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 morris's selected books Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner Beat Not the Bones (1952) by Charlotte Jay A Bend in the River (1979) by V.S. Naipal The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (1932) by Black Elk and John G. Neihardt The Book Thief (2006) by Markus Zuzak The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History (2002) by David A. Vise Captain Bligh and Mister Christian: The Men and the Mutiny (1973) by Richard Alexander Hough The Chicago Way (2007) by Michael Harvey The Children of Henry VIII (1996) by Alison Weir Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany (1997) by Stephen E. Ambrose Collapse (2005) by Jared Diamond Cosmopolitan: A Bartender’s Life (2003) by Toby Cecchini The Crying of Lot 49 (1988) by Thomas Pynchon Dark Voyage (2004) by Alan Furst Disgrace (1999) by J. M. Coetzee The Fugitive Eye (1953) by Charlotte Jay The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy The Illustrated Man (1951) by Ray Bradbury An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America (2003) by Henry Wiencek The Kite Runner (2003) Khaled Hosseini Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (2011) by Mitchell Zuckoff The Maltese Falcon (1929) by Dashiell Hammett Man Without a Gun (1999) by Giandomenico Picco The Murder of Napoleon (1982) by David Hapgood Out (2003) by Natsuo Kirino People of the Book (2008) by Geraldine Brooks The Playboy of the Western World (1907) by John Millington Synge Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party (2009) by Max Blumenthal The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002) by Gary Shteyngart The Secret Scripture (2008) by Sebastian Barry Seven Years in Tibet (1953) by Heinrich Harrer Slaves in the Family (1998) by Edward Ball Stones from the River (1994) by Ursula Hegi Thunderstruck (2006) by Erik Larson True Grit (1968) by Charles Portis Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010) by Laura Hillenbrand The White Devil (1612) by John Webster The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997) by Haruki Murakami The Wings of the Dove (1902) by Henry James send comments, fan mail, and miscellany to bibliophilicsociety@gmail.com webmistress caitlin strokosch © 2006-2011