Web/Email Reading Group Schedules

May 9, 2007

Some current schedules for online/email reading groups!

Literary Fiction Lovers

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• May - The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
• June - Snow Flower & the Secret Fan (Lisa See)
• July - The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
• August - Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)

Big Fat Books

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• Apr.-Jun. - The Glass Bead Game (Hermann Hesse)
  Alternate - Buddenbrocks (Thomas Mann)

• Jul.-Sep. - Middlemarch (George Eliot)
  Alternate - Daniel Deronda (George Eliot)

• Oct.-Dec. - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)
  Alternate - A Frolic of One’s Own (William Gaddis)

Literature Study Group

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• April 15 - The Rings of Saturn (W. G. Seabald)
• May 15 - The Death of Virgil (Hermann Broch)
• June 1 - The Terror of Ice and Darkness (Christoph Ransmayr)
• June 15 - A Woman (Peter Hartling)
• July 15 - Scenes from a Clerical Life (George Eliot)
• August 1 - Adam Bede — 08-01 (George Eliot)
• August 15 - Silas Marner — 08-15 (George Eliot)
• September 1 - Romolo — 09-01 (George Eliot)
• September 15 - Felix Holt (George Eliot)
• October 15 - Ham On Rye (Charles Bukowski)
• November 1 - Blood and Guts In High School (Kathy Acker)
• November 15 - This Is Not a Novel (David Markson)
• December 1 - Murphy (Becket)
• December 15 - The Ticket That Exploded (William S. Burroughs)

Asian Literature Readers

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• April 16 - Snow (Orhan Pamuk)
• May 8 - The Garden of the Departed Cats (Bilge Karasu)
• June 1 - The Flea Palace (Elif Shafak)
• June 16 - Night: A Novel (Bilge Karasu)
• July 16 - Trees on a Slope (Hwang Sun-won)
• August 8 - Our Twisted Hero (Yi Mun-yol)
• September 1 - The Wings (Yi Sang)
• September 16 - The Cloud Dream of the Nine (Kim Manjung)
• October 16 - Pillars of Salt: A Novel (Fadia Faqir)
• November 8 - A Beggar at Damascus Gate (Yasmine Zahran)
• December 1 - Persepolis : The Story of a Childhood (Marjane Satrapi)
• December 16 - Fatma: A Novel of Arabia (Raja Alem)

Because of the difficulty in obtaining Night by Karasu, two alternate titles are suggested:

• Bliss (O. Z. Livaneli)
• Istanbul: Memories and the City (Orhan Pamuk)

BookGroupList

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• May 1-15 - Emma (Jane Austen)
• May 16-31 - Memoirs of Hadrian (Marguerite Yourcenar)
• June 1-15 - Anthem (Ayn Rand)
• June 16-30 - The People’s Act of Love (James Meek)

Books a Month

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• May - One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
• May - Dawn of Destiny (Lee Stephen)

Bookworms Reading Group

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• May - Fall On Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
• June - In Her Shoes (Jennifer Weiner)
• July - Vanity Fair (WT Makepeace)

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