Books we've read in book club: More fiction

CLASSICS

• Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery
  Pub. 1923 | Middle grade | Read September 2017
  

• Emma by Jane Austen
  British lit., romance | Pub. 1815 | Read ? (discussion was at Holmes Lake)
  

• Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
  British lit., romance | Pub. 1874 | Read December 2024
  

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  Pub. 1818 | Read 2018? (discussion was at Nicole’s house)
  

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  Historical fiction, Civil War | Pub. 1868 | Read ? (discussion was at Liz’s house by East Campus in the snow)
  

• My Ántonia by Willa Cather
  Historical fiction, Nebraska pioneer | Pub. 1918 | Read September 2018
  

• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  Gothic | Pub. 1938 | Read and watched movie via Netflix synch October 2020
  

• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  Southern gothic | Pub. 1929 | Read ? (also, I don’t think anyone finished this one)
  
  

FANTASY AND/OR MAGICAL REALISM

• The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
  Pub. 1988 | Read ? (discussion was at Emily’s house)
  

• The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  Historical fiction, romance | Pub. 2017 | Read July 2022
  

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  Pub. 2020 | Read January 2025
  

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  Pub. 2001 | Read August 2022
  
  

LITERARY RETELLING

• Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
  Retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | Pub. 2019 | Read September 2020
  
  

MYSTERY

• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
  Pub. 1939 | Read April 2015
  

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  Pub. 2003 | Read December 2020
  

• Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
  Lord Peter Wimsey #10 | Pub. 1933 | Read ? (discussion was at Nicole’s house, Catherine came in costume)
  

• The Round House by Louise Erdrich
  Pub. 2012 | Read August 2024
  

• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
  Flavia de Luce #1 | Pub. 2009 | Read February 2026
  

• The Unexpected Mrs. Polifax by Dorothy Gilman
  Mrs. Polifax #1 | Pub. 1966 | Read August 2016
  

• The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
  Bombay, India 1921 | Perveen Mistry #1 | Pub. 2018 | Read March 2019
  
  

PLAYS

• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  Comedy | Pub. 1895 | Read March 2025
  

• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
  Comedy, romance | Pub. 1600 | Read March 2025
  

• Our Town by Thornton Wilder
  Drama, historical fiction | Pub. 1939 | Read ? (discussion was at Sarah’s house)
  
  

SCIENCE FICTION

• Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
  Fantasy thriller | Pub. 2016 | Read May 2017
  

• Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
  Space fantasy | Pub. 1938 | Read June 2018
  

• The Power by Naomi Alderman
  Dystopian | Pub. 2016 | Read October 2018
  

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  Space thriller | Pub. 2021 | Read February 2025
  

• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
  Post-apocalyptic, dystopian | Pub. 2014 | Read September 2015
  
  

SHORT STORIES

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
  Contemporary fiction, India | Pub. 1999 | Read October 2017
  

• Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen
  Contemporary fiction, China | Pub. 2021 | Read December 2023
  
  

WESTERNS

• News of the World by Paulette Giles
  Pub. 2016 | Read and watched movie together January 2022
  

• True Grit by Charles Portis
  Pub. 1968 | Read April 2018