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April 20, 2021 – The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Sei Shonagon


2021 Past Reads

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

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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