun.
F
3 passports!
Then We Came To The End
Joshua Ferris
Sun.
M
American
Snow
Orhan Pamuk
Sun.
M
Turkish
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
n/a
M
Czarist Russia
It Happened in Boston?
Russell H. Greenan
n/a
M
American
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
Sun.
M
English
Little Children
Tom Perrotta
Mon., Sun.
M
American
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
Thu., Sun.
M
American
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Sun.
M
All over
The Book of Salt
Monique Truong
Sun.
F
Vietnamese/American
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
Fri., Sun.
M
British (Northampton)
Brick Lane
Monica Ali
Sun., Mon.
F
Bangladesh/London
Carter Beats the Devil
Glen David Gold
Mon., Sun.
M
American (Bay Area)
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Louise Erdrich
Fri., Sun.
F
American (part Ojibwa/ND)
Three Junes
Julia Glass
Sun.
F
American (MA)
Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
7/6/75
M
American (New York)
Middlesex 2 3
Jeffrey Eugenides
Tue., Sun.
M
American (Detroit)
The Ice Storm
Rick Moody
n/a
M
American (CT)
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
Sun.
M
Indian (Bombay)
Everything is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer
Sun., Mon.
M
American
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
Tue., Sun.
F
American
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Thu., Sun.
M
British
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
n/a
F
American (Idaho)
Confederates in the Attic
Tony Horwitz
Sun.
M
American
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Tue., Sun., *
M
American (St. Louis)
Master and Commander
Patrick O'Brian
(Obit.)
M
UK/France (fake Irish)
Empire Falls
Richard Russo 1
Sun.
M
American (New England)
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
n/a
M
American (NC)
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
Sun.
F
American (Rhode Island)
The Brothers K
David James Duncan
n/a
M
American (rural WA/OR)
A Flag For Sunrise
Robert Stone
n/a
M
American
Aquamarine
Carol Anshaw
n/a
F
American
Bee Season
Myla Goldberg
Sun.?
F
American
Middlemarch
George Eliot
n/a
F
British
So Long, See You Tomorrow
William Maxwell
n/a
M
American (rural Illinois)
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley
Thu., Sun.
F
American (St. Louis, Iowa)
Cadillac Desert
Marc Reisner
Sun.
M
American
Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem
Sun.
F
Brooklyn! (& Moe's Books)
Anagrams
Lorrie Moore
Special
F
American
Mating
Norman Rush
Thu., Sun.
M
American (Oakland)
A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler
Sun.
M
American (St. Louis, New Orleans)
The Liars' Club
Mary Karr
Sun., Fri.
F
American (E. Texas)
Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko
n/a
F
American (Laguna tribe)
The Leopard
Giuseppe di Lampedusa
n/a
M
Italian (Sicily)
This Boy's Life
Tobias Wolff
Sun., Thu.
M
American (Concrete, WA)
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
Sun.
M
American
My Last Sigh
Luis Buñuel
Sun., Wed.
M
Spanish
Baltasar and Blimunda
José Saramago
Sun.
M
Portuguese
Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
Sun., Tue.
F
Japanese
Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels
Sun., Fri.
F
Canadian
The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman
Sun., Wed.
F
American
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Sun., Fri.
M
Japanese
The Bridge on the Drina
Ivo Andric
n/a
M
Bosnian Serb
The Black Prince
Iris Murdoch
n/a
F
Anglo-Irish
White Noise
Don DeLillo
Sun., Mon.
M
American (New York City)
The Bone People
Keri Hulme
Sun. *
F
New Zealander
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino
Sun., Tue.
M
Italian
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Julian Barnes
Sun., Fri.
M
British
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson
Sun.
F
British (York)
Corelli's Mandolin
Louis de Bernières
Sun.
M
British since 1066
Mr. Mani
A.B. Yehoshua
Sun., Fri.
M
Israeli
Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
Sun., Thu.
F
Canadian
Just Plain Folks
Lorraine Johnson-Coleman
NONE
F
African-American (New York City)
Waterland
Graham Swift
Tue., Sun.
M
British
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Sun., Thu.
M
Indian / Pakistani / UK
Oscar & Lucinda
Peter Carey
Tue., Sun.
M
Australian
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Tue., Sun.
F
Indian (Kerala)
The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster
1, 2, 3
M
American (NY Metro Area)
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
Sun.
F
VA/Nebraska/PA/NY
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Sun., Sun.
M
Russian
Mona in the Promised Land
Gish Jen
Sun.
F
Asian-American
The Counterlife
Philip Roth
Sun., Mon.
M
American (New Jersey)
Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz
Sun.
M
Egyptian
Written on the Body
Jeanette Winterson
Sun.
F
British
The Sportswriter
Richard Ford
Sun., Wed.
M
American (Mississippi)
All Souls' Rising
Madison Smartt Bell
Sun.
M
American (Tennessee)
Stones From the River
Ursula Hegi
Sun.
F
German Expat.-American

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suggestions for future selections

Other Book Groups with Web Sites

  • The most comprehensive list on the Web: Angie's Book Group List
  • The best caliber of listed books: Reading Woman
  • The most influential: it's Oprah's world, we just live in it
  • An unusual one: the Last Thursday Book Club
  • The furthest from here: the Roebuck Reading Club from Wolverhampton
  • Norm and Ann Soley's "Quill and Swill" reading circle, the only club with a wicker vole!
  • Book Discussion - a home for groups - with organized links to many groups (including this one)
  • Mostly, We Eat - similar layout to this page, but they were featured in Entertainment Weekly and on Oprah's book club page!
  • Tertulia, based in New York
  • The Manhasset Book Club, with extensive links, background info, and recommendations (but annoying frames)
  • The Tallahassee Book Group, aka the LunaChics Literary Guild
  • The unfortunately named Babes on Books
  • The almost as uncreatively named as this page's The Book Group
  • A Seattle Book Group, with good background information
  • BSA Book Club - aka the Battelle Book Club
  • The First Page Book Club, with not much besides a list of excellent titles

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