Our Reading History
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
James
Percival Everett
Theme Northern Home Cooking
The Swallow
mary doria russell
Theme Puerto Rican foods
North Woods
Daniel Mason
Circe
Madeline Miller
Theme golden foods (Helios), seafood (Oceanos,Perse), foods with herbs (pharmaka and moly explicitly discouraged) and of course pork,bacon,ham, etc!
Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Anthony Marra
Theme Peasant Food
Damnation Spring
Ash Davidson
Theme Any food that is not eaten in the book
Small Things Like These & Foster
Claire Keegan
Theme Irish Foods
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
Theme melting pot pot-luck
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
Marisa Crane
Theme foods with a shell or cover.
Death and the Penguin
Andrey Kurkov
Theme foods you would eat at your dacha while celebrating the New Year
A Marriage Portrait
Maggie O'Farrell
Theme food you ate when you were first married
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Theme Thou mayest choose to bring whatever you would like, healthy or decadent.
Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar
Theme Food from your homeland
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
Theme Swiss food
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
Theme Southern cooking and, if possible, Cajun/Creole Louisiana style
Hell of a Book
Jason Mott
Theme Mediterranean
Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu
Theme Stereotypical ethnic dish
Godsend
John Wray
Theme Food you would eat while hoping for grace and dignity and unity of purpose
Station Eleven
Emily St John Mandal
Theme Food you'd eat in an airport while hoping for salvation
There There
Tommy Orange
Theme California cuisine
The Odyssey
Homer
Theme Food for the Gods
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Theme Power foods
Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner
Theme Picnic
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Theme Western Africa
Sing, Unburied Sing
Jesmyn Ward
Theme comfort food
Did you ever have a family
Bill Clegg
Theme comfort food
1984
George Orwell
Theme Real Food
History of Wolves
Emily Fridlund
Theme Diner food and fish
Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
Theme Eastern European
3 body problem
Cixin Liu
Theme no theme
A brief history of 7 kilings
Marlon James
Theme Jamaican
City of Thieves
David Benioff
Theme Russian
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Theme Southern
The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
Theme Indian Food
The Orenda
Joseph Boyden
Theme Harvest celebration
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Theme American Exceptionalism
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
Theme Nada theme at all
The Children Act
Ian McEwan
Theme Food to fatten someone up just released from the hospital
Cry, The Beloved Country
Alan Paton
Theme South African food.
Sweetland
Michael Crummey
Theme Bounty from the sea or the mash.
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick
Theme Drug related or sounding foods.
The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro
Theme Foods you forget
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Theme Indian
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
Theme Impressive dish from your repertoire
The Signature Of All Things
Elizabeth Gilbert
Theme food with signatures
Salvage The Bones
Jesmyn Ward
Theme Eggs found on your property
The Circle
Dave Eggers
The Round House
Louise Erdrich
Theme Food you bring to a sick house, like casseroles
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Theme Russian food
The Dinner
Herman Koch
Theme Food you would order at a fancy restaurant
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Theme Southern Foods
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Theme Foods that remind you of home
Blackwater Lightship
Colm Toibin
Theme Party
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
Theme Dionysian Mysteries ritual foods
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Theme Picnic food
No Great Mischief
Alistair Macleod
Middlesex
Jeffrey Euginides
Theme Greek food
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
Theme Foods with a story
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
So Long, See You Tomorrow
William Maxwell
Theme Foods that make you nostalgic
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Theme Diner food
The Lover
A. B. Yehoshua
Theme Middle Eastern food
The Cave
Jose Saramago
Theme foods with a mysterious center
Remembering Babylon
David Malouf
Theme TBD
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
Theme French peasant food
Waiting
Ha Jin
Theme Chinese
Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler
Theme Russian peasant food
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Theme rustic or country food
Good Behavior
Molly Keane
Theme food you eat when you're in denial
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
Theme Caribbean
Fieldwork: A Novel
Mischa Berlinski
Theme Thai
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Theme Camp Food and Beyond
When We Were Romans
Matthew Kneale
Theme Italian
What is the What
Dave Eggers
Theme Foods you can eat while walking
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
Theme North African
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Theme Italian
Man Gone Down
Michael Thomas
Theme Brazilian
The Assigned Visit
Shelly Fraser Mickle
Theme southern and Boston foods
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
Theme southern diner food
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
Theme Indian
The Emperor's Children
Claire Messud
Theme foods that pretend to be something else
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel
Theme shiva foods
The Echo Maker
Richard Powers
Theme comfort foods you don't recognize
Candide
Voltaire
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Theme Tapas
The History of Love: A Novel
Nicole Krauss
Theme eastern european foods
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Theme Middle Eastern foods
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J. K. Rowling
Theme food with memories
Small Town Odds
Jason Headley
Theme breakfast food
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Theme southern home cookin'
My Name is Red
Orhan Pamuk
Wicked: The Life and Times of the ...
Gregory Maguire
My Antonia
Willa Cather
Lucky Jim
Food that makes you make a face
The Book of Salt : A Novel
Maxine Truong
Theme French or salty
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem
Theme sandwiches
The Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Leviathan
Paul Auster
The Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck
Theme Italian
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
Mystic River
Dennis Lehane
Theme Flat and Point-y foods
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
Theme foods requiring constant vigilance
The Human Stain
Philip Roth
Theme foods that leave a stain
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Theme an amalgam of subthemes
The Intuitionist
Colson Whitehead
Theme foods that give you a lift
The Comforters
Muriel Spark
Theme foods made up of other foods
Till We Have Faces
C. S. Lewis
Theme Greek
Off Keck Road
Mona Simpson
Theme interesting foods that other people eat
The Catcher In The Rye
J. D. Salinger
Theme foods that aren't phony
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
Theme mixed ethnic foods
Into The Forest
Jean Hegland
Theme food you have on-hand
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest Gaines
Theme Cajun & Southern
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Theme African
An Instance of the Fingerpost
Iain Pears
Theme English; conspiracy
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
Theme packaged food
Home at the End of the World
Michael Cunningham
Theme Home cooking
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Theme stream of appetizers
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Theme Soul food
Memoir from Antproof Case
Mark Helprin
Theme South American
Perfect Agreement
Michael Downing
Theme Shaker breakfast
Edwin Mullhouse...
Steven Millhauser
Theme foods you eat like a kid
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Theme English country picnic
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
Theme Middle Eastern
Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Michael Dorris
Theme fusion foods
Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Theme food from the colonies
Bright Angel Time
Martha McPhee
Theme hippie foods
Stones From the River
Ursula Hegi
Theme Small German foods
Last Orders
Graham Swift
Theme Memorial Day foods
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Mark Twain
Theme Southern
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
Theme Indian
Fifth Business
Robertson Davies
Theme Foods with a filling or secret ingredient
Too Loud a Solitude
Bohumil Hrabal
Theme Subversive and oppressive foods
In the Lake of the Woods
Tim O'Brien
Theme Vietnamese
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson
Theme Japanese
Morality Play
Barry Unsworth
Theme Vietnamese/Thai
Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
Theme Chinese
Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty
Theme veg and cheese strudel
Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
Theme Mexican
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
Theme Italian-Pasta
The Shipping News
E. Annie Proulx
Paris Trout
Pete Dexter
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
Theme Italian
Affliction
Russell Banks
Theme Jamaican
Children of Men
P.D. James
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
Theme Quiche
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Theme Foccacia
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
The Tax Inspector
Peter Carey
Bone
Faye Ng
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy



































































































































