Past Reads
Here is a list of novels (mostly) that the Great Books group has read (so far!)
| Title/Author |
|---|
| Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee |
| The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho |
| All Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell |
| Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Another Country by James Baldwin |
| As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner |
| Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald |
| The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein |
| The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson |
| The Awakening by Kate Chopin |
| Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie |
| Beloved by Toni Morrison |
| Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel by Ben Fountain |
| Brooklyn by Colm Toibin |
| Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks |
| Call It Sleep by Henry Roth |
| A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif |
| Catch-22 by Joseph Heller |
| Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke |
| The Children Act by Ian McEwan |
| The Collector by John Fowles |
| The Crossing by Cormac Mccarthy |
| Crossing to Safety by Wallace Earle Stegner |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather |
| Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty |
| Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee |
| The Door by Magda Szabo |
| The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery |
| Emma by Jane Austen |
| Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy |
| A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway |
| Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver |
| Frankenstein by Mary Shelley |
| The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng |
| The Gathering by Anne Enright |
| The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles |
| Germinal by Emile Zola |
| The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy |
| The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman |
| The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker |
| The Good Lord Bird by James McBride |
| The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford |
| Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen |
| Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul |
| The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen |
| House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday |
| Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson |
| The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou |
| In America by Susan Sontag |
| Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison |
| Judas by Amos Oz |
| Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson |
| The Known World by Edward P. Jones |
| The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver |
| LaRose by Louise Erdrich |
| The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa |
| Less by Andrew Sean Greer |
| Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann |
| Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders |
| The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov |
| Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Loving Frank by Nancy Horan |
| Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis |
| Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert |
| The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett |
| March by Geraldine Brooks |
| The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov |
| Mister Monkey by Francine Prose |
| Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe |
| Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively |
| The Muralist by B. A. Shapiro |
| My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante |
| My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout |
| Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs |
| Native Son by Richard Wright |
| News of the World by Paulette Jiles |
| None to Accompany Me by Nadine Gordimer |
| Old New York by Edith Wharton |
| On Black Sisters Street by Chika Unigwe |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty |
| Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf |
| The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel by Adam Johnson |
| Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene |
| The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich |
| Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey |
| The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee |
| Plainsong by Kent Haruf |
| The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James |
| Preparation For The Next Life by Atticus Lish |
| The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli |
| The Red and the Black by Stendhal |
| Regeneration by Pat Barker |
| The Round House by Louise Erdrich |
| Scoop by Evelyn Waugh |
| The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes |
| A Shooting Star by Wallace Stegner |
| Silence by Shusaku Endo |
| Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward |
| Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut |
| Snow by Orhan Pamuk |
| The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima |
| Swamplandia! By Karen Russell |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston |
| There There by Tommy Orange |
| The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht |
| To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf |
| The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard |
| The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead |
| Utopia by Thomas More |
| A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan |
| Waiting by Ha Jin |
| Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple |
| Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys |
| Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel |
| A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua |
| The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon |
| Pachinko by Min Jin Lee |
| Mala's Cat by Mala Kacenberg |
| Deacon King Kong by James McBride |
| Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner |
| Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens |