Past Years Monday

Monday - Modern Literature Read in Past Years

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Dear America	Jose Antonio	Vargas	23/24
Five Little Indians	Michelle	Good	23/24
Horse	Geraldine	Brooks	23/24
Lucy by the Sea	Elizabeth	Strout	23/24
Oh, William!	Elizabeth	Strout	23/24
Strange Flowers	Donal	Ryan	23/24
The Diamond Eye	Katie	Quinn	23/24
The Dictionary of Lost Words	Pip	Williams	23/24
The Japanese Lover	Isabel	Allende	23/24
The Night Watchman	Louise	Erdrich	23/24
American Dirt	Jeanine	Cummins	22/23
Circe	Madeline	Miller	22/23
Hold Still	Sally	Mann	22/23
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	Harriet	Jacobs	22/23
Klara and The Sun	Kazuo	Ishiguro	22/23
Lessons in Chemistry	Bonnie	Garmus	22/23
The Lincoln Highway	Amor	Towles	22/23
The Rose Code	Kate	Quinn	22/23
Varina	Charles	Frazier	22/23
Deacon King Kong	James	McBride	21/22
East of Eden	John	Steinbeck	21/22
Freckled	T W	Neal	21/22
Hamnet	Maggie	O'Farrell	21/22
Monuments Men	Robert	Edsel	21/22
Sold on a Monday	Kristina	McMorris	21/22
Switcheroo	Aaron	Elkins	21/22
The Bookwoman of Troublesome	Kim Michele	Richardson	21/22
The Hate U Give	Angie	Thomas	21/22
The Warmth of Other Suns	Isabel	Wilkerson	21/22
A Woman Is No Man	Etaf	Rum	20/21
By Its Cover	Donna	Leon	20/21
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine	Gail	Honeyman	20/21
Embers	Sandor	Marai	20/21
Inland	Tea	Obreht	20/21
Island of Sea Women, The	Lisa	See	20/21
Little Scarlet	Walter	Mosley	20/21
Lying Game, The	Ruth	Ware	20/21
Neither Wolf Nor Dog	Kent	Nerburn	20/21
Alice Network, The	Kate	Quinn	19/20
Beloved	Toni	Morrison	19/20
Born a Crime	Trevor	North	19/20
Botany of Desire, The	Michael	Pollan	19/20
City of Thieves	David	Benioff	19/20
Kindred	Octavia	Butler	19/20
Lying Game, The	Ruth	Ware	19/20
Snow Child, The	Eowyn	Ivey	19/20
Soul of an Octopus, The	Sy	Montgomery	19/20
Best We Could Do, The	Thi	Bui	18/19
Displaced, The	Viet Thanh	Nguyen	18/19
Gentleman in Moscow, A	Amor	Towles	18/19
Homegoing	Yaa	Gyasi	18/19
I Will always Write Back	Martin, Caitlin	Ganda, Alifirenka	18/19
Invention of Wings, The	Sue Monk	Kidd	18/19
Rebecca	Daphne	Du Maurier	18/19
Sacre Bleu	Christopher	Moore	18/19
This Is How It Always Is	Laurie	Frankel	18/19
To the Bright Edge of the World	Eowyn	Ivey	18/19
Children of the Stone	Sandy	Tolan	17/18
Commonwealth	Ann	Patchett	17/18
Etta and Otto and Russell and James	Emma	Hooper	17/18
Man Called Ove, A	Fredrik	Backman	17/18
News of the World	Paulette	Jiles	17/18
Nutshell	Ian	McEwan	17/18
Tea Time For the Traditionally Built	Alexander	McCall Smith	17/18
Thunderstruck	Erik	Larson	17/18
Year of Wonder	Geraldine	Brooks	17/18
Americanah	Chimamanda Ngozi	Adichie	16/17
Aviator's Wife, The	Melanie	Benjamin	16/17
Behind the Beautiful Forevers	Katherine	Boo	16/17
Buddha in the Attic, The	Julie	Otsuka	16/17
Imperfect Birds	Anne	Lamont	16/17
Nightingale, The	Kristin	Hannah	16/17
Spymistress: A Novel	Jennifer	Chiaverini	16/17
Thin Man, The	Dashiell	Hammett	16/17
West With the Night	Beryl	Markham	16/17-89/90
When Breath Becomes Air	Paul	Kalanithi	16/17
All the Light We Cannot See	Anthony	Doerr	15/16
Autobiography of a Face	Lucy	Grealy	15/16
Case Histories	Kate	Atkinson	15/16
Hanna Eisfelder Grunwald	Reinhard	Otto	15/16
Marjorie Morningstar	Hermann	Wouk	15/16
One Summer America, 1927	Bill	Bryson	15/16
Orphan Train	Christina	Kline	15/16
Truth and Beauty	Ann	Patchett	15/16
White, The	Deborah	Larsen	15/16
Accordion Crimes	Annie	Proulx	14/15
Cellist of Sarajevo, The	Steven	Galloway	14/15
Gulp	Mary	Roach	14/15
La Brava	Elmore	Leonard	14/15
Light Between Oceans, The	M.L.	Stedman	14/15
Me Before You	Jojo	Moyes	14/15
Painted Girls, The	Cathy Marie	Buchanan	14/15
Stream, The	A.R.	Silverberry	14/15
Tiger's Wife, The	Tea	Obreht	14/15
Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips	Michael	Morpurgo	13/14
Bridge of San Luis Rey, The	Thornton	Wilder	13/14
In Cold Blood	Truman	Capote	13/14
Map of Love, The	Ahdaf	Soueif	13/14
March	Geraldine	Brooks	13/14
Mission to Paris	Alan	Furst	13/14
Oh My Stars: A Novel	Lorna	Landvik	13/14
Thousand Splendid Suns, A	Khaled	Hosseini	13/14
War Horse	Michael	Morpurgo	13/14
Wonder Boys: A Novel	Michael	Chabon	13/14
Art of Racing in the Rain, The	Garth	Stein	12/13
Book of Salt, The	Monique	Truong	12/13
Night Circus, The	Erin	Morgenstern	12/13
No One is Here Except All of Us	Ramona	Ausubel	12/13
Pride and Prejudice	Jane	Austin	12/13
State of Wonder	Ann	Patchett	12/13
Too Much Happiness	Alice	Munro	12/13
Walk in the Woods, A	Bill	Bryson	12/13
White Teeth	Zadie	Smith	12/13
Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, The	Junot	Diaz	11/12
Crossing to Safety	Wallace	Stegner	11/12
Female Brain, The	Louann	Brizendine	11/12
Help, The	Kathryn	Stockett	11/12
Historian, The	Elizabeth	Kostova	11/12
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The	Rebecca	Skloot	11/12
Little Bee	Chris	Cleave	11/12
Northern Light, A	Jennifer	Donnelly	11/12
Portrait of a Lady, The	Henry	James	11/12
Cutting For Stone	Abraham	Verghese	10/11
Dreamers of the Day	Mary Doria	Russell	10/11
Five Quarters of the Orange	Joanne	Harris	10/11
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The	Steig	Larsson	10/11
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet	Jamie	Ford	10/11
Lacuna, The	Barbara	Kingsolver	10/11
Never Let Me Go	Kazuo	Ishiguro	10/11
Olive Kitteridge	Elizabeth	Stout	10/11
Tortilla Curtain, The	T.C.	Boyle	10/11
Beautiful Boy	David	Sheff	09/10
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk	Linda Lawrence	Hunt	09/10
Book Thief, The	Markus	Zusak	09/10
Close Range: Wyoming Stories	Annie	Proulx	09/10
Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society, The	Mary Ann	Barrows	09/10
Omnivore’s Dilemma, The	Michael	Pollan	09/10
Run: A Novel	Ann	Patchett	09/10
Time Traveler’s Wife, The	Audrey	Niffenegger	09/10
To Kill A Mockingbird	Harper	Lee	09/10
Tweak	Nic	Sheff	09/10
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West	Gregory	Maguire	09/10
Donkey Baby	Sonia	Song	08/09
Double Bind, The	Chris	Bohjalian	08/09
Inheritance of Loss, The	Kiran	Desai	08/09
Loving Frank	Nancy	Horan	08/09
Night of Many Dreams	Gail	Tsukiyama	08/09
Scandalous Life, A	Mary	Lovell	08/09
Suite Francaise	Irene	Nemirovsky	08/09
Three Cups of Tea	Greg	Mortenson	08/09
Vilvaldi’s Virgins	Barbara	Quick	08/09
Birth of Venus, The	Sarah	Dunant	07/08
Down by the River	Edna	O'Brien	07/08
Eat, Pray, Love	Elizabeth	Gilbert	07/08
Fasting, Feasting	Anita	Desai	07/08
Glass Castle, The	Jeannette	Walls	07/08
Nine Parts of Desire	Geraldine	Brooks	07/08
Rise and Shine	Anna	Quindlen	07/08
Water for Elephants	Sara	Gruen	07/08
Zorro	Isabel	Allende	07/08
Ahab’s Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer; A Novel	Sena Jeter	Naslund	06/07
DaVinci Code, The	Dan	Brown	06/07
Devil in the White City, The	Erik	Larson	06/07
Disobedience: A Novel	Jane	Hamilton	06/07
Mermaid Chair, The	Sue Monk	Kidd	06/07
Middlesex; A Novel	Jeffrey	Eugenides	06/07
Moloka’I	Alan	Brennert	06/07
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood	Benjamin Alire	Saenz	06/07
Thread of Grace, A	Mary Doria	Russell	06/07
Beekeeper’s Apprentice, The	Laurie R.	King	05/06
Before You Know Kindness	Chris	Bohjalian	05/06
Confessions of Max Tivoli, The	Andrew Sean	Greer	05/06
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The	Mark	Haddon	05/06
Ice Queen, The	Alice	Hoffman	05/06
Known World, The	Edward P.	Jones	05/06
Reader, The	Bernhard	Schlink	05/06
Shadow of the Wind, The	Carlos Ruiz	Zafon	05/06
Snow	Orhan	Pamuk	05/06
Amsterdam	Ian	McEwan	04/05
Bel Canto	Ann	Patchett	04/05
Cantora: A Novel	Sylvia	Lopez-Medina	04/05
Cure for Death by Lightning, The	Gail	Anderson-Dargatz	04/05
Great Fire, The	Shirley	Hazzard	04/05
Kite Runner, The	Khaled	Hosseini	04/05
Lovely Bones, The	Alice	Sebold	04/05
Reading Lolita in Tehran	Azar	Nafisi	04/05
Tears of the Giraffe	Alexander	McCall Smith	04/05
Atonement	Ian	McEwan	03/04
Blind Assassin, The	Margaret	Atwood	03/04
Family Pictures: A Novel	Sue	Miller	03/04
Life of Pi	Yann	Martel	03/04
Passage	Connie	Willis	03/04
Piano Tuner, The	Daniel	Mason	03/04
Prodigal Summer: A Novel	Barbara	Kingsolver	03/04
Seabiscuit	Laura	Hillenbrand	03/04
Secret Life of Bees, The	Sue Monk	Kidd	03/04
Anil's Ghost	Michael	Ondaatje	02/03
Back When We Were Grownups	Anne	Tyler	02/03
Blackberry Wine: A Novel	Joanne	Harris	02/03
Daughter of the Forest	Juliet	Marillier	02/03
Egg and I, The	Betty	MacDonald	02/03
Empire Falls	Richard	Russo	02/03
Grapes of Wrath, The	John	Steinbeck	02/03
My Dream of You	Nuala	O'Faolain	02/03
Rose	Martin Cruz	Smith	02/03
Angle of Repose	Wallace	Stegner	01/02
Chocolat	Joanne	Harris	01/02
Corelli’s Mandolin	Louis	De Bernieres	01/02
Daughter of Fortune	Isabel	Allende	01/02
Galileo’s Daughter	Dava	Sobel	01/02
Into the Forest	Jean	Hegland	01/02
Midwives	Chris	Bohjalian	01/02
Sparrow, The	Mary Doria	Russell	01/02
Voyage of the Narwhal, The	Andrea	Barrett	01/02
Eucalyptus	Murray	Bail	00/01
Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, The	Melissa	Bank	00/01
Letters from Yellowstone	Diane	Smith	00/01
Object Lessons	Anna	Quindlen	00/01
Plainsong	Kent	Haruf	00/01
Poisonwood Bible, The	Barbara	Kingsolver	00/01
Sister of My Heart	Chitra Banerjee	Divakaruni	00/01
Vintner’s Luck, The	Elizabeth	Knox	00/01
White Oleander	Janet	Fitch	00/01

Behind the Scenes at the Museum	Kate	Atkinson	99/00
Contact	Carl	Sagan	99/00
Fall of a Sparrow, The	Robert	Hellenga	99/00
Gracious Plenty, A	Sheri	Reynolds	99/00
Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel Garcia	Marquez	99/00
Memoirs of a Geisha	Arthur	Golden	99/00
Paradise	Toni	Morrison	99/00
Short History of a Prince, The	Jane	Hamilton	99/00
Snow Falling on Cedars	David	Guterson	99/00
Cold Mountain	Charles	Frazier	98/99
Divine Secrets of the Ya -Ya Sisterhood	Rebecca	Wells	98/99
God of Small Things, The	Arundhati	Roy	98/99
In the Memory of the Forest	Charles	Powers	98/99
Prince of West End Avenue, The	Alan	Isler	98/99
Redemption	Leon	Uris	98/99
Samurai’s Garden, The	Gail	Tsukiyama	98/99
Sweetheart Season, The	Karen Jay	Fowler	98/99
Under the Tuscan Sun	Frances	Mayes	98/99
Babel Tower	A.S.	Byatt	97/98
Gone to Soldiers	Marge	Piercy	97/98
Original Sin	P.D.	James	97/98
Orlando	Virginia	Woolf	97/98
She’s Come Undone	Wally	Lamb	97/98
Stones From the River	Ursula	Hegi	97/98
Trinity	Leon	Uris	97/98, 85/86
Winter Wheat	Mildred	Walker	97/98
Emma	Jane	Austin	96/97
English Patient, The	Michael	Ondaatje	96/97
High Tide in Tucson	Barbara	Kingsolver	96/97
Horse Whisperer, The	Nicholas	Evans	96/97
Ladder of Years	Anne	Tyler	96/97
Living is Easy, The	Dorothy	West	96/97
Moo	Jane	Smiley	96/97
Wedding, The	Dorothy	West	96/97
Circle of Friends	Maeve	Binchy	95/96
Cry To Heaven	Anne	Rice	95/96
Day After Tomorrow , The	Alan	Folson	95/96
Leaving Cold Sassy	Olive Ann	Burns	95/96
Robber Bride, The	Margaret	Atwood	95/96
Skinny Legs and All	Tom	Robbins	95/96
Stone Diaries	Carol	Shields	95/96
Sudden Fearful Death, A	Anne	Perry	95/96
Time and Again	Jack	Finney	95/96
After All These Years	Susan	Isaacs	94/95
All the Pretty Horses	Cormac	McCarthy	94/95
Dangerous Mourning, A	Anne	Perry	94/95
Defend and Betray	Anne	Perry	94/95
Dubliners, The	James	Joyce	94/95
Interview with the Vampire	Anne	Rice	94/95
Mama Makes Up Her Mind	Bailey	White	94/95
Pigs in Heaven	Barbara	Kingsolver	94/95
Animal Dreams	Barbara	Kingsolver	93/94
Bastard Out of Carolina	Dorothy	Allison	93/94
Every Living Thing	James	Herriot	93/94
Face of a Stranger, The	Anne	Perry	93/94
Infinite Plan, The	Isabel	Allende	93/94
Jazz	Toni	Morrison	93/94
Kitchen	Banana	Yoshimoto	93/94
Like Water For Chocolate	Laura	Esquivel	93/94
Pelican Brief	John	Grisham	93/94
Thousand Acres, A	Jane	Smiley	93/94
Crown of Columbus, The	Michael Dorris and Louise	Erdrich	92/93
Ginger Tree	Oswald	Wynd	92/93
How to Make An American Quilt: A Novel	Whitney	Otto	92/93
Just Cause	John	Katzenbach	92/93
Kitchen God's Wife, The	Amy	Tan	92/93
Lady's Maid	Margaret	Forster	92/93
Middlemarch	George	Eliot	92/93
Possession	A.S.	Byatt	92/93
Time to Kill, A	John	Grisham	92/93
Turtle Moon	Alice	Hoffman	92/93
Cat's Eye	Margaret	Atwood	91/92
Education of Little Tree, The	Forest	Carter	91/92
Eva Luna	Isabel	Allende	91/92
Frankenstein	Mary	Shelley	91/92
Jane Eyre	Charlotte	Bronte	91/92
John Dollar	Marianne	Wiggins	91/92
Palace Walls	Naquid	Mahfouz	91/92
Wide Sargasso Sea	Jean	Rhys	91/92
Year In Provence, A	Peter	Mayle	91/92
Annie John	Jamaica	Kincaid	90/91
Bean Tree, The	Barbara	Kingsolver	90/91
Depths of Glory	Irving	Stone	90/91
Joy Luck Club	Amy	Tan	90/91
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	Alex	Gurganus	90/91
Sands of Time	Sidney	Sheldon	90/91
Shell Seekers, The	Rosamunde	Pilcher	90/91
Tripmaster Monkey	Maxine Hong	Kingston	90/91
Yellow Raft on Blue Water	Michael	Dorris	90/91
Accidental Tourist	Anne	Tyler	89/90
Cardinal in the Kremlin	Tom	Clancy	89/90
Eight, The	Katherine	Neville	89/90
House of Spirits	Isabel	Allende	89/90
Life and Death in Shanghai	Ninen	Cheng	89/90
My Life As A Gal	Alice	Kahn	89/90
Only Children	Rafael	Yglesias	89/90
Sister Age	M.F.K.	Fisher	89/90
Bonfires of the Vanities	Tom	Wolfe	88/89
Cashelmara	Susan	Howatch	88/89
Her Mother's Daughter	Marilyn	French	88/89
Housekeeping	Marilynne	Robinson	88/89
Hunt for Red October, The	Tom	Clancy	88/89
Lonesome Dove	Larry	McMurtrie	88/89
Presumed Innocents	Scott	Turow	88/89
Song of Soloman	Toni	Morrison	88/89
Southern Family, A	Gail	Godwin	88/89
And So It Goes	Linda	Ellerby	87/88
Bone People, The	Keri	Hulme	87/88
Confederacy of Dunces, A	John Kennedy	Toole	87/88
Freedom At Midnight	Larry	Collins	87/88
Handmaid's Tale	Margaret	Atwood	87/88
Prince of Tides	Pat	Conroy	87/88
Proof	Dick	Francis	87/88
Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe, The	Lilly	Tomlin	87/88
Tender is the Night	F. Scott	Fitzgerald	87/88
Balthazar	Lawrence	Durrell	86/87
Celestial Navigator	Anne	Tyler	86/87
Choice of Heros, A	Mark	Gerzon	86/87
Hold the Dream	Barbara Taylor	Bradford	86/87
House	Tracy	Kidder	86/87
