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International Book Club meets 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 is back on the second Wednesday of the month at 6:30 pm – this is virtual program only.

For more information about the International  Book Club, please contact Pam Colt at pcolt@lowelllibrary.org.

Upcoming Discussions


2023 Past Reads (Revived April 2023)

September 13

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 10th, 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


Tuesday, May 17, 2022 – The Second Biggest Nothing by Colin Cotterill


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. 

the End Book Jacket 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

The Cave by Jose Saramago


September 17, 2019 – The Crazed by Ha Jin

The Crazed by Ha Jin


August 20, 2019 – The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

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

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July – Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

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June – The Yacoubian Building  by  Alaa Al Aswany

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May –  The Fall of the Stone City by Ismail Kadare

Fall of the Stone City


April – Strawberry Fields by Marina Lewcyka

strawberry fields


March – Cain by Jose Saramago

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February –  We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulwayo

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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

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November – Rouse Up O Young Men by Kenzaburo Oe

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October – Mr. Palomarby Italo Calvino

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September – Adrift on the Nile by  Naguib Mahfouz

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August – The Rings of Saturn by  W.G. Sebald

Rings of Saturn


July –  The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera

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