What we’re about
CURRENT BOOK: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
THEN: The Grifters by Jim Thompson
THEN: Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim
THEN: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
THEN: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
THEN: Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
THEN: Crime & Punishment
THEN: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
THEN: Querelle by Jean Genet
In the future: Looking Backward, Woman on the Edge of Time, Blood and Guts in High School, Robert Musil, Böll, Theodore Dreiser, Paul Auster, Richard Price, Saul Bellow, I, Claudius, "Appointment in Samarra" by John O'Hara, Wings of the Dove, Tender is the Night, the Good Soldier. The Moviegoer. Horace McCoy. Houellebecq. Modiano. Simenon. (This is just a note of possibles, to remember.)
NOTE: We are full up right now, but if you are interested, please do click to join anyway. If/when someone drops, I will add your pending join request. Thank you!
The Normal Book Group is back! We will read about 100 pages a week, and meet every week. We don't like book groups that only meet one time at the end of the book; it's not enough time to fully discuss the book, and you never really get to know each other. It's much better to meet once a week as we work our way through each book.
The readings will emphasize mostly literature, occasionally contemporary literature. In the past we have read such books as:
In Cold Blood
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
The Echo Maker
The Death of Artemio Cruz
In One Person
Ragtime
Jude the Obscure
Bleeding Edge
The Voyage Out
The 42nd Parallel
Never Let Me Go
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Postman Always Rings Twice
My Ántonia
The Sense of an Ending
Jane Eyre
All Quiet on the Western Front
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Junky / Queer
Norwegian Wood
Nostromo
Black Narcissus
Beloved
Portnoy's Complaint
Of Human Bondage
The Man Who Loved Children
The Power and the Glory
The Tin Drum
Absalom Absalom (the book so nice they named it twice)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Nightwood
Blood Meridian
Master and Margarita
Slaughterhouse-Five
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Catch-22
The Sound and the Fury
Tropic of Cancer
The Sheltering Sky
Wise Blood
Wuthering Heights
The Age of Innocence
The Rainbow
East of Eden
Passage to India
Madame Bovary
If you like reading and discussing real books, please join us! There is only one rule: you are not allowed to get upset if someone disagrees with you.
