The Gourmet Book Club

The Gourmet Book Club meets the third weekend of each month in a members home to appreciate fine food and fine literature.  It is a diverse group, with an Oxford scholar, a former Nun, teachers, nurses,  business men and Engineers.   Our members hail from all parts of the US, France and England.  One member was born in China to missionary parents. There are Jews, Catholics, Protestants and Unitarians.

We try to read and discuss good books. Another criteria is availability in paper back or multiple library copies.   Here are some of our selections:

The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Scoundrel Times by Lillean Hellman
Joy Luck Club  by Amy Tan
Northanger Abby by Jane Austin
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
Chequer Board by Nevil Shute
Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
July’s People by Nadine Gordimer
Portrait of the Author as a Young Man by James Joyce
I Been There Before by David Carkeet
1984  by George Orwell
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Ethan Frohm by Edith Wharton
Strangers by Albert Camus
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Sophies Choice by William Styron
Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
The Beginning of the End by Naguib Mahfouz
Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev
The Ladies of Lyndon by Kennedy
Yellow Raft of Blue Water by Michael Dorris
Bone People by Keri Hulme
Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn
The Wild Boar by Felix Nettler
The Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatze
Red and Black by Stendahl
The Soloist by Mark Solyman
Love for Lydia by H. E. Bates
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
A Year in Prevence by Peter Mayle
A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark
Four Part Setting by Ann Bridge
Spring Moon by Betty Lord
Absalom Absalom by William Faulkner
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
Karamousa by Anne Hebert
The Cap Ann by Faith Sullivan
Winter Return by John Espy
Whats Bred on the Bone by Robertson Davis
The Pastors Wife by Elizabeth Van Arnim
Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinor Stewart
Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter
The Jewish War by Tova Reich
100 Secret Senses by Amy Tan
Tortilla Flats by John Steinbeck
Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers
Shadow on the Rock by Willa Cather
Angle of Repose by Stegner


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