International Book Club meets VIRTUALLY at 6:30 PM the second Wednesday of every month. The meetings are free and open to the public. Copies of books up for discussion are available to borrow from the Ground Floor Check Out Desk (first come first serve). For more information about this group please contact Pam Colt, Reference Librarian, at pcolt@LowellLibrary.org.
International Book Club meets VIRTUALLY on the second Wednesday of the month at 6:30 pm.
For more information about the International Book Club, please contact Pam Colt at pcolt@lowelllibrary.org.
Upcoming Discussions
January 14, 2026 Simpatia by Rodrigo Blanco Calderon
2025 Past Reads
December 10, 2025 Women, Seated by Zhang Yueran
November 12, 2025 A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Blackman
October 8, 2025 Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
September 10, 2025 The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
August 13, 2025 Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
July 9, 2025 – How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
June 11, 2025 – An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
May 14, 2025 – The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
April 9, 2025 – Terra Incognita by Sara Wheeler
February 12, 2025 – Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
January 15, 2025 – Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
2024 Past Reads
December 11, 2024 – Foster by Claire Keegan
November 13, 2024 – The Milk Lady of Bangalore by Shoba Narayan
October 9, 2024 – Erasmus of Rotterdam by Stefan Zweig
September 11, 2024 – Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior
August 14, 2024 – The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun
July 10, 2024 – The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
June 12, 2024 –When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
May 8, 2024 – The Spirit of Science Fiction by Robert Bolano
April 10, 2024 – Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
March 12, 2024 – The Barbarian Nurseries by Hector Tobar
February 13, 2024 – Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
January 10, 2024 – Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
2023 Past Reads (Revived April 2023)
December 13, 2023 – One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
November 8, 2023 – Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
October 11, 2023 – Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
September 13, 2023 – The Fox Hunt by Mohammed Al Samawi
August 9, 2023 – Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
July 12, 2023- Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes
June 14, 2023- The World and All that it Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
May 10, 2023 – The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Conde
April 12, 2023 – Never Look an American in the Eye by Okey Ndibe
2022 Past Reads
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 – Georges by Alexandre Dumas
April 19, 2022 – The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien
March 15, 2022 – The Illustrious House of Ramires, by Eca de Queiros.
February 15, 2022 – Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah
January 18, 2022 – The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
2021 Past Reads
December 21, 2021 – Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
November 16, 2021 – The Quiet American by Graham Greene
October 19, 2021 – The Woman from Uruguay by Pedro Maidral
September 21, 2021 – Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
August – CANCELLED
July 20, 2021 – Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
June 15, 2021 – The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lucette Lagnado
May 18, 2021 –Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
April 20, 2021 – The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Sei Shonagon
March 16, 2021 – The Ghost-Seer by Friedrich Schiller
February 16, 2021 – Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
January 19, 2021 –This Earth of Mankind by Pramoeda Ananta Toer
2020 Past Reads
December 15, 2020 – Fog by Miguel de Unamuno
November 17, 2020 – Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
October 20, 2020 – The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
September 15, 2020 – A Long Way Home by Peter Carey
August 18, 2020 – The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis
July 28, 2020 – The End by Fernanda Torres
March 17, 2020 – The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret
February 18, 2020 – The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov
January 21, 2010 – The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vazquez
2019 Past Reads
December 17, 2019 – Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
November 19, 2019 – Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
October 15, 2019 – The Cave by Jose Saramago
September 17, 2019 – The Crazed by Ha Jin
August 20, 2019 – The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
July – The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
June – The World and Town by Gish Jen
May – The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
April – Cold Skin by Albert Sánchez Piñol
March – My Tender Matador by Pedro Lembel
February – The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk
January – Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
2018 Past Reads
December – Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
November – Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
October – The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind
September – Crossbones by Nuruddin Farah
August – Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
July – Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
June – The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
May – The Fall of the Stone City by Ismail Kadare
April – Strawberry Fields by Marina Lewcyka
March – Cain by Jose Saramago
February – We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulwayo
January – Cancelled
2017 Past Reads
December – The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
November – Rouse Up O Young Men by Kenzaburo Oe
October – Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino
September – Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz
August – The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
July – The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
June – Typical American by Gish Jen
May – The Eagle’s Throne by Carlos Fuentes
April – Panther in the Basement by Amos Oz
March – Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
February – The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
January – Waiting by Ha Jin
2016 Past Reads
December – Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
November – Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
October – A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
September –Stealing Buddha’s Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen
July & August – no meetings for summer
June – The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
May – Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
April – The Piano Tuner by Daniel Phillipe Mason
March – Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
February – Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
