1001 BOOKS GROUP READS LIST -- Everything We've Read and Everything Coming Up

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1001 BOOKS YOU MUST READ BEFORE YOU DIE Group Reads
(an ongoing list)

{2008}*
(* MARCH-DECEMBER)

MAR - The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
APR - Julie, or The New Heloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
MAY - Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
JUN - Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
JUL - Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis
AUG - Cocaine Nights - J.G. Ballard
SEP - The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
OCT - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
NOV - The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
DEC - If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi

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{2009}


JAN - At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
FEB - Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
MAR - The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
APR - City of God - E.L. Doctorow
MAY - Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
JUN - Dead Babies - Martin Amis
JUL - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
AUG - To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
SEP - Middlemarch - George Eliot
OCT - Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
NOV - The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
DEC - Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor

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{2010}


JAN - July's People - Nadine Gordimer
FEB - The Swarm - Frank Schätzing
MAR - The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
APR - The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
MAY - A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
JUN - Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
JUL - Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
AUG - Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
SEP - Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
OCT - A Woman's Life - Guy de Maupassant
NOV - The Lost Language of Cranes - David Leavitt
DEC - Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

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{2011}


JAN - The Monk - Matthew Gregory Lewis
FEB - The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
MAR - What Maisie Knew - Henry James
APR - The Ravishing of Lol Stein - Maurgerite Duras
MAY - A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
JUN - The Trial - Franz Kafka
JUL - The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
AUG - Nineteen Seventy-Seven - David Peace
SEP - The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
OCT - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
NOV - The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
DEC - The Secret History - Donna Tartt

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{2012}


JAN - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
FEB - Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
MAR - The Arabian Nights - Anonymous
APR - Wise Children - Angela Carter
MAY - The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
JUN - Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
JUL - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carré
AUG - Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
SEP - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
OCT - The War of the End of the World - Mario Vargas Llosa
NOV - Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
DEC - Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor

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{2013}


JAN - Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
FEB - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
MAR - Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
APR - The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
MAY - Tono-Bungay - H.G. Wells
JUN - The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne
JUL - London Fields - Martin Amis
AUG - 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
SEP - House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
OCT - Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
NOV - For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
DEC - Silas Marner - George Eliot

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{2014}


JAN - White Teeth - Zadie Smith
FEB - Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence
MAR - Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
APR - Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
MAY - The Color Purple - Alice Walker
JUN - Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
JUL - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
AUG - The Wild Boys - William Burroughs
SEP - Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
OCT - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
NOV/DEC - Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
NOV/DEC - The Hours - Michael Cunningham

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{2015}


JAN - Atonement - Ian McEwan
FEB - L'Assommoir - Emile Zola
MAR - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
APR - The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
MAY - The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
JUN - Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
JUL - The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
AUG - The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
SEP - Shame - Salman Rushdie
OCT - The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
NOV - The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
DEC - I, Robot - Isaac Asimov

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{2016}


JAN - The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
FEB - Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
MAR - The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
APR - On the Road - Jack Kerouac
MAY - After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
JUN - Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
JUL - Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
AUG - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
SEP - Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
OCT - The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
NOV - Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
DEC - Black Dogs - Ian McEwan

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{2017}


JAN - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
FEB - The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
MAR - Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell & Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
APR - At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
MAY - The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
JUN - The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
JUL - Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
AUG - Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
SEP - The Professor's House - Willa Cather
OCT - The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
NOV - The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
DEC - The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells

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{2018}


JAN - Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
FEB - Cecilia - Fanny Burney
MAR - Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
APR - In the Heart of the Country - J. M. Coetzee
MAY - Eva Trout - Elizabeth Bowen
JUN - Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
JUL - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
AUG - The Godfather - Mario Puzo
SEP - Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
OCT - Life of Pi - Yann Martel
NOV - Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
DEC - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera

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{2019}


JAN - Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
FEB - The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
MAR - The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
APR - Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
MAY - The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark
JUN - Rites of Passage - William Golding
JUL - Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
AUG - Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
SEP - The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
OCT - Girl with Green Eyes - Edna O’Brien
NOV - 2666 - Roberto Bolaño
DEC - The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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{2020}


JAN - The Quiet American - Graham Greene
FEB - Native Son - Richard Wright
MAR - The Untouchable - John Banville
APR - Ulysses - James Joyce
MAY - The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
JUN - The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
JUL - The Death of Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes
AUG - Cost - Roxana Robinson
SEP - Summer - Edith Wharton
OCT - The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen
NOV - Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
DEC - A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

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{2021}


BIG BOOK STUDY: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
JAN - Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
FEB - Cutter and Bone - Newton Thornburg
MAR - Midaq Alley - Naguib Mahfouz
APR - Demons - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
MAY - Falling Man - Don DeLillo
JUN - Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
JUL - Reasons To Live - Amy Hempel
AUG - Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
SEP - Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
OCT - The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
NOV - Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
DEC - The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy

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{2022}


BIG BOOK STUDY: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
JAN - King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
FEB - Embers - Sandor Márai
MAR - By the Open Sea - August Strindberg
APR - The Spy who came in from the Cold - John LeCarré
MAY - The Cider House Rules - John Irving
JUN - Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster
JUL - Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
AUG - The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch
SEP - The Heather Blazing - Colm Tóibin
OCT - On Beauty - Zadie Smith
NOV - Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
DEC - The Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel García Márquez

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{2023}


BIG BOOK STUDY: Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
JAN - Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes
FEB - The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
MAR - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
APR - Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
MAY -The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
JUN - Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
JUL - Celestina by Fernando de Rojas
AUG - August is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
SEP - The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
OCT - Foe by J.M. Coetzee
NOV - The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
DEC - Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

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{2024}


BIG BOOK STUDY: Middlemarch by George Eliot
JAN - Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
FEB - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
MAR - Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
APR - Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
MAY - The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
JUN - The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
JUL - Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
AUG - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
SEP - History of the Siege of Lisboa by José Saramago
OCT - Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
NOV -The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
DEC -Billards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Böll

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{2025}


BIG BOOK STUDY: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
JAN - Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
FEB - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
MAR - The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
APR -The Kiss of the Spiderwoman by Manuel Puig
MAY -Time‘s Arrow by Martin Amis
JUN -The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
JUL -The Dark Child by Camara Laye
AUG -Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
SEP -The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield