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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
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
July 21, 2018
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
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
Food theme: Eastern European food or anything that sounds completely lovely and enticing
December 03, 2017
The Three-Body Problem *
by Cixin Liu
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
Food theme: Southern
January 14, 2017
White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
Host: Beth
Food theme: Indian
October 29, 2016
The Orenda
by Joseph Boyden
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
Food theme: South African Food
November 14, 2015
Sweetland
by Michael Crummey
Food theme: Bounty from the sea or the mash
September 12, 2015
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick
Food theme: Drug-related or -sounding foods
June 13, 2015
The Buried Giant
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Food theme: Foods you forget
April 25, 2015
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanigan
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
November 15, 2014
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
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
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
Food theme: Food you bring to a sick house
February 08, 2014
The Master and the Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Food theme: Russian
October 05, 2013
The Dinner
by Herman Koch
Food theme: Food you would order at a fancy restaurant
April 27, 2013
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
November 17, 2012
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
Food theme: Food that reminds you of home
September 29, 2012
Blackwater Lightship
by Colm Toibin
Food theme: Party
July 21, 2012
The Secret History
Food theme: Dionysian Mysteries ritual foods
May 05, 2012
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
Food theme: Picnic food
March 10, 2012
No Great Mischief
by Alistair McLeod
January 14, 2012
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Euginides
Food theme: Greek
November 19, 2011
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
Food theme: Foods with a story
September 10, 2011
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
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May 07, 2011
So Long, See You Tomorrow
by William Maxwell
Food theme: Foods that make you nostalgic
March 19, 2011
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
Food theme: Diner food
December 04, 2010
The Lover
by A. B. Yehoshua
Food theme: Middle Eastern
October 02, 2010
The Cave
by José Saramago
Food theme: Foods with a mysterious center
June 19, 2010
Remembering Babylon
by David Malouf
May 01, 2010
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
Food theme: French peasant food
January 30, 2010
Waiting
by Ha Jin
Food theme: Chinese
November 14, 2009
Darkness At Noon
by Arthur Koestler
Food theme: Russian peasant food
September 12, 2009
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
Food theme: Rustic country food
July 11, 2009
Good Behaviour
by Molly Keane
Food theme: Things you eat when you are in denial
April 18, 2009
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot DÃaz
Food theme: Caribbean
February 07, 2009
Fieldwork: A Novel
by Mischa Berlinkski
Food theme: Thai
December 06, 2008
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Food theme: Camp food & beyond
October 04, 2008
When We Were Romans
by Matthew Kneale
Food theme: Italian
August 02, 2008
What is the What
Food theme: Food you can eat while walking
June 07, 2008
The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowes
Food theme: North African
April 05, 2008
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
February 09, 2008
Man Gone Down
by Michael Thomas
Food theme: Brazilian
December 15, 2007
The Assigned Visit
by Shelly Fraser Mickle
Food theme: Southern & Boston
September 29, 2007
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
Food theme: Blue plate specials
July 28, 2007
A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud
Food theme: Foods that pretend to be something else
March 03, 2007
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
Food theme: Shiva food
February 03, 2007
The Echo Maker: A Novel
by Richard Powers
Food theme: Comfort food you don't recognize
November 04, 2006
Candide
by Voltaire
September 30, 2006
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Food theme: Tapas
July 15, 2006
The History of Love: A Novel
by Nicole Krauss
Food theme: Eastern European
May 06, 2006
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
January 07, 2006
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
September 24, 2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
by J. K. Rowling
Food theme: Food with memories
July 16, 2005
Small Town Odds
by Jason Headley
Food theme: Breakfast
May 14, 2005
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Food theme: Southern home cookin'
