Past and Current Reading

*Dear reader**, welcome to our history section! This page lists books we’ve picked for reading in our BookClub, from the near future to a distant past. — If you have books you’d like to suggest, or want to see what is being suggested and cast your votes, the List of Open Books is the place to go. And please do!

BookClub

List of Open Books

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Receding Time Line:

30 Nov 2022: The Parthenon Bomber: A Novella by Christos Chrissopoulos
26 Oct 2022: [Wittgenstein's Nephew ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein's_Nephew) by Thomas Bernhard, see 2022-10 Book Club
28 Sep 2022: On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins, see 2022-09 Book Club
27 Jul 2022: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, see 2022-07 Book Club (outdoors event)
22 Jun 2022: Violeta by Isabel Allende, see 2022-06 Book Club
18 May 2022: [The Communist's Daughter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist's_Daughter) by Aroa Moreno Durán, see 2022-05 Book Club
20 Apr 2022: Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago, see 2022-04 Book Club
23 Mar 2022: [Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_Myself:_A_Psychiatrist's_Memoir) by Irvin D. Yalom, see 2022-03 Book Club
09 Mar 2022: Extra online meeting for Thinking, Fast and Slow
23 Feb 2022: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahnemann, see 2022-02 Book Club
26 Jan 2022: Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, see 2022-01 Book Club
05 Jan 2022: Essays in Love by Alain de Botton, also under 2022-01 Book Club

The Parthenon Bomber: A Novella

Christos Chrissopoulos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein's_Nephew

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist's_Daughter

Aroa Moreno Durán

2022-05 Book Club

Baltasar and Blimunda

José Saramago

2022-04 Book Club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_Myself:_A_Psychiatrist's_Memoir

Irvin D. Yalom

2022-03 Book Club

Thinking, Fast and Slow

2021

24 Nov 2021: [Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Again:_The_Power_of_Knowing_What_You_Don't_Know) by Adam Grant, see 2021-11 Book Club
20 Oct 2021: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, see 2021-10 Book Club
29 Sep 2021: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, see 2021-09 Book Club (2nd meeting in September, scroll down)
01 Sep 2021: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, also see 2021-09 Book Club
21 Jul 2021: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, see 2021-07 Book Club
23 Jun 2021: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, see 2021-06 Book Club
19 May 2021: Ulysse from Bagdad by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, see 2021-05 Book Club
21 Apr 2021: The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, see 2021-04 Book Club
24 Mar 2021: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, see 2021-03 Book Club
24 Feb 2021: Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris, see 2021-02 Book Club
20 Jan 2021: Ubik by Philip K. Dick, see 2021-01 Book Club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Again:_The_Power_of_Knowing_What_You_Don't_Know

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein

2021-06 Book Club

Ulysse from Bagdad

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

2021-05 Book Club

The Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante

2021-04 Book Club

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne

2021-03 Book Club

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

2020

16 Dec 2020: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, see 2020-12 Book Club
18 Nov 2020: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, see 2020-11 Book Club
21 Oct 2020: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein, see 2020-10 Book Club
23 Sep 2020: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, see 2020-09 Book Club
26 Aug 2020: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, see 2020-08 Book Club
22 Jul 2020: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak, see 2020-07 Book Club
24 Jun 2020: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, see 2020-06 Book Club
27 May 2020: Freedom or Death by Nikos Kazantzakis, see 2020-05 Book Club
22 Apr 2020: Madame by Antoni Libera, see 2020-04 Book Club
18 Mar 2020: No meeting, “Pachinko” postponed to June
19 Feb 2020: The Why Cafe by John P. Strelecky, see 2020-02 Book Club
22 Jan 2020: Jerusalem by Alan Moore, see 2020-01 Book Club

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

2020-12 Book Club

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

2020-11 Book Club

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

2020-08 Book Club

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

2019

11 Dec 2019: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, see 2019-12 Book Club
20 Nov 2019: Haweswater by Sarah Hall, see 2019-11 Book Club
23 Oct 2019: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, see 2019-10 Book Club
25 Sep 2019: City of Glass by Paul Auster, see 2019-09 Book Club
21 Aug 2019: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, see 2019-08 Book Club
24 Jul 2019: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, see 2019-07 Book Club
19 Jun 2019: Dracula by Bram Stoker, see 2019-06 Book Club
29 May 2019: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, see 2019-05 Book Club
24 Apr 2019: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, see 2019-04 Book Club
20 March 2019: Magdas Apokalypse by Chloe Vollmer-Lo, Carole Maurel, see 2019-03 Book Club
20 February 2019: The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell, see 2019-02 Book Club
23 January 2019: Anna Goeldin - The Last Witch by Eveline Hasler, see 2019-01 Book Club

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

2019-04 Book Club

Magdas Apokalypse

Chloe Vollmer-Lo, Carole Maurel

Anna Goeldin - The Last Witch

Eveline Hasler

2019-01 Book Club

2018

12 December 2018: Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday, see 2018-12 Book Club
14 November 2018: Melnitz by Charles Lewinsky, see 2018-11 Book Club
17 October 2018: Candide by Voltaire, see 2018-10 Book Club
12 September 2018: [Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You're_Joking,_Mr._Feynman!) by Richard Feynman, see 2018-09 Book Club
15 August 2018: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, see 2018-08 Book Club
18 July 2018: Fly away, pigeon by Melinda Nadj Abonji, see 2018-07 Book Club
20 June 2018: [Handmaid's Tale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handmaid's_Tale) by Margarete Atwood, see 2018-06 Book Club
16 May 2018: By a Slow River by Philippe Claudel, see 2018-05 Book Club
18 April 2018: Kokoro by Natsume Soseki, see 2018-04 Book Club
21 March 2018: Genesis by Bernard Beckett, see 2018-03 Book Club
21 February 2018: A Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, see 2018-02 Book Club
24 January 2018: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari, see 2018-01 Book Club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You're_Joking,_Mr._Feynman!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handmaid's_Tale

A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

2018-01 Book Club

2017

December 2017: One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina, see 2017-12 Book Club
November 2017: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, see 2017-11 Book Club
October 2017: M. Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, see 2017-10 Book Club
September 2017: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, see 2017-09 Book Club
August 2017: A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood, see 2017-08 Book Club
July 2017: When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head, see 2017-07 Book Club
June 2017: The German Mujahid by Boualem Sansal, see 2017-06 Book Club
May 2017: Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King, see 2017-05 Book Club
April 2017: [Anil's Ghost](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil's_Ghost) by Michael Ondaatje, see 2017-04 Book Club
March 2017: Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson, see 2017-03 Book Club
February 2017: Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish , see 2017-02 Book Club
January 2017: All the Light We cannot See by Anthony Doerr, see 2017-01 Book Club

One Day I Will Write About This Place

M. Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Christopher Isherwood

2017-08 Book Club

When Rain Clouds Gather

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil's_Ghost

Preparation for the Next Life

Atticus Lish

2017-02 Book Club

All the Light We cannot See

Anthony Doerr

2017-01 Book Club

2016

December 2016: Games People Play by Eric Berne, see 2016-12 Book Club
November 2016: The Bricks that Built the Houses by Kate Tempest, see 2016-11 Book Club
October 2016: Seven Years by Peter Stamm, see 2016-10 Book Club
September 2016: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes, see 2016-09 Book Club
August 2016: Invisible by Paul Auster, see 2016-08 Book Club
July 2016: Fault Lines by Nancy Huston, see 2016-07 Book Club
June 2016: Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher, see 2016-06 Book Club
May 2016: Mend the living by Maylis de Kerangal, see 2016-05 Book Club
April 2016: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, see 2016-04 Book Club
March 2016 Extra Date: Guter Mann im Mittelfeld by Andrei Mihailescu, see 2016-03b Book Club
March 2016: Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg, see 2016-03 Book Club
February 2016: Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones, see 2016-02 Book Club
January 2016: The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters, see 2016-01 Book Club

Games People Play

Eric Berne

2016-12 Book Club

The Bricks that Built the Houses

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

2016-04 Book Club

Guter Mann im Mittelfeld

Andrei Mihailescu

2016-03b Book Club

Modern Romance

Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg

2015

December 2015: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, see 2015-12 Book Club
November 2015: Before I go to sleep by S. J. Watson, see 2015-11 Book Club
October 2015: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, see 2015-10 Book Club
September 2015: Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan, see 2015-09 Book Club
August 2015: The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing, see 2015-08 Book Club
July 2015: The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, see 2015-07 Book Club
June 2015: Stone Junction by Jim Dodge, see 2015-06 Book Club
May 2015: Orient Express by John Dos Passos, see 2015-05 Book Club
April 2015: Stoner by John Williams, see 2015-04 Book Club
March 2015: Lies of Silence by Brian Moore, see 2015-03 Book Club
February 2015: Archangel by Andrea Barrett, see 2015-02 Book Club
January 2015: [Man's Search for Meaning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning) by Viktor Frankl, see 2015-01 Book Club

Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning

Viktor Frankl

2015-01 Book Club

2014

December 2014: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, see 2014-12 Book Club
November 2014: The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith, see 2014-11 Book Club
October 2014: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, see 2014-10 Book Club
September 2014: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twang Eng, see 2014-09 Book Club
August 2014: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, see 2014-08 Book Club
July 2014: Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro, see 2014-07 Book Club
June 2014: [What Money Can't Buy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Money_Can't_Buy) by Michael J. Sandel, see 2014-06 Book Club
May 2014: No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, see 2014-05 Book Club
April 2014: I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak, see 2014-04 Book Club
March 2014: The Circle by Dave Eggers, see 2014-03 Book Club
February 2014: Post Office by Charles Bukowski, see 2014-02 Book Club
January 2014: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, see 2014-01 Book Club

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

2014-12 Book Club

The Diary of a Nobody

George and Weedon Grossmith

2014-11 Book Club

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2014-10 Book Club

The Garden of Evening Mists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Money_Can't_Buy

2013

December 2013: Dear Tom by Tom Courtenay, see 2013-12 Book Club
November 2013: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez , see 2013-11 Book Club
October 2013: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, see 2013-10 Book Club
September 2013: [The Orphan Master's Son](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orphan_Master's_Son) by Adam Johnson, see 2013-09 Book Club
August 2013: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee, see 2013-08 Book Club
July 2013: Neuromancer by William Gibson, see 2013-07 Book Club
June 2013: The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal, see 2013-06 Book Club
May 2013: [Sophie's World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie's_World) by Jostein Gaarder, see 2013-05 Book Club
April 2013: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson, see 2013-04 Book Club
March 2013: Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux, see 2013-03 Book Club
February 2013: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, see 2013-02 Book Club //... and December 2004 🙂//
January 2013: The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine, see 2013-01 Book Club

Dear Tom

Tom Courtenay

2013-12 Book Club

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orphan_Master's_Son

The Hare with Amber Eyes

Edmund de Waal

2013-06 Book Club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie's_World

Jostein Gaarder

2013-05 Book Club

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

2012

December 2012: Wilt by Tom Sharpe, see 2012-12 Book Club
November 2012: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, see 2012-11 Book Club
October 2012: Oscar and the Lady in Pink by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, see 2012-10 Book Club
September 2012: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, see 2012-09 Book Club
August 2012: The Help by Kathryn Stockett, see 2012-08 Book Club
July 2012: The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco, see 2012-07 Book Club
June 2012: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, see 2012-06 Book Club
May 2012: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, see 2012-05 Book Club //... and February 2005 🙂//
April 2012: Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera, see 2012-04 Book Club
March 2012: Snow by Orhan Pamuk, see 2012-03 Book Club //... and January 2006 🙂//
February 2012: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, see 2012-02 Book Club
January 2012: Black Box by Amos Oz, see 2012-01 Book Club

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Gregory David Roberts

2011

December 2011: No meeting
November 2011: Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra, see 2011-11 Book Club
October 2011: A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks, see 2011-10 Book Club
September 2011: [The President's Last Love](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_President's_Last_Love) by Andrey Kurkov, see 2011-09 Book Club
August 2011: /Egil’s Saga/ (trad.), see 2011-08 Book Club
July 2011: Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, see 2011-07 Book Club
June 2011: Boy Meets Girl, The End by Gregory Tkac, ssee 2011-06 Book Club
May 2011: The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey, see 2011-05 Book Club
April 2011: The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar, see 2011-04 Book Club
March 2011: A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain, see 2011-03 Book Club
February 2011: Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier, see 2011-02 Book Club
January 2011: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, see 2011-01 Book Club

Red Earth and Pouring Rain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_President's_Last_Love

Andrey Kurkov

2011-09 Book Club

2011-08 Book Club

Phantoms in the Brain

V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee

2011-07 Book Club

Boy Meets Girl, The End

Gregory Tkac

2011-06 Book Club

The Monkey Wrench Gang

Night Train to Lisbon

Pascal Mercier

2011-02 Book Club

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

2011-01 Book Club

2010

December 2010: No meeting
November 2010: One Day by David Nicholls, see 2010-10 Book Club
October 2010: [If On A Winter's Night A Traveler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_On_A_Winter's_Night_A_Traveler) by Italo Calvino, see 2010-10 Book Club
September 2010: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh, see 2010-09 Book Club
August 2010: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, see 2010-08 Book Club
July 2010: The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric, see 2010-07 Book Club
June 2010: Atomised by Michel Houellebecq, see 2010-06 Book Club
May 2010: The Japanese Chronicles by Nicolas Bouvier, see 2010-05 Book Club
April 2010: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, see 2010-04 Book Club
March 2010: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks, see 2010-03 Book Club
February 2010: The Howling Miller by Arto Paasilinna, see 2010-02 Book Club
January 2010: [Omnivore's Dilemma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnivore's_Dilemma) by Michael Pollan, see 2010-01 Book Club

One Day

David Nicholls

2010-10 Book Club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_On_A_Winter's_Night_A_Traveler

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

2010-08 Book Club

The Bridge on the Drina

The Japanese Chronicles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnivore's_Dilemma

Michael Pollan

2010-01 Book Club

2009

December 2009: Miss Chopsticks by Xinran, see 2009-12 Book Club
November 2009: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey, see 2009-10 Book Club
October 2009: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, see 2009-10 Book Club
September 2009: [The Time Traveler's Wife](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Traveler's_Wife) by Audrey Niffenegger, see 2009-09 Book Club
August 2009: Carpentaria by Alexis Wright, see 2009-08 Book Club
July 2009: A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick, see 2009-07 Book Club
June 2009: The Lover by Marguerite Duras, see 2009-06 Book Club
May 2009: The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh, see 2009-05 Book Club
April 2009: Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin, see 2009-04 Book Club
March 2009: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, see 2009-03 Book Club
February 2009: Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb, see 2009-02 Book Club
January 2009: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke, see 2009-01 Book Club

Miss Chopsticks

Xinran

2009-12 Book Club

True History of the Kelly Gang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Traveler's_Wife

Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell

Susanna Clarke

2009-01 Book Club

2008

December 2008: [Where I'm Calling From](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_I'm_Calling_From) by Raymond Carver, see 2008-12 Book Club
November 2008: Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, see 2008-10 Book Club
October 2008: The Good Faeries of New York by Martin Millar, see 2008-10 Book Club
September 2008: Ines of my Soul by Isabel Allende, see 2008-09 Book Club
August 2008: Northern Lights by Philip Pullman, see 2008-08 Book Club
July 2008: Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith, see 2008-07 Book Club
June 2008: Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene, see 2008-06 Book Club
May 2008: American Gods by Neil Gaiman and Sky Burial by Xinran, see 2008-05 Book Club
April 2008: No meeting
March 2008: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, see 2008-03 Book Club
February 2008: A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami, see 2008-02 Book Club
January 2008: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, see 2008-01 Book Club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_I'm_Calling_From

The Good Faeries of New York

2007

December 2007: [Klingsor's Last Summer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingsor's_Last_Summer) by Hermann Hesse, see 2007-12 Book Club
November 2007: Ghostwritten by David Mitchell, see 2007-11 Book Club
October 2007: Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie, see 2007-10 Book Club
September 2007: Shogun by James Clavell, see 2007-09 Book Club
August 2007: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
July 2007: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
June 2007: Beloved by Toni Morrison
May 2007: Two meetings, The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu and Monkey by [Cheng'en Wu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng'en_Wu)
April 2007: No meeting
March 2007: The Buenos Aires Quintet by Manuel Vazquez Montalban
February 2007: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
January 2007: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingsor's_Last_Summer

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng'en_Wu

The Buenos Aires Quintet

Manuel Vazquez Montalban

The Inheritance of Loss

Kiran Desai

Palace Walk

Naguib Mahfouz

2006

December 2006: No meeting
November 2006: Two meetings, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
October 2006: No meeting
September 2006: Double feature, Dirty Hands by Jean-Paul Sartre and The Just Assassins by Albert Camus
August 2006: Two meetings, The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
July 2006: The Sea by John Banville
June 2006: Notes fail me!
May 2006: Saturday by Ian McEwan
April 2006: Not sure ... perhaps Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro?
March 2006: Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare
February 2006: [Hanna's Daughters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna's_Daughters) by Marianne Fredriksson
January 2006: Snow by Orhan Pamuk

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Death and the Penguin

The Baron in the Trees

Italo Calvino

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna's_Daughters

Marianne Fredriksson

Snow

Orhan Pamuk

2005

Some months missing for 2005 ... sorry ...

November 2005: The Double by José Saramago
October 2005: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
July 2005: Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
June 2005: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
May 2005: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
April 2005: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
March 2005: The Way to Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa
February 2005: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
January 2005: No meeting?

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi

Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

2004

December 2004: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
November 2004: No meeting
October 2004: Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe
September 2004: Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
August 2004: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
July 2004: First Love by Ivan Turgenev
June 2004: The Outsider by Albert Camus
May 2004: The German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz
April 2004: [I'm Not Scared](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Not_Scared) by Niccolò Ammaniti
March 2004: Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
February 2004: Everything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer
January 2004: Double feature, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig