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HISTORY

February 08, 2020

There There

by Tommy Orange

Hosts: Beth

Food theme: TBD

November 23, 2019

Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Hosts: Mallary and Tom

Food theme: Vegetarian Thanksgiving

October 05, 2019

The Odyssey

by Homer; translated by Emily Wilson

Hosts: Pamela and Yolanda

Food theme: Food for the Gods

July 27, 2019

Pachinko

by Min Jin Lee

Hosts: Kerstin and Tony

Food theme: Power foods

May 11, 2019

Crossing to Safety

by Wallace Stegner

Hosts: Hal and Ellie

Food theme: Picnic Food

February 23, 2019

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Hosts: Beth

Food theme: Food from West African 

December 01, 2018

Sing, Unburied, Sing

by Jesmyn Ward

Hosts: Lynn & Jim

Food theme: Comfort Food

September 22, 2018

Did You Ever Have a Family

by Bill Clegg

Hosts: Tom and Mallary

Food theme: Comfort Food

July 21, 2018

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

Hosts: Kerstin and Tony

Food theme: real food

April 14, 2018

History of Wolves

by Emily Fridlund

Hosts: Hal & Ellie

Food theme: diner food and fish

January 20, 2018

A Gentleman in Moscow

by Amor Towles

Hosts: Beth

Food theme: Eastern European food or anything that sounds completely lovely and enticing

December 03, 2017

The Three-Body Problem *

by Cixin Liu

Hosts: Lynn & Jim

Food theme: TBD

September 09, 2017

A Brief History of Seven Killings

by Marlon James

Hosts: Kerstin & Tony

Food theme: Jamaican

June 17, 2017

City of Thieves

by David Benioff

Hosts: Mallary & Tom

Food theme: Russian food, with bonus points for egg or chicken dishes.

April 08, 2017

Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead

Hosts: Hal & Ellie

Food theme: Southern

January 14, 2017

White Tiger

by Aravind Adiga

Host: Beth

Food theme: Indian

October 29, 2016

The Orenda

by Joseph Boyden

Hosts: Lynn & Jim

Food theme: Harvest Celebration

July 23, 2016

The Sympathizer *

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Hosts: Tom & Mallary

Food theme: American Exceptionalism

June 11, 2016

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

Hosts: Kerstin (sans Tony)

Food theme: Nada!

April 16, 2016

The Children Act

Ian McEwan

Host: Hal & Ellie

Food theme: Food to fatten up someone just released from hospital

February 20, 2016

Cry, the Beloved Country

by Alan Paton

Host: Beth

Food theme: South African Food

November 14, 2015

Sweetland

by Michael Crummey

Hosts: Lynn & Jim

Food theme: Bounty from the sea or the mash

September 12, 2015

A Scanner Darkly

Philip K. Dick

Hosts: Tom & Mallary

Food theme: Drug-related or -sounding foods

June 13, 2015

The Buried Giant

by Kazuo Ishiguro

Hosts: Kerstin & Tony

Food theme: Foods you forget

April 25, 2015

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

by Richard Flanigan

Hosts: Hal & Ellie

Food theme: Either:

1. Foods that are round. For example, rice balls and duck eggs,

2. Food from Nikitaris's fish shop to go with this quote, "Two couta, a dozen battered scallops and some buttered fucken bread. Sir."

February 07, 2015

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

Host: Beth

Food theme: Indian

November 15, 2014

The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt

Hosts: Lynn & Jim

Food theme: Impressive dish from your repertoire

September 13, 2014

The Signature of All Things

by Elizabeth Gilbert

Hosts: Mary & Kevin

Food theme: Food with signatures WTF

July 26, 2014

Salvage the Bones

by Jesmyn Ward

Hosts: Hal & Ellie (for Mary & Kevin)

Food theme: Eggs found on your property

May 17, 2014

The CIrcle

by Dave Eggers

Host: Amir

Food theme: Things you can find at The Glass Eatery

March 08, 2014

The Round House

by Louise Erdrich

Hosts: Tom & Mallary

Food theme: Food you bring to a sick house

February 08, 2014

The Master and the Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

Hosts: Kerstin & Tony

Food theme: Russian

October 05, 2013

The Dinner

by Herman Koch

Hosts: Hal & Ellie

Food theme: Food you would order at a fancy restaurant

April 27, 2013

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

Host: Beth

Food theme: Southern

November 17, 2012

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

Hosts: Tom & Mallary

Food theme: Food that reminds you of home

September 29, 2012

Blackwater Lightship

by Colm Toibin

Hosts: Kerstin & Tony

Food theme: Party

July 21, 2012

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

Hosts: Hal & Ellie

Food theme: Dionysian Mysteries ritual foods

May 05, 2012

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

Host: Beth

Food theme: Picnic food

March 10, 2012

No Great Mischief

by Alistair McLeod

Hosts: Lynn & Jim

January 14, 2012

Middlesex

by Jeffrey Euginides

Hosts: Tom & Mallary

Food theme: Greek

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