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The Booker Tea Reading Group reads award-winning and notable novels that are demographically, geographically and thematically diverse. Below are most of the titles that we have read since 1997, arranged alphabetically by title. Not surprisingly, a significant number were shortlisted for or awarded The Booker Prize, for which the group is named.
  • The Accidental by Ali Smith
  • Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
  • Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
  • Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
  • Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
  • The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff
  • The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
  • The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  • Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
  • Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
  • Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
  • The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
  • Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinonez
  • Bone by Fae Myenne Ng
  • The Bone People by Keri Hulme
  • The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
  • The Box Man by Kobo Abe
  • Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe
  • Brick Lane by Monica Ali
  • Butterfly Burning by Yvonne Vera
  • Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
  • The Cave by Jose Saramago
  • The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley
  • The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
  • Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
  • The Dark Bride: A Novel by Laura Restrepo
  • The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
  • Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
  • The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
  • Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
  • Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
  • Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
  • Dogside Story by Patricia Grace
  • Douglass' Women by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • England, England by Julian Barnes
  • The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
  • The Famished Road by Ben Okri
  • Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
  • The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
  • The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
  • Get A Life by Nadine Gordimer
  • The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
  • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  • Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
  • A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
  • The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
  • Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos
  • The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
  • The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
  • The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
  • Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
  • Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
  • How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
  • The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Intuition by Allegra Goodman
  • The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
  • Journey to the End of the Millennium by A.B. Yehoshua
  • Jazz by Toni Morrison
  • Krik, Krak by Edwidge Danticat
  • Last Orders by Graham Swift
  • The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
  • Links by Nuruddin Farah
  • Lost in Translation by Nicole Mones
  • Love Like Gumbo by Nancy Rawles
  • Mao II by Don DeLillo
  • The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
  • Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
  • Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
  • Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  • Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy
  • The Mixquiahuala Letters by Ana Castillo
  • Monkey Hunting by Cristina Garcia
  • The Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
  • Possession by A.S. Byatt
  • Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Reef by Romesh Guneskera
  • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
  • Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
  • Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
  • The Salteaters by Toni Cade Bambara
  • The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
  • Secrets by Nuruddin Farah
  • The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
  • A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
  • Small Island by Andrea Levy
  • Snake Charmer by Sanjay Nigam
  • Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
  • Southern Front by Alejandro Murguia
  • Spidertown by Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.
  • Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
  • Staying On by Paul Scott
  • Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
  • Sugar by Bernice McFadden
  • Sultry Moon by Mempo Giardinelli
  • The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
  • Tinisima by Elena Poniatowska
  • Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
  • Trumpet by Jackie Kay
  • 26a by Diane Evans
  • Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
  • The Unquiet Earth by Denise Giardina
  • Waiting by Ha Jin
  • Water from the Well by Myra McLarey
  • Wild Seed by Octavia Butler
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
  • Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan
  • World's End by T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada by Zoe Valdes

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