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living in Toronto means I've not been to that many bookclub meetings...
well, none really, in recent years. But I still keep up
with their reading, as well as toss out in
a few suggestions here and there. Here's what I've been reading these
past couple of years |
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2004
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2003
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2002
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2001
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Middlesex
- Jeffrey Eugenides
Great
Gatsby -F.Scott Fitzgerald
The
King is Dead - Jim Lewis
Crow
Lake - Mary Lawson
31
Songs - Nick Hornby
Elizabeth
Costello - JM Croetze
Sex,
Drugs and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman
A Gesture
Life - Chang-Rae Lee
The
Namesake -Jhumpa Lahiri
Prague
: A Novel - Arthur Phillips
The
No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
You
Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers
Drop
City - T. Coraghessan Boyle
Love
in Idleness - Amanda Criag
The
Rings of Saturn - WG
Sebald
Frankie
and Stankie - Barbara Trapido
Our
Man in Havana - Graham Greene
Carry
On, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
Plot
Against America - P Roth
Scandal
- Zoe Heller
Breathing
Lessons - Anne Tyler
The
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - H
Murakami
Norwegian
Wood - H Murakami
The
Pleasure of my Company - Steve Martin
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Book
of Illusions - Paul Auster
John
Henry Days - Colson Whitehead
The
Light of Day - Graham Swift
The
Hours - Michael Cunningham
Any
Human Heart - William Boyd
The
Natural - Joe Klein
Brick
Lane -Monica Ali
Up
in the Air - Walter Kirn
Family
Matters - Rohinton Mistry
Jimmy
Corrigan - Chris Ware
Lovely
Bones - Alice Sebold
Waxwings
- Jonathan Raban
Dead
Air - Iain Banks
Everything
is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Hey
Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland
Oryx
and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Booker
winner (dubious choice) Vernon
God Little - DBC Pierre
The
Songs of the Kings - Barry Unsworth
Still
Holding - Bruce Wagner
The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark
Haddon
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The
Plague -Albert
Camus
The
Corrections J Franzen
Half
a Life VS Naipaul
Spices
- Michael Frayn
The
Dying Animal - P Roth
dot.con
- john cassidy
True
history of the kelly gang- Peter Carey
Rotters
Club -Jonathan Coe
Austerlitz
- WG Sebald
Catcher
in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Oxygen
- Andrew Miller
Women
With Men - Richard Ford
A Moveable
Feast - Hemingway -
Unless
- Carol Shields
Youth
- J Coetzee
The
Outsider -Albert Camus
Old
man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway
Thank
you, Jeeves - Wodehouse -
Amazing
adventures of Kavalier & Clay - M Chambon
On
green dolphin st - S Faulkes
the
tipping point - Malcolm Gladwell
Life
of Pi - Yann Martel
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Blindness
- Jose Saramago
Experience
- Martin Amis
Human
Stain - Philip Ross
Heartbreaking
Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
Atomised
- Michel Houellelbecq
Thinks...
- David Lodge
Mr
Phillips - John Lancaster
To
the Hermitage - Malcolm Bradbury
Sans
Moi - Marie Desplechi
Fast
Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
Interpreter
of maladies Jhumpa Lahid
The
Soloist - Mark Salzman
Power
Book - J Winterson
How
to be Good - N Hornby
No
Great Mischief - Alistair MacLeod
English
Passengers - Matthew Kneale
Man
and Boy - Tony Parsons
Girl
With Pearl Earing - T Chevalier
Kitchen
Confidential - A Boudouin
Sputnik
Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
Shopgirl
- Steve Martin
Wide
Segasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Devils
Larder - Jim Crace
Decline
and Fall - E Waugh
Atonement
- Ian McEwan
Me
talk pretty one day - D Sedaris
When
we were orpans - Kazio Ishiguru
Jim
the boy- Tony Earley
The
diagnosis - Alan Lightman
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Since
1993 or so, here are the 125+ books done by the Toronto Bookclub:
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Author |
Date |
Who Did It |
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| A Brief History of Time |
Hawking, Stephen |
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Howard |
| A Fine Balance |
Mistry, Rohinton |
1998, 01 |
Kim |
| A Lesson Before Dying |
Gaines, Ernest |
2001, 03 |
Howard |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany |
Irving, John |
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| A Question of Upbringing |
Powell, Anthony |
2000, 10 |
Avi |
| A Suitable Boy |
Seth, Vikram |
1996, 01/02 |
Andrew |
| A Very Long Engagement |
Japrisot, Sebastien |
1995, 04 |
Wendy |
| All the pretty Horses |
McCarthy, Cormac |
1998, 10 |
Mary |
| Andreas Game |
Card, Orson Scott |
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Heather |
| Barney's Version |
Richler, Mordecai |
1998, 06 |
Keith |
| Behind the Scenes at the Museum |
Atkinson, Kate |
1999, 04 |
Hasme |
| Bingo |
Brown, Rita Mae |
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Anne |
| Black Robe |
Moore, Brian |
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| Broken Ground |
Hodgins, Jack |
2000, 01 |
Kim |
| By Grand Central Station |
Smart, Elizabeth |
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| Cakes and Ales |
Maugham, Somerset |
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Wendy |
| Captain Corelli's Mandolin |
deBernieres, Louis |
1999, 01 |
Zora |
| Cat's Eye |
Atwood, Margaret |
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| Charlotte Gray |
Faulkes, Sebastian |
2000, 09 |
Mary |
| Children of My Heart |
Roy, Gabrielle |
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Mary |
| Chrysalids |
Wyndham, John |
1993, 02 |
Heather |
| Dreams of my Russian Summers |
Makine, Andrei |
1998, 11 |
Kim |
| East of Eden |
Steinbeck, John |
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| Elizabeth and After |
Cohen, Matt |
2001, 01 |
Wendy |
| Fall on Your Knees |
MacDonald, Ann Marie |
1996, 11 |
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| Famous Last Words |
Findley, Timothy |
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| Fathers and Sons |
Turgenev, Ivan |
1998, 02 |
Zora |
| First Quarter of the Moon |
Tremblay, Michel |
1995, 10 |
Greg |
| Foundation |
Asimov, Isaac |
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| Fugitive Pieces |
Michaels, Anne |
1997, 01 |
Kim |
| Funny Boy |
Selvadurai, Shyam |
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| Grace Notes |
MacLaverty, Bernard |
1999, 10 |
Wendy |
| Harry Potter & The Philosophers Stone |
Rowling, J.K. |
2000, 04 |
Sarah Jane |
| High Fidelity |
Hornby, Nick |
1997, 05 |
Diana |
| Holy the Firm |
Dillard, Annie |
1994, 11 |
Barbara |
| House of Mirth |
Wharton, Edity |
1997, 06 |
Daphne |
| Howards End |
Forster, E.M. |
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Wendy |
| In the Skin of a Lion |
Ondaatje, Michael |
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| Jasmine |
Mukherjee, Bharati |
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| Kitchen |
Yoshimoto, Banana |
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Greg |
| Last Orders |
Swift, Graham |
1997, 03 |
Wendy |
| Left Hand of Darkness |
LeGuin, Ursula K. |
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Wendy |
| Let the Dead Bury their Dead |
Kenan, Randall |
1993, 10 |
Anne |
| Lives of the Saints |
Ricci, Nino |
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Kim |
| Love in the Time of Cholera |
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia |
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| Love, Again |
Lessing, Doris |
1997, 04 |
Greg |
| Lyre of Orpheus |
Davies, Robertson |
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| Midnight Twilight Tourist Zone |
Riis, Sharon |
1995, 09 |
Zora |
| Money |
Amis, Martin |
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| Native Son |
Wright, Richard |
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Howard |
| Neuromancer |
Gibson, William |
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John |
| New York Trilogy |
Auster, Paul |
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| Nights Below Station Street |
Richards, David Adams |
1999, 05 |
Jamie |
| No Great Mischief |
MacLeod, Allistair |
2001, 04 |
Jamie |
| One Good Story, That One |
King, Thomas |
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John |
| Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit |
Winterson, Jeanette |
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| Orlando |
Woolf, Virginia |
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| Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha |
Doyle, Roddy |
1998, 04 |
Jamie |
| People You'd Trust Your Life To |
Wallace, Bronwin |
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| Presumed Innocent |
Thurow, Scott |
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| Pride and Prejudice |
Austin, Jane |
1994, 03 |
Diana |
| Regeneration |
Barker, Pat |
1997, 02 |
Zora |
| Revenge of the Land |
Siggins, Maggie |
1993, 05 |
Diana |
| Setting Free the Bears |
Irving, John |
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Kim |
| Sexing the Cherry |
Winterson, Jeanette |
1993, 09 |
Zora |
| Snow Falling on Cedars |
Guterson, David |
1996, 05 |
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| Song of Solomon |
Morrison, Toni |
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| Still Life With Woodpecker |
Robbins, Tom |
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Anne |
| Stone Diaries |
Shields, Carol |
1995, 05 |
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| Such a Long Journey |
Mistry, Rohinton |
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Kim |
| Talking it Over |
Barnes, Julian |
1993, 04 |
David |
| Temple of the Dawn |
Mishima, Yukio |
1995, 01 |
Rena |
| The Alienist |
Carr, Caleb |
1995, 07 |
David |
| The Biggest Modern Woman of the World |
Swan, Susan |
1994, 04 |
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| The Bird Artist |
Norman, Howard |
1996, 03 |
Wendy |
| The Black Dogs |
McEwan, Ian |
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David |
| The Catastrophist |
Bennett, Ronan |
2001, 02 |
Daphne |
| The Colony of Unrequited Dreams |
Johnson, Wayne |
2000, 06 |
Keith |
| The Colour Purple |
Walker, Alice |
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Kim |
| The Cure for Death by Lightening |
Andersen-Dargatz, Gail |
1997, 10 |
John |
| The Danger Tree |
MacFarlane, David |
1995, 03 |
Diana |
| The Divine Ryans |
Johnson, Wayne |
1998, 05 |
Diana |
| The English Patient |
Ondaatje, Michael |
1993, 06 |
Mary |
| The Englishman's Boy |
Vanderhaeghe, Guy |
1997, 09 |
David |
| The Garden of Eden |
Hemingway, Ernest |
1995, 02 |
Laima |
| The God of Small Things |
Roy, Arundhati |
1997, 11 |
Mary |
| The Ground Beneath Her Feet |
Rushdie, Salman |
1999, 09 |
Daphne |
| The Hours |
Cunningham, Michael |
2000, 02 |
David |
| The Life and Times of Michael K |
Coetzee, J. M. |
1999, 11 |
Avi |
| The Love of a Good Woman |
Munro, Alice |
1999, 03 |
Howard |
| The Lover |
Duras, Marguerite |
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| The Luck of Ginger Coffey |
Moore, Brian |
1999, 06 |
Diana |
| The Missing Child |
Birdsell, Sandra |
1994, 01 |
Kim |
| The Radiant Way |
Drabble, Margaret |
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Greg |
| The Reader |
Schlink, Bernhard |
1999, 02 |
David |
| The Remains of the Day |
Ishiguro, Kazuo |
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| The Shipping News |
Proulx, Annie |
1994, 07 |
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| The Sound and the Fury |
Faulkner, Wm |
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Howard |
| The Tooth Fairy |
Joyce, Graham |
2000, 05 |
Hasme |
| The Way of a Boy |
Hillen, Ernest |
1996, 09 |
Mary |
| The Wedding |
Mahfouz, Naguib |
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| Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down |
Richards, David Adam |
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| To Kill a Mockingbird |
Lee, Harper |
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| Trent's Last Case |
Bentley, E. C. |
1995, 06 |
Heather |
| Underworld |
Delillo, Don |
1998, 09 |
Heather |
| What You Need |
Clark, Eliza |
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Mary |
| What's Bred in the Bone |
Davies, Robertson |
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| Where She Has Gone |
Ricci, Nino |
1998, 03 |
Wendy |
| You Just Don't Understand |
Tannen, Deborah |
1994, 09 |
Howard |
| Blindness |
Saramago, Jose |
2001, 10 |
Avi |
| The Quiet American |
Greene, Graham |
2002, 01 |
Daphne |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring |
Chevalier, Tracy |
2002, 02 |
Sarah Jane |
| True History of the Kelly Gang |
Carey, Peter |
2002, 03 |
Keith |
| The Poisonwood Bible |
Kingsolver, Barbara |
2001, 11 |
Mary |
| White Teeth |
Smith, Zadie |
2001, 09 |
David |
| Clara Callan |
Wright, Richard |
2002, 06 |
Mary |
| Atonement |
McEwen, Ian |
2002, 07 |
Heather |
| The Corrections |
Franzen, Jonathan |
2002, 09 |
Jamie |
| Bel Canto |
Patchet, Ann |
2002, 10 |
Avi |
| Austerlitz |
Sebald, W.G. |
2002, 11 |
Wendy |
| Life of Pi |
Martel, Yann |
2003, 01 |
Kim |
| Eva Moves the Furniture |
Livesy, Margot |
2003, 02 |
David |
| The Riders |
WInton, Tim |
2003, 03 |
Daphne |
| A History of the World in 10 and a Half Chapters |
Barnes, Julian |
2003, 04 |
Howard |
| The Secret Agent |
Conrad, Joseph |
2003, 06 |
Jamie |
| Empire Falls |
Russo, Richard |
2003, 05 |
Diana |
| A Good House |
Burnard, Bonnie |
2002, 05 |
Diana |
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