Book List for the Old Bridge (NJ) Public Library "Original" Book Discussion Group 1990-2016
- 1990
- 02/21--A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
- 03/21--The Guns of August (Barbara Tuchman)
- 04/18--The Once & Future King (T. E. White)
- 06/20--White Mischief (James Fox)
- 07/11--Joseph Andrews (Henry Fielding)
- 07/23--Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
- 08/15--Riding the Iron Rooster (Paul Theroux)
- 09/12--Brat Farrar (Josephine Tey)
- 10/17--Oscar Wilde (Louis Kronenberger)
- 11/13--Flowers in the Attic (V. C. Andrews)
- 12/19--On Acting (Laurence Olivier)
- 1991
- 01/23--Bank Shot (Donald Westlake)
- 02/21--An Enemy of the People (Henrik Ibsen)
- 03/13--Cuckoo's Egg (Clifford Stoll)
- 04/17--Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
- 05/16--Dragon's Egg (Robert L. Forward)
- 06/20--Bauhaus to Our House (Tom Wolfe)
- 07/18--The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)
- 08/15--Dances with Wolves (Michael Blake)
- 09/24--Uncivil Liberties (Calvin Trillin)
- 10/17--The Plague (Albert Camus)
- 11/19--Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
- 12/17--Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
- 1992
- 01/21--Mr. Wakefield's Crusade (Bernice Rubens)
- 02/20--The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
- 03/17--Dave Barry Slept Here (Dave Barry)
- 04/23--Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis)
- 05/14--Devices & Desires (P. D. James)
- 06/23--Freedom Road (Howard Fast)
- 09/24--Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
- 10/20--The Tempest (movie)
- 10/22--The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
- 11/17--The Firm (John Grisham)
- 1993
- 01/19--A Thousand Acres (Jane Smiley)
- 02/18--A Lost Lady (Willa Cather)
- 03/30--The Gold Bug (Edgar Allan Poe)
- 04/22--Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
- 06/03--The Thief of Time (Tony Hillerman)
- 07/15--I Sent a Letter to My Love (Bernice Rubens)
- 08/09--The Return of Martin Guerre (Natalie Davis)
- 08/26--A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
- 09/23--Spring Moon (Bette Bao Lord)
- 10/28--The Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
- 11/18--The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
- 12/16--The Bean Trees (Barbara Kingsolver)
- 1994
- 02/15--A Pale View of Hills (Kazuo Ishiguro)
- 03/31--Connections (James Burke)
- 04/28--Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov)
- 05/26--The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
- 06/30--The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
- 07/21--A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
- 08/25--The Duchess of Malfi (John Webster)
- 09/22--Grendel (John Gardner)
- 10/20--The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
- 11/17--Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
- 12/20--Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)
- 1995
- 01/26--Persuasion (Jane Austen)
- 02/23--More Than Human (Arthur C. Clarke)
- 03/23--Wind, Sand and Stars (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
- 04/24--The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
- 05/25--Friday Night Lights (H. G. Bissinger)
- 06/22--The Shipping News (Annie Proulx)
- 07/20--Measure for Measure (William Shakespeare)
- 08/24--Men and the Girls (Joanna Trollope)
- 09/21--The Black Velvet Gown (Catherine Cookson)
- 10/26--The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
- 11/21--The People of the Abyss (Jack London)
- 12/28--Saint Joan (George Bernard Shaw)
- 1996
- 01/25--Anna Karenina 1-4 (Leo Tolstoy)
- 02/29--Anna Karenina 5-8 (Leo Tolstoy)
- 04/11--The Warden (Anthony Trollope)
- 04/25--Culture (Robert Hughes)
- 05/23--The Bull from the Sea (Mary Renault)
- 06/27--Jane Eyre (Emily Bronte)
- 07/25--Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
- 08/22--The Father (August Strindberg)
- 09/26--The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)
- 10/24--And the Band Played On (Randy Shilts)
- 11/21--And the Band Played On (Randy Shilts)
- 12/19--The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
- 1997
- 01/23--Beloved (Toni Morrison)
- 02/20--Billy Budd (Herman Melville)
- 03/20--Mother Courage (Bertold Brecht)
- 04/24--Blood Wedding (Federico Garcia Lorca)
- 05/22--Walden (Henry Thoreau)
- 06/26--The Pearl (John Steinbeck)
- 07/24--City of Gold (Len Deighton)
- 08/21--Crime of the Century (Gregory Algren)
- 09/25--Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
- 10/23--Of Love and Shadows (Isabel Allende)
- 11/20--To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
- 12/18--A Bend in the River (V. S. Naipaul)
- 1998
- 01/22--Ragtime (E. L. Doctorow)
- 03/26--Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Roddy Doyle)
- 04/23--Crossing to Safety (Wallace Earle Stegner)
- 05/21--The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien)
- 06/25--The Story of English (Robert McCrum)
- 07/23--Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
- 08/27--Dubliners (James Joyce)
- 09/24--Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- 10/22--Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (John Berendt)
- 11/19--Martin Dressler (Steven Millhauser)
- 12/17--The Web and the Rock (Thomas Wolfe)
- 1999
- 02/25--Losing Battles (Eudora Welty)
- 03/25--Animal Dreams (Barbara Kingsolver)
- 04/29--The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)
- 05/27--The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean Auel)
- 06/24--Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
- 07/29--Under Milk Wood (Dylan Thomas)
- 08/26--Strange Pilgrims (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- 09/30--Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)
- 10/28--The Nurture Assumption (Judith Harris)
- 11/18--The Liar's Club (Mary Karr)
- 2000
- 01/26--No Ordinary Time (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
- 02/17--Bachelor Girls (Wendy Wasserstein)
- 03/23--Elmer Gantry (Sinclair Lewis)
- 04/27--An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
- 05/25--The Professor and the Madman (Simon Winchester)
- 06/22--Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Rebecca Wells)
- 07/20--Sotah (Naomi Ragen)
- 08/24--Stones from the River (Ursula Hegi)
- 09/21--The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)
- 10/26--To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
- 11/30--The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
- 12/28--A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
- 2001
- 01/18--Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
- 02/15--As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
- 03/22--House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
- 04/19--Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
- 05/24--Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman (Richard Feynman)
- 06/21--The Republic (Plato)
- 07/19--The Color of Water (James McBride)
- 08/23--A Conspiracy of Paper (David Liss)
- 09/20--Lincoln's Dreams (Connie Willis)
- 10/18--Writing a Woman's Life (Carolyn G. Heilbrun)
- 11/29--No Word from Winifred (Amanda Cross)
- 12/20--Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (J. K. Rowling)
- 2002
- 01/17--The Odyssey (Homer)
- 02/21--The Deputy (Rolf Hochhuth)
- 03/21--Guns, Germs, & Steel (Jared Diamond)
- 04/25--Waiting (Ha Jin)
- 05/23--The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
- 06/27--Lolita (Vladmir Nabokov)
- 07/25--Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
or Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
- 08/22--Double Helix (James L. Watson)
- 09/26--Day of the Locust (Nathanael West)
- 10/24--The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thorton Wilder)
- 11/21--The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- 12/19--Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- 2003
- 01/16--The Club Dumas (Arturo Perez-Reverte)
- 02/20--The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)
- 03/20--Rocket Boys (Homer Hickam)
- 04/17--Perelandra (C. S. Lewis)
- 05/15--Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
- 06/19--Surprised by Joy (C. S. Lewis)
- 07/17--The Aspern Papers (Henry James)
- 08/21--Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)
- 09/18--[canceled]
- 10/16--Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
- 11/20--Girl with a Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier)
- 12/18--Seabiscuit (Laura Hillenbrand)
- 2004
- 01/15--[canceled]
- 02/19--The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara)
- 03/18--[postponed]
- 04/15--The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
- 05/20--Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad)
- 06/17--The End of the Affair (Graham Greene)
- 07/29--A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
- 08/19--Sweet Thursday (John Steinbeck)
- 09/30--The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
- 10/21--The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
- 11/18--The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde)
- 12/16--The Trial (Franz Kafka)
- 2005
- 01/20--The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
- 02/17--Cannery Row (John Steinbeck)
- 03/17--The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks)
- 04/21--The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)
- 05/19--Don Juan in Hell (George Bernard Shaw)
- 06/16--Men of Mathematics (Eric Temple Bell) (selections)
- 07/21--Maus (Art Spiegelmann)
- 08/18--Poems (Emily Dickinson)
- 09/15--Secret Father (James Carroll)
- 10/20--Devil in a Blue Dress (Walter Mosley)
- 11/17--Bring the Jubilee (Ward Moore)
