Ananthamurthy, U. R. "Samskara" (ಸಂಸ್ಕಾರ - Rites) - 1965 (India)
Atwood, Margaret "The Handmaid's Tale" @BC 01/18
Bollen, Christopher "The Destroyers" @BC 04/18
Brooks, Max "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War"
Brzezinski, Matthew "Isaac's Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland"
Buddha "The Dhammapada. Verses on the Way" (धम्मपद)
Devi, Phoolan "I, Phoolan Devi"
Dimkovska, Lidija "A Spare Life"
Fanon, Frantz "The Wretched of the Earth" (Les damnés de la terre) - 1961 (Colonialism)
Flanagan, Richard "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" (Thailand/Burma)
Forman Jr., James "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America"
Glasfurd, Guinevere "The Words in my Hand" @BC 02/18
Gyatso, Palden "Fire under the Snow"
Hertmans, Stefan "War and Turpentine" (Oorlog en terpentijn)
Hillenbrand, Laura "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" (non-ficition)
James, Marlon "A Brief History of Seven Killings" (Jamaica)
Jian, Ma "The Dark Road" (阴之道) (China)
Kennedy, Emma "Shoes for Anthony" @BC 03/18
- "The Tent, the Bucket and me"
Kershaw, Alex "The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II"
Khedairi, Betool "Absent" (غايب Gabe) (Iraq)
Koch, Herman "The Dinner" (Het Diner) @BC 11/17 ~~
Lenz, Siegfried "The German Lesson" (Deutschstunde)
Mahfouz, Naguib "Palace Walk" (بين القصرين/Bayn al-qasrayn) (Egypt) (Nobel Prize 1988)
Modiano, Patrick "So You Don't Get Lost In The Neighbourhood" (Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier) (France, Nobel Prize 2014)
Nadj Abonji, Melinda "Fly Away, Pigeon" (Tauben fliegen auf) (Yugoslavia/Switzerland)
Nafisi, Azar "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books"
Narayan, R. K. "Malgudi Omnibus" (Trilogy: Swami and Friends; The Bachelor of Arts; The English Teacher) (India)Noah, Trevor "Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood"Obioma, Chigozie "The Fischermen" (Nigeria)
Obreht, Téa "The Tiger's Wife"
Parker, Bruce "The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters"
Pollard, Helen "The Little French Guesthouse" @BC 05/18
Ruzhen, Li "Flowers in the Mirror" (Jing Hua Yuan - 鏡花緣) (China)
Shetterly, Margaret Lee "Hidden Figures"
Seierstad, Åsne "A Hundred and one Days. A Baghdad Journal"
Unigwe, Chika "On Black Sisters’ Street" (Fata Morgana) (Nigeria/Belgium)
Vargas, Fred "Quand sort la recluse"
Books Suggested During the Year 2016/17
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi "Half of a Yellow Sun"
Alexander, Brian "Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town"
Ananthamurthy, U. R. "Samskara" (ಸಂಸ್ಕಾರ - Rites) Bâ, Mariama "So Long a Letter" (Une si longue lettre) @ BC 01/17
Buddha "The Dhammapada. Verses on the Way" (धम्मपद)
Davis, Fiona "Doll House"
Benedict, Marie "The Other Einstein"
Correa, Armando Lucas "The German Girl"
Davis, Fiona "The Dollhouse"
Doerr, Anthony "All the Light We Cannot See"
Fanon, Frantz "The Wretched of the Earth" (Les damnés de la terre)
Glasfurd, Guinevere "The Words in my Hand" @BC 02/18
Goodwin, Daisy "Victoria"
Hannah, Kristin "The Nightingale"
Hansen, Dörte "This House is Mine" (Altes Land) @ BC 02/17
Hawkins, Paula "The Girl on the Train" ***
Hochschild, Arlie Russell "Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right"
Holleeder, Astrid "Judas. Een Familiechronik" (not yet translated)
Idliby, Ranya Tabari; Warner; Oliver, Suzanne "The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew--Three Women Search for Understanding"
Ilibagiza, Immaculée with Erwin, Steve "Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust" ***
Kiernan, Denise "The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II"
Khedairi, Betool "Absent" (غايب Gabe)
Kostova, Elizabeth "The Swan Thieves" ***
Laker, Rosalind "The Golden Tulip" @ BC 03/17
Lee, Harper "To Kill a Mockingbird" @ BC 11/10
Lenz, Siegfried "The German Lesson" (Deutschstunde) @BC 04/18
Lovett, Charlie "First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen"
Mahfouz, Naguib "Palace Walk" (بين القصرين/Bayn al-qasrayn) (Nobel Prize 1988)
Meissner, Susan "A Fall of Marigolds"
Narayan, R. K. "Malgudi Omnibus" (Trilogy: Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The English Teacher)
Nordberg, Jenny "Underground Girls of Kabul"
Oates, Joyce Carol "Carthage" @ BC 11/16
O'Brien, Tim "The Things They Carried"
Pamuk, Orhan "Cevdet Bey and His Sons" (Cevdet Bey ve Oğulları) (Nobel Prize 2006)
Plath, Sylvia "The Bell Jar" @ BC 01/17
Rand, Ayn "Anthem"
Richman, Alyson "The Velvet Hours"
Rosner, Elizabeth "The Speed of Light" ***
Ruzhen, Li "Flowers in the Mirror" (Jing Hua Yuan - 鏡花緣)
Salinger, J.D. "The Catcher in the Rye" ***
Samuel, Wolfgang W.E. "German Boy: A Child in War"
Şafak, Elif "The Architect's Apprentice"
- "Three Daughters of Eve"
Unigwe, Chika "On Black Sisters’ Street" (Fata Morgana)
Vance, J.D. "Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis" - 2016 @ BC 06/17 "
Books Suggested During the Year 2015/16
Ali, Sabahattin "Madonna in a Fur Coat" (Kürk Mantolu Madonna) @ BC 06/16
Burton, Jessie "The Miniaturist" @BC 03/16
Delacourt, Grégoire "The List of my Desires/My Wish List" (La liste de mes envies) @BC 11/15
Khadra, Yasmina "The Swallows of Kabul" (Les hirondelles de Kaboul)
Kulin, Ayşe "Rose of Sarajevo" (Sevdalinka) @BC 04/16
Schmitt,Éric-Emmanuel "Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran" (Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran) @BC 05/16
Schmitt,Éric-Emmanuel "Oscar and the Lady in Pink" (Oscar et la dame rose) @BC 05/16
Worth, Jennifer "Call the Midwife" @ BC 07/16
Zweig, Stefanie "Nowhere in Africa" (Nirgendwo in Afrika) @BC 04/08 + 01/16
Books Suggested During the Year 2014/15
I was lucky that a year after I couldn't run the club anymore, another lady in the area started an international book club. We do things a little different here with everyone suggesting a book from their country and we then draw one but this is just as much fun and has led me to some interesting books already:
Brown, Daniel James "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" @BC 01/15
Dugain, Marc "The Officer's Ward" (La Chambre des officiers) @BC 04/15
Mann, Thomas "Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family" (Buddenbrooks) @BC 02/15
Patchett, Ann "The Patron Saint of Liars" @BC 05/15
Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi "The Time Regulation Institute" (Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü) @BC 12/14
Books Suggested During the Year 2012/13
Andrić, Ivo "The Bridge on the Drina" (На Дрини Ћуприја or Na Drini Ćuprija) (Nobel Prize 1961) **
Baram, Nir "Good people" (Anashim Tovim)
Brijs, Stefan "The Angel Maker" (De engelenmaker) @BC 11/12
