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2016 LONG ISLAND CITY
2017 SAINT MARKS
2018 LITTLE ITALY
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2020 SUNNYSIDE & VIRTUAL
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2023 VIRTUAL
2024 VIRTUAL

WHAT /

3 weeks per book
400 pages or less

Selections from

The Modern Library Top 100
Pulitzer and National award winners
and other contemporary and classic works

2015

DARKNESS AT NOON ARTHUR KOESTLER 1940

LOLITA VLADIMIR NABOKOV 1955

THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY THORTON WILDER 1927

WIDE SARGASSO SEA JEAN RHYS 1966

THE SUN ALSO RISES ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1926

PALE FIRE VLADIMIR NABOKOV 1962

WINESBURG, OHIO SHERWOOD ANDERSON 1919

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE MURIEL SPARK 1961

AMERICAN SALVAGE BONNIE JO CAMPBELL 2008

THE DAY OF THE LOCUST NATHANAEL WEST 1939

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE JAMES M CAIN 1934

2016

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN JAMES JOYCE 1916

TOBACCO ROAD ERSKINE CALDWELL 1932

HAMLET WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1603

A ROOM WITH A VIEW E M FORSTER 1908

ANNA KARENINA LEO TOLSTOY 1877

PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT PHILIP ROTH 1969

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN JAMES BALDWIN 1953

THE SYMPATHIZER VIET THANH NGUYEN 2015

THE HEART OF THE MATTER GRAHAM GREENE 1948

ONCE YOU BREAK A KNUCKLE D W WILSON 2011

NOSTROMO [PART] JOSEPH CONRAD 1904

2017

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE VIRGINIA WOOLF 1927

MRS. DALLOWAY VIRGINIA WOOLF 1925

DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP WILLA CATHERS 1927

AS I LAY DYING WILLIAM FAULKNER 1930

INTERPRETER OF MALADIES JHUMPA LAHIRI 1999

ZULEIKA DOBSON MAX BEERBOHM 1911

LABYRINTHS JORGE LUIS BORGES 1962

SCOOP EVELYN WAUGH 1938

CIVILWARLAND IN BAD DECLINE GEORGE SAUNDERS 1996

APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA JOHN O'HARA 1934

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD COLSON WHITEHEAD 2016

HOWARDS END E M FORSTER 1910

THE SPECTATOR BIRD WALLACE STEGNER 1976

A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA RICHARD HUGHES 1929

A COUNTRY DOCTOR'S NOTEBOOK MIKHAIL BULGAKOV 1920s, 1962 (PH)

HEART OF A DOG MIKHAIL BULGAKOV 1925

2018

LOVING HENRY GREEN 1945

WE YEVGENY ZAMYATIN 1924

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE EDITH WHARTON 1920

THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ MORDECAI RICHLER 1959

THE MOVIEGOER WALKER PERCY 1961

A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD JENNIFER EGAN 2011

UNDER THE NET IRIS MURDOCH 1954

THE TRIAL FRANZ KAFKA 1914-1915, 1925 (PH)

