The Skinny:
We go by the basic book club format. Read a book and discuss it at our monthly meetings.
Our Reading List:
June: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
July: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
August: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
September: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
October: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
November: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
January: Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
February: The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
March: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
April: The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett
May: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
June: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Our Previous Reading Selections:
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Terror in the Name of God by Jessica Stern
Answer as a Man by Taylor Cauldwell
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Risk Pool by Richard Russo
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
On the Wings of the Morning by Marie Bostwick
Lovely Bones by Alice Siebold
The Kite Runner by Khaled Kosseini
The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Boll
A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
Code of the Woosters by P.J. Woodhouse
Too Late to Say Good-Bye by Ann Rule
After Dark by Haruki Murakami and Jay Rubin
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
The Clown by Heinrich Boll
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Peachtree Road by Anne Rivers Siddon
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurty
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Wicked by Gregory Maquire
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
One Day by David Nicolls
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
Lord Vishnu's Love Handles by Will Clarke
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Runaway by Alice Munro
When the Women Come Out to Dance by Elmore Leonard
The Man of Shadows by Angel Zapata
Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndam
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John LeCarre
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Metzger's Dog: A Novel by Thomas Perry
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Candide by Voltaire
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Farwell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Liar's Autobiography Vol VI by Graham Chapman
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Member Responsibility: If you become an inactive member for a full year you will be removed from the group