Reading List

Novel Ideas Book Club’s selections 2020:

January 21, 2020: TIES by Domenico Starnone (Italy) AND AFTER THE DIVORCE by Grazia Deledda (Italy)
February 18, 2020: GHACHAR GHOCHAR by Vivek Shanbhag (India)
March 17, 2020: MOONBATH by Yanick Lahens (Haiti)
April 21, 2020: GINGERBREAD by Helen Oyeyemi (UK)
May 19, 2020: THE REMAINS OF THE DAY by Kazuo Ishiguro (UK)
June 16, 2020: HOMEGOING by Yaa Gyasi (USA/Ghana)

Novel Ideas Book Club’s selections 2019:

January 15, 2019: The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui [2018 (USA) VIETNAM/USA]
February 19, 2019: Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera [original pub Mexico 2009, trnsl Lisa Dillman, 2015 MEXICO]
March 19, 2019: The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes [original pub Mexico 1962, trnsl Alfred MacAdam, 2009 MEXICO]
April 16, 2019: Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada [original pub German 2014, trnslr Susan Bernofsky, 2016 GERMANY]
May 21, 2019: To This Day by S. Y. Agnon [original pub Hebrew 1951, trnsl Hillel Halkin, 2009 GERMANY HEBREW]
June 18, 2019: The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea by Pandi [original pub 2014, trnsl Deborah Smith, 2017 NORTH KOREA]
July 16, 2019: Night Prayers by Santiago Gamboa [2012, Spanish, trnsl Howard Curtis, 2016, COLOMBIA (THAILAND/INDIA) 320 pp]
August 20, 2019: Katalin Street by Magda Szabo [trnsl Len Rix, 2017 HUNGARY 248 pp]
September 17, 2019: The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers [2018 USA (YEMEN) 352 pp]
October 15, 2019: Moving the Palace by Charif Majdaldani [trnsl Edward Gauvin, 2017 LEBANON (SUDAN) 200 pp]
November 19, 2019: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson [2016 USA 368 pp]

Location

The Novel Ideas Book Club meets on the third Tuesday of the month at 11 am in the Purcell Meeting Room on the 3rd floor of the Peninsula Center Library.
701 Silver Spur Road, Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274

Contact

For inquiries about the club, please visit the events calendar or the reference desk at 310-377-9584 x601.

Previous titles:

December 16, 2014: THE MAID'S VERSION by DANIEL WOODRELL
January 20, 2015: THE HOUSE OF BREATH by WILLIAM GOYEN
February 17, 2015: THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE GRAPE by JOHN FANTE
March 17, 2015: ASTRAGAL by ALBERTINE SARRAZIN
April 21, 2015: THIS SIDE OF INNOCENCE by RASHID AL-DAIF
May 19, 2015: FROM THE MEMOIRS OF A NON-ENEMY COMBATANT by ALEX GILVARRY
June 16, 2015: ALL PASSION SPENT by VITA SACKVILLE-WEST
July 21, 2015: A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY by J.L. CARR
August 18, 2015: THE SUMMER BOOK by TOVE JANSSON
September 15, 2015: THE FISH CAN SING by HALLDOR LAXNESS
October 20, 2015: THE SLEEPWALKING LAND by MIA COUTO
November 17, 2015: GOD'S BITS OF WOOD by OUSMANE SEMBEN
December 1, 2015: No meeting
January 19, 2016: Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
February 16, 2016: Street of Thieves by Mathias Enard
March 15, 2016: Damascus Nights by Rafik Schami
April 19, 2016: Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andre Makine
May 17, 2016: Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
June 21, 2016: Honeymoon by Patrick Modiano
July 19, 2016: The 6:41 to Paris by Jean-Philippe Blondel
August 16, 2016: Gifts by Nuruddin Farah
September 20, 2016: Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart
October 18, 2016: Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra
November 15, 2016: Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
December 1, 2016: No meeting
January 1, 2017: Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric [Bosnia]
February 1, 2017: Chess Story by Stevan Zweig [Austria]
March 1, 2017: Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweer [Sri Lanka]
April 1, 2017: The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi by Elif Shafak [Turkey]
May 1, 2017: South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami [Japan]
June 1, 2017: Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima [Japan]
July 1, 2017: Nowhere in Africa by Stefanie Zweig [Kenya/Germany]
August 1, 2017: The Year of the Comet by Sergei Lebedev [USSR/Russia]
September 1, 2017: Saffron Dreams by Shaila Abdullah [Pakistani-American]
October 1, 2017: Ancient Tillage by Raduan Nassar [Brazil]
November 1, 2017: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett [USA/Brazil]
December 1, 2017: No meeting
January 1, 2018: The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh [US/India]
February 1, 2018: Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer [US/Mali]
March 1, 2018: Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou [Republic of Congo]
April 1, 2018: The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal [France]
May 1, 2018: The Lover by Marguerite Duras [Vietnam]
June 1, 2018: Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi [Mauritius]
July 1, 2018: The Piano Tuner by David Mason [Burma]
August 1, 2018: Not Out of Hate by Ma Ma Lay [Burma]
September 1, 2018: Suddenly, a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret [Israel]
September 1, 2018: Touch by Adania Shibli [Palestine]
October 1, 2018: Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden [Canada/First Nations]
November 1, 2018: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward [USA]
December 1, 2018: No meeting