A Berkeley Book Club
- Who: We're a four year old book club, always happy to have
additional members, any gender.
- What: We read mostly modern fiction, but we're also open to
some non-fiction or classics. We try to choose books that are available
in paperback and in local libraries.
- When & Where: We meet monthly at Au Coquelet Cafe (corner
of Milvia & University) in Berkeley one
Monday
evening per month at 7 pm -- look for the table(s) with the book on
display.
- Current Selection: Our next meeting will be at 7:00
p.m. on
Monday, August 18,
to discuss Miss American Pie, by
Margaret Sartor.
- Next Up: ???
- How: The next book and meeting date are set at each meeting
by the attending members, so bring book suggestions!
- Possible Future selections:
- Past Selections:
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Angels, by Denis Johnson.
-
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to
Promote Peace... One School at a Time, by
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Also available at
Black Oak Books)
- Emma, by Jane Austen.
-
No One Belongs Here More Than You, by Miranda July.
-
After Dark (Hardcover), by Haruki Murakami.
- What is the What, by Dave Eggers.
- I Love You, Beth Cooper, by Larry Doyle.
- Gifts, by Nuruddin Farah.
-
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy.
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The Echo Maker, by Richard Powers.
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Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen.
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The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai.
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No God But God, by Reza Aslan.
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barak Obama.
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The Zero, by Jess Walter.
-
Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie.
-
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life,
by Steven Johnson.
-
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell.
-
Eat the Document, by Dana Spiotta.
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Snow, by Orhan Pamuk.
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The World to Come, by Dara Horn.
-
Motherless Brooklyn,
by Jonathan Lethem.
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Fallen, by David Maine.
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The Omnivore's Dilemma : A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover),
by Michael Pollan.
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Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder.
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A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving.
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Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, by Bill Bryson.
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The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde.
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Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte.
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis.
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This is Not Civilization, by Robert Rosenberg.
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The Preservationist, by David Maine.
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My Forbidden Face, Growing up under the Taliban: A Young Woman's
Story, by Latifa.
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The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger.
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The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler.
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The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd.
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Easter Island, by Jennifer Vanderbes.
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1906, by James Dalessandro.
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Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon.
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The Known World, by Edward Jones.
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About Grace, by Anthony Doer.
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, by David Sedaris.
- The Probable Future, by Alice Hoffman.
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Global Woman, by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Hochschild.
- Caramelo, by Sandra Cisneros.
- Against All Enemies, by Richard Clark.
-
The Importance of Being Ernest, by Oscar
Wilde.
(This selection was inspired by an Orinda
theater play selection for summer 2004.
For more information on
Cal Shakes, see
http://www.calshakes.org/ .)
-
The DaVinci Code, by Dan Brown.
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again,
by David Foster Wallace.
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The Feast of Love, by Charles Baxter.
- The Golden Gate, by Vikram Seth.
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Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi.
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That Old Ace in the Hole, by Annie Proulx.
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Bel Canto, by Anne Patchett.
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Reefer Madness:Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the Black Market,
by Eric Schlosser.
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,
by Gregory Maguire.
- Three Junes,
by Julia Glass.
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Empire Falls,
by Richard Russo.
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Atonement,
by Ian McEwan.
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Sijie Dai, and Ina Rilke (Translator).
- Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
- Enemy Women, by Paulette Jiles
- How to Be Good, by Nick Hornby
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon
- Happenstance, by Carol Shields
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Questions? Send e-mail to
greetingshuber -at- yahoo /dot/ com. Or
feel free to just read the book and show up!