OBLIVION [SELECTIONS] DAVID FOSTER WALLACE 2004

THE END OF THE AFFAIR GRAHAM GREENE 1951

THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS ROBERT A HEINLEIN 1966

FATHERS AND SONS IVAN TURGENEV 1862

LESS ANDREW SEAN GREER 2017

INVISIBLE CITIES ITALO CALVINO 1972

SNOW COUNTRY YASUNARI KAWABATA 1935-37

RAGTIME E L DOCTOROW 1975

FORTUNE SMILES ADAM JOHNSON 2015

THE SHELTERING SKY PAUL BOWLES 1949

2019

NORWEGIAN WOOD HARUKI MURAKAMI 1987

ON THE ROAD JACK KEROUAC 1957

THE CALL OF THE WILD JACK LONDON 1903

SOLARIS STANISLAW LEM 1961

TENDER IS THE NIGHT F SCOTT FITZGERALD 1934

THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING MILAN KUNDERA 1984

HENDERSON THE RAIN KING SAUL BELLOW 1959

DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP PHILIP K DICK 1968

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT TIME MARK HADDON 2004

MAUS ART SPIEGELMAN 1980-91

THE OPPOSING SHORE JULIEN GRACQ 1951

ROADSIDE PICNIC ARKADY & BORIS STRUGATSKY 1972

FRANKENSTEIN MARY SHELLEY 1818

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY DOUGLAS ADAMS 1979

THE HANDMAID'S TALE MARGARET ATWOOD 1985

2020

NEUROMANCER WILLIAM GIBSON 1984

THE CALL OF CTHULHU, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, THE DREAM CYCLE H P LOVECRAFT 1918-32

KITCHEN BANANA YOSHIMOTO 1988

WATCHMEN ALAN MOORE 1986-87

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE KURT VONNEGUT 1969

INVISIBLE MONSTERS CHUCK PALAHNIUK 1999

THE COLOR OF MAGIC TERRY PRATCHETT 1983

DODSWORTH SINCLAIR LEWIS 1929

LOLITA VLADIMIR NABOKOV 1955

THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS MIYAMOTO MUSASHI 1643

THE ROAD CORMAC MCCARTHY 2006

SEASON OF CRIMSON BLOSSOMS ABUBAKAR ADAM IBRAHIM 2015

NAKED LUNCH WILLIAM BURROUGHS 1959

DUNE FRANK HERBERT 1965

THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM CIXIN LIU 2008

ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN 1962

THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS ARUNDHATI ROY 1997

STEPPENWOLF HERMANN HESSE 1927

2021

STORIES OF ANTON CHEKHOV [SELECTIONS] ANTON CHEKHOV 1932

THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES PAUL ASTER 2005

THE LEOPARD GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA 1958

THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS URSULA K LE GUIN 1969

THE BELL JAR SYLVIA PLATH 1963

THE GAMBLER FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY 1866

THE AETHIOPICA: THEAGENES AND CHARICLEA HELIODORUS OF EMESA c. 220 - 370 AD

STONER JOHN WILLIAMS 1965

KILLER ANGELS MICHAEL SHAARA 1975

POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM NATALIE DIAZ 2020

EUGENE ONEGIN ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1833

IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER ITALO CALVINO 1979

MEMOIRS OF MONTPARNASSE JOHN GLASSCO 1969

THE GOOD SOLDIER FORD MADOX FORD 1915

PERFUME PATRICK SUSKIND 1985

TROPIC OF CANCER HENRY MILLER 1934

WUTHERING HEIGHTS EMILY BRONTE 1847

THE WASTE LAND T S ELLIOT 1922

A BEND IN THE RIVER V S NAIPAUL 1979

2022

THE MASTER AND MARGARITA MIKHAIL BULGAKOV 1928 - 1940

THE CRYING OF LOT 49 THOMAS PYNCHON 1965

CRYING IN H MART MICHELLE ZAUNER 2021

WASHINGTON SQUARE HENRY JAMES 1880

THE WHITE CASTLE ORHAN PAMUK 1985

NO LONGER HUMAN OSAMU DAZAI 1948

THE IDIOT [SAMPLE] FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY 1869

WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE RAYMOND CARVER 1981

THE ROMANCE OF A SHOP AMY LEVY 1888

A HANDFUL OF DUST EVELYN WAUGH 1934

THE FOREVER WAR JOE HALDERMAN 1974

THE LOST DAUGHTER ELENA FERRANTE 2006

STAY TRUE HUA HSU 2022

THE SOUND AND THE FURY WILLIAM FAULKNER 1929

CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ 1981

WHITE NOISE DON DELILLO 1985

SLEEPWALKER IN A FOG TATYANA TOLSTAYA 1992

2023

SPHINX ANNE GARRETA 1986

THE REMAINS OF THE DAY KAZUO ISHIGURO 1989

LESS THAN ZERO BRET EASTON ELLIS 1985

FIREFOX CRAIG THOMAS 1977

THE SENSE OF AN ENDING JULIAN BARNES 2011

SEA OF TRANQUILITY EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL 2022

THE PLAGUE ALBERT CAMUS 1947

THE ILLUSTRATED MAN RAY BRADBURY 1951

WISE BLOOD FLANNERY OCONNOR 1952

THE BAKERY ATTACKS, LANDSCAPE WITH FLATIRON, A SHINAGAWA MONKEY HARUKI MURAKAMI 1981-2020

THE NOSE, THE OVERCOAT NIKOLAI GOGOL 1836, 1842

BOULE DE SUIF, MOTHER SAVAGE, THE NECKLACE, THE HORLA GUY DE MAUPASSANT 1880-1887

A HAUNTED HOUSE VIRGINIA WOOLF 1921

A SLANDER ANTON CHEKHOV 1883

HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1927

THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS RAY BRADBURY 1950

THE STORY OF AN HOUR KATE CHOPIN 1894

BLOOD MERIDIAN CORMAC MCCARTHY 1985

KOKORO NATSUME SOSEKI 1914

SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN 2021

THE EYE VLADIMIR NABOKOV 1930

THE AWAKENING KATE CHOPIN 1899

THE EMISSARY YOKO TAWADA 2018

DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD OLGA TOKARCZUK 2009

2024

LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE LAURA ESQUIVEL 1989

PLAYER PIANO KURT VONNEGUT 1952

ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD TOM STOPPARD 1966

I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN JACQUELINE HARPMAN 1995

PERMUTATION CITY GREG EGAN 1994

FIFTH BUSINESS ROBERTSON DAVIES 1970