January 15, 2005
My Name is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
Hosts: Greg & Deirdre
October 09, 2004
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Gregory Maguire
July 24, 2004
My Antonia
by Willa Cather
May 22, 2004
Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
April 03, 2004
The Book of Salt: A Novel
by Maxine Truong
Food theme: French or salty food
January 24, 2004
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
November 15, 2003
Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem
Food theme: Sandwiches
September 20, 2003
The Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
Host: Mary
July 12, 2003
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
April 12, 2003
Leviathan
by Paul Auster
January 25, 2003
The Winter of Our Discontent
by John Steinbeck
December 14, 2002
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
October 12, 2002
Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
Food theme: Flat and Point-y foods
May 18, 2002
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
Food theme: foods requiring constant vigilance
April 13, 2002
The Human Stain
Food theme: foods that stain
January 26, 2002
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
Food theme: an amalgam of subthemes
September 15, 2001
The Intuitionist
Food theme: foods that give you a lift
July 21, 2001
The Comforters
by Muriel Spark
Food theme: foods made up of other foods
May 12, 2001
Till We Have Faces
by C. S. Lewis
March 31, 2001
Off Keck Road
by Mona Simpson
Food theme: interesting foods that other people eat
January 20, 2001
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
Food theme: packaged food
November 04, 2000
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
Food theme: food that isn't phony
September 16, 2000
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
Food theme: multi-ethnic
July 15, 2000
Into the Forest
by Jean Hegland
Food theme: food you have on-hand
May 13, 2000
A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest Gaines
Food theme: Cajun & Southern
March 18, 2000
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Hosts: June & Kevin
Food theme: African
January 22, 2000
An Instance of the Fingerpost
by Iain Pears
Food theme: English, conspiracy
October 16, 1999
A Home at the End of the World
by Michael Cunningham
Food theme: home cooking
August 07, 1999
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
Food theme: stream of appetizers
May 01, 1999
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
Food theme: soul food
February 27, 1999
Memoir from Antproof Case
by Mark Helprin
Food theme: South American
December 12, 1998
Perfect Agreement
by Michael Downing
Hosts: Kirsten & Tony
Food theme: Shaker breakfast
October 03, 1998
Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright
by Steven Millhauser
Food theme: Food you eat like a kid
August 01, 1998
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
Food theme: English country picnic
May 16, 1998
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
March 14, 1998
Yellow Raft in Blue Water
by Michael Dorris
Food theme: Fusion
January 17, 1998
Heat and Dust
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Food theme: Food from the colonies
October 18, 1997
Bright Angel Time
by Martha McPhee
Food theme: Hippie food
July 26, 1997
Stones From the River
by Ursula Hegi
Food theme: Small German food
May 31, 1997
Last Orders
by Graham Swift
Food theme: Memorial Day
April 05, 1997
Pudd'nhead Wilson
January 25, 1997
A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh
October 19, 1996
Fifth Business
by Robertson Davies
Food theme: Food with a filling or secret ingredient
July 27, 1996
Too Loud a Solitude
by Bohumil Hrabal
Food theme: Subversive and oppressive foods
June 08, 1996
In the Lake of the Woods
Food theme: Vietnamese
April 13, 1996
Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson
Food theme: Japanese
February 03, 1996
Morality Play
by Barry Unsworth
Food theme: Famine
December 02, 1995
Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
Hosts: Kevin & June
August 26, 1995
The Optimist's Daughter
by Eudora Welty
Food theme: Veg & cheese strudel
June 24, 1995
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
Food theme: Mexican
May 13, 1995
The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
Food theme: Pasta
February 04, 1995
The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx
December 03, 1994
Paris Trout
Pete Dexter
September 24, 1994
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
Host: Bob
July 23, 1994
Affliction
Russell Banks
May 21, 1994
Children of Men
P. D. James
April 16, 1994
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
Food theme: Quiche
January 22, 1994
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Food theme: Foccacia
October 30, 1993
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
July 24, 1993
The Tax Inspector
Peter Carey
May 08, 1993
Bone
Faye Ng
February 06, 1993
All The Pretty Horses
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