Summary of Books of the Last Two Years 2017 - 2019

I usually do this every year so we can have a record of what we read. These books mostly represent our theme from the last two years: "Difficult Women."

The Burning Girl by Claire Messud
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
What Happened by Hillary Clinton
Her Body and other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Girl Walks out of a Bar by Lisa F. Smith
Brave by Rose McGowan
Blood, Water, Paint by Joy McCullough
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Heroes in My Head by Judy Rebick
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Improvement by Joan Silber
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens
Educated by Tara Westover
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
This is How it Always is by Laurie Frankel
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

If you want to see books from previous years look under the label: Year End.

What We Read 2016-2017

This was the year of the gothic and horror theme.

Dracula by Bram Stoker
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Penance by Kanae Minato
Interview with a Vampire by Anne rice
A Good Man is Hard to Find and other Short Stories by Flannery O'Conner

Thus endeth our year of translations: 2016 book choices

I like to keep a record of all of the book choices from each year. I am posting the list of the books in translation that we chose in case anyone wants to refer to what we've read in future years.

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

Night Train to Lisbon by Peter Bieri (Pascal Mercier)

My Struggle vol.1 by Karl Ove Knausgard

A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler

Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Wild Rose by Sharon Butala (not a translation but author visit)

The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli

Book Club Picks of 2015

• Dec. = Dear Mr.You by Mary Louise Parker
• Nov = Outline by Rachel Cusk
• Oct = The Sisters of Versailles by Sally Christie
• Sept = A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
• August = How to be both by Ali Smith
• July = Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman
• June = Everything I never told you" by Celeste Ng
• May = It's What I Do by Lynsey Addario
• April = The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
• March = Adult Onset by Anne Marie Macdonald
• Feb - Women In Clothes by Shelia Heta
• January = life after life by Kate Atkinson

List of Books Read in 2013/14

The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared
Escape from Camp 14	Blaine Harden
Strangle Hold	Robert Rotenberg
The Chaperone	Laura Moriarty
A Paris Wife	Paula McLain
Message from the Masters	Brian Weiss
Interestings	Meg Wolitzer
Lean In	Sheryl Sandberg
Rush Home Road	Lori Lansens
A thousand mornings	Mary Oliver
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim	Jonathon Coe

Books of 2012

Here is the full list of the books that we read this last year. The selections were from: the Giller Prize (any year), books shortlisted for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize that was not awarded, other Pulilitzers, the Commonwealth Prize and the random choice - a biography.

The Sentimentalists" by Johanna Skibsrud

419 by Will Ferguson

Half Blood Blues By Esi Edugyan

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I survived Nellie Oleson's and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim

"Hotel du Lac" by Anita Brodener

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

Galore by Michael Crummy

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas

Book Club Books 2010-2011

Let the Great World Spin
The Thirteenth Tale
Far from the Madding Crowd
The Corrections
Half Broke Horses
The Housekeeper and the Professor
Out
One Day
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Midwife of Venice
The Inheritance of Loss

Books of 2009-2010

People of the Book
The Outliers
Too Much Happiness
The Cave
Audition
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Olive Kitteridge
Still Alice
The Vagina Monologues
In Defense of Food
Amanda's Wedding

Books of 2008-2009

The Confederacy of Dunces
What is the What?
The Book of Negros
The Lace Reader
Edgar Sawtelle
Rebecca
Through Black Spruce
Deniro's Game
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
Winter in Madrid
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Three Cups of Tea

I put this list in the Main Blog Section so that it can be searched in future years.