The books we've read and the plays we've seen...


The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr - March 2007

The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier - April 2007

Old Filth by Jane Gardam - May 2007

The Matisse Stories by A. S. Byatt - September 2007

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - October 2007

The Communist's Daughter by Dennis Bock - November 2007

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - January 2008

The Clean House, play by Sarah Ruhl - March 2008

The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman - April 2008

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan - May 2008

Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb - May 2008

The Odyssey by Homer - September 2008

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida - October 2008

Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones - December 2008

Effigy by Alissa York - January 2009

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan - March 2009

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink - May 2009

Doubt, play by John Patrick Shanley - May 2009

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson - September 2009

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski - October 2009

Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski - November 2009

The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani - January 2010

Intimate Apparel, play by Lynn Nottage - February 2010

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery - April 2010

The Outlander by Gil Adamson - May 2010

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver - September 2010

The Origin of Species by Nino Ricci - October 2010

Death of a Salesman, play by Arthur Miller - October 2010

The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger - December 2010

Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa - January 2011

Ruined, play by Lynn Nottage - February 2011

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin - April 2011

The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman - May 2011

The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy - September 2011

All That Matters by Wayson Choy - September 2011

Room by Emma Donoghue - October 2011

The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng - November 2011

The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb - December 2011

The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht - January 2012

War Horse, play by Nick Stafford - February 2012

Clybourne Park, play by Bruce Norris - April 2012

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain - May 2012

Speed the Plow, play by David Mamet - September 2012

The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje - October 2012

The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak - November 2012

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson - December 2017

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes - February 2013

Girl Reading by Katie Ward - May 2013

Angels in America, play by Tony Kushner - September 2013

The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadurai - October 2013

Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - November 2013

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce - December 2013

The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan - January 2014

Kicking the Sky by Anthony De Sa - February 2014

The Dinner by Herman Koch - April 2014

Mies Julie, play by Yael Farber - May 2014

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer - June 2014

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - September 2014

Our Country's Good, play by Timberlake Wertenbaker - October 2014

TransAtlantic by Colum McCann - November 2014

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - December 2014

Dr. Brinkley's Tower by Robert Hough - January 2015

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki - February 2015

Ubu and the Truth Commission, play by William Kentridge - April 2015

All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu - May 2015

The Children Act by Ian McEwan - June 2015

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - September 2015

An Enemy of the People, play by Henrik Ibsen - October 2015

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters - November 2015

No Relation by Terry Fallis - January 2016

My Ghosts by Mary Swan - February 2016

Chimerica, play by Lucy Kirkwood - April 2016

Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian - May 2016

Us by David Nicholls - June 2016

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara - September 2016

Red Notice by Bill Browder - October 2016

The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes - November 2016

On the Shores of Darkness There is Light by Cordelia Strube - December 2016

Vanessa and her Sister by Priya Parmar - January 2017

The Naturalist by Alissa York - February 2017

887, play by Robert Lepage - April 2017

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff - May 2017

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles - September 2017

Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese - October 2017

The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck - November 2017

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, play by Simon Stephens - November 2017

And After the Fire by Lauren Belfer - January 2018

The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth about Men and Women in the 21st Century by Stephen Marche - February 2018

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid - April 2018

The Nix by Nathan Hill - May 2018

Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday - September 2018

The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman - October 2018

The Children, play by Lucy Kirkwood - October 2018

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee - November 2018

The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya - January 2019

I Am a Truck by Michelle Winters - February 2019

A Doll’s House Part 2, play by Lucas Hnath - April 2019

Warlight by Michael Ondaatje - May, 2019

Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan - September, 2019

A Streetcar Named Desire, play by Tennessee Williams - October 2019

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan - November 2019

First Snow, Last Light by Wayne Johnston - December 2019