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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
So You Want to Start a Book Group
What If I Don’t Want to Join a Book Group?
Part I LOVE
CAMILLE (1848) by Alexandre Dumas, fils
MADAME BOVARY (1857) by Gustave Flaubert
Read These Too: BOOKS ON TRANSERESSRN LOVE
ENDURING LOVE (1997) by Ian McEwan
CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER (1976) by Ann Seattie
THE PURSUIT OF LOVE (1945) by Nancy Mitford
THE BLOODY CHAMBER (1979) by Angela Carter
Read These Too: FANTASY NOVELS
ENDLESS LOVE (1979) by Scott Spencer
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1925) by Anita Loos
MARRIAGE, A HISTORM HOW LOVE CONQUERED MARRIAGE (2005) by Stephanie Coontz
THE LAST Of THE WINE (1956) by Mary Renault
Read These Too: GAY AND LESBIAN BOOKS
THE MARRIAGES BETWEEN ZONES THREE, FOUR AND FIVE (1980) by Doris Lessing
THE BLUE FLOWER (1995) by Penelope Fitzgerald
Read These Too: HISTORICAL ROMANCE
List of One: PROUST
Part II MEMOIR
THE LIARS’ CLUB (1995) by Mary Karr
THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT (1968) by Quentin Crisp
I REMEMBER (1970) by Joe Brainar
THE GASTRONOMICA!. ME (1943) by M.F.K. Fisher
Read These Too: FOOD BOOKS
SURELY YOU’RE JOKING, MR. FEYNMAN!(1985) by Richard Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton
SPEAK, MEMORY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1951) by Vladimir Nabokov
WILD SWANS: THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA (1991) by Jung Chang
Read These Too: BOOKS ABOUT CHINA
AN AFRICAN IN GREENLAND (1981) by Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Read These Too: TRAVEL BOOKS
NAPLES ‘44 (1978) by norman Lewis
OUT OF AFRICA (1937) by Isak Dinesen
Read These Too: BOOKS BY ACTUAL AFRICANS
SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA (1985) by Spalding Gray
EPILEPTIC (2005) by David B.
Part III FAMILY
FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC (2006) by Alison Bechdel
Read These Too: GRAPHIC NOVELS
BASTARD OUT Of CAROLINA (1992) by Dorothy Allison
Read These Too: MISERY LIT
COLD COMFORT FARM (1932) by Stella Gibbons
MRS. BRIDGE (1958) by Evan S. Connell
GREEK LOVE (1939) by Katherine Dunn
MY FATHER AND MYSELF (1968) by J. R. Ackerley
SONG OF SOLOMON (1977) by Toni Morrison
Read These Too: AFRICAN AMERICAN BOOKS
O PIONEERS! (1913) by Willa Cather
FALLING ANGELS (1989) by Barbara Gowdy
THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN (1940) by Christina Stead
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez
Read These Too: LATIN AMERICAN BOOM AND BEYOND
PASTORALIA (2000) by George Saunders
Part IV HISTORY
A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE WORLD (1936) by E. H. Gombrich
A SHORT HISTORY OF BYZANTIUM(1997) by John Julius Norwich
GENGHIS KHAN ANO THE MAKING Of THE MODERN WORLD (2004) by Jack Weatherford
A DISTANT MIRROR: THE CALAMITOUS 14TH CENTURY (1978) by Barbara Tuchman
DOOMSDAY BOOK (1992) by Connie Willis
Read These Too: SCIENCE FICTION
THE GAME Of KINGS (1961) by Dorothy Dunnett
CANDIDE (1759) by Voltaire
KING LEOPOLD’S GHOST: A STORY OF GREED, TERROR, AND HEROISM IN COLONIAL AFRICA (1998) by Adam hochschild
VICTORIAN AMERICA: TRANSFORMATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, 1876–1915 (1991) by Thomas J. Schlereth
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1929) by Erich Maria Remarque
OUR HIDDEN LIVES: THE REMARKABLE DIARIES OF POST-WAR BRITAIN (2005) by Simon Garfield
Read These Too: DIARIES AND JOURNALS
STORMING HEAVEN: LSD AND THE AMERICAN DREAM (1987) by Jay Stevens
Read These Too: DRUG BOOKS
Part V POLITICS
The CONSCIENCE OF A CONSERVATIVE (1960) by Barry Goldwater
THE SHOCK DOCTRINE: THE RISE OF DISASTER CAPITALISM (2007) by Naomi Klein
Read These Too: POLITICAL POLEMICS
THE WINSHAW LEGACY (1994) by Jonathan Coe
ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH (1963) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Read These Too: RUSSIAN LIT
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY (1908) by G. K. Chesterton
GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER (1965) by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK (1962) by Doris Lessing
THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE (1963) by Betty friedan
Read These Too: FEMINIST BOOKS
THE CONTENT OF OUR CHARACTER (1990) by Shelby Steele
VINELAND (1990) by Thomas Pynchon
THE DISPOSSESSED (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Read These Too: UTOPIA BOOKS
A BEND IN THE RIVER (1979) by V. S. Naipaul
Part VI HUMOR
MY LIFE AND HARD TIMES (1933) by James Thurber
