What We’ve Read

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 (http://www NULL.themanbookerprize NULL.com/), for which the group is named.

The Accidental by Ali Smith
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna
Animal’s People by Indra Sinha
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 Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Beneath the Lion’s Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
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
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
Butterfly Burning by Yvonne Vera
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
The Cave by Jose Saramago
The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley
Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare
The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
The Dark Bride: A Novel by Laura Restrepo
Day of the Oprichnikby Vladimir Sorokin
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
Delirium by Laura Restrepo
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
Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
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
Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
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
Ladies Coupé by Anita Nair
Landesbühne (http://www NULL.amazon NULL.de/gp/product/3423139854/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thebooteareag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1638&creative=19454&creativeASIN=3423139854)by Siegfried Lenz *
Last Orders by Graham Swift
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Links by Nuruddin Farah
Little Beeby Chris Cleave
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
Lost in Translation by Nicole Mones
Love Like Gumbo by Nancy Rawles
Mao II by Don DeLillo
A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić
Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy
The Mixquiahuala Letters by Ana Castillo
Monkey Hunting by Cristina Garcia
The Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul
Nada by Carmen Laforet
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Night Counter by Alia Yunis
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwoood — currently reading!
Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Quest for Christa Tby Christa Wolf
Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo
Reef by Romesh Guneskera
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Room by Emma Donoghue
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
The Salteaters by Toni Cade Bambara
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
Secrets by Nuruddin Farah
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Snake Charmer by Sanjay Nigam
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Southern Front by Alejandro Murguia
Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
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
The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz
The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
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
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck
Waiting by Ha Jin
Water from the Well by Myra McLarey
Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
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