Complete
Reading List of the Moveable Feast Book Club
(X = did not read)
2005
January (X): Lolita, Vladimir Nabakov
February (X): Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
March (X): Life of Pi, Yann Martel
April (X): Ulysses, James Joyce
May: Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
June (X): The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
July: Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
August: The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (fiction) **Joined**
September: Possession, A. S. Byatt (fiction)
October: Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy and Truth & Beauty, Ann Patchett (biography/non-fiction)
November (X): Birds Without Wings, Louis de Bernieres
December: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time, Mark Haddon (fiction)
- August (shorter read, interesting subject)
- December (another short read, great insight
into Autism)
- October was a good combo about a woman with
jaw cancer who lives disfigured and in terrible pain. Not something that will
interest all readers though.
2006
January: Siddhartha, Herman Hesse (fiction)
February: My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult (fiction)
March: The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger (fiction)
April: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen and The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler (fiction)
May: Letters from the Earth, Mark Twain (non-fiction)
June: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall
Down, Anne Fadiman (non-fiction)
July: Difficult Loves, Italo Calvino (fiction, collection of stories)
August (X): Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (play)
September: The Known World, Edward P. Jones (fiction)
October: Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (non-fiction)
November: A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (fiction)
December: Night,
Elie Wiesel and Maus, Art Spiegelman (non-fiction/graphic novel)
RECOMMENDED
READING:
- March (good fiction book, takes a bit to get
into the story though)
- April (a classic)
- June (excellent non-fiction that gives a
unique view into the Hmong culture)
- December (two great books on the Holocaust)
2007
January (X): Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Jorge Amado
February: Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer and The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev (non-fiction)
March: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See (fiction)
April: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (fiction)
May: Zorro,
Isabelle Allende (fiction)
June: Immortality, Milan Kundera (fiction)
July: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Suskind (fiction)
August: Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (short stories, fiction)
September: The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant (fiction)
October: To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (fiction)
November: And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (non-fiction)
December: Stolen Lives, Malika Oufkir (autobiorgraphy)
RECOMMENDED
READING:
- February (both are good books about a tragic
Mount Everest expedition. Krakauer’s is more well-written; Boukreev has a better, more honest perspective as he was a
climber himself)
- May (a fun fiction book)
- August (beautifully written)
- December (not the most well-written book,
but the subject matter is interesting)
January: Bel Canto, Ann Patchett (fiction)
February: The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen (fiction)
March: Watership Down, Richard Adams (fiction)
April: The March, E. L. Doctorow (fiction)
May: The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie (fiction)
June: Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (memoir)
July: Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin and Ghost Singer, Anna Lee Walters (memoir/fiction)
August: Saturday, Ian McEwan (fiction)
September (X):
The
Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath,
H. P. Lovecraft plus a book of your choosing
October: Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali (autobiography)
November: Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather (fiction)
December: The Quiet American, Graham Greene (fiction)
RECOMMENDED
READING:
- March (a classic and an enjoyable read)
- July, Black Like Me (interesting historic
account of racism in America)
- October (highly recommended)
2009
January: Grimm’s Fairy Tales, the Brothers Grimm and Transformations, Anne Sexton
Snow White; Rumpelstiltskin; Rapunzel;
Cinderella; Red Riding Hood; Hansel and Gretel; Briar Rose
(Sleeping
Beauty) (fairy
tales, poetry)
February: The New Kings of Nonfiction, Edited by Ira Glass (non-fiction short stories)
March: Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks (fiction)
April: Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (fiction)
May: Agent ZigZag, Ben MacIntyre (non-fiction)
June: West with the Night, Beryl Markham (autobiography)
July: The Year of Fog, Michelle Richmond (fiction)
August: A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (fiction)
September:
Old Filth, Jane Gardam (fiction)
October:
Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez
(nature
essays)
November:
A Few Short Notes on Tropical
Butterflies, John Murray (short
stories)
December:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato
Peeling Society, Mary Ann Shaffer
RECOMMENDED
READING:
- May (fantastic account of a real-life double
agent)
- June (another amazing account, beautifully
written)
- August (tough subject, but good read)
- December (fun read)
2010
January: The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham (fiction)
February: The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (fiction)
March: Travesties, Tom Stoppard (play)
April: A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole (fiction)
May: Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald (classic fiction)
June: Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories, Elizabeth Strout (fiction)
July: Johnny Tremain, Esther
Forbes (children’s book)
August: Chocolat, Joanne
Harris (fiction)
September: Enemies of the People: My Family’s
Journey to America, Kati Marton (autobiography)
October: The Catcher in the Rye and Franny
and Zooey, J.D. Salinger (fiction)
November:
The Master Butchers Singing Club, Louise
Erdrich (paired with the play) (fiction)
December:
The Help, Kahtryn
Stockett (fiction)
RECOMMENDED
READING:
- August (fun read)
- September (amazing account)
2011
January: Little Bee, Chris
Cleave (fiction)
February: Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered
Marriage, Stephanie
Coontz (non-fiction)
March: Winter’s Bone, Daniel
Woodrell (fiction)
April: Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm
Gladwell (self-help)
May: Doctor Zhivago, Boris
Pasternak (classic fiction)
June: Cutting for Stone, Abraham
Verghese (fiction)
July: The Lacuna, Barbara
Kinsolver (fiction)
August: The Age of Innocence, Edith
Wharton (classic fiction)
September: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail
or Succeed, Jared
Diamond (non-fiction)
October: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, Simon
Winchester (non-fiction)
November
(X): The Portable American Realism Reader, James
Nagel (editor) (short story collection)
December:
Zeiton, Dave
Eggers (non-fiction)
RECOMMENDED
READING:
- February (incredibly interesting)
- June (terrific story, beautifully written)
- December (tough subject, but good read)
2012
January: A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr (fiction)
February: The City of Falling Angels, John
Berendt (non-fiction)
March: The Sun Also Rises, Ernest
Hemingway (classic fiction)
April: The Paris Wife, Paula
McLain (fiction)
May: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
(fiction)
June: Unbroken: A World War II Story of
Survival, Resilience and Redemption, Laura Hillenbrand (non-fiction/biography)
July: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom
Stoppard (play)
August: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle (classic fiction)
September: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca
Skloot (non-fiction; medical/ethics)
October: The Tiger’s Wife, Tea Obreht
(fiction)
November:
Mighty Be Our Powers, Leymah
Gbowee (autobiography)
December:
The Hunger Games (book 1), Suzanne
Collins (fiction)
RECOMMENDED
READING:
- April (fun, semi-true read)
- May (amazing account)
- September (interesting and thought
provoking)
- November (thought provoking)
2013
January: Little Women, Louisa May
Alcott (classic fiction)
February: March, Geraldine Brooks (fiction)
March: My Own Country, Abraham
Veghese (autobiography)
April: Silent Spring, Rachel
Carson (non-fiction)
May: The Color of Water, James
McBride (autobiography)
June: My Lobotomy, Howard
Dully (autobiography)
July: The Women, T.C. Boyle
(fiction)
August: Secret Daughter, Shilpi
Somaya Gowda (fiction)
September: Escape from Camp 14, Blaine
Harden (non-fiction)
October: What is the What, Dave
Eggers (non-fiction)
November:
Gone Girl, Gillian
Flynn (fiction)
December:
The Buddha in the Attic, Julie
Ostsuka (fiction)
RECOMMENDED
READING:
- January (a classic)
- June (interesting and thought provoking)
- October (thought provoking)
2014
January: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific
Crest Trail, Cheryl
Strayed (autobiography)
February: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Ben
Fountain (fiction)
March: Moloka’i, Alan
Brennert (fiction)
April: I am Malala, Malala
Yousafzai (autobiography)
May: The Rules of Inheritance, Claire
Bidwell Smith (memoir)
June: The Book Thief, Markus
Zusak (fiction)
July: Still Alice, Lisa
Genova (fiction)
August: Catch 22, Joseph
Heller (fiction)
September: The Duchess, Amanda
Foreman (fiction)
October: The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey
Eugenides (fiction)
November:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane
Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (fiction)
December:
The Group, Mary
McCarthy (fiction)
RECOMMENDED
READING:
- February (historical fiction, very
interesting)
- July (interesting and thought provoking)
2015
January: The Reason I Jump, Naomi Higashida (memoir)
February:
March:
April: Purge, Sofi Oksanen (fiction)
May:
June: The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, Jack El-Hai (non-fiction)
July:
August:
September:
October:
November: Jane Ayre, Charlotte Bronte (classic fiction)
December: Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell (fiction)
RECOMMENDED READING:
- February (fun fiction, interesting story on living with autism)
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