Book Club

Join us as we have a great time analyzing the books and hanging out with friends. Treat yourself to a glass of wine and tasty refreshments. 

Flowers for Algernon
When: Friday, October 18, 2024
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Where: TBA
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Book of October 2024 
 
"Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse. In this story of a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege to seek spiritual fulfillment. Hesse synthesizes disparate philosophies--Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism--into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man's search for true meaning.
To read in Russian click here
 
October - "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
September"World of Wonders" by Robertson Davies
July-August -  "The Manticore" by Robertson Davies
June "Fifth Business" by Robertson Davies. 
May "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez
April - "The Dinner" by Herman Koch
March"Summer House with Swimming Pool" by Herman Koch
February - "The Ginger Man" by J.P. Donleavy
January - "Steppenwolf'  by Hermann Hesse 
 
2023 
November/December - "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende.
October - "Russian Canary: Zheltukhin" by Dina Rubina
2023 
September - Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
August - "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini 
July - "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
June  - "Petrov's Flu" by Aleksey Salnikovy
May - "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
April - "The Joke" by Milan Kundera
March - "Thérèse Desqueyroux" by François Mauriac
FebruaryAmy and Isabelle " by Elizabeth Strout
January - "Oscar and the Lady in Pink" by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt 
 
2022
December - "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garsia Markes
November - "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" by Jorge Amado 
October  - "The City and the Dogs" by Mario Vargas Llosa
September - "The Postman Always Rings Twice"  by James Cain
August - "Death with Interruptions"  by Jose Saramago
July - "The God of Small Things"  by Arundhati Roy
June - "The Dutch House" by Ann Patchett
May  - "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys 
April"Downton Abbey" by Jessica Fellowes
March - "Where Angels Fear to Tread" by F.M. Forster
January/February - "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh
 
2021
December - "Foreigner" by Sergey Dovlatov
November - "Bel-Ami" by Guy De Maupassant
October - "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" by Fannie Flagg
September - "City of Girls" by Elizabeth Gilbert
September - "City of Girls" by Elizabeth Gilbert
August  - "The Story of the Lost Child" by Elena Ferrante
July - "Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay"  by Elena Ferrante
June - "The Story of a New Name"  by Elena Ferrante
May - "My Brilliant Friend"  by Elena Ferrante
April - "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
March  - "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
February - "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein
January - "Adam Bede" by George Eliot
 
2020
December - "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharto
November"One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest " by Ken Kesey
October - "Madam Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
February - "Ship of Fools" by Katherine Anne Porter
January - "Hotel Du Lac" by Anita Brookner

2019
December 2019 - "My Enemies" by Viktorya Tokareva
November - "Daisy Miller" by Henry James
October - "The Ides of March" by Thornton Wilder
September - "Airport " by Arthur Hailey
August - "The Troubled Air " by Irwin Shaw
July - "Zuleikha Open her Eyes" by Guzel Yakhina
June - "The Winter of Our Discontent" by John Steinbeck
May - "Camera Obscura" and "Mashenka" by V. Nabokov
April - "The Luzhin Defense" by V. Nabokov
March - "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
January/February  - "Light in August" by William Faulkner
 
2018
December - "Appointment in Samarra" by John O'Hara
November - "The Buddha in the Attic" by Julie Otsuka
October - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
September - "The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
August - "Hunting and Gathering"  by Anna Gavalda
July"Les Faux Fuyants"  by Françoise Sagan
June - "Ivanov" by Michael Chekhov
May - "Don Quixote" by Mikhail Bulgakov
April - "The French Lieutenant's Woman" by John Fowlesy
February - "Life Invented by Herself" by Gala Dali
January  - "The Museum of Extraordinary Things" by Alice Hoffman
 
2017
December  - "The Marriage of Opposites" by Alice Hoffman
November  - "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
October - "The Time Between" by Karen White
September - "Water for Elephants" by Sara  Gruen 
August - "Ironweed" by Wiliam Kennedy
July - "The Great Gatsby" by Scott Fitzgerald
June - "The Innocent Man" by John Grisham
April - " Theatre" by Somerset Maugham
 
2016
December - "The Sun Also Rises" by Earnest Hemingway
July - "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen
October - "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin 
 
2015
"The Thorn Birds" by Calleen McCullough
"The Black Obelisk" by Ericj Maria Remarque
"The Chronicles of Narina" by C. Lewis
"The Funeral Party" by Ludmila Ulitskaya
"A Streetcar Named  Desire" by Tennessee Wiliams

 

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