Our book group choice for October 2010 is Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs.
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Our book group for September 2010 is David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. David Copperfield is a bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel, that tells the story of David Copperfield’s life from his childhood to his mature adulthood. The novel is set in England during the early 19th century and is narrated by David himself.
Our book choice for July 2010 is To Build a Fire by Jack London, and other short stories. A man travels in the Yukon (in Alaska) on an extremely cold morning with a husky wolf-dog. The cold does not faze the man, a newcomer to the Yukon, who plans to meet his friends by six o’clock at an old claim.
Our book group choice for June 2010 is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. It is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.
Our book group choice for May 2010 is The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”
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Our book group choice for April 2010 is Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. A novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-World War I England.
Our book group choice for March 2010 is Shadow Web by NM Browne. Jessica Allendon is bored and Googles her name. Weirdly, she finds another girl, same age, same name, also living in London.
Our book group choice for February 2010 is The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy. By the time he dies, Ivan Ilych has come to understand the worthlessness of his life.
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Our book group choice for January 2010 is Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver. With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story.
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Our book choice for December 2009 is The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. Short, straightforward in narrative, and relatively linear in plot, The Crying of Lot 49 is considered by many to be Pynchon’s most accessible novel, and is therefore the one most commonly read.
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