98 Books (More or Less)

I reviewed the list of all the books that my book club has discussed over the past 14 years. Including the book to be discussed this weekend, we are up to #98. Technically, we have read over 100 books because two of the discussions involved multiple books. Anyway, below is the list. It is a mixed bag of fiction, non-fiction, contemporary, classic, popular writers, obscure titles, etc. We tend to read books that have been around for at least a little while. I don't think we have any of the Oprah books on our list (not that there is anything wrong with that...)

Title - Author

A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest Gaines
The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf
Strange Pilgrims - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Dinosaur Man - Susan Baur
Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
American Tabloid - James Elroy
Long Day's Journey into Night - Eugene O'Neill
Blood Sport - James B. Stewart
Shards of Memory - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The Storyteller -Mario Vargas Llosa
Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
Naked - David Sedaris
A Scientific Romance - Ronald Wright
Winter Wheat - Mildred Walker
Hearts in Atlantis - Stephen King
Independent People - Haldor Laxness
The Fall - Albert Camus
Night Train - Martin Amis
The Seventh Son - Orson Scott Card
Foreigh Affairs - Allison Lurie
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe
The Adventures of Auggie March - Saul Bellow
Another Supposely Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
The Fixer - Bernard Malamud
Bullet Park - John Cheever
World's End - T.C. Boyle
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Red and the Green - Iris Murdoch
To the White Sea - James Dickey
American Pharaoh - Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor
Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Disgrace - James Coetzee
The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead
Emotional Coaching - Author's name and exact title lost in time
Being Dead - Jim Crace
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
Dancing After Hours - Andre Dubus
For the Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro
In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick
The Debt to Pleasure - John Lanchester

THE GENESIS CYCLE
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
The Counterlife - Philip Roth
Supertoys (stories)/Pinocchio - Brian Aldiss/Carlo Collodi
Genesis - God
Gilgamesh - Anonymous

Arabian Sands - Wilfred Thesiger
The Odyssey - Homer
Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
The Life of Pi - Jan Martell
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Diagnosis - Alan Lightman

THE VIETNAN WAR MINI-CYCLE
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
The Best and the Brightest - David Halberstam
Reflections of a Warrior - Miller/Kureth

THE BOOKS AND FILMS CYCLE
The Third Man - Graham Greene
The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
The Orchid Thief - Susan Orleans
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
The House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
Orpheus -Anonymous

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Herzog - Saul Bellow
The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
White Noise - Don Delillo
Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Unconditional Parenting - Alfie Cohn
Saturday - Ian McEwan
The March - E.L. Doctorow
The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
Chronicles: Part 1 - Bob Dylan
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Twilight of the Superheroes - Deborah Eisenberg
Brick Lane - Monica Ali
The Master - Colm Toibin
The Dark Night Returns/Ice Haven/Maus - Miller/Clowes/Spiegelman
What is the What - Dave Eggers
Yiddish Policeman's Detective Union - Michael Chabon
Later, At the Bar - Rebecca Barry
Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Out Stealling Horses - Per Petterson

THE RELIGION CYCLE
Settings of Siver - Stephen Wylen
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quarantine - Jim Crace
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Jefferson Bible - Thomas Jefferson

The Great Depression and the New Deal - Eric Rachway
The Beet Queen - Louise Erdich
Dangerous Laughter - Steven Millhauser
Einstein Walter - Isaacson
So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell
Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
What Narcissism Means to Me - Tony Hoagland