Books Read by the Norfolk CT Library Book Club (from their site), See more about what's coming up!

Wonderful to catch up with what folks have been doing via the Book Club at the Norfolk CT which is held on zoom currently. Check their site NorfolkLibrary.org for the next reads and links to the zoom. Congratulations to all writers, readers, leaders and dreamers (of joining in one or more of those circles...) Hope everyone can take time to learn about what's available at their local libraries and much of what's online for many more to join in via zoom or see past programs!

Thanks to all donating time, talent and treasure to helping libraries, social services and support to remain in the community (such as CT Community Cares or online help for elders and caregivers, adult and collegiate or high school and elementary and early educational programs, daycares and care providers, civic and faith outreaches that support people succeed. Encouraging storytelling and sharing, journaling (on a calendar or notebook of activities and people seen as well as health and important dates.)

Okay to 'fill in more details later' whether of family trees and schools, towns and work over the decades and keep in touch with how things have played out and can be part of one's network and current advocacy as well for health and support. Meanwhile the themes in many stories can highlight insights into a life journey and much of history as well as how life unfolds going forward in reality and in our hearts and visions..

.Best to all from the bigger circles one may not see but can trust are rooting for you and yours!--Catherine Palmer Paton of Falls Village CT...Now back to the list of books that were read and discussed thus far. Congratulations to all who have joined in that so far and those yet to come!

Literary categories:

Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Literature

Mary Rowlandson, THE SOVEREIGNTY AND GOODNESS OF GOD (1682)

Daniel Defoe, ROXANA (1724)

Sarah Fielding, THE ADVENTURES OF DAVID SIMPLE, Books 1 and 2 (1744)

Henry Fielding, TOM JONES (1749)

Sarah Fielding, THE ADVENTURES OF DAVID SIMPLE, Book the Last (1753)

Tobias Smollett, THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY CLINKER (1771)

Fanny Burney, EVELINA (1778)

Jane Austen, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1811)

Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Literature

Catherine Maria Sedgwick, HOPE LESLIE (1827)

Charlotte Brontë, JANE EYRE (1847)

Anne Brontë, AGNES GREY (1847)

Emily Brontë, WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1847)

Anne Brontë, THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL (1848)

Nathaniel Hawthorne, THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE (1852)

Harriet Beecher Stowe, UNCLE TOM’S CABIN (1852)

William Wells Brown, CLOTEL; OR, THE PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER (1853)

Charlotte Brontë, VILLETTE (1853)

Charles Dickens, BLEAK HOUSE (1853)

Anthony Trollope, THE WARDEN (1854)

Frederick Douglass, MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM (1855)

Ivan Turgenev, HOME OF THE GENTRY (1859)

Ivan Turgenev, FATHERS AND CHILDREN (1862)

Elizabeth Stoddard, THE MORGESONS (1863)

Anthony Trollope, CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? (1865)

Charles Dickens, OUR MUTUAL FRIEND (1865)

Anthony Trollope, PHINEAS FINN (1868)

Fyodor Dostoevsky, DEMONS (1871)

George Eliot, MIDDLEMARCH (1871 - 1872)

Ivan Turgenev, SPRING TORRENTS (1872)

Anthony Trollope, THE WAY WE LIVE NOW (1875)

George Eliot, DANIEL DERONDA (1876)

Ivan Turgenev, VIRGIN SOIL (1877)

Thomas Hardy, THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE (1878)

Leo Tolstoy, ANNA KARENINA (1878)

Henry James, WASHINGTON SQUARE (1880)

Henry James, THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY (1881)

Mark Twain, ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1885)

Henry James, THE BOSTONIANS (1886)

Mark Twain, A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT (1889)

William Dean Howells, A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES (1890)

Thomas Hardy, TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES (1891)

Sarah Orne Jewett, THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS (1899)

Willa Cather, O PIONEERS! (1913)

Willa Cather, THE SONG OF THE LARK (1915)

Edith Wharton, THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY (1915)

Abraham Cahan, THE RISE OF DAVID LEVINSKY (1917)

Willa Cather, MY ANTONIA (1918)

Edith Wharton, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1920)

Modernism and Its Discontents

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, HERLAND (1915)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, THIS SIDE OF PARADISE (1920)

Aldous Huxley, ANTIC HAY (1923)

Evelyn Waugh, DECLINE AND FALL (1928)

William Faulkner, AS I LAY DYING (1930)

William Faulkner, LIGHT IN AUGUST (1932)

Nathanael West, MISS LONELYHEARTS (1933)

Dashiell Hammett, THE THIN MAN (1936)

Zora Neale Hurston, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD (1937)

Nathanael West, THE DAY OF THE LOCUST (1939)

William Faulkner, THE HAMLET (1940)

William Faulkner, GO DOWN, MOSES (1942)

Sylvia Townsend Warner, THE CORNER THAT HELD THEM (1948)

André Schwartz-Bart, THE LAST OF THE JUST (1959)

Kobo Abé, THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964)

Twentieth-Century/Early Twenty-First Century Realism

Anita Brookner, HOTEL DU LAC (1984)

Ian McEwan, ENDURING LOVE (1997)

Kent Haruf, THE TIE THAT BINDS (2000)

Amitav Ghosh, THE GLASS PALACE (2000)

Michel Faber, THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE (2002)

Per Petterson, OUT STEALING HORSES (2003)

Kay Ryan, THE NIAGARA RIVER (2005)

Magda Szabó, THE DOOR (2005)

Elena Ferrante, DAYS OF ABANDONMENT (2005)

