The June selection was American Pastoral by Philip Roth, selected by Jim. If you would like to leave a comment about the book or about our discussion, please feel free. Here are some additional resources:
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Past Readings
| Title | Author | Month | Year | ||||
| Steppenwolf | Hermann Hesse | Oct | 2014 | ||||
| Call of the Wild | Jack London | Sep | 2014 | ||||
| Wicked | Gregory Maguire | Aug | 2014 | ||||
| Roundhouse | Louise Erdich | Jul | 2014 | ||||
| Tenth of December | George Saunders | Jun | 2014 | ||||
| Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | May | 2014 | ||||
| 1984 | George Orwell | Apr | 2014 | ||||
| The Imperfectionist | Tom Rachman | Feb | 2014 | ||||
| A Hologram for the King | Dave Eggers | Jan | 2014 | ||||
| Peace Like A River | Leif Enger | Dec | 2013 | ||||
| The Orphan Masters Son | Adam Johnson | Nov | 2013 | ||||
| Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | Oct | 2013 | ||||
| Tomcat in Love | Tim OBrien | Sep | 2013 | ||||
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | Aug | 2013 | ||||
| The Lotus Eaters | Tatijana Soli | Jul | 2013 | ||||
| A Place Where the Sea Remembers | Sandra Benitez | Jun | 2013 | ||||
| True Grit | Charles Portis | May | 2013 | ||||
| Bone by Bone | Peter Matthiessen | Apr | 2013 | ||||
| The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes | Mar | 2013 | ||||
| A Lesson Before Dying | Ernest Gaines | Feb | 2013 | ||||
| Away | Amy Bloom | Jan | 2013 | ||||
| The Patrick Melrose Novels | Edward St. Aubyn | Dec | 2012 | ||||
| Matterhorn | Karl Marlantes | Nov | 2012 | ||||
| Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese | Sep | 2012 | ||||
| Little Big Man | Thomas Berger | Aug | 2012 | ||||
| No Great Mischief | Alistair MacLeod | Jul | 2012 | ||||
| My Life in France | Julia Childs | Jun | 2012 | ||||
| Every Man Dies Alone | Hans Falla | Apr | 2012 | ||||
| Tinkers | Paul Harding | Apr | 2012 | ||||
| The House of Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Jan | 2012 | ||||
| It Cant Happen Here | Sinclair Lewis | Jan | 2012 | ||||
| Into Africa | Martin Bugard | Dec | 2011 | ||||
| Pnin | Vladimir Nabokov | Nov | 2011 | ||||
| I Dont Know How She Does It | Allison Pearson | Oct | 2011 | ||||
| Loving Frank | Nancy Horan | Sep | 2011 | ||||
| Spooner | Pete Dexter | Aug | 2011 | ||||
| The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | Jul | 2011 | ||||
| Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Straut | Jun | 2011 | ||||
| I Dont Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother | Allison Pearson | May | 2011 | ||||
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | Apr | 2011 | ||||
| The Woman In Jerusalem | A.B. Yehoshua | Mar | 2011 | ||||
| Soldiers Pay | William Faulkner | Feb | 2011 | ||||
| Homage to Catalonia | George Orwell | Jan | 2011 | ||||
| Homage to Catalonia | George Orwell | Dec | 2010 | ||||
| Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann | Oct | 2010 | ||||
| The Cellist of Sarajevo | Steven Galloway | Sep | 2010 | ||||
| The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Aug | 2010 | ||||
| Empire Falls | Richard Russo | Jul | 2010 | ||||
| The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon | Jun | 2010 | ||||
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court | Mark Twain | Apr | 2010 | ||||
| The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao | Junot DÌaz | Jan | 2010 | ||||
| 84 Charing Cross Road | Helene Hanff | Dec | 2009 | ||||
| The Art of Seeing | Cammie McGovern | Nov | 2009 | ||||
| Purple Hibiscus | Chimamanda Adichie | Oct | 2009 | ||||
| The Great Influenza | John Barry | Sep | 2009 | ||||
| Benjamin Franklin: An American Life | Walter Isaacson | Aug | 2009 | ||||
| Haroun and The Sea of Stories | Salman Rushde | Jul | 2009 | ||||
| Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world | Jack Weatherford | Jun | 2009 | ||||
| Love, again : a novel | Doris Lessing | May | 2009 | ||||
| The Second Coming | Percy Walker | Mar | 2009 | ||||
| The Gathering | Anne Enright | Feb | 2009 | ||||
| Germinal | Emile Zola | Jan | 2009 | ||||
| March | Geraldine Brooks | Dec | 2008 | ||||
| The Road | Cormac Mccarthy | Nov | 2008 | ||||
| ??? | Yvonne @ Baumann | Oct | 2008 | ||||
| Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power | Garry Wills | Sep | 2008 | ||||
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | Jul | 2008 | ||||
| Suite Francaise | Irene Nemirovsky | Jun | 2008 | ||||
| Stolen Lives | Malika Oufkir | May | 2008 | ||||
| The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde | Apr | 2008 | ||||
| Independence Day | Richard Ford | Mar | 2008 | ||||
| Bastard of Istanbul | Elif Shafak | Feb | 2008 | ||||
| Final Payment | Mary Gordon | Jan | 2008 | ||||
| The Final Solution | Michael Chabon | Dec | 2007 | ||||
| Killer Angels | Michael Shaara | Nov | 2007 | ||||
| The Painted Drum | Louise Erdich | Oct | 2007 | ||||
| Hard Times | Charles Dickens | Aug | 2007 | ||||
| Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | Jul | 2007 | ||||
| American Pastoral | Philip Roth | Jun | 2007 | ||||
| Legends of the Fall | Jim Harrison | May | 2007 | ||||
| The Unconsoled | Kazuo Ishiguro | Mar | 2007 | ||||
| The Sea | John Banville | Feb | 2007 | ||||
| Forever Ours | Janis Amatuzio | Dec | 2006 | ||||
| The Perfect Storm | Sebastian Junger | Oct | 2006 | ||||
| A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | Robert Olen Butler | Sep | 2006 | ||||
| On Liberty | John Stuart Mill | Jul | 2006 | ||||
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | Jun | 2006 | ||||
| The End of Faith | Sam Harris | May | 2006 | ||||
| Heir to the Glimmering World | Cynthia Ozick | Apr | 2006 | ||||
| The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton | Mar | 2006 | ||||
| The Teammates | David Halberstam | Feb | 2006 | ||||
| Atonement | Ian McEwan | Jan | 2006 | ||||
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | Dec | 2005 | ||||
| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Jared Diamond | Nov | 2005 | ||||
| Selected short stories | Edgar Allen Poe & O. Henry | Oct | 2005 | ||||
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | Sep | 2005 | ||||
| Henderson, the Rain King | Saul Bellow | Aug | 2005 | ||||
| Friend of My Youth | Alice Munro | Jul | 2005 | ||||
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | Jun | 2005 | ||||
| Beethoven's Hair | Russell Martin | May | 2005 | ||||
| The Riders | Tim Winton | Apr | 2005 | ||||
| Martin Dressler | Steven Millhauser | Mar | 2005 | ||||
| Disgrace | J.M. Goetzee | Feb | 2005 | ||||
| The Plague | Albert Camus | Jan | 2005 | ||||
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | Dec | 2004 | ||||
| Under the Tuscan Sun | Frances Mayes | Nov | 2004 | ||||
| Secret Life of Bees | Sue Kidd | Oct | 2004 | ||||
| We've Got to Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver | Aug | 2004 | ||||
| Five Quarters of the Orange | Joanne Harris | Jul | 2004 | ||||
| Mill on the Floss | George Eliot | Jun | 2004 | ||||
| Da Vinci Code | Donald Brown | May | 2004 | ||||
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac | Apr | 2004 | ||||
| Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | Mar | 2004 | ||||
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel | Feb | 2004 | ||||
| Sailing Around the World | Billy Collins | Jan | 2004 | ||||
| The Spartans | Paul Cartledge | Nov | 2003 | ||||
| Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | Oct | 2003 | ||||
| Three Junes | Julia Glass | Sep | 2003 | ||||
| What Went Wrong? | Bernard Lewis | Jul | 2003 | ||||
| Dreams of My Russian Summers | Andrei Makine | Jun | 2003 | ||||
| My Other Life | Paul Therous | Apr | 2003 | ||||
| Prodigal Summer | Barbara Kingsolver | Mar | 2003 | ||||
| Not Without Laughter | Langston Hughes | Feb | 2003 | ||||
| Balzac and the Little Chinese Mistress | Dai Sikie | Jan | 2003 | ||||
| The Voyage | Philip Caputo | Dec | 2002 | ||||
| What Proust Can Do To Save Your Life | Alain De Botton | Nov | 2002 | ||||
| Founding Brothers | Joseph Ellis | Sep | 2002 | ||||
| The Under-Painter | Jane Urquart | Aug | 2002 | ||||
| Rainlight | Alison McGhee | Jul | 2002 | ||||
| Passage to India | E.M. Forster | May | 2002 | ||||
| No Great Mischief | Alistair McLeod | Apr | 2002 | ||||
| My Son's Story | Nadine Gordimer | Mar | 2002 | ||||
| God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | Feb | 2002 | ||||
| A Rumor of War | Philip Caputo | Jan | 2002 | ||||
| Wheat That Springeth Green | J.F. Powers | Dec | 2001 | ||||
| The American | Henry James | Oct | 2001 | ||||
| The Hours | Michael Cunningham | Sep | 2001 | ||||
| Trial of Scorates | I.F. Stone | Jul | 2001 | ||||
| Poinsonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | Jun | 2001 | ||||
| Ninety Three | Victor Hugo | Apr | 2001 | ||||
| The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles | Mar | 2001 | ||||
| Psychic Warrior | David Morehouse | Feb | 2001 |