Books read by the International Book Club since January 2006


2006:

January:      Brick Lane by Monica Ali     
February:     Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
March:        Life of Pi by Yann Martel
April:        Waiting by Ha Jin
May:          Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
June:         The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
July:         Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
August:       Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
September:    The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
October:      The Dew Breaker by Edwige Danticat
November:     The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
December:     The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany

2007:

January:       Maps by Nuruddin Farah
February:      All the Names by Jose Saramago
March:         An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
April:         Ignorance by Milan Kundera
May:           The Shia Revival by Vali Nasr
June:          The Lover by A. B. Yehoshua
July:          Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
August:        Liquidation by Imre Kertesz
September:     Butterfly Burning by Yvonne Vera
October:       The Zigzag Way by Anita Desai
November:      The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
December:      Floating in My Mother’s Palm by Ursula Heigi

2008:

January:       The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
February:      Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser 
March:         Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
April:         Hunger by Knut Hamsun
May:           Who Killed Palomino Molero? by Mario Vargas Llosa
June:          Popular Music from Vittula by Mikael Niemi
July:          On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
August:        The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
September:     The Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
October:       Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cuba by 
                    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 
November:      The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
December:      The Fall by Albert Camus 

2009:

January:        Snow Country by Jasunari Kamabata 
February:       By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano
March:          Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham 
April:          Zenzele by Nozipo Morarire
May:            The Lover by Marguerite Duras 
June:           The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski  
July:           Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 
August:         The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedua 
September:      White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
October:        Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabel
November:       Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin 
December:       The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

2010:

January:        The Appointment by Herta Muller
February:       Chinese Checkers by Mario Bellatin 
March:          Senselessness by Harcio Castellanos Moya
April:          Country of Origin by Don Lee
May:            The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
June:           Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahrior Mandunipour
July:           Under the Frog  by Tibor Fischer
August:         The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald
September:      The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin
October:        Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
November:       Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
December:       Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

2011:

January:        A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
February:       Agamemnon's Daughter by Ismail Kadare
March:          Minaret by Leile Aboulela
April:          Death In Venice by Thomas Mann
May:            In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenudin
June:           Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
July:           A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry 
August:         The Consequences of Love by Sulaimen S.M.Y. Addonia
September:      The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
October:        Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Boll
November:       Death in Spring by Merce Rodoreda
December:       The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

2012:

January:        Silence by Shusaku Endo
February:       To Hell with Cronje by Ingrid Winterbach
March:          Almost Dead by Assaf Gavron
April:          Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
May:            The Brothers Ashkenazi by I.J. Singer
June:           The Assault by Harry Mulisch
July:           The Cyclist Conspiracy by Svetislav Basara
August:         Missing Soluch by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
September:      The Future is Not Ours edited by Diego Trelles Paz
October:        The Brief Wonderous Life of Junot Diaz
November:       How to Live by Sarah Bakewell   
December:       Five Spice Street by Can Xue

2013:

January:        Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare
February:       The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
March:          The Discovery of Slowness by Sten Nadolny 
April:          Partitions by Amit Majmudar  
May:            The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
June:           Shipwrecks by Akira Yashimura 
July:           Abundance by Amit Majmudar