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Historical Fiction

  • The Catch Trap by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Maurice by E. M. Forster
  • Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco -- group read in june
  • The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas -- group read in february or march
  • The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
  • Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  • The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
  • The Master: A Novel by Colm Tóibín
  • The King Must Die by Mary Renault
  • The Seance by John Harwood

Non-fiction

  • Persian Fire by Tom Holland
  • Rubicon by Tom Holland
  • Stiff by Mary Roach
  • Henry VIII: the King and His Court by Alison Weir
  • Every Book Its Reader by Nicholas A. Basbanes
  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  • Hiroshima by John Hersey
  • Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
  • Warriors of God by James Reston Jr.
  • The Orientalist by Tom Reiss

Science-fiction

  • The Difference Engine by William Gibson & Bruce Sterling
  • Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
  • Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
  • Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
  • I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Book Turned Into A Movie, Show, Miniseries, and Etcetera

  • Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
  • Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
  • Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries) by Charlaine Harris
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  • Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
  • Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  • Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction by Luke Davies
  • Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
  • The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey -- tandem read with jazzi?

Award Winners

  • Looking for Alaska by John Green
  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
  • The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
  • Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
  • The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  • Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Asian Authors

  • Lili: A Novel by Annie Wang
  • Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka
  • Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  • Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami
  • Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era by Eiji Yoshikawa
  • Out: A Novel by Natsu Kirino
  • Quicksand by Junichiro Tanazaki
  • The Devil's Whisper by Miyuki Miyabe
  • Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
  • An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

Transgressive Fiction

  • The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
  • American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis -- tandem read with jazzi?
  • Trainspotting by Irving Welsh
  • Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
  • Crash by J. G. Ballard
  • Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby, Jr.
  • Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky -- group read in mid-january
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Anything Related to Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales, and Etcetera

  • Wicked by Gregory Maguire
  • Briar Rose by Jane Yolen -- group read in march
  • Beast by Donna Jo Napoli
  • The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
  • Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
  • The Green Man by Ellen Datlow
  • The Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales by Ellen Datlow
  • The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
  • The Tenth Kingdom by Kathryn Wesley
  • Breath by Donna Jo Napoli
  • Aesop's Fables

Books With The Word 'Owl' In The Title

  • Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
  • Owl by William Service
  • Owlflight by Mercedes Lackey
  • The Owl and Moon Cafe by Jo-Ann Mapson
  • I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
  • Wesley the Owl by Stacy O'Brien
  • The Owl Service by Alan Garner
  • The Blind Owl by Ṣādiq Hidāyat
  • The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland
  • Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame

Modern Library's Top 100

  • The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein
  • Anthem by Ayn Rand
  • Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
  • On the Beach by Nevil Shute
  • Greenmantle by Charles de Lint
  • Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
  • It by Stephen King
  • Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
  • From Here to Eternity by James Jones
  • Watership Down by Richard Adams
  • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Anything Goes [bonus category]

  • An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
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