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In the last Newsletter we asked members for their favorite reads of the last year. Here is what you told us:
TOP PICKS
- Percival Everett, James: A Novel (3 people)
- Kristin Hannah, The Women: A Novel (2 people)
- Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead: A Novel (2 people)
- Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob: A Novel (2 people)
CLASSICS
- Octavia E. Butler, Kindred
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- Homer’s Odyssey, translated by Robert Fagles
- William Faulkner, Light in August
- Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake – (Respondent commented Read it twice. "Be introduced to yes.")
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter
- Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
- Cornell Woolrich, Deadline at Dawn
CONTEMPORARY FICTION
- Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking For Is in the Library: A Novel
- Michael Crummey, Sweetland: A Novel
- Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel
- Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran: A Novel
- Daniel Mason, North Woods: A Novel
- James McBride, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
- Colum McCann, Transatlantic
- Elsa Morante, translated by Ann Goldstein, Arturo's Island: A Novel
- Joseph O'Neill, Godwin: A Novel
- Sally Rooney, Intermezzo: A Novel
- Niall Williams, Time of the Child
- Alice Winn, In Memoriam: A Novel
- Tim Winton, Cloudstreet: A Novel
NONFICTION
- Natalie Dykstra, Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
- Doris Kearns Goodwin, An Unfinished Love Story: a Personal History of the 1960s
- Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
- David Greenberg, John Lewis: A Life
- Bill McKibben, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? and The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened
- Andrew Stauffer, Byron: A Life in Ten Letters
- Tara Westover, Educated: A Memoir
Special thanks to Sayer Holliday for compiling this list.
