Reading 1001 discussion

This folder contains lists of the BOTMs, Seasonal Reads and Annual Reads for the group, with links for reads since we migrated here to Goodreads.

Past Seasonal Reads, by year

2012
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
The Swarm, by Frank Schätzing
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy

2013
Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo
The Arabian Nights, by Anonymous (and can you blame them?)
1Q84, by Haruki Murakami

2014
Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Undset
Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens
The Good Soldier Švejk, by Jaroslav Hašek
The Forsyte Saga, by John Galsworthy

2015
2666, by Roberto Bolaño
Ulysses, by James Joyce
A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth
Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens

2016
Cloudsplitter, by Russell Banks - Discussion questions are here
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski - discussion questions are here
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy - discussion questions are here
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - discussion questions are here

Annual Reads

Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust, 4211 pages - 2014
A Dance to the Music of Time, by Anthony Powell, 3013 pages - 2015
The Arabian Nights, by Anonymous, 2592 pages - 2013 (as a Seasonal Read)
Story of the Stone, by Cao Xueqin, 2576 pages - 2016, links to discussions are here
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, by Luo Guanzhong, 2339 pages - 2017

Coming Attractions:
Taebaek Mountain Range, by Cho Jung-rae, 3000 pages - not translated to English
Water Margin, by Shi Nai'an, 2149 pages
Pilgrimage, by Dorothy M. Richardson, 2124 pages
Monkey: The Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng'en, 1935 pages
Jahrestage, by Uwe Johnson, 1703 pages - current English translation is abridged version, eliminating almost 20% of the chapters in their entirety. A new complete English translation is schedule for publication in 2017.
Joseph and His Brothers, by Thomas Mann, 1536 pages

2009 BOTMs

A: The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
B: The Sea, by John Banville
C: Life and Times of Michael K, by J.M. Coetzee
D: The Lover, by Marguerite Duras
E: Silas Marner, by George Eliot
F: Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
G: Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden; Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
H: Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy; Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
I: A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving; Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
J: Fear of Flying, by Erica Jong; The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
K: On the Road, by Jack Kerouac; The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver; The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera

2010 BOTMs

January
Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, by John le Carré
February
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham
March
The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works, by Thomas Nashe
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
Suite Française, by Irène Némirovsky
April
1984, by George Orwell
The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
Black Water, by Joyce Carol Oates
May
Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk
Dr. Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
Titus Groan, by Mervyn Peake
The Pit and the Pendulum, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe
June
The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
July
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
August
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
September
Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne
Candide, by Voltaire
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
October
We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Once and Future King, by T.H. White
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
November
The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga
Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis
The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende
December
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
Le Père Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac

2011 BOTMs

January
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
The Old Wives' Tale, by Arnold Bennett
February
The Plague, by Albert Camus
Corelli's Mandolin, by Louis de Bernières
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
March
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
April
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
White Noise, by Don DeLillo
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
May
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
June
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides
Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner
July
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell
August
The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
September
Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse
Smilla's Sense of Snow, by Peter Høeg
Reasons to Live, by Amy Hempel
October
The Piano Teacher, by Elfriede Jelinek
The Castle, by Franz Kafka
Schindler's Ark, by Thomas Keneally
November
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John le Carré
The Princess of Cleves, by Madame De Ia Fayette
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
December
The Garden Party, by Katherine Mansfield
The Iron Heel, by Jack London
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Lewycka

2012 BOTMs

January
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez
February
Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
Watchmen, by Alan Moore
March
Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
April
The Shipping News, by Annie Proulx
The Pit and the Pendulum, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Club Dumas, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
May
The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
Contact, by Carl Sagan
Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy L. Sayers
June
Ivanhoe, by Walter Scott
Quo Vadis, by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
July
Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
August
Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
The Invention of Curried Sausage, by Uwe Timm
September
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
The Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells
The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole
October
We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Half of Man Is Woman, by Zhang Xianliang
The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham
November
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts, by Douglas Adams
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
December
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes
The Music of Chance, by Paul Auster

2013 BOTMs

January
Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow
Henderson the Rain King, by Saul Bellow
Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges
February
The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
Villette, by Charlotte Brontë
The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain
March
The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
April
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
The Heretic: A Novel of the Inquisition, by Miguel Delibes
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
May
Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen
The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lover, by Marguerite Duras
June
A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan
The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper
Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming
July
Mary Barton, by Elizabeth Gaskell
Neuromancer, by William Gibson
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, by Paul Gallico
August
The Diary of a Nobody, by George Grossmith
The Tin Drum, by Günter Grass
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
September
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
Antic Hay, by Aldous Huxley
The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
October
A Pale View of Hills, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Carry Me Down, by M.J. Hyland
The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
November
The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
Fatelessness, by Imre Kertész
December
At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Fall on Your Knees, by Ann-Marie MacDonald

2014 BOTMs

January
All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
The Garden Party, by Katherine Mansfield
The Daughter, by Pavlos Matesis
February
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose, by Alice Munro
March
The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
The Black Prince, by Iris Murdoch
The Country Girls, by Edna O'Brien
April
Snow, by Orhan Pamuk
The Year of the Hare, by Arto Paasilinna
The Labyrinth of Solitude, by Octavio Paz
May
Kiss of the Spider Woman, by Manuel Puig
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
Eugene Onegin, by Alexander Pushkin
June
Grimus, by Salman Rushdie
American Pastoral, by Philip Roth
Bonjour tristesse, by Françoise Sagan
July
A Town Like Alice, by Nevil Shute
The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields
Animal's People, by Indra Sinha
August
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Cancer Ward, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Master of Ballantrae, by Robert Louis Stevenson
September
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, by Andrzej Szczypiorski
Waterland, by Graham Swift
The Colour, by Rose Tremain
October
The Birds, by Tarjei Vesaas
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy, by Xosé Neira Vilas
November
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, by Winifred Watson
Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters
The Graduate, by Charles Webb
December
The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson
Thank You, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse
Chocky, by John Wyndham

2015 BOTMs

January
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Untouchable, by Mulk Raj Anand
February
Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood
Flaubert's Parrot, by Julian Barnes
Crash, by J.G. Ballard
March
Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Alamut, by Vladimir Bartol
Story of the Eye, by Georges Bataille
April
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, by Heinrich Böll
The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan
Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
May
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll
On The Black Hill, by Bruce Chatwin
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
June
Falling Man, by Don DeLillo
Nervous Conditions, by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Pricksongs and Descants, by Robert Coover
July
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
August
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides
Silence, by Shūsaku Endō
The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles
September
Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons
The Shadow Lines, by Amitav Ghosh
Caleb Williams, by William Godwin
October
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Blind Owl, by Sadegh Hedayat
The Woodlanders, by Thomas Hardy
November
The House on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Paradise of the Blind, by Dương Thu Hương
December
Measuring the World, by Daniel Kehlmann
The Castle, by Franz Kafka
The Summer Book, by Tove Jansson