Faculty Book Club

Lots of good reading over the years; see all of our titles below.

1998-1999
  • Booth by Robertson
  • Jack Maggs  by Carey
  • Morgan by Strouse
 1999-2000
  • Resistance by Shreve
  • Appointment in Samarra by O’Hara
  • Oliver Wiswell by Roberts
  • Small World by Lodge
  • Titus Andronicus  by Shakespeare
  • Stories of J. F. Powers  by Powers
2000-2001
  • Scandalmonger by Safire
  • H.M.Pulham, Esquire by Marquand
  • Galielo’ Daughter by Sobel
  • Seven Gothic Tales by Dinesen
  • House of Seven Gables by Hawthorne
  • Man of Property by Galsworthy
2001-2002
  • Cloudsplitter by Banks
  • Secret Agent by Conrad
  • Nothing Like It In the World by Ambrose
  • Tender is the Night by Fitzgerald
  • Hooking Up by Wolfe
  • Martin Dressler by Millhauser
  • Bread and Wine by Silone
2002-2003
  • Botany of Desire by Pollan
  • Rings of Saturn by Sebald
  • The Saville Companion by Perez-Reverte
  • Mrs. Dalloway  by  Woolf
  • The Hours by Cunningham
  • The Alchemist by Coleho
  • Bad Blood by Sage
2003-2004
  • An Instance at the Fingerpost by Pears
  • Goodbye to All that by Graves
  • No Way to Treat a First Lady by Buckley
  • Samuel Pepys by Tomalin
  • Any Human Heart by Boyd
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran by Nafisi
  • The Growing Season by Hynes
  • Churchill by Gilbert
2004-2005
  • The Story of Lucy Gault by Trevor
  • The Kite Runner by Hosseini
  • Transit of Venus by Hazzard
  • The Professor’s House by Cather
  • The Bronte Myth by Miller
  • Gengis Kahn  by Weatherford
  • World Lit Only By Fire by Manchester
2005-2006
  • What Massie Knew by James
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  by  Smith
  • The Woman in white by Collins
  • Nautical Chart by Perez-Reverte
  • The Horned Man by Lasdun
  • Joseph in Egypt (Triliogy) by Mann
2006-2007
  • The March by Doctrow
  • The Sea by Banville
  • Winesburg, Ohio by Anderson
  • Tipping Point by Gladwell
  • Arthur and George by Barnes
  • Saturday by McEwan
  • Don Quixote by Cervantes  ( trans. Grossman)
2007-2008
  • Winter of Our Discontent by Steinbeck
  • Old filth by Gardam
  • Atonement by McEwan
  • Suite Francaise by Nemirovsky
  • Three Cups of Tea by Morton
  • Naked and the Dead by Mailer
2008-2009
  • The Man Who Was Thursday by Chesterton
  • The Nine by Toobin
  • White Tiger by Adiga
  • Mayflower by Philbrick
  • Island at the Center of the World by Shorto
  • As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
  • The Life of  Samuel Johnson by Boswell
 
 
2009-2010
  • Only a Theory by Miller
  • Nothing to be Frightened Of  by Barnes
  • Torrents of Spring by Tureneg
  • Descartes Bones by Sorto
  • Let the Great World Spin by McCann
  • Gilead by Robinson
  • In the first circle by Solzhenitsyn
2010-2011
  • Netherland by O’Neill
  • Among the Mad by Winspear
  •  Paradise News by Lodge
  • The Man Who Loved China by Winchester
  • The Big Short by Lewis
  • The Imperfectionists by Rachman
2011-2012
  • Bleak House by Dickens
  • Haunting of Hill House by Jackson
  • Death of Ivan Illych by Tolstoy
  • Wolf Hall by Mantel
  • Venice Pure City by Ackroyd
  • Comedians by Greene
  • Night to Remember by Lord
2012-2013
  • Peace to end all Peace by Franklin
  • Outerbridge Reach by Stone
  • Tender is the night by Fitzgerald
  • Poet’s Pub by Linklater
  • The Plague by Camus
  • Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
2013-2014
  • Washington by Chernow
  • Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
  • Stories of Flannery O’Connor by O’Connor
  • Revenge of Geography by Kaplan
  • Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
  • Ike’s Bluff by Thomas
  • Light in August by Faulkner
2014-2015
  • Catastrophe by Keys
  • Three Men in a Boat by Jerome
  • Bunker Hill by Philbrick
  • Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare
  • Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar By Cathcart
  • Moon Tiger by Lively
  • Our Man in Havana by Greene
2015-2016
  • Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
  • Strange Death of Liberal England by Dangerfield
  • Raphael Affair by Pears
  • Orphan Master’s Son by Johnson
  • Stuff Matters by Miodownik
  • Crazy Rich Asians by Kwan
  • Destiny of the Republic by Millard
2016-2017
  • A little life by Yanagihara
  • Silence by Endo
  • A man called Ove by Backman
  • Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare
  • Housekeeping by Robinson
2017-2018
  • Gaudy night by Sayers
  • The Dinner by Koch
  • The Finkler Question by  Jacobsen
  • A Gentleman in Moscow by Towles
  • Waking Lions by Gundar
  • Frankenstein by Shelly, original 1818 version
2018-2019 
  • Pere Goriot by Balzac
  • The Age of Wonder by Holmes
  • The World Broke in Two by Goldstein
  • A Passage to India by Foster
  • Odyssey by Homer trans. by Wilson
  • Bel Canto by Patchett
  • Cathedral  and  The Big Sleep by Carver
  • Evening in The Palace of Reason by Gaines
2019- 2020
  • The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
  • Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart
  • Our Towns, a 100,000 Mile Journey Into the Heart of America by James and Deborah Fallows
  • Ordinary Grace by Kent Krueger
  • Stoner by John Williams
  • The Girl at the Baggage Claim by Gish Jen
  • Fredrick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom by David Blight (did not meet-pandemic)