Dallaire, Roméo "Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda" @BC 08/09 ~~
Delaney, Frank "The Last Storyteller: A Novel of Ireland"
Feldman, Deborah "Unorthodox" (non-fiction)
Genova, Lisa "Still Alice"
Gillham, David R. "City of Women" @BC 09/13
Gowda, Shilpi Somaya "Secret Daughter" @BC 03/13
Grass, Günter "The Tin Drum" (Die Blechtrommel) (Nobel Prize 1999) ~~
Haddon, Mark "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" @BC 05/08 ~~
Halberstam, David "The Best and the Brightest" - 1972 (non-fiction) ~~
Hannah, Kristin "Winter Garden" @BC 05/13
Hesse, Hermann "The Glass Bead Game" (Das Glasperlenspiel) (classic) (Nobel Prize 1946)
Hill, Lawrence "The Book of Negroes" ~~
Holden Rothman, Claire "The Heart Specialist"
Hornsby, Dale "Under the Mango Tree" ~~
Ishiguro, Kazuo "Never Let Me Go" ~~ (Nobel Prize 2017)
Iyengar, B.K.S. "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom" ~~
Jonasson, Jonas "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" (Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann) @BC 08/13
Kingsolver, Barbara "The Lacuna" **
Koch, Herman "The Dinner" (Het Diner) @BC 11/17
Krabbé, Tim "The Vanishing" (Het gouden ei)
Lahiri, Jhumpa "Interpreter of Maladies"
Lamb, Christina "The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan" @BC 05/05 ~~
Lawson, Mary "Crow Lake" @BC 03/04 ~~
- "The Other Side of the Bridge" @BC 09/08 ~~
LeBor, Adam "City of Oranges" (non-fiction) @BC 01/13
Lee, Euna & Dickey, Lisa "The World Is Bigger Now" (non-fiction)
Ling, Laura; Ling, Lisa "Somewhere Inside" (non-fiction) @BC 10/12
Loo, Tessa de "The Twins" (De Tweeling) @BC 12/04 ~~
Lupton, Rosamund "Sister"
MacDonald, Ann Marie "Fall on Your Knees" @BC 01/02 ~~
-"The Way the Crow Flies" @BC 10/04 ~~
Mahfouz, Naguib "Children of the Gebelawi" (aka Children of our Alley) (أولاد حارتنا) (Nobel Prize 1988) @BC 06/13
Mantel, Hilary "Bring Up the Bodies" ~~
Massaquoi, Hans J. "Destined to Witness" (auto-biography) ~~
Massie, Robert "Catherine the Great" (biography)
McCann, Colum "Let the Great World Spin"
McCourt, Frank "Angela’s Ashes" (Memoir)
Meyer, Stephenie "The Host"
Mo, Yan "Red Sorghum: A Novel of China" (红高粱家族 Hóng gāoliang jiāzú) (Nobel Prize 2012) **
Morton, Kate "The Forgotten Garden"
Müller, Herta "The Appointment" (Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet) (Nobel Prize 2009) @BC 12/11 ~~
Mulder, Eildert "Anders Breivik is net alleen" (Anders Breivik is not alone) (non-fiction) ~~
Nagamoto, Tomori "Bittersweet Hotel" ~~
Okrent, Daniel "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" (non-fiction)
Ozeki, Ruth L. "My Year of Meats" (non-fiction)
Pamuk, Orhan "Istanbul, Memories and the City" (İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir) (non-fiction) (Nobel Prize 2006) *** ~~
-"My Name is Red" (Benim Adim Kirmizi) (Nobel Prize 2006) @BC 02/13
Precht, Richard David "Who Am I and If So How Many?: A Journey Through Your Mind" (Wer bin ich und wenn ja, wie viele? Eine philosophische Reise) (non-fiction) ***
Rich, Roberta "The Midwife of Venice" ~~
Robert S. McNamara: In Retrospect. The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam" - 1995 (non-fiction) ~~
Sankovitch, Nina "Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading"
Sienkiewicz, Henryk "Quo Vadis" (Quo vadis. Powieść z czasów Nerona) (Nobel Prize 1905)
See, Lisa "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" ~~
Segev, Tom "The Seventh Million. Israelis and the Holocaust" (המיליון השביעי – הישראלים והשואה) (non-fiction) ~~
Skloot, Rebecca "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" (non-fiction) ~~
Stachniak, Eva "The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great"
Stevenson, Wendell "The Weight of a Mustard Seed: An Iraqi General's Moral Journey During the Time of Saddam" ~~
Stockett, Kathryn "The Help"
Tharoor, Shashi "The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India - The Emerging 21st-Century Power" ~~
Thom, James Alexander "Follow the River"
Trees, Wolfgang "Kaffee, Krähenfüße und Kontrollen Die großen Schmuggeljahre an der deutschen Westgrenze" ~~
Ung, Loung "First they killed my father. A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" (non-fiction) @BC 04/13
Van Agt, Dries "A Cry for Justice" (Een schreeuw om recht. De tragedie van het Palestijnse volk) (non-fiction) ~~
Wells, H.G. "The Island of Doctor Moreau" ~~
Zusak, Markus "The Book Thief" @BC 01/11 ~~
Books Suggested During the Year 2011/12
Abuelais, Izzeldin "I Shall Not Hate" ~~
Aboulela, Leila "Lyrics Alley"
Allende, Isabel "Island Beneath the Sea" (La isla bajo el mar)
Atwood, Margaret "The Handmaid’s Tale" ~~
Banerjee Divakaruni, Chitra "The Mistress of Spices" ~~
Bhagat, Chetan "A Night at the Call Center" ~~
- "Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT" ~~
Bausum, Ann "With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote" (non-fiction)
Brontë, Charlotte "Jane Eyre" (classic) @BC 01/12
Brontë, Emily "Wuthering Heights" (classic) ***
Brooks, Geraldine "Caleb's Crossing" ~~
- "March" ~~
- "People of the Book"
Bryson, Bill "At Home. A Short History of Private Life" ~~
Burnard, Bonnie "Suddenly" ~~
Burns, Olive Ann "Cold Sassy Tree"
Bush, George W. "Decision Points" (autobiography)
Byatt, Antonia S. "Possession"" (Booker Prize 1990) ***
Capella, Anthony "The Wedding Officer" (Naples 1943) ~~
Chang, Jung "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" - (biography/autobiography) ~~
Chang, Leslie T. "Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China" (US) or "Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China" (UK) (non-fiction) @BC 12/11
Clarke, Marcus "(For the Term of his) Natural Life" ~~
Davidsen, Leif "The Unknown Wife" (Den ukendte hustru) ~~
De Chellis Hill, Carol "Henry James' Midnight Song"
Delaney, Frank "Ireland. A Novel"
Deng, Alphonsion; Deng, Benson; Ajak, Benjamin; Bernstein, Judy A. "They Poured Fire on us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan" (autobiography)
Dickens, Charles "Great Expectations" (classic) ~~
Diffenbaugh, Vanessa "The Language of Flowers"
Doctorow, Edgar Lawrence (E.L.) "Ragtime" (modern classic)
Doetsch, Richard "The 13th Hour" ~~
Dunmore, Helen "The Siege" @BC 11/11
Feiler, Bruce "Learning to Bow. Inside the Heart of Japan"
Fforde, Jasper "Lost in a Good Book" ~~
- "The Eyre Affair" ~~
Freud, Sigmund "The Interpretation of Dreams" (Die Traumdeutung) (classic, non-fiction) ~~
Gaiman, Neil "American Gods" ~~
Gallegos, Romulo "Doña Bárbara" ~~
Ghosh, Amitav "Sea of Poppies" (Booker Shortlist 2008)
Godden, Rumer "The Diddacoi" (Kizzy and the Diddacoi, Radio 4 programme) ~~
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von "The Sorrows of Young Werther" (Die Leiden des jungen Werther) (classic) ***
Grass, Günter "Crabwalk" (Im Krebsgang) (Nobel Prize 1999) @BC 08/12
Grayling, A.C. "Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West" (non-fiction)
Guterson, David "The Other" ***
Haasse, Hella "The Tea Lords" (Heren van de thee) ~~
Hawthorne, Nathaniel "The House of the Seven Gables" (classic)
Herbert, Xavier "Capricornia" (modern classic)
Hernández, José "The Gaucho Martín Fierro" ~~
Hesse, Herman "Demian" (Demian) (modern classic) (Nobel Prize 1946)
Hessler, Peter "River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze" (non-fiction) ~~
Heyer, Georgette "An Infamous Army" ~~
Hickman, Katie "Daughers of Britannia"
Hochschild, Adam "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa" (non-fiction)
Howe, Katherine "The Physic Book of Deliverance Dane" ~~
Hume, Fergus "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" ~~
Jensen, Carsten "I Have Seen the World Begin" (Jeg har set verden begynde) ~~
Jones, Edward P. "The Known World" (Pulitzer Prize 2004)
Kingsolver, Barbara "Animal, Vegetable and Miracle" (non-fiction)
- "The Lacuna" ***
Kladstrup, Donald & Petie "Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure" (non-fiction) @BC 03/12
Kohler, Sheila "Becoming Jane Eyre" ~~
Kristof, Nicholas D. & Wudunn, Shery"Half the Sky. How to Change the World" (non-fiction) @BC 05/12
Kulin, Ayse "Aylin" (Aylin) ~~
- "Farewell" (Veda) ~~
Kurlansky, Mark "Salt. A World History" (non-fiction)
Lahiri, Jhumpa "Interpreter of the Maladies: Stories of Bengla, Boston and Beyond" (Pulitzer Prize 2000)
Larson, Erik "In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin" (non-fiction)
Lenz, Siegfried "The German Lesson" (Deutschstunde) @BC 04/18
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim "Nathan the Wise" (Nathan der Weise) (classic) ***
McCann, Colum "Let the Great World Spin: A Novel" ~~
McMurtry, Larry "The Last Picture Show" (modern classic)
Mitchell, Margaret "Gone With the Wind" (modern classic, Pulitzer Prize 1937) ***
Montejo, Eugenio "The Trees: Selected Poems 1967-2004" ~~
Morgan, Marlo "Mutant Message Down Under: A Woman's Journey into Dreamtime Australia" ~~
Newell, John Philip "Praying with the Earth: A Prayerbook for Peace" (non-fiction) ~~
O'Connor, Flannery "A Good man is hard to find" (short stories)
Okrent, Daniel "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" (non-fiction)
Oz, Amos "The Seventh Million Jew" ~~
Penney, Stef "The Invisible Ones" ~~
- "The Tenderness of Wolves" ~~
Pessl, Marisha "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" ~~
Pollan, Michael "The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World" (non-fiction)
Premchand, Munschi "The Gift of a Cow" (Godaan) (classic) ~~
Pressfield, Steven "Gates of Fire" (Sparta and the Battle of Thermopylae) ~~
Rayner, Sarah "One Moment, One Morning"
Rhys, Jean "Wide Sargasso Sea" ~~
Ribaud, Roger "Maître de Maisons de sa Cave à sa Table" ~~
Roberts, Gregory David "Shantaram" ~~~
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos "The Prince of Mist" (El príncipe de la niebla) ***
Rushdie, Salman "Midnight's Children" (Booker Prize 1981)
Şafak, Elif "The Bastard of Istanbul" - 2008 ~~
- "The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi" @BC 02/12
- "The Gaze"
- "İskender" ~~
- "The Saint of Incipient Insanities" (Araf) ~~
Satrapi, Marjane "The Complete Persepolis" ***
Saviano, Roberto "Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System" aka "Gomorrah: Italy’s Other Mafia" (Gomorra: Viaggio Nell’impero Economico E Nel Sogno Di Dominio Della Camorra) (non-fiction) *** ~~
Schami, Rafik "The Caligrapher's Secret" (Das Geheimnis des Kalligraphen) @BC 04/12
Sendker, Jan-Philipp "Risse in der großen Mauer" (non-fiction) *** ~~
Shields, Carol "The Stone Diaries" (Pulitzer Prize 1995, Booker Shortlist 1993)
Shields, Carol "Unless"
Sijie, Dai "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" (Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse Chinoise) ***~~
Silko, Leslie Marmon "Ceremony" (modern classic)
Skloot, Rebecca "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" (non-fiction)
Spink, Kathryn "Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography”"(biography)
Steinbeck, John "East of Eden" (modern classic) (Nobel Prize 1962) @BC 09/12
Swartwood, Robert "Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer" ~~
Thom, James Alexander "Follow the River" (modern classic)
Torday, Paul "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" ~~
Twain, Mark "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg" ~~
Twain, Mark; Smith, Harriet Elinor; Griffin, Benjamin; Fischer, Victor "Autobiography of Mark Twain" Samuel Clements ~~
Urquhart, Jane "The Stone Carvers" @BC 02/08
- "The Underpainter"
Van der Zee, Henri "The Hunger Winter: Occupied Holland 1944-1945" ~~
Waller, Robert James "Bridges of Madison County" ~~
Wearing, Alison "Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey"
Weir, Alison "The Lady in the Tower"
White, Patrick "The Solid Mandala" ~~
Williamson, Kate T. "A Year in Japan"
Woolf, Virginia "Mrs. Dalloway" (modern classic) ***
Xinran, Xue "Sky Burial"
Zamoyski, Adam "1812. Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow" (non-fiction) ~~
Zweig, Stefanie "Nowhere in Africa" (Nirgendwo in Afrika) @BC 04/08 @BC 01/16
- "Somewhere in Germany" (Irgendwo in Deutschland) (sequel to "Nowhere in Africa") ***
Books Suggested During the Year 2010/11
Ackerman, Diane "The Zookeeper's Wife. A War Story" (non-fiction) ~~
Andersen, Hans Christian + Hamsun, Knut "Istanbul'da Iki Iskandinav Seyyah" (non-fiction) ~~
Baker, Jean Harvey "Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography" (biography)
Barnow, David "De hongerwinter" (The honger winter, only available in Dutch so far) ~~
Bernlef, J. (Hendrik Jan Marsman) "Out of Mind" (Hersenschimmen)
Betancourt, Íngrid "Even Silence has an End: My Six Years in the Jungle" (Même le silence a une fin) (autobiography) @BC 08/11
Brown, Dan "The Da Vinci Code" ***
Capote, Truman "In Cold Blood" (modern classic) ~~
Chevalier, Tracy
"Remarkable Creatures" @BC 10/11
- "The Lady and the Unicorn" ~~Chevalier, Tracy
Cleave, Chris "The Other Hand" (or Little Bee) Comte-Sponville, André "The Book of Atheist Spirituality" (L'Esprit de l'athéisme - Introduction à une spiritualité sans Dieu) (non-fiction)
Courtenay, Bryce "The Power of One" (non-fiction)
de Rosnay, Tatiana "Sarah's Key"
de Winter, Leon "Hoffman's Hunger" (Hoffman's honger)
Dunmore, Helen "The Siege" ~~ @BC 11/11
Dunmore, Helen "The Siege" ~~ @BC 11/11
Ebershoff, David "The 19th Wife" ~~
Faulks, Sebastian "Birdsong" ~~
Faulks, Sebastian "Birdsong" ~~
Ford, Mackenzie (Peter Watson) "The Gifts of War"
Fromkin, David "A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East" (or: Creating the Modern Middle East) (non-fiction) ~~
Furnivall, Kate "The Russian Concubine"
Hamsun, Knut "Pan" (Pan) (modern classic) (Nobel Prize 1920) @BC 03/11
Hamsun, Knut "Pan" (Pan) (modern classic) (Nobel Prize 1920) @BC 03/11
Hay, Elizabeth "Late Nights on Air"
Hegi, Ursula "Stones from the River" *** ~~
Hegi, Ursula "Stones from the River" *** ~~
Hessler, Peter "River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze"
Hill, Lawrence "The Book of Negros" (non-fiction)
Hillenbrand, Laura "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" (non-fiction) ~~
Hillers, Marta/Anonyma "A Woman in Berlin" (Eine Frau in Berlin. Tagebuchaufzeichnungen vom 20. April bis 22. Juni 1945) (diary) ~~
Hilton, James "Lost Horizon. The classic tale of Shangri-La" (modern classic)
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan "Infidel: My Life" (Mijn Vrijheid) (autobiography) @BC 03/08
- "Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations" (autobiography) @BC 05/11
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan "Infidel: My Life" (Mijn Vrijheid) (autobiography) @BC 03/08
- "Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations" (autobiography) @BC 05/11
Hochschild, Adam "King Leopold's Ghost. A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa" (non-fiction) ~~
Hosseini, Khaled "A Thousand Splendid Suns" @BC 06/11
Hosseini, Khaled "A Thousand Splendid Suns" @BC 06/11
Kang Chol-Hwan; Rigoulot, Pierre "The Aquariums of Pyongyang. Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag" (Les Aquariums de Pyongyang) (non-fiction)
Kingsolver, Barbara "The Lacuna" *** ~~
Kostova, Elizabeth "The Historian" ***
- "The Swan Thieves" ***
Kingsolver, Barbara "The Lacuna" *** ~~
Kostova, Elizabeth "The Historian" ***
- "The Swan Thieves" ***
Larson, Eric "In the Garden of Beasts: Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin" (non-fiction) ~~
Lee, Harper "To Kill a Mockingbird" (modern classic, Pulitzer Prize 1961) @BC 11/10
Lee, Harper "To Kill a Mockingbird" (modern classic, Pulitzer Prize 1961) @BC 11/10
Luttrell, Marcus; Robinson, Patrick "Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10" (non-fiction) ~~
McCourt, Frank "Angela's Ashes" (autobiography) *** ~~
McCourt, Frank "Angela's Ashes" (autobiography) *** ~~
Michener, James "Caravans" (modern classic) ~~
Miller, Don "A Million Miles In a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life" (non-fiction)
Mortenson, Greg "Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan" (non-fiction) @BC 04/11
Müller, Herta "The Appointment" (Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet) (Nobel Prize 2009) @BC 12/11
- "The King Bows and Kills" (Der König verneigt sich und tötet) (autobiography) (Nobel Prize 2009) *** ~~
Mortenson, Greg "Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan" (non-fiction) @BC 04/11
Müller, Herta "The Appointment" (Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet) (Nobel Prize 2009) @BC 12/11
- "The King Bows and Kills" (Der König verneigt sich und tötet) (autobiography) (Nobel Prize 2009) *** ~~
- "The Land of Green Plums" (Herztier) (Nobel Prize 2009) ~~
Newby, Eric "A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush" (non-fiction) ~~
Nemat, Marina "Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman's Story of Survival Inside a Torture Jail" - 2007 (non-fiction) ~~
Oates, Joyce Carol "Black Girl/White Girl"
Orwell, George "Animal Farm. A Fairy Story" ***
Oates, Joyce Carol "Black Girl/White Girl"
Orwell, George "Animal Farm. A Fairy Story" ***
Power, Samantha "Problem from Hell, America and the Age of Genocide" (non-fiction) ~~
Rhue, Morton (Todd Strasser) "The Wave" (fictionalized account) *** ~~
Rowlatt, Bee & Witwit, May "Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad. The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship" (non-fiction) @BC 09/11
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos "The Angel's Game" " (El juego del ángel)
Runcie, James "The Discovery of Chocolate" ***
Rhue, Morton (Todd Strasser) "The Wave" (fictionalized account) *** ~~
Rowlatt, Bee & Witwit, May "Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad. The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship" (non-fiction) @BC 09/11
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos "The Angel's Game" " (El juego del ángel)
Runcie, James "The Discovery of Chocolate" ***
Rushdie, Salman "The Moor's Last Sigh" (Booker Shortlist 1995)
Rutherfurd, Edward "The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga"
Şafak, Elif "Araf" (aka The Saint of Incipient Insanities) ***
- "The Forty Rules of Love. A Novel of Rumi" @BC 02/12
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine "The Little Prince" (Le Petit Prince) ***
Rutherfurd, Edward "The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga"
Şafak, Elif "Araf" (aka The Saint of Incipient Insanities) ***
- "The Forty Rules of Love. A Novel of Rumi" @BC 02/12
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine "The Little Prince" (Le Petit Prince) ***
Schulze, Ingo "New Lives" (Neue Leben)
Segev, Tom "The Seventh Million. Israelis and the Holocaust" (המיליון השביעי – הישראלים והשואה) (non-fiction) ~~
Setterfield, Diane "The Thirteenth Tale"
Shriver, Lionel "We need to talk about Kevin"
Sobel, Dava "Galileo's Daughter. A Drama of Science, Faith and Love" (non-fiction) @BC 09/06
Steinbeck, John "The Grapes of Wrath" (modern classic) (Nobel Prize 1962, Pulitzer Prize 1940) @BC 03/09
Stockett, Kathryn "The Help" ***
Stowe, Harriet Beecher "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (classic) ***
Setterfield, Diane "The Thirteenth Tale"
Shriver, Lionel "We need to talk about Kevin"
Sobel, Dava "Galileo's Daughter. A Drama of Science, Faith and Love" (non-fiction) @BC 09/06
Steinbeck, John "The Grapes of Wrath" (modern classic) (Nobel Prize 1962, Pulitzer Prize 1940) @BC 03/09
Stockett, Kathryn "The Help" ***
Stowe, Harriet Beecher "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (classic) ***
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable"
Tekin, Latife "Swords of Ice" (Buzdan Kiliçlar) @BC 02/11
Tolan, Sandy "The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East" *** ~~
Tekin, Latife "Swords of Ice" (Buzdan Kiliçlar) @BC 02/11
Tolan, Sandy "The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East" *** ~~
Twain, Mark "A Tramp Abroad" (modern classic)
Verghese, Abraham "Cutting for Stone"
Walsh, Helen "Once Upon a Time in England"
Waters, Sarah "The Little Stranger" (Booker Shortlist 2009)
Wroblewski, David "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle"
Zusak, Markus "The Book Thief" @BC 01/11
Wroblewski, David "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle"
Zusak, Markus "The Book Thief" @BC 01/11
Movie: "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" - 2006 and
"Jonestown: Paradise Lost" (History Channel documentary, 2007)
"Jonestown: Paradise Lost" (History Channel documentary, 2007)
Books Suggested During the Year 2009/10
Abdolah, Kader "The House of the Mosque" (Het huis van de moskee) @BC 09/10
Ackerman, Diane "The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story" (non-fiction)
Adiga, Aravind "The White Tiger" (Booker Prize 2008)
Akpan, Uwem "Say You're One Of Them" (short stories)
Al Khamissi, Khaled "Taxi" (Taxi. Hawadith al-mashawir) (short stories)
Barbery, Muriel "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" (L'Élégance du hérisson)
Berkeljon, Sara & Wansink, Hans "De orkaan Ayaan" (not available in English) ~~
Brontë, Anne "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" (classic) ***
Brontë, Charlotte "Jane Eyre" (classic) @BC 01/12
Brontë, Emily "Wuthering Heights" (classic) ***
Brontë, Anne "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" (classic) ***
Brontë, Charlotte "Jane Eyre" (classic) @BC 01/12
Brontë, Emily "Wuthering Heights" (classic) ***
Bryson, Bill - Travel books: "The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America", "Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe", "Notes from a Small Island" (Britain), "A Walk in the Woods" (US edition: "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail"), "Notes From a Big Country", "Down Under" (US edition: "In a Sunburned Country"), "African Diary" - Books about Language: "Mother Tongue", "Made in America", "Troublesome Words" and his latest books: "A Short History of Nearly Everything" (non-fiction, science), "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" (memoir), "Shakespeare: The World as a Stage" (biography), "Bill Bryson's Dictionary: For Writers and Editors" (I read quite a few of these and intend to read all of them.) *** ~~
Chabon, Michael "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" ***
Chang, Iris "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II" (non-fiction)
Coetzee, J.M. "Disgrace" (Nobel Prize 2003, Booker Prize 1999) ***
Coetzee, J.M. "Disgrace" (Nobel Prize 2003, Booker Prize 1999) ***
de Loo, Tessa "A bed in heaven" (Een bed in de hemel)
Diamant, Anita "The Red Tent"
Dirie, Waris "Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad" (non-fiction) ***
Dirie, Waris "Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad" (non-fiction) ***
Dunn, Katherine "Geek Love" ~~
Evans, Eli N. "The Provincials" (personal history) ~~
Evans, Karin "The Lost Daughters of China: Adopted Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past" ~~
Falcones, Ildefonso "Cathedral of the Sea" (La catedral del mar) @BC 08/10
Falcones, Ildefonso "Cathedral of the Sea" (La catedral del mar) @BC 08/10
Fitzgerald, Laura "Veil of Roses"
Gies, Miep "Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family" (Herinneringen aan Anne Frank. Het verhaal van Miep Gies, de steun en toeverlaat van de familie Frank in het Achterhuis) (non-fiction)
Gibb, Camilla "Sweetness in the Belly"
Griffin, John Howard "Black like me" (non-fiction) @BC 12/09
Griffin, John Howard "Black like me" (non-fiction) @BC 12/09
Hamsun, Knut "Growth of the Soil" (Markens Grøde 1) (modern classic) (Nobel Prize 1920)
- "Hunger" (Sult) (modern classic) (Nobel Prize 1920)
- "Mysteries" (Mysterier) (modern classic) (Nobel Prize 1920)
"Pan" (Pan) (modern classic) (Nobel Prize 1920) @BC 03/11
"Pan" (Pan) (modern classic) (Nobel Prize 1920) @BC 03/11
- "Victoria" (Victoria. En kjærlighedshistorie) (modern classic) (Nobel Prize 1920)
Hessler, Peter "River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze" (non-fiction)
Hill, Lawrence "The Book of Negros" (historical fiction)
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan "Infidel: My Life" (Mijn Vrijheid) (autobiography) @BC 03/08
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan "Infidel: My Life" (Mijn Vrijheid) (autobiography) @BC 03/08
Horan, Nancy "Loving Frank"
Hosseini, Khaled "A Thousand Splendid Suns" @BC 06/11
Hosseini, Khaled "A Thousand Splendid Suns" @BC 06/11
Hunt, Janin "Netherlands: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! Guides)" (non-fiction)
Ilibagiza, Immaculéee "Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Holocaust" (non-fiction) ***
Lamb, Wally "The Hour I First Believed" @BC 01/10
LeGuin, Ursula K. "The Left Hand of Darkness" (science fiction)
- "Those who walk away from Omelas" ~~
Loe, Erlend "Naiv. super" (Naïve, Super)
Maguire, Gregory "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West"
Mantel, Hilary "Wolf Hall" (Booker Prize 2009)
Martel, Yann "The Life of Pi" (Booker Prize 2002)
McClure, Tori Murden "A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean/A Woman's Solo Odyssey" (memoir/autobiography)
Mercier, Pascal "Night Train to Lisbon" (Nachtzug nach Lissabon) @BC 03/09
Moore, Christopher "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" @BC 02/10
Mulisch, Harry "Siegfried" (Siegfried) (alternate history)
Patchett, Ann "Bel Canto"
Picoult, Jodi "Nineteen Minutes"
Rand, Ayn "Atlas Shrugged"
Rhue, Morton (Todd Strasser) "The Wave" (fictionalized account) *** ~~
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos "The Angel's Game" (El juego del ángel) ***
Rush, Christopher "Will" ("auto"biography on William Shakespeare)
Russo, Richard "Bridge of Sighs"
Sasson, Jean "Desert Royal"
Shaffer, Mary Ann & Barrows, Annie "The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society" @BC 10/10
Sharpe, Norean R. "Living with the Dutch" (non-fiction)
Shkilnyk, Anestasia "A poison stronger than love" ~~
Shreve, Anita "Light on Snow"
Sinclair, Upton "The Jungle" ~~
Strout, Elizabeth "Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories" (Pulitzer Prize 2008)
Toews, Miriam "The Flying Troutmans"
Trojanov, Ilija "The Collector of Worlds" (Der Weltensammler) @BC 04/10
Troost, J Maarten "Sex Lives of Cannibals - Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific"
Tuchman, Barbara W. "A Distant Mirror" (modern classic, historical fiction)
van de Krol "Native English for Nederlanders" (non-fiction) ~~
Vossestein, Jacob "Dealing with the Dutch" (non-fiction) ***
Walker, Alice "The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart" (collection of stories) ~~
Wallraff, Günter (undercover journalism) ~~
Walls, Jeannette "The Glass Castle" (non-fiction, memoir) ***
Wassmo, Herbjørg "Dina's book" (Dina's bok)
White, Colin & Boucke, Laurie "The UnDutchables: An Observation of the Netherlands, Its Culture and Its Inhabitants" (non-fiction) @BC 11/05
Wisner, Franz "How the World Makes Love: And What It Taught a Jilted Groom" @BC 06/10
Woolf, Virginia "To the Lighthouse" @BC 05/10
Wroblewski, David "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle"
Movies:
"Ghosts of Rwanda"
"Bride & Prejudice", (a modern "Pride & Prejudice")
Books Suggested During the Year 2008/09
Abdolah, Kader "The House of the Mosque" (Het huis van de moskee) @BC 09/10
Albom, Mitch "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" @BC 12/08
Arnold, Gaynor "Girl in a Blue Dress" @BC 04/09
Austen, Jane "Pride & Prejudice" (classic) ***
Berg, Elizabeth "Talk Before Sleep"
Boyne, John "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" @BC 06/09
Anne "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" (classic) ***
Buck, Pearl S. "The Good Earth" - 1931 (modern classic) (Nobel Prize 1938, Pulitzer Prize 1932) @BC 11/09
Capella, Anthony "The Wedding Officer"
Ilibagiza, Immaculéee "Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Holocaust" (non-fiction) ***
LeGuin, Ursula K. "The Left Hand of Darkness" (science fiction)
- "Those who walk away from Omelas" ~~
Loe, Erlend "Naiv. super" (Naïve, Super)
Maguire, Gregory "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West"
Mantel, Hilary "Wolf Hall" (Booker Prize 2009)
Martel, Yann "The Life of Pi" (Booker Prize 2002)
McClure, Tori Murden "A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean/A Woman's Solo Odyssey" (memoir/autobiography)
Mulisch, Harry "Siegfried" (Siegfried) (alternate history)
Patchett, Ann "Bel Canto"
Picoult, Jodi "Nineteen Minutes"
Rand, Ayn "Atlas Shrugged"
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos
Rush, Christopher "Will" ("auto"biography on William Shakespeare)
Russo, Richard "Bridge of Sighs"
Sasson, Jean "Desert Royal"
Sharpe, Norean R. "Living with the Dutch" (non-fiction)
Shkilnyk, Anestasia "A poison stronger than love" ~~
Shreve, Anita "Light on Snow"
Sinclair, Upton "The Jungle" ~~
Strout, Elizabeth "Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories" (Pulitzer Prize 2008)
Troost, J Maarten "Sex Lives of Cannibals - Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific"
Tuchman, Barbara W. "A Distant Mirror" (modern classic, historical fiction)
van de Krol "Native English for Nederlanders" (non-fiction) ~~
Wallraff, Günter (undercover journalism) ~~
Wassmo, Herbjørg "Dina's book" (Dina's bok)
Movies:
"Ghosts of Rwanda"
"Bride & Prejudice", (a modern "Pride & Prejudice")
Books Suggested During the Year 2008/09
Austen, Jane "Pride & Prejudice" (classic) ***
Berg, Elizabeth "Talk Before Sleep"
Capella, Anthony "The Wedding Officer"
Chambers, Aidan "Postcards from No Man's Land" ~~
Cooper, James Fenimore "The Last of the Mohicans" (classic)
Crile, George "Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times" (non-fiction)
Crowther, Yasmin "The Saffron Kitchen" (La Cocina Del Azafran)
Davis, Kenneth C. "Don't Know Much About History" (non-fiction) ~~
* 101 avenue Henri-Martin or "Lea" (
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Delderfield, R.F. "A Horseman Riding By: Long Summer Day" Vol. 1 ~~
- "A Horseman Riding By: Post of Honour" Vol. 2 ~~
- "A Horseman Riding By: The Green Gauntlet" Vol. 3 ~~
Esquivel, Laura "Like Water for Chocolate" (Como agua para chocolate) ~~
Fforde, Katie "Going Dutch"
Friedman, Carl "The Shovel and the Loom" (Twee koffers vol)
Frost, Robert "The Road less traveled" ~~
Gladwell, Malcom "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" (non-fiction) ***
Gregory, Philippa "The Other Boleyn Girl"
Hahn Beer, Edith "The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust" (autobiography) ~~
Harris, Trudy "Glimpses of Heaven: True Stories of Hope and Peace at the End of Life's Journey" (non-fiction) ~~
Itani, Frances "Deafening"
- "Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster" (non-fiction)
Lewis, Robert "Raising a Modern Day Knight: A Father's Role in Guiding His Son to Authentic Manhood" (non-fiction) ~~
Lourie, Richard "A Hatred for Tulips"
Lubin, Albert J. "Stranger on the Earth: A Psychological Biography of Vincent Van Gogh" (non-fiction)
Mann, Charles C. "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" (non-fiction) ~~
Martel, Yann "Life of Pi"
McCaughrean, Geraldine "Peter Pan in Scarlet"
Meulenbelt, Anja (Dutch books only) ~~
Michener, James A. "The Covenant" ~~
Miller, Sue "While I was gone"
Mortenson Greg and Relin, David Oliver; Thomson, Sarah (Adapter) "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time" (non-fiction for 8-13 year-olds) ~~
Mortenson, Greg and Roth, Susan L. "Listen to the Wind" (non-fiction for children) ~~
Mosse, Kate "Sepulchre"
- "Nineteen Minutes"
- "Plain Truth" ~~
Scrivener, Leslie "Terry Fox: His Story" (biography)
Sebold, Alice "The Lovely Bones"
Shorto, Russell "The Island at the Centre of the World: The Untold Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Founding of New York" (non-fiction)
Shute, Nevil "On the Beach"
Spragins, Ellyn "What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self" (non-fiction)
Stanley, Jerry "Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp" (non-fiction) ~~
Tremayne, Peter "Absolution by Murder" (Sister Fidelma Series: A Celtic Mystery)
Wilson, Budge "Before Green Gables"
Young, James E. "At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture" (non-fiction) ~~
Poems of Lord Byron
Books Suggested During the Year 2007/08
al-Baz, Rania "Disfigured: A Saudi Woman’s Story of Triump over Violence” (Défigurée) (memoir)
Beckman, Thea "Crusade in Jeans" (Kruistocht in spijkerbroek)
Bernlef, J. (penname for Hendrik Jan Marsman) "Out of Mind" (Hersenschimmen)
Brashares, Ann "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"
Cather, Willa "My Ántonia" (classic) @BC 10/08
Collins, Wilkie "The Woman in White" (classic) ***
Covey, Stephen R. "The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness" (non-fiction)
Desai, Kiran "The Inheritance of Loss" (Booker Prize 2006) ~~
Dumas, Alexandre "The Black Tulip" (La Tulipe Noire) (classic) ~~
Evanovich, Janet "One for the Money" (Stephanie Plum Novels)
Fischer, Erica "Aimée & Jaguar" (Aimée & Jaguar, Eine Liebesgeschichte, Berlin)
Frost, Robert "The Road less traveled"
Gibb, Camilla "Sweetness in the Belly"
Goodkind, Terry "Wizard’s First Rule"
Grafton, Sue "A is for Alibi" (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries)
Groult, Benoîte "La touche étoile" (not yet translated into English) (author of: Les vaisseaux du cœur, The salt on our skin)
Hamill, Pete "Snow in August"
Hardy, Thomas "Jude the Obscure"
Howell, Georgina "Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations" (biography)
Janin, Hunt & Van Eil, Ria "Culture Shock! Netherlands" (non-fiction)
Khan, Riz (HRH Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud) "AlWaleed: Businessman Billionaire Prince" (non-fiction) ~~
Kipling, Rudyard "Kim" (classic) (Nobel Prize 1907)
Kolodiejchuk, M.C., Fr. Brian "Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light" (non-fiction)
Krakauer, Jon "Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster" (non-fiction)
Leïla "Mariée de force" (non-fiction) ~~
- "The Pilgrim's Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity Reason and Romanticism"
Mann, Heinrich "Man of Straw," "The Patrioteer,"or "The Loyal Subject" (Der Untertan)
Mapes Dodge, Mary "Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates:a Story of Life in Holland"
Marsh, Ngaio (Dame Edith) – Mystery Novels ~~
* 1999 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
* 2000 Tears Of The Giraffe
* 2004 The Full Cupboard of Life
* 2004 In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (also known as The Night-Time Dancer)
* 2006 Blue Shoes and Happiness
* 2007 The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
* 2008 The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Menchú Tum, Rigoberta "Crossing Borders: An Autobiography"
Michener, James "Chesapeake"
- "Texas"
Mulisch, Harry "The Assault" (De Aanslag)
Picoult, Jodi "Vanishing Acts"
Reichs, Kathy "Déjà Dead"
- "Grave Secrets"
See, Lisa "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan"
Simmons, Simone "Diana--The Last Word" (non-fiction)
Toporov, Brandon and Buckles, Father Luke "The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Religions" (non-fiction)
Traver, Robert "Anatomy of a Murder"
Walker, Alice "The Color Purple" (Pulitzer Prize 1983) ~~
Wedekind, Frank "Spring Awakening" (Frühlingserwachen)
Werfel, Franz "The Song of Bernadette" (Das Lied von Bernadette) (non-fiction)
Movies:
Friendly Persuasion – movie with Gary Cooper and Anthony Perkins – 1956
Witness – movie with Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis (and Viggo Mortensen in one of his first roles) – 1985
Books Suggested During the Year 2006/07
Abdolah, Kader "My Father's Notebook" (Spijkerschrift)
- "A Woman's Journey Home" - Book 2 (non-fiction) ~~
- "Stretching Lessons. The Daring Starts from Within" - Book 3 (non-fiction) ~~
Grenville, Kate "The Idea of Perfection"
Helprin, Mark "Soldier of the Great War"
Hesse, Hermann "Demian" (Demian) (classic) (Nobel Prize 1946)
King, Steven "The Green Mile"
Mann, Thomas "Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family" (Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie) (classic) (Nobel Prize 1929) @BC 08/07
Marshall, Megan "The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Ignited American Romanticism" (biography)
Martell, Yann "Life of Pi"
Michener, James "Chesapeake" ~~
Nafisi, Azar "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books"
Ogawa, Yôko "Gift of Numbers" (Hakase no aishita sushiki)
Packer, Ann "The Dive from Clausen's Pier"
Power, Charles T. "In the Memory of the Forest" ***
Russo, Richard "Empire Falls" (Pulitzer Prize 2002)
Stone, Irving "Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo" @BC 08/08
Stroyar, J.N. "The Children's War" and
- "Young Johnnes" (Nuori Johannes)
- "The Adventurer" (Mikael Karvajalka)
- "Michael, the Finn" or "The Wanderer) (Mikael Hakim)
Zweig, Stefanie "Nowhere in Africa" (Nirgendwo in Afrika) @BC 04/08 @ BC 01/16
Books Suggested During the Year 2005/06
Alcott, Louisa May "Little Women" (classic) ***
Barth, John "The Floating Opera"
Didion, Joan "The Year of Magical Thinking"
Evans, Nicholas "The Horse Whisperer"
- "Inge and Mira"
- "Two Women" (Flyttfåglar)
Goodman, Carol "The Lake of Dead Languages"
Graves, Robert "I, Claudius"
Herman, Eleanor "Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge" (non-fiction) ~~
Hill, Susan "The Various Haunts of Men"
Larson, Erik "Isaac's Storm - The Drowning of Galveston" (non-fiction)
Lawhead, Stephen "The Iron Lance" (Celtic Crusades Series, Book 1)
Lawrence, D.H. "Woman in Love"
Maguire, Gregory "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister"
McCarthy, Mary "Group"
Naslund, Sena Jeter "Ahab's Wife: Or the Star Gazer"
Orwell, George "Down and Out in Paris and London"
Powers, Charles T. In the Memory of the Forest" ***
Sebold, Alice "Lovely Bones"
Shreve, Anita "Light on Snow"
Spark, Muriel "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
Süßkind, Patrick (Suskind) "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" (Das Parfüm)
Tartt, Donna "The Secret History"
Tindall, Blair "Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music" (memoir)
Wassmo, Herbjørg "Dina's Book" (Dinas Bok)
Waugh, Evelyn "Brideshead Revisited: Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder" (classic)
Books Suggested During the Year 2004/05
Adams, Douglas "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" ***
Bryson, Bill "Troublesome Words" (non-fiction) ***
Bussink, Gerrit "Bittersweet Pieces: A Collection of Dutch Short Stories"
Cooper, James Fenimore "Last of the Mohicans" (classic)
Gladwell, Malcolm "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" (non-fiction, sociology) *** ~~
Golden, Arthur "Memoirs of a Geisha" @BC 10/05
Herman, Eleanor "Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge" (non-fiction)
Henderson, Kristin "Driving by Moonlight: A Journey Through Love, War and Infertility" (non-fiction)
Hillenbrand, Laura "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" (non-fiction)
Horwood, William "Skallagrigg" (youth)
James, Etta + Ritz, David "Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story" (non-fiction)
Jin, Ha "Waiting"
Kingsolver, Barbara "Animal Dream"
Lamb, Christina "The Sewing Circles of Herat" (non-fiction) @BC 05/05
Lansens, Lori "Rush Home Road"
Lippi, Rosina "Homestead" ***
Liss, David "The Coffee Trader" (Book on NL)
Martel, Yann "Life of Pi"
* 1999 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
* 2002 Tears Of The Giraffe The Kalahari Typing School for Men
* 2004 The Full Cupboard of Life
* 2004 In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (also known as The Night-Time Dancer)
* 2006 Blue Shoes and Happiness
* 2007 The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
* 2008 The Miracle at Speedy Motors
McDermott, Alice "Charming Billy"
Mistry, Rohinton "Family Matters" (Booker Shortlist 2002)
Monk Kidd, Sue "The Mermaid Chair"
Munro, Alice "The Love of a Good Woman"
Nichols, Peter "Voyage for Madmen" (non-fiction) @BC 01/05
Oates, Joyce Carol "We Were the Mulvaneys" ***
O'Brien, Edna "Down by the River"
Redfield, James "The Celestine Prophecy"
Roberts, Yvonne "A History of Insects"
Stewart, Chris "Driving over Lemons" (biography) ***
Walker, Alice "The Color Purple" (Pulitzer Prize 1983) ***
Whiteford, Merry, McInerney-Whiteford, Merry "If Wishes were Horses?"
Books Suggested During the Year 2003/04
Ali, Monica, "Brick Lane: A Novel" (Booker Shortlist 2003) ***
Chevalier, Tracy "The Lady and the Unicorn"
Cullen, Bill "It's a long way from Penny Apples" (autobiography) @BC 09/04
Doyle, Laura "The Surrendered Wife" (non-fiction)
Eugenides, Jeffrey "Middlesex" (Pulitzer Prize 2003)
Fuller, Alexandra "Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier" (non-fiction)
Haddon, Mark "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time " @BC 05/08
Harley Jr., Willard F. "His Needs, Her Needs" (non-fiction)
Henderson, Kristin "Driving by Moonlight: A Journey Through Love, War and Infertility" (non-fiction)
Karon, Jan "At Home in Mitford" (first of the Mitford Series)
Landvik, Lorna "Welcome to The Great Mysterious" @BC 05/04
Lawson, Mary "Crow Lake" @BC 03/04
Leapman, Michael "The Ingenious Mr Fairchild: The Forgotten Father of the Flower Garden"" (non-fiction) @BC 01/04
MacDonald, Ann-Marie "The Way the Crow Flies" @BC 10/04
Mulisch, Harry "The Discovery of Heaven" @BC 02/04
Paton, Alan "Cry, the Beloved Country" (classic) ***
Ray, Jeanne "Eat Cake" ~~
Sherrer, Quinn "How to pray for your children" (non-fiction)
Sparks, Nicholas "A Walk to Remember"
- "The Notebook"
Truss, Lynne "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" (non-fiction) ***
Warren, Rick "The Purpose-Driven Life" (non-fiction)
Wharton, Edith "The House of Mirth" (classic) @BC 03/04
Wilkinson, Bruce "A Life God Rewards" (non-fiction)
Children's Books:
Colfer, Eoin "Artemis Fowl"
Cooper, Susan "Over Sea, Under Stone" (The Dark is Rising Sequence)
L'Engle, Madeleine "A Wrinkle in Time"
Hart Lovelace, Maud "Betsy series" (good book for girls)
Lewis, C.S. "The Screwtape Latters" (good book for girls)
- "Surprise" (good book for girls)
Pullman, Phillip "The Golden Compass"
Wynne-Jones, Diana (fantasy books like Harry Potter)
Books Suggested During the Year 2002/03
Berg, Elizabeth "Never Change"
-"Talk Before Sleep"
French, Nicci "Beneath the Skin"
- "Land of the Living"
Kertész, Imre "Fateless" (Sorstalanság) (biography) (Nobel Prize 2002) ***
Krasnow, Iris "The Surrendering to Motherhood: Losing Your Mind, Finding Your Soul" (non-fiction) @BC 01/03
Lanchester, John "The Debt to Pleasure" @BC 10/02
Lapierre, Dominique “City of Joy: An Epic of Love Heroism and Hope in the India of Mother Teresa” (La Cité de la Joie)
McEwan, Ian "Amsterdam” (Booker Prize 1998)
- "Enduring Love"
Parsons, Tony "Man and Boy"
Russo, Richard "Empire Falls" (Pulitzer Prize 2002)
Syal, Meera "Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee" @BC 12/03
Tademy, Lalita "Cane River" @BC 03/03
Tartt, Donna "The Little Friend"
- "The Secret History"
Books Suggested During the Year 2001/02
Craig, William "Enemy at the Gates"
Deford, Frank "The Other Adonis"
Dinesen, Isak/Blixen, Karen "Seven Gothic Tales"
Esquivel, Laura "Like Water for Chocolate"
Fellowes, Julian, Altman, Robert Altman "Gosford Park"
- "You went away"
Flagg, Fannie "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café"
Fyfield, Frances "Undercurrents"
Harris, Robert "Fatherland"
Harrod Eagles, Cynthia "The Morland Dynasty"
Howard, Elizabeth "The Light Years" (Vol 1: of the Cazalet Chronicle)
- "Marking Time" (Vol. 2 of the Cazalet Chronicle
- Confusion" (Vol. 3: of the Cazalet Chronicle)
Kennedy, John "A Confederacy of Dunces" (Pulitzer Prize 1981)
Letts, Billie "Where the Heart is" *** @BC 10/01
MacDonald, Ann-Marie "Fall on Your Knees" @BC 01/02
McCourt, Frank "Angela's Ashes" (autobiography) *** ~~
Milton, Giles "Nathaniel's Nutmeg" (non-fiction) @BC 09/01
Mistry, Rohinton "A Fine Balance" (Booker Shortlist 1996) @BC 06/02
Moggach, Debora "Tulip Fever" @BC 11/07
Naslund, Sena Jeter "Ahab's Wife"
Parsons, Tony "Man and Boy"
Pease, Allan and Barbara "Why Men Don't Listen & Women Can't Read Maps" (non-fiction) ***
Rubens, Bernice "I, Dreyfus"
Scott Chessman, Harriet "Lydia Cassat Reading The Morning Paper"
Smith, Scott "A Simple Plan"
Tan, Amy "The Bonesetter's Daughter"
Tartt, Donna "The Secret History"
Trollope, Joanna "Girl from the South"
Tyler, Anne "A Patchwork Planet" ***
Vreeland, Susan "Girl in Hyacinth Blue" @BC 12/01
Weber, Katherine "The Music Lesson"
Weiner, Jennifer "Good in Bed"
Woolfolk Cross, Donna "Pope Joan" @BC 04/02
Wright, Richard B. "Clara Callan"
Yen Mah, Adeline "Falling leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter" (non-fiction)
*** I read this.
@BC - We read this in the book club
~~ Added during the year, came up during discussion.
Some of them were suggested several times, I kept them all in, so some books are mentioned more than once.
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