Past Events
Updated: Nov 29
4. The Communist Manifesto - Marx
5. On the Origin of Species - Darwin
6. A Room of One's Own – Woolf
7. The Wealth of Nations - Smith
12. Guns, Germs, and Steel – Diamond
14. Hundred Yrs of Solitude – Marquez
15. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
16. To Kill a Mockingbird – Lee
21. Brothers Karamazov – Dostoevsky
22. Multiple Intelligence – Gardner
28. When Bad Things Happen … – Kushner
29. The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald
31. The Master and Margarita – Bulgakov
34. Things Fall Apart – Achebe
35. Hitchhiker’s Guide .. – Adams
36. Capitalism and Freedom – Friedman
38. Brideshead Revisited – Waugh
40. l'Optimisme (Candide) – Voltaire
42. All Quiet Western Front – Remarque
43. Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
44. Midnight's Children – Rushdie
46. A Tale of Love and Darkness – Oz
49. The Glass Bead Game – Hesse
50. Zen & Art of Motorcycle.. – Pirsig
51. Notre Dame de Paris – Hugo
52. The Grapes of Wrath – Steinbck
54. One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest – Kesey
56. Tipping The Velvet - Waters
58. God Is Not Great... – Hitchens
60. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway
61. Adolf Hitler: My Part..- Milligan
62. Imagined Communities – Anderson
63. Unbearable Lightness Being - Kundera
68. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Wilde
69. Letters To A Young Poet – Rilke
72. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - J le Carre
73. Journey to the end of the night – Celine
74. Kafka on the shore – Murakami
77. Slaughterhouse-Five – Vonnegut
78. Of Mice and Men – Steinbeck
79. And Quiet Flows the Don – Sholokov
80. From Russia With Love – Fleming
83. Orphan Master’s Son – Johnson
84. The Shadow Factory - Bamford
85. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
87. A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens
88. The Selfish Gene – Dawkins
92. The Remains of the Day- Ishiguro
96. Vindication of the Rights of Woman
98. Lord of The Flies – Golding
99. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Hardy
101. The House of The Spirits by Isabel Allende – Isabel Allande
102. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? –Philip K. Dick
103. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
104. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
105. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
106. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
107. The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
108. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland –Lewis Carroll
109. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
110. Postcards From The Edge - Carrie Fisher
111. Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
112. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
113. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
2019
113.1.(Book1).1984 by George Orwell
115: The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing
116. All That Man Is by David Szalay
117. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
118. To the Back of Beyond by Peter Stamm
119.The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton
120. Paradise by Toni Morrison
121. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Dec 4: Secret Santa book exchange / end-year party -
2020
15 Jan: book selection from Russian classics
Book 122: The Last Garden by Eva Hornung (presenter: Sean)
Feb 12: book selection from non-fiction books (presenter: Peter)
Book 122.1 (discussed before): The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (presenter: Félix)
March 11: book selection from Latin America (presenter: Angela)
Book 123: The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coats (presenter: Peter)
April 15: book selection from books with pandemic themes (Angela, Nicole, Joan, Sean, Vlad)
Book 124: The Ship of Fools by Cristina Peri Rossi (presenter: Nicole)
May 20: book selection from Southeast Asia (presenter: Uma)
Book 125: Grace by Paul Lynch (presenter: Sean)
June 17: book selection from classics (Sean, Vlad and Angela)
Book 126 : The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (presenter: UMA)
Aug 18: book selection: the Travel Memoir
Book 127 : Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Sept 15: book selection: The 1930s
Book 128 : Oct 6: book discussion: The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
Oct 20: book selection: Literary Science-Fiction
Book 129 : Nov 2: Perreira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
Nov 17: Book selection: Turkish literature
Dec 1st: Secret Santa Book exchange
2021
Book 130: Jan 12/21 : Machines like Me by Ian McEwan
Jan 26 : Book selection: The Mountain
Book 131: The Time Regulation Institute by A.H. Tanpinar
Feb 23: Book selection: Central European Literature
March 9: Book 132: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
March 23: Book Selection: German language literature
April 13: Book 133: The Door by Magda Szabo
April 27: Book 134: Donna Has Left The Building by Susan Jane Gillman
May 11: Book Selection: Persian literature
May 25: Book 135: Slow Homecoming by Peter Handke
June 8: Book selection: The Big (summer) Read
June 22: Book 136 - The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
August 10: Book Selection : Women Nobel Prize Winners
August 24: Book 137- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
September 7: Book Selection: Exile (in its various forms)
September 21: Book discussion- #138 - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
October 5: Book Selection: The Booker Prizes 2021
October 19- #139 - Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
November 9: Book Selection Chinese Literature
November 23: Book Discussion- #140- When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
December 7: Secret Santa Book Exchange
2022
January 11 2022: Book selection: Novels set in Geneva
January 25, 2022: Book #141 - Life and Death are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan
Feb 8th: Book selection: Contemporary Korean Writing
Feb 22: Book #142 - Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
March 8th: Book selection: Literature from Ukraine
March 22: Book #143 - No One Writes Back by Jang Eun-Jin
April 5: Book selection: The Birth of the Novel in 18c England
April 26: Book#144 - Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Zabuzhko
May 10: Book selection: Gender and Sexuality in Literature
May 24:Book #145 - Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
June 7: Book selection: The Big (summer) Read
Aug 30 :Book #146 - Sphinx by Anne Garréta
Sep 13: Book selection- On Memory
Sep 27: Book #147 - The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
Oct 11: Book selection - The Evolution of the Spy novel
Nov 1: Book#148 - Missing Person by Patrick Modiano
Nov 15 Book Selection - Magic Realism
Nov 29: Book #149 - Star of the North by D.B.John
Dec 13: Secret Santa Book Exchange
2023
Jan 17: Book selection: Literature from West Africa
Jan 31: Book #150 - Hard-Boiled Wonderland (...) by H. Murakami
Feb14: Book selection: Dutch literature from the Netherlands
Feb 28: Book #151 - Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane
March 14: Book Selection- The SEA
March 28: Book #152 - The Evenings by Gerard Reve
May 2: Book Selection - Music & Musicians
May 16: Book #153 - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
May 30: Book Selection - Japanese Aestheticism
June 13: Book#154 - The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
June 27: Book Selection - The Big Summer Read
Sep 19: Book #155 - Rivalry: A Geisha’s Tale by Kafū Nagai
Oct 3: Book selection: Poets writing novels
Oct 17: Book #156 - Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
Oct 31: Book selection: Fitzcarraldo Editions Special