International Book Club meets at 6:30 PM the third Tuesday 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 or 978-674-1536.
Upcoming Discussions
The International Book Club is taking the months of July and August off. It is planned to resume as soon as possible.
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 – 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 – note this is an alternate date due to COVID-19 conflicts. Typically, the International Book Club meets on the third Tuesday of the month.
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 due to water damage at the library. Selection rescheduled for the February meeting
2017 Past Reads
December – The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
November – Rouse Up O Young Men by Kenzaburo Oe
October – Mr. Palomarby 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
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