Jane Gardam, OLD FILTH (2006)

Alison Bechdel, FUN HOME (2006)

David Small, STITCHES: A MEMOIR (2009)

Ian McEwan, SOLAR (2010)

Emma Donoghue, ROOM (2010)

Paul Murray, SKIPPY DIES (2010)

David Eagleman, SUM (2010)

Alina Bronsky, THE HOTTEST DISHES OF THE TARTAR CUISINE (2010)

Hilary Mantel, WOLF HALL (2010)

Elena Ferrante, MY BRILLIANT FRIEND (2011)

Rachel Joyce, THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY (2012)

Richard Ford, CANADA (2012)

Julie Otsuka, THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC (2012)

Elena Ferrante, THE STORY OF A NEW NAME (2012)

Elena Ferrante, THOSE WHO LEAVE AND THOSE WHO STAY (2013)

Elena Ferrante, THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD (2014)

Francesca Marciano, THE OTHER LANGUAGE (2014)

Gavin McCrea, MRS. ENGELS (2015)

Margo Jefferson, NEGROLAND (2015)

Hanya Yanigahara, A LITTLE LIFE (2015)

Paula Whyman, YOU MAY SEE A STRANGER (2016)

Louise Erdrich, LAROSE (2016)

David Szalay, ALL THAT MAN IS (2016)

Christopher Nicholson, WINTER (2016)

Damien Wilkins, MAX GATE (2016)

Helen Klein Ross, WHAT WAS MINE (2016)

Nathan Hill, THE NIX (2016)

Yaa Gyasi, HOMEGOING (2016)

Karan Mahajan, THE ASSOCIATION OF SMALL BOMBS (2016)

Fernanda Melchor, HURRICANE SEASON (2016)

Daniel Mendelsohn, AN ODYSSEY (2017)

Keum Suk Gendry Kim, GRASS (2017)

Julian Barnes, THE ONLY STORY (2018)

Nora Krug, BELONGING (2018)

Bernardine Evaristo, GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER (2019)

Ocean Vuong, ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS (2019)

Kiran Millwood Hargrave, THE MERCIES (2019)

Louise Erdrich, THE NIGHT WATCHMAN (2020)

Robert Kolker, HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD (2020)

Gavin McCrea, THE SISTERS MAO (2021)

Ian Pisarcik, BEFORE FAMILIAR WOODS (2020)

Magic Realism

Ursula Le Guin, THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS (1969)

Toni Morrison, SONG OF SOLOMON (1977)

Louise Erdrich, LOVE MEDICINE (1984)

Yoko Ogawa, THE MEMORY POLICE (1994)

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, THE SHADOW OF THE WIND (2001)

Louise Erdrich, THE PLAGUE OF DOVES (2008)

Shokoofeh Azar, THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE GREENGAGE TREE (2017)

Daniel Kehlmann, TYLL (2017)

Daisy Johnson, EVERYTHING UNDER (2018)

Elif Shafak, 10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD (2019)

Chigozie Obioma, AN ORCHESTRA OF MINORITIES (2019)

Postmodernism

Philip Roth, THE COUNTERLIFE (1987)

Anne Michaels, FUGITIVE PIECES (1996)

Thomas Pynchon, MASON & DIXON (1997)

Philip Roth, AMERICAN PASTORAL (1997)

Kate Atkinson, HUMAN CROQUET (1997)

Geoff Ryman, WAS (1997)

Philip Roth, THE HUMAN STAIN (2000)

Manil Suri, THE DEATH OF VISHNU (2001)

Haruki Murakami, KAFKA ON THE SHORE (2002)

Minae Mizumura, A TRUE NOVEL (2002)

Ian McEwan, ATONEMENT (2003)

Haruki Murakami, AFTER DARK (2004)

James Hamilton-Paterson, COOKING WITH FERNET BRANCA (2005)

Simon Mawr, THE GLASS ROOM (2009)

Muriel Barbery, THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG (2006)

Amara Lakhous, CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS OVER AN ELEVATOR IN PIAZZA VITTORIO (2008)

Colum McCann, LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN (2009)

Chan Koonchung, THE FAT YEARS (2009)

Olga Tokarczuk, DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD (2009)

Dan Chaon, AWAIT YOUR REPLY (2010)

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, 36 ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD (2010)

Louise Erdrich, SHADOW TAG (2010)

David Mitchell, THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET (2010)

Philip Roth, NEMESIS (2010)

Zachary Mason, THE LOST BOOKS OF THE ODYSSEY (2010)

Paul Murray, SKIPPY DIES (2010)

David Levithan, A LOVER'S DICTIONARY (2011)

Julian Barnes, THE SENSE OF AN ENDING (2011)

Jeanette Winterson, WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL? (2011)

Michael Ondaatje, THE CAT'S TABLE (2012) 

Timur Vermes, LOOK WHO'S BACK (2012)

Lina Meruane, SEEING RED (2012)

Kate Atkinson, LIFE AFTER LIFE (2013)

Colm McCann, TRANSATLANTIC (2013)

Diogo Mainardi, THE FALL: A FATHER'S MEMOIR IN 424 STEPS (2014)

Maggie Nelson, THE ARGONAUTS (2015)

Alexander Weinstein, CHILDREN OF THE NEW WORLD (2016)

Paul Beatty, THE SELLOUT (2016)

George Saunders, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO (2017)

Maria Stepanova, IN MEMORY OF MEMORY (2018)

Robin Robertson, THE LONG TAKE (2018)

Ayad Akhtar, HOMELAND ELEGIES (2020)