Minneapolis Book Club: February 2025

Monday, February 17, 2025

Current Selection

The next selection will be The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jim will lead the discussion, in honor of the 100th anniversary of its publication. Here are some resources:

Wikipedia <link>
HCL <link>
Spark Notes <link>
NYT Critics Notebook <link>
Centenary celebration (STrib) <link>

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

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