The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Anne Fadiman

December 5, 2007
Selected by Nan.

Book List from 1997 through...

1. Adam Resurrected, Yoram Kaniuk
2. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
3. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (Judy, May, 06)
4. A Gesture Life, Chang Rae Lee
5. Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund
6. All The Pretty Horses, Cormack McCarthy
7. Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
8. The American, Henry James
9. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
10. Beloved, Toni Morrison
11. The Bone People, Keri Hulme
12. The Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood (La 10/05)
13. Blindness , Jose Saramago (Laurel)
    
14. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
15. Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogal, Nikolai Gogal
16. The Cunning Man, Robertson Davies
17. The Dispossessed, Ursula Leguin
18. Drop City, T. C. Boyle
19. Earthly Possessions, Ann Tyler
20. Empire Falls, Richard Russo
21. Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie
22. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
23. The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary (Nan)
    
24. In the Beauty of the Lilies. John Updike
25. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
26. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
27. Lying on the Couch, Irving Yalom
28. Mama Day, Gloria Naylor
29. Marianne, George Sand
30. The Moon and Sixpence, Somerset Maugham
31. My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki
32. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Ecco
33. The Number One Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
34. Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz
35. Point Counterpoint, Aldous Huxley
36. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
37. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
38. The Quiet American, Graham Greene
39. Samurai’s Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
40. The Sixteen Pleasures, Robert Helenga
41. My Son’s Story , Nadine Gordimer
42. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
43. Tender Mercies, Annie Lamott
44. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston (Nan, 1/06)
45. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
46. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
47. Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Dan Millman (Betsy, 12/05)
48. Waiting, Ha Jin
49. Water Wars, Barbara Raines Ward
50. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
51. When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro
52. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (Anne, March, 06)