Makioka Sisters Book Club

Books We’ve Read

Makiokas Book List (1996-May 2012)

Alexie, Sherman. Flight

Ali, Monica. Brick Lane

Auster, Paul. Moon Palace

Auster, Paul. Travels in the Scriptorium

Atwood, Margaret. The Blind Assassin

Baldwin, James. Another Country

Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain

Barnes, Julian The Sense of an Ending

Barker, Pat. Regeneration

Bohjalian, Chris. The Buffalo Soldier

Bragg, Rick. All Over but the Shoutin’

Bronte, Charlotte. La Villette

Byatt, A.S. Little Black Book of Stories

Cather, Willa. Lost Lady

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening

Davies, Robertson. What’s Bred in the Bone

Deane, Seamus. Reading in the Dark

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations

Dillard, Annie.The Maytrees

Englander, Nathan. The Ministry of Special Cases

Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury

Faulks, Sebastian. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby

Franzan, Jonathan. The Corrections

Franzan, Jonathan. Freedom

Glass, Julia. Three Junes

Goethe, Ann. Midnight Lemonade

Gordimer, Nadine. The Pickup

Greene, Graham. The Quiet American

Grossman, Lev. The Magicians

Gruen, Sara. Water for Elephants

Guthrie, Woody. Bound for Glory: The Hard Driving, Truth-Telling Autobiography of America’s Great Poet-Folk Singer

Hanh, Thich Nhat. Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Haley, Alex. Autobiography of Malcolm X (as told to…)

Hardy, Thomas. Far From the Madding Crowd

Harr, Jonathan. A Civil Action

Haruf, Kent. Plainsong

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of Seven Gables

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter

Hegi, Ursula. Stones from the River

Hellenga, Robert. The Sixteen Pleasures

Hemingway, Ernest. Across the River and Into the Trees

Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast (original and restored editions)

Hoffman, Eva. Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

Horan, Nancy. Loving Frank

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World

Ishiguro, Kazuo. When We Were Orphans

Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go

James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady

Jin, Ha. Waiting

Kingsolver, Barbara. Poisonwood Bible

Knowles, John. A Separate Peace

Krauss, Nicole. The History of Love

Lamott, Anne. Blue Shoe

Lawrence, D.H. Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Gift From the Sea

Makine, Andrei. Dreams of My Russian Summers

Martel, Yann. Life of Pi

Mattison, Alice. The Book Borrower

McBride, James. The Color of Water

McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes

McCullers, Carson. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

McDermott, Alice. Child of My Heart

Messud, Claire. The Emperor’s Children

Michaels, Anne. Fugitive Pieces

Mitchell, Margaret, Gone With the Wind

Naipaul, V.S. Half a Life

O’Faolain, Nuala. Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of A Dublin Woman

Otsuka, Julie. When the Emperor Was Divine

Ozick, Cynthia. The Puttermesser Papers

Pamuk, Orhan. The Museum of Innocence

Patchett, Ann. Bel Canto

Picoult, Jodi. My Sister’s Keeper

Quindlen, Anna. Black and Blue

Robinson, Marilyn. Gilead

Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages

Roth, Philip. American Pastoral

Roth, Philip. The Human Stain

Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things

Ruiz Zafon, Carlos. The Shadow of the Wind

Safran Froer, Jonathan. Everything Is Illuminated

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye

Saramago, Jose. Baltasar and Blimunda

Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis

Schlink, Bernard. The Reader

Shields, Carol. Larry’s Party

Sijie, Dai. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Spiegelman, Art. Maus

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Strout, Elizabeth. Amy and Isabelle

Tanizaki, Junichiro. The Makioka Sisters

Thackeray, William. Vanity Fair

Tyler, Anne. The Amateur Marriage

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five: Or the Children’s Crusade, a Duty Dance with Death

Vreeland, Susan. The Passion of Artemisia

Walbert, Kate. Our Kind

Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited

Wells, Rebecca. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Welty, Eudora. The Optimist’s Daughter

Wharton, Edith. Custom of the Country

Wharton, Edith. House of Mirth

Wiesel, Elie. Night

Williams, John. Augustus

Winchester, Simon. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Oxford English Dictionary

Wolff, Tobias. Old School

Wolff, Tobias. This Boy’s Life: A Memoir

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