Classic Book Club Archives

2023

March - Therese Raquin by Emile Zola

February - Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter

JanuaryThe Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous

 

2022

December - Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

November - The Awakening by Kate Chopin

October - Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson

August/September - Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

July -  Villette by Charlotte Bronte

June - Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie 

May - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

April - In the Shadow of the Yali by Suat Dervis

March - McTeague by Frank  Norris

February - The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

January - The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley..

2021

December - The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

November - Sanctuary by William Faulkner 

October - The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 

September - Adam Bede by George Eliot

August - The Divine Comedy:  The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

July - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

June - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

May - So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

April - Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

March - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Feruary - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

January - Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell

2020

December -   Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

November - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

October - Dracula by Bram Stoker

September - Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson

August - One of Ours by Willa Cathe

July -  The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

April, May, June - suspended because of Covid-19

March - The Odyssey by Homer

February - Dubliners by James Joyce

January - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

 

2019

December - My Family & Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

November - The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

October - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

September - A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

August - Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki

July - Cane by Jean Toomer

June - Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

May - Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

April - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

March - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Parts 5-Epilogue

February - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Parts 1-4

January - A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

 

2018

December - Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

November - Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

October - I Await the Devil's Coming by Mary Maclane

September - Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

August - Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

June & July - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

May - The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 

April - Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

March - The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

February - Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

January - Desperate Characters by Paula Fox

 

2017

December - So Big by Edna Ferber

November - no meeting

October - The Polyglots by William Gerhardie

September - Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

August - Passing by Nella Larsen

July - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

June - Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskett

May -  The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer

April - Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

March - Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane

February - What Maisie Knew by Henry James

January - Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker

 

2016

January - The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith & Weedon Grossmith

February - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

March - Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald

April -  A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

May -The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler

June - Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

July - Miss Grief & Other Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson

August - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

September - The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott

October - The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

November 8, 2016:  Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miquel de Cervantes - pages 17-446

December 13, 2016:  Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miquel de Cervantes - pages 447-908

 

2015

January - Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

February - Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

March - The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

April - Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin

May & June - Bleak House by Charles Dickens

July - Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

August - Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather

September - The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

October -  Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

November - Evelina by Frances Burney

December - Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

 

2014

January - Jezebel by Irene Nemirovsky

February - The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West

March - Light in August by William Faulkner

April - Loving. Living. Party Going by Henry Green

May - The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

June - The Group by Mary McCarthy

July - The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdock

August - The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

September - The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

October - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

November - Fathers & Sons by Ivan Turginev

December -  Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock

 

2013

January & February - All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

March - Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley

April - Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey

May - Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger

June - The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

July - A Separate Peace by John Knowles

August - The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore

September & October - Middlemarch by George Eliot

November - The Professor's House by Willa Cather

December - Stoner by John Williams