January: 1-Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee, 2003 Nobel Prize, 2-The Little Book of Atheist Sprituality, Andre Comet-Sponville
February: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz, the winner of 2007 National Book Critics Circle, and 2008 Pulitzer Prize
March: Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
April: White Tiger, Aravind Adiga, the winner of 2008 Man Booker Prize
May: A Mercy, Tony Morrison
June: The Queen's Fool, Philippa Gregory
July: The Outcast, Sadie Jones, the winner of 2008 UK's Costa First Novel Award, and shortlisted for the UK's female writers' Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
August: When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
September: The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery(French), translated by Alison Anderson
October: Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Jonah Lehrer. We'll read the sections about: Walt Whitman, George Eliot, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf. Reading the remaining chapeters is optional.
November: The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry, the winner of 2008 UK's Costa Novel Prize, and shortlisted for 2008 ManBooker Prize
December: The Great Man, Kate Christensen, the winner of 2008 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction
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