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message 1: by Jen (last edited Jul 12, 2017 10:41AM) (new)

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2009 BOTMs
A: The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
B: The Sea, by John Banville
C: Life and Times of Michael K, by J.M. Coetzee
D: The Lover, by Marguerite Duras
E: Silas Marner, by George Eliot
F: Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
G: Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden; Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
H: Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy; Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
I: A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving; Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
J: Fear of Flying, by Erica Jong; The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
K: On the Road, by Jack Kerouac; The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver; The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera


message 2: by Jen (last edited Jul 12, 2017 10:30AM) (new)

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2010 BOTM:
January
Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, by John le Carré

February
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham

March
The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works, by Thomas Nashe
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
Suite Française, by Irène Némirovsky

April
1984, by George Orwell
The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
Black Water, by Joyce Carol Oates

May
Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk
Dr. Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
Titus Groan, by Mervyn Peake
The Pit and the Pendulum, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe

June
The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie

July
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

August
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray

September
Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne
Candide, by Voltaire
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut

October
We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Once and Future King, by T.H. White
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

November
The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga
Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis
The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende

December
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
Le Père Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac


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2011 BOTM

January
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
The Old Wives' Tale, by Arnold Bennett
February
The Plague, by Albert Camus
Corelli's Mandolin, by Louis de Bernières
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
March
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
April
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
White Noise, by Don DeLillo
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
May
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
June
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides
Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner
July
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell
August
The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
September
Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse
Smilla's Sense of Snow, by Peter Høeg
Reasons to Live, by Amy Hempel
October
The Piano Teacher, by Elfriede Jelinek
The Castle, by Franz Kafka
Schindler's Ark, by Thomas Keneally
November
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John le Carré
The Princess of Cleves, by Madame De Ia Fayette
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
December
The Garden Party, by Katherine Mansfield
The Iron Heel, by Jack London
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Lewycka


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2012 BOTM

January
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez
February
Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
Watchmen, by Alan Moore
March
Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
April
The Shipping News, by Annie Proulx
The Pit and the Pendulum, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Club Dumas, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
May
The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
Contact, by Carl Sagan
Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy L. Sayers
June
Ivanhoe, by Walter Scott
Quo Vadis, by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
July
Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
August
Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
The Invention of Curried Sausage, by Uwe Timm
September
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
The Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells
The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole
October
We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Half of Man Is Woman, by Zhang Xianliang
The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham
November
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts, by Douglas Adams
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
December
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes
The Music of Chance, by Paul Auster


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2013 BOTM
JAN: Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow
JAN: Henderson the Rain King, by Saul Bellow
JAN: Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges
FEB: The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
FEB: Villette, by Charlotte Brontë
FEB: The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain
MAR:The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
MAR: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Chabon
MAR: The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
APR: Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
APR: The Heretic: A Novel of the Inquisition, by Miguel Delibes
APR: The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
MAY: Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen
MAY: The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle
MAY: The Lover, by Marguerite Duras
JUN: A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan
JUN: The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper
JUN: Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming
JUL: Mary Barton, by Elizabeth Gaskell
JUL: Neuromancer, by William Gibson
JUL: Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, by Paul Gallico
AUG: The Diary of a Nobody, by George Grossmith
AUG: The Tin Drum, by Günter Grass
AUG: The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
SEP: Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
SEP: Antic Hay, by Aldous Huxley
SEP: The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
OCT: A Pale View of Hills, by Kazuo Ishiguro
OCT: Carry Me Down, by M.J. Hyland
OCT: The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
NOV: The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
NOV: The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
NOV: Fatelessness, by Imre Kertész
DEC: At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft
DEC: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
DEC: Fall on Your Knees, by Ann-Marie MacDonald


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2014 BOTM
JAN: All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
JAN: The Garden Party, by Katherine Mansfield
JAN: The Daughter, by Pavlos Matesis
FEB:The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
FEB: Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels
FEB: The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose, by Alice Munro
MAR:The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
MAR: The Black Prince, by Iris Murdoch
MAR: The Country Girls, by Edna O'Brien
APR: Snow, by Orhan Pamuk
APR: The Year of the Hare, by Arto Paasilinna
APR: The Labyrinth of Solitude, by Octavio Paz
MAY: Kiss of the Spider Woman, by Manuel Puig
MAY: All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
MAY: Eugene Onegin, by Alexander Pushkin
JUN: Grimus, by Salman Rushdie
JUN: American Pastoral, by Philip Roth
JUN: Bonjour tristesse, by Françoise Sagan
JUL: A Town Like Alice, by Nevil Shute
JUL: The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields
JUL: Animal's People, by Indra Sinha
AUG: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson
AUG: Cancer Ward, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
AUG: The Master of Ballantrae, by Robert Louis Stevenson
SEP: The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, by Andrzej Szczypiorski
SEP: Waterland, by Graham Swift
SEP: The Colour, by Rose Tremain
OCT: The Birds, by Tarjei Vesaas
OCT: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
OCT: Memoirs of a Peasant Boy, by Xosé Neira Vilas
NOV: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, by Winifred Watson
NOV: Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters
NOV: The Graduate, by Charles Webb
DEC: The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson
DEC: Thank You, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse
DEC: Chocky, by John Wyndham


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2015 BOTMs
Jan: Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
Jan: Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Jan: Untouchable, by Mulk Raj Anand
Feb: Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood
Feb: Flaubert's Parrot, by Julian Barnes
Feb: Crash, by J.G. Ballard
March: Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
March: Alamut, by Vladimir Bartol
March: Story of the Eye, by Georges Bataille
April: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, by Heinrich Böll
April: The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan
April: Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
May: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll
May: On The Black Hill, by Bruce Chatwin
May: The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
June: Falling Man, by Don DeLillo
June: Nervous Conditions, by Tsitsi Dangarembga
June: Pricksongs and Descants, by Robert Coover
July: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick
July: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz
July: Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Aug:The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides
Aug: Silence, by Shūsaku Endō
Aug: The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles
Sep: Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons
Sep: The Shadow Lines, by Amitav Ghosh
Sep: Caleb Williams, by William Godwin
Oct: The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oct: The Blind Owl, by Sadegh Hedayat
Oct: The Woodlanders, by Thomas Hardy
Nov: The House on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson
Nov: Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Nov: Paradise of the Blind, by Dương Thu Hương
Dec: Measuring the World, by Daniel Kehlmann
Dec: The Castle, by Franz Kafka
Dec: The Summer Book, by Tove Jansson


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message 9: by 1001shelf (last edited Apr 09, 2020 03:57AM) (new)

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2017
2017 BOTMs
Jan: If on A winter's Night a Traveler
Jan: Wuthering Heights: Discussion https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Jan: Jack Maggs: Discussion
Feb: Inheritance of Loss: Discussion https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Feb: Nervous Conditions: Discussion
Feb: Dom Casmurro: Discussion
March: Tender is the Night: Discussion https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

March: Silas Marner:
March: Invisible Man:
April: The Trial
April: Remains of the Day:
April: Amerika by Kafka:
May: Waiting for the Barbarians:
May: Dangerous Liaisons:
May: Space Odyssey:
June: Time's Arrow
June: I, Robot
June: White Tiger
July: Notes from the Underground:
July: Hallucinating Foucault:
July: City of God:
August:The Artamonov Business:
August: The End of the Affair:
September: Legend:
September: The Roots of Heaven:
October: The Blind Assassin
October: Mansfield Park:
November: Humbolt's Gift:
November: World's End:


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2018
BOTM 2018

January
Passing
Women in Love

February
Kitchen
To the Lighthouse

March
Good Morning, Midnight
The Crying of Lot 49

April
A Ballad for Georg Henig
Titus Groan

May
The Moor’s Last Sigh
Pastoralia

June
Fathers and Sons
The Wonderful O

July
Unless
Requiem for a Dream

August
Day of the Dolphin
Amongst Women

September
Sula
Ada

October
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Absolute Beginners

November
The Light of Day
The Charwoman’s Daughter

December
Tipping the Velvet
Slaughterhouse-Five


message 11: by 1001shelf (last edited Apr 06, 2020 04:31AM) (new)

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2019 BOTM
January

February

March

April

May
The Line of Beauty
Aithiopika

June
r Justine
v Corelli's Mandolin

July
v Wise Children
r Slow Man

August
v Trawl
r Fear of Flying

September

October

November

December
Black Dahlia https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
BR The Mill on the Floss: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Deep River: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


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2020 BOTMs
January
BR Under the Volcano: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Grass Is Singing: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Drowned and the Saved: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


February
Germinal https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Amok: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

March
The Midnight Examiner: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Flamethrowers: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

April
The Great Indian Novel
The Secret History


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