I thought it would be a good idea to list all the books which have been read so far for the new members.
Trends of 2014:
Bestselling airport/beach pop fiction
Gothic Literature
Postcolonialism
Naturalism
Realism
Romanticism
Existentialism
Dark Romanticism
2013 Books:
May '13 (Changing Places by David Lodge *
2009 Books:
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Poe * As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross * Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt * The Maltese Falcon by Hammet * Catch-22 by Heller * The Awakening by Kate Chopin * Persuasion by Austen * Kim by Rudyard Kipling / The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
2008 Books
The Map of Love by Soueif / The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy /
Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee / The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco / Dubliners by James Joyce / Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather: Stories by Gao Xingjian / The Sea by John Banville / Odyssey by Homer / The Road by Cormac McCarthy / Norwegian Wood by Murakami
2007 Books
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev / Master and Margarita by Bulgakov / Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut / The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Weird Stories by Lovecraft / Run, Rabbit! by Updike / Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie / One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey / Complete Short Fiction by Oscar Wilde / To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf / Women in Love by DH Lawrence / A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving / Slaughterhouse-Five / [B]Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton / Major Barbara by GB Shaw / The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera / Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier / The Grass Harp by Truman Capote / Pygmalion by GB Shaw * Favorites
2006 Books
Twelfth Night by Shakespeare / Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott/The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy/Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Stevenson/David Copperfield by Charles Dickens * Favorites/One Hundreds Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez * Favorites/Shirley by Charlotte Bronte/The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky * Favorites /East of Eden by SteinbeckMort by Terry Pratchett/Waiting for Godot /A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce * Favorites/The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner * Favorites/The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis/The Island of Dr Moreau by HG Wells /Possession by A.S. Byatt/The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot * Favorites /A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway * Favorites
2005 Books:
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett /Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint / Remembering John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman / Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez * Favorites / The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy * Favorites / Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen * Favorites / Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome * Favorites / The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon * Favorites / Summer Reading: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier * Favorites / Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky * Favorites / Hyperion by Dan Simmons The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons * Favorites / Remembering Saul Bellow: Seize the Day / Brave New World by Aldous Huxley * Favorites / Remembering Arthur Miller: The Crucible Favorites / Orlando by Virginia Woolf * Favorites / Lord of the Flies by William Golding * Favorites
2004 Books:
A Christmas Carol by Dickens / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce / 1984 by George Orwell / The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas / Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen / The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo / Heart of Darkness by Conrad / Frankenstein by Shelly / Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde / Dracula by Bram Stoker
I will update the list as we read more books.