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Below is a list of books and articles you might consider
reading in preparation for the Symposium.
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra ′84
Vikram Chandra’s novel, Sacred Games, has been called a
contemporary masterpiece reminiscent of Dickens. Plan to
read this remarkable work and be ready for a discussion with
the author. Vikram will speak at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, May
2 in the Ballroom, followed by a book signing. View this
important
link about Sacred Games.
On Reading by Guy
Davenport
Verlyn Klinkenborg suggested that this marvelous essay be
read by all symposium attendees.
Other Planning Committee Suggestions
Do you enjoy reading about reading?
Choose from the following list of books that alumni have
compiled. Add a book or two of your own choosing by
submitting your suggestions to the alumni office at
alumni@pomona.edu.
Battles, Matthew
–
Library: An Unquiet History
Bennett, Alan –
An Uncommon Reader: A Novella
Borges, Jorge Luis –
The Library of Babel
Bradbury, Ray –
Fahrenheit 451
Dirda, Michael –
Classics for Pleasure
Eco, Umberto –
The Name of the Rose
Foster, Thomas C. –
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Gaines, Ernest –
A Lesson Before Dying
Hanff, Helene –
84, Charing Cross Road
Manguel, Alberto –
A History of Reading
The Library at Night
McMurtry, Larry –
Books: A Memoir
Nafisi, Azar –
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nakazawa, Keiji –
Barefoot
Gen
Petroski, Henry –
The Book on the Bookshelf
Schlink, Bernard –
The Reader
Seierstad, Asne –
The Bookseller of Kabul
Shaffer, Mary Ann –
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
Spiegelman, Art –
Maus: A
Survivor’s Tale
Woolf, Virginia –
The Common Reader
Do you belong to a Book Club or
do you want to start one?
Share information about your reading group, how it is
formed, what the “rules” are, and what books have been
successful. Your reading list may be posted as well by
contacting the Alumni Relations Office at
alumni@pomona.edu.
A group of Southern California alumnae living in Claremont
and Pasadena started a Book Club in 2000. They chose to
limit membership to eight, meet monthly alternating between
Pasadena and Claremont, and try to reach a balance between
classics and contemporary works.
Listed below is the list of completed books since the group
started in 2000:
Achebe, Chinua –
Things Fall Apart
Alexander, Caroline –
The Endurance
Allende, Isabel –
The House of the Spirits
Aristophanes –
Lysistrata
Atwood, Margaret –
The Tent
Auburn, David –
Proof
Austen, Jane –
Emma
Bail, Murray –
Eucalyptus
Bainbridge, Beryl –
The
Birthday Boys
Banville, John –
The Sea
The Untouchable
Black, Benjamin (aka John Banville)–
Christine Falls
Boswell, James –
The Life of Samuel Johnson (selections)
Bradbury, Ray –
Fahrenheit 451
Bronte, Charlotte –
Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily –
Wuthering Heights
Brooks, Geraldine –
Year
of Wonders
Brown, Dan –
The
Da Vinci Code
Caldwell, Bo –
The Distant Land of My Father
Pasadena’s One City, One