Literary Conversations Book Selections for Past Meetings

1995-1996 (Theme: Blind Allegience)
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Nightingale's Song by Tinberg
Richard II by Shakespeare
Poems by Whitman, Yeats, Seaney & Brooke
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

1996 (Theme: The Scapegoat)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonnus
Antigone
Love: Ten Poems by Pablo Neruda
Paul Robeson: a Biography by Duberman
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

1997 (Theme: Romantic Love)
Double Flame: Love and Eroticism by Octavio Paz
The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicholson
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare
Selected Sonnets
Othello
Lolita Vladimir by Nabokov

1997-1998 (Theme: Journey to the Inner Hero)
The Odyssey by Homer ( Fagles)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Light in August by William Faulkner
In her Own Right: Life of E.C. Stanton by Elizabeth Griffith
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
Ulysses by James Joyce

1998-1999 (Theme: Family: TheTies that Bind)
King Lear by Shakespeare
Persuasion by Jane Austen
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
Washington Square by Henry James
American Requiem by James Carroll
Time After Time by Molly Keane
Dreams of My Russian Summer by Andrei Makine
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Checkhov

1999-2000 (Theme: Works of Prophecy)
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Book of Jeremiah from the Old Testament
The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
Twelfth Night Shakespeare
Songs of Innocense and Experience by William Blake
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham

2000-2001 ( Theme: Boston)
The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
Selected Short Stories by Nathanial Hawhtorne
Growing up in Boston's Gilded Age by A.S. Blackwell
Looking for Rachel by Wallace R. Parker
The Living is Easy by D. West
All on Fire: W.L. Garrison & the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer
The Late George Apley by J.P. Marquand
The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

2001 (Theme: Money Matters: How Money Talks)
The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Native Son by Richard Wright
Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare
House of Rothschild by Niall Ferguson
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

2001-2002 (Theme: Global Perspectives: Struggles for Identity)
Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry
My Children, My Africa (1989) by Athol Fugard
The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
The Stranger by Albert Camus
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

2002 (Theme: Pairs)
Antigone by Sophocles
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
Book of Job Old Testament
J.B. by Archibald MacLeish
Beowolf by Seamus Heaney (Trans.)
Grendel by John Gardner
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Castaway by James Gould Cozzens

2002-2003
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
Man's Fate by Andre Malraux
The Locusts Have No King by Dawn Powell
Aspects of the Novel by E.M.Forster
Howard's End
The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Dr. Faustus by Thomas Mann
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
The Budding Grove

2003-2004
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life by Martha Nussbaum
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

2005-2006
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Regeneration by Pat Barker
The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoyevski
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kanantakis
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kirekegaard
History of the World in 10 1/2 Days by Julian Barnes
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

2006-2007
The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Leopard by G. di Lampedusa
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
Mimesis by Eric Auerback
The Iliad by Homer

2007-2008
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Birds by Aristophanes
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
Two Lives by William Trevor
Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
Faust by Goethe
The Kreutzer Sonata, How Much Land Does a Man Need & The Death of Ivan Illych by Leo Tolstly

2008-2009
Bleak House by Charles Dickins
Waiting by Ha Jin
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Miss Lonelyhearts/ Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Hopscotch by Julion Cortazar
The Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
The Egoist by George Meredith
An Artist of the Floating World  by Kazuo Ishiguru
The Golden Bowl  by Henry James
A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell
First Movement of Dance to the Music of Time:  A Buyer’s Market  by Anthony Powell
The Acceptance World by Anthony Powell

2009-2010

The Things They Carried   by Tim O'Brien 
Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer 
Persuasion by Jane Austen                     
Frankenstein  by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley  
Deep River by Shusako Endo                  
Will in the World by  Stephen Greenblatt  
Tender Is The Night  by F. Scott Fitzgerald   
The Maltese Falcon   by Dashiell Hammett  
Short Stories of Anton Chekov by Anton Chekhov
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John LeCarre 
Aeneid by Vergil

2010-2011

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy                                                                                                 
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov                                                               
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu                                                       
Good Bye To All That by Robert Graves                                                                              
Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde                                                                                                
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare                                                                                  
Orlando by Virginia Woolf                                                                                                    
The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar                                    
The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie                                         
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer