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