book lists All books read since the Society’s founding alphabetical list list by date read disaster stories Books selected by each society member Brother Alpert Brother Fee Brother Karrow Brother Morris Brother Strokosch Annual “Best of” rankings 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 brother alpert's selected books The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon American Pastoral (1997) by Phillip Roth Charlie Wilson's War (2003) by George Crile A Conspiracy of Paper (2000) by David Liss County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital (2010) by David Ansell Darkness at Noon (1941) by Arthur Koestler The Da Vinci Code (2003) by Dan Brown The Dean’s December (1982) by Saul Bellow The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006) by Muriel Barbery Empire Falls (2001) by Richard Russo Everything is Illuminated (2002) by Jonathan Safran Foer Every Man Dies Alone (1947) by Hans Fallada Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson The Finkler Question (2010) by Howard Jacobson The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991) by Jose Saramago The Human Stain (2000) by Philip Roth In Cold Blood (1965) by Truman Capote In the Lake of the Woods (1994) by Tim O’Brien Invisible Man (1947) by Ralph Ellison The Living & the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (1996) by Paul Hendrickson The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995) by Salman Rushdie Motherless Brooklyn (1999) by Jonathan Lethem Playing the Moldovans at Tennis (2001) by Tony Hawks The Plot Against America (2004) by Philip Roth Slaughterhouse Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut Stormy Weather (1995) by Carl Hiaasen The Things They Carried (1990) by Tim O’Brien Water Music (1980) by T.C. Boyle When Nietzsche Wept (1992) by Irvin D. Yalom White Noise (1984) by Don DeLillo The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007) by Michael Chabon send comments, fan mail, and miscellany to bibliophilicsociety@gmail.com webmistress caitlin strokosch © 2006-2011