Read These Too: BOOKS ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS
DIARY OF A PROVINCIAL LADY (1930) by E. M. Delafield
THUS WAS ADONIS MURDERED (1981) by Sarah Caudwell
Read These Too: MURDER MYSTERIES
THE THIRD POLICEMAN (1967) by flann O’Brien
I CAPTURE THE CASTLE (1948) by Dodie Smith
CARRY ON, JEEVES (1925) by P. G. Wodehouse
CONFESSIONS OF A FAILED SOUTHERN LADY (1985) by Florence King
OUR MAN IN HAVANA (1958) by Graham Greene
Read These Too: THRILLERS
PICTURES FROM AN INSTITUTION (1954) by Randall Jarrell
THE CYBERIAD (1967) by Stanislaw Lem
AMPHIGOREY (1972) by Edward Gorey
DECLINE AND FALL (1928) by Evelyn Waugh
List of One INFINITE JEST (1996), David foster Wallace
Part VII WORK AND MONEY
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH (1905) by Edith Wharton
Read These Too: GREAT NOVELS
THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (1955) by Patricia highsmith
MILDRED PIERCE (1941) by James M. Cain
CLASS: A GUIDE THROUGH THE AMERICAN STATUS SYSTEM (1983) by Paul fussell
RAGGED DICK (1868) by Horatio Alger
WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN? (1941) by Budd Schulberg
Read These Too: HOLLYWOOD BOOKS
SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND (1990) by Bohumil Hrabal
BANVARD’S FOLLY (2001) by Paul S. Collins
DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON (1933) by George Orwell
Read These Too: BOOKS ABOUT WRITERS
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL (1972) by James Herriot
Read These Too: BOOKS ABOUT ANIMALS
THE PERIODIC TABLE (1975) by Primo Levi
Read These Too: SCINCE BOOKS
FROZEN DESIRE: THE MEANING OF MONEY (1997) by John Buchan
Part VIII War
WHAT EVERY PERSON SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WAR (2003) by Chris Hedges
SOLDIERS OF SALAMIS (2001) by Javier Cercas
GOING AFTER CACCIATO (1978) by Tim O’Brien
Read These Too: VIETNAM WAR BOOKS
CATCH-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
THE GUNS OF AUGUST (1962) by Barbara Tuchman
THE MISSING OF THE SOMME (1994) by Geoff Dyer
THE GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK (1923) by Jaroslav Hasek
ENDER’S GAME (1985) by Orson Scott Card
Read These Too: SPORTS BOOKS
ALLAH IS NOT OBLIGED (2000) by Ahmadou Kourouma
THE KILLER ANGELS (2004) by Michael Shaara
WHAT WAS ASKED OF US: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE IRAQ WAR BY THE SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT IT (2006) by Trish Wood
Read These Too: ORAL HISTORIES
IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: INSIDE IRAQ’S GREEN ZONE (2006) by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Part IX RELIGION
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA (1966) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Read These Too: SOME BOOKS
THE TOWERS OF TREBIZOND (1956) by Rose Macaulay
IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS (1949) by P. D. Ouspensky
ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT (1985) by Jeanette Winterson
THE BELL (1958) by Iris Murdoch
THE SNOW LEOPARD (1978) by Peter Matthiessen
THE SPARROW (1996) by Mary Doria Russell
NINE PARTS Of DESIRE: THE HIDDEN WORLD Of ISLAMIC WOMEN (1994) by Geraldine Brooks
Read These Too: BOOKS ABOUT ISLAM
UNDER THE BANNER Of HEAVEN: A STORY Of VIOLENT FAITH (2003) by Jon Krakauer
JOURNEY TO IXTLAN: THE LESSONS Of DON JUAN (1972) by Carlos Castañeda
CAT’S CRADLE (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Read These Too: POST-APOCALYPTIC BOOKS
WISE BLOOD (1952) by flannery O’Connor
Part X DEATH
THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH (1963) by Jessica Mitford
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY (1957) by James Agee
Read These Too: SOUTHERN GOTHIC
WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE (1962) by Shirley Jackson
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA (1929) by Richard Hughes
TRUE GRIT (1968) by Charles Portis
Read These Too: WESTERNS
THE STRANGER BESIDE ME (1980) by Ann Rule
WITTGENSTEIN’S NEPHEW (1982) by Thomas Bernhard
NEVER LET ME GO (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
Read These Too: THE POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE READING RAINBOW
UNDER THE SKIN (2000) by Michel faber
MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS (2005) by Kelly Link
Read These Too: SLIPSTREAM AND STEAMPUNK
HIROSHIMA (1946) by John Hersey
SUM: FORTY TALES FROM THE AFTERLIVES (2009) by David Eagleman
Reading Group Guide for: READ THIS NEXT
Index
Acknowledgments
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ALSO BY SANDRA NEWMAN AND HOWARD MITTELMARK
Copyright
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