Group Reads 2020

[Sophie]

Here are the group reads for this year. There is obviously no pressure to join in on all or any of the monthly picks. Please comment on the discussions for any of the books at any time, revive old topics with your thoughts! And if you can't find a discussion thread you're looking for (for a book on the 50 or 100 list), make a new one or send me a message and I'll sort it out. Happy reading!

You can see the full 50 books to read before you die list on the group home.
And find the full 100 books they didn't tell us about list here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

50 BOOKS
JAN: The Way We Live Now by Antony Trollope
FEB: The Outsider by Albert Camus
MAR: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
APR: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
MAY: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
JUN: The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
JUL: Man without Women by Ernest Hemingway
AUG: Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift
SEP: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
OCT: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
NOV: One Flew Over the Cuckoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey
DEC: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

100 BOOKS
JANUARY
Descartes Bones - Russell Shorto
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
FEBRUARY
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
Dove - Robin Lee Graham
MARCH
The Power of One - Bryce Courtney
A Testament of Youth - Vera Britain
APRIL
Burr - Gore Vidal
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman
MAY
Human Comedy - William Saroyan
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
JUNE
The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway
The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch
JULY
The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow - Rita Leganski
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
AUGUST
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
The Forgotten Seamstress - Liz Trenow
SEPTEMBER
Freedom from the Known - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Foam of the Daze - Boris Vian
OCTOBER
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
NOVEMBER
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M Pirsig
Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
DECEMBER
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

[Sam]

Thanks its great to have a list for the whole year .

[[deleted user]]

Thanks Sophie

[Deena]

Thanks for letting us know the entire list for the year. I like being able to plan ahead.

[Buck]

Don't you think Sophie and the other moderators are doing such a good job? What a great idea: to list the monthly reads in advance.

[Lisa]

It’s a great idea. Gives people time to plan and access books!

[Sophie]

I'm glad it's useful! Thanks for the feedback :)

[Linda]

I'd like to read the books in the 50 books list and there are 7 you named for this year that I haven't read yet - so I'm putting them on my 2020 reading plan list. I missed January so I'll start reading "The Way We Live Now" . . . then read with you in May, June, July, September, October and November. The other five books I've read so will skip them this year.