- 12/15--The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
- 2006
- 01/19--Ecclesiastes/Job
- 02/16--Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (Stephen King)
- 03/16--Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
- 04/20--[canceled]
- 05/18--I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
- 06/15--The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
- 07/20--Hadji Murad (Leo Tolstoy)
- 08/17--Tears of the Giraffe (Alexander McCall Smith)
- 09/21--The Shadow Divers (Robert Kurson)
- 10/19--Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
- 11/16--The Woman and the Ape (Peter H¢eg)
- 12/21--Where Are the Children? (Mary Higgins Clark)
- 2007
- 01/18--On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
- 02/15--Kim (Rudyard Kipling)
- 03/15--The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
- 04/19--The Dante Club (Matthew Pearl)
- 05/17--House of Sand and Fog (Andre Dubus III)
- 06/21--Eyewitness to History (John Carey)
- 07/19--[canceled]
- 08/16--Ragtime (E. L. Doctorow)
- 09/20--Richard III (William Shakespeare)
- 10/18--The Daughter of Time (Josephine Tey)
- 11/15--King & Joker (Peter Dickinson) (joint with SF group)
- 12/20--Year of Wonders (Geraldine Brooks)
- 2008
- 01/17--The Innocents Abroad (Mark Twain)
- 02/21--The Painted Veil (W. Somerset Maugham)
- 03/20--Side Effects (Woody Allen)
- 04/17--The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
- 05/15--Plainsong (Kent Haruf)
- 06/19--The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
- 07/17--Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey (Ralph Leighton)
- 08/21--Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (Anne Rice)
- 09/18--The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
- 10/16--The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing (Melissa Banks)
- 11/20--Fatherland (Robert Harris) (joint with SF group)
- 12/18--A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
- 2009
- 01/15--Orlando (Virgina Woolf)
- 02/19--The Wisdom of Crowds (James Surowiecki)
- 03/19--Morality for Beautiful Girls (Alexander McCall Smith)
- 04/16--The Last Chinese Chef (Nicole Mones)
- 05/21--The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
- 06/18--Travels with Charley (John Steinbeck)
- 07/16--[canceled]
- 08/17--The Medical Detectives (Berton Roueche)
- 09/17--The Ox-Bow Incident (Walter Van Tilburg Clark)
- 10/15--stories (Edgar Allan Poe)
- 11/19--The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- 12/17--Holidays on Ice (David Sedaris)
- 2010
- 01/21--Stoner (John Edward Williams)
- 02/18--The March of Folly (Barbara Tuchman)
- 03/18--Journey Through Genius (William Dunham)
- 04/15--The Best American Science Writing 2001 (editor Timothy Ferris) (selections)
- 05/20--[canceled]
- 06/17--The Best American Science Writing 2001 (editor Timothy Ferris) (selections)
- 08/19--TheSurvival of the Sickest (Sharon Moalem and Jonathan Price)
- 10/21--Ever Since Darwin (Stephen Jay Gould)
- 12/17--Genome (Matt Ridley)
- 2011
- 02/17--Wandering Lands and Animals (Edwin Colbert)
- 04/21--Stiff (Mary Roach)
- 06/17--The Best American Science Writing 2009 (editor Elizabeth Kolbert) (selections)
- 08/25--The Best American Science Writing 2009 (editor Elizabeth Kolbert) (selections)
- 10/20--The Best American Science Writing 2009 (editor Elizabeth Kolbert) (selections)
- 12/15--[postponed]
- 2012
- 02/16--The Hidden Life of Dogs (Elizabeth Marshall Thomas)
- 04/19--Where Good Ideas Come From (Steven Johnson)
- 06/21--The Sweet Hereafter (Russell Banks)
- 08/16--The Astonishing Hypothesis (Francis Crick)
- 10/18--The Kalahari Typing School for Men (Alexander McCall Smith)
- 12/20--Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
- 2013
- 02/21--The Stranger (Albert Camus)
- 04/18--Fancies and Goodnights (John Collier) (some initial segment)
- 06/20--Floating Opera (John Barth)
- 08/15--[canceled]
- 10/17--The Language Instinct (Steven Pinker)
- 12/19--The Eerie Silence (Paul Davies)
- 2014
- 02--The Moon and Sixpence (W. Somerset Maugham)
- 04--Life at the Speed of Light (J. Craig Ventner)
- 06--[canceled]
- 08--There is More to New Jersey Than the Sopranos (Marc Mappen)
- 10--The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012 (editor Dan Ariely)
- 12--The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012 (editor Dan Ariely)
- 2015
- 02--Malgudi Days (R. K. Narayan)
- 04--Heart of a Dog (Mikhail Bulgakov)
- 06--Discover Magazine (articles)
- 08--Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
- 10--The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
- 12--The Man Who Counted (Malba Tahan)
- 2016
- 02--Our Man in Havana (Graham Greene)
- 04--Lost Horizon (James Hilton)
- 06--[canceled]
- 08--Twelve Years a Slave (Solomon Northup)
- 10--Close to Shore by Michael Capuzzo
- 12--Copenhagen by Michael Frayn