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 karrow's selected books The African Queen (1935) by C.S. Forester The Age of Grief (1987) by Jane Smiley August: Osage County (2008) by Tracy Letts Barrel Fever (1994) by David Sedaris Burmese Days (1934) by George Orwell Bury Me Standing (1995) by Isabel Fonseca Cities of the Plain (1998) by Cormac McCarthy Damascus Gate (1998) by Robert Stone Delta of Venus (1969) by Anaïs Nin Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (1959) by Alfred Lansing Eve Reviv’d, or the Fair One Stark-Naked (1684) anonymous Fort Dearborn (2007) by Jerry Crimmins & Gerald A. Danzer The Fabulous Clipjoint (1953) by Frederic Brown Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley The Great Atlantic Air Race (1977) by Percy Rowe House Made of Dawn (1969) by N. Scott Momaday The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) by Rebecca Skloot Into the Wild (1998) by Jon Krakauer Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (2000) Anthony Bourdain Knowledge and Information Technology (2000) from Partisan Review The Known World (2003) by Edward P. Jones Legs (1975) by William Kennedy Lost Horizon (1933) by James Hilton The Loved One (1948) by Evelyn Waugh Mawson’s Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written (2000) by Lennard Bickel Milosz’s ABC’s (2001) by Czeslaw Milosz My Antonia (1918) by Willa Cather Now You See Him (2009) by Eli Gottlieb The Odyssey of Kostas Volakis (1999) by Harry Mark Petrakis The Ox-Bow Incident (1940) by Walter Van Tilburg Clark Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life (1986) translated by Dennis Tedlock Runner in the Sun (1954) by D’Arcy McNickle The Secret Agent (1907) by Joseph Conrad The Sheltering Sky (1949) by Paul Bowles So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980) by William Maxwell Suite Française (2007) by Irène Némirovsky The Treasure Of the Sierra Madre (1935) by B. Traven send comments, fan mail, and miscellany to bibliophilicsociety@gmail.com webmistress caitlin strokosch © 2006-2011