International Book Club International Book Club

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.

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

April 12th at 6:30 pm

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 – 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