Here are the past reading selections of the Longitude Book Club.
2023
January - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
February - The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
2022
December - An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
November - My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
October - The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg
September - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswai
August - Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
July - A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah
June - The Papers of Tony Veitch by William McIlvanney
May - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
April - When the Whales Leave by Yuri Rytkheu
March - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
February - Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
January - The Widows of Malabar Hill by Mistry Massey
2021
December - The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra
November - Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
October - Crossing by Pajtim Statovci
September -
August - Mary Toft, or, The Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer
July - The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Leften
June - The Dry by Jane Harper
May - 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
April - Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
March - One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan
February - The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugresic
January - Silence by Shusaku Endo
2020
December - The Translator's Bride by Joao Reis
November - A General Theory of Oblivion by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
October - She Would Be King by Wayetu Moore
September - Circe by Madeline Miller
August - Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
July - The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
June - Dear Mrs. Bird by AJ Pearce
February - The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
January - Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
2019
January - The Betrayers by David Bezmosgis
February - The African Queen by C. S. Forester
March - The Stranger by Albert Camus
April - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon
May - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
June - A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
July - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
August - Empty Set by Veronica Gerber Bicecci
September - The Boat People by Sharon Bala
October - Tomb Song by Julian Herbert
November - Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
December - The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm
2018
January - The Blue Between Sky and Water by Susan Abulhawa
February - Dear Fang, with Love by Rufi Thorpe
March - Ties by Domenico Starnone
April - Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera
May - Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
June - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
July - No Land's Man by Aasif Mandvi
August - Amsterdam by Russell Shorto
September - The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna
October - All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
November - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
December - The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
2017
January - Walking Home by Simon Armitage
February - The 7th Woman by Frederique Molay
March - Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
April - One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
May - In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
June - Sweetland by Michael Crummey
July - Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty
August - The Door by Magda Szabo
September - Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekback
October - In the City of Gold and Silver by Kenize Mourad
November - Little Princes by Conor Grennan
December - Hunting Season by Andrea Camilleri
2016
January - Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
February - River of Dust by Virginia Pye
March - A Marker to Measure Drift by Alexander Maksik
April - There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself by Ludmila Petrushevskaya
May - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
June - The Other Language by Francesca Marciano
July - Three Weeks in December by Audrey Schulman
August - The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky
September - The Rhythm of Memory by Alyson Richman
October - She Weeps Each Time You're Born by Quan Barry
November - Blindness by Jose Saramago
December - The Anatomy Lesson by Nina Siegal
2015
January: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
February - The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
March - Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
April - The Long Ships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
May - The Garden of Burning Sand by Corban Addison
June - Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art by Carl Hoffman
July - A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
August - Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo by Anjan Sundaram
September - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
October - Midnight in Peking by Paul French
November - The People in Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
December - The Black Count by Tom Reiss
2014
January - Tastes of Paradise by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
February - The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
March- I Will Have Vengeance by Maurizio DeGiovanni
April - The River of Doubt by Candace Millard
May - Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
June - When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
July - The Round House by Louise Erdrich
August - Bound in Venice: The Serene Republic and the Dawn of the Book by Alessandro Marzo Magn
September - A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama
October - The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
November - The Cellist of Sarajeva by Steven Galloway
December - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
2013
January - Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman
February - Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
March - The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Phillip Sendker
April - Escape fromCamp 14 by Blaine Harden
May - Empires of the Indus by Alice Albinia
June - Divorce Islamic Style by Amara Lakhouse
July - Zulu by Caryl Ferey
August - The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst
September - Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
October -The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
November - Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiaga
December - The Polish Boxer by Eduardo Halfon
2012
2011
2010
December - Purge by Sofi Oksanen
November - The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
October - The Truth About Love by Stephanie Laurens
September - The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
August - That Mad Ache and Translator, Trader by Francoise Sagan, translated by Douglas Hofstadter
July - Between Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
June - Then We Saw the Flames by Daniel Hoyt
May - Laughing Without an Accent by Firoozeh Dumas
April - The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
March - The Size of My World by Joan Silber
February - The Proof of the Honey by Salwa Al Neimi
January - Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
2009
December - Flight by Sherman Alexie.
November - How the Soldier Repairs the Gramaphone by Sasa Stanisic.
October - Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon.
September - Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri.
August - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.
July - The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.
June - My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk.
May - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller.
April - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.
March - (Sweden): Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
February - (South Africa + Iran): The Pick Up by Nadine Gordimer
January - (China + Russia): Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall
2008
December - (Latin America): 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
November - (Germany): The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
October - (Russia + Early America): Away by Amy Bloom
September - (China): Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
August - (India+): Karma & Other Stories by Reshi Redi
July - (Mexico): Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolpho Anaya
June - (France): Suite Francaise by Irene Nemerovsky
May - (South Africa): Southern Cross by Jann Turner
April - (Italy): The Almond Picker by Simonetta Hornby
March - Words Without Borders by Samantha Achnee, Alane Salierno and Dedi Felman.
February - The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif.
January - Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera Syal.
2007
December - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.
November - The Orientalist by Tom Reiss.
October - Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.
September - Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber.
August - Southern Cross by Jann Turner.
July - Serving Crazy with Curry by Amulya Malladi.
June - Saving the World by Julia Alvarez.
May - The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart.
April - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See.