Woman's Reality	Anne Wilson	Schaef	86/87
Zelda	Nancy	Milford	86/87
Out on a Limb	Shirley	McClane	85/86
Great Gatsby, The	F. Scott	Fitzgerald	84/85
Heat and Dust	Ruth Prawler	Jhabvala	84/85
Long Days Journey Into Night, A	Eugene	O'Neil	84/85
Mists of Avalon, The	Marion Zimmer	Bradley	84/85
Passage to India	E.M.	Forster	84/85
Absalom, Absalom	William	Faulkner	83/84
Agony and The Ecstasy, The	Irving	Stone	83/84
Fifth Business	Robertson	Davis	83/84
Hotel New Hampshire, The	John	Irving	83/84
Left Hand of Darkness	Ursula	Le Guin	83/84
My Name is Asher Lev	Chaim	Potok	83/84
Once and Future King, The	T.H.	White	83/84
Valley of the Horses	Jean	Auel	83/84
War and Remembrance	Hermann	Wouk	83/84
Women in Love	D.H.	Lawrence	83/84
Awakening, The	Kate	Chopin	82/83
Clan of the Cave Bear	Jean	Auel	82/83
Marriages Between Zones 3,4,5	Doris	Lessing	82/83
Rabbitt is Rich	John	Updike	82/83
Semi-Attached Couple and the Semi Detached House	Emily	Eden	82/83
Shibumi		Trevanian	82/83
Sophie's Choice	William	Styron	82/83
Spring Moon	Bette Bao	Lord	82/83
Tai pan	James	Clavell	82/83
Winds of War	Hermann	Wouk	82/83
Covenant, The	James	Michener	81/82
Final Payment	Mary	Gordon	81/82
Gorky Park	Martin Cruz	Smith	81/82
Kane and Abel	Jeffrey	Archer	81/82
Last Convertible, The	Anton	Myer	81/82
Lucifer's Hammer	L. Niven and J.	Pournelle	81/82
Noble House	James	Clavell	81/82
Woman of Independent Means, A	Elizabeth	Hailey	81/82
Key to Rebecca	Ken	Follett	80/81
Ordinary People	Judith	Guest	80/81
Shogun	James	Clavell	80/81
Woman of Substance, A	Barbara Taylor	Bradford	80/81
Dune	Frank	Herbert	75/76
Ebony Tower , The	John	Fowles	75/76
Fear of Flying	Erica	Jong	75/76
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya	Angelou	75/76
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia	Marquez	75/76
Pentimento	Lillian	Hellman	75/76
When I Say No I Feel Guilty	Manuel	Smith	75/76

And the Ladies of the Club	Helen Mooven	Santmyer
Ashes in the Wind	Kathleen	Woodiwiss
Basil and Josephine Stories, The	F. Scott	Fitzgerald
Bell Jar, The	Sylvia	Plath
Brave New World	Aldous	Huxley
Camerons, The	Robert	Crichton
Caravans	James	Michener
Centennial	James	Michener
Chariots of the Gods?	Erich	Von Daniken
Chronicle of a Death Foretold	Gabriel Garcia	Marquez
Cold Sassy Tree	Olive Ann	Burns
Color Purple, The	Alice	Walker
Descent of Woman, The	Elaine	Morgan
Far Pavilions, The	M.M.	Kaye
French Lieutenant's Woman, The	John	Fowles
Gift from the Sea	Anne Morrow	Lindbergh
Harvest Home	Thomas	Tryon
Implosion Conspiracy, The	Louis	Nizer
Justine	Lawrence	Durrell
Little Prince, The	Antoine	DeSaintExupery
Sacajawea	Anna Lee	Waldo
Shadow of the Moon	M.M.	Kaye
Stones for Ibarra	Harriet	Doerr
Thorn Birds, The	Colleen	McCullough
Tiger's Daughter, The	Bharati	Mukherjee
Walden	Henry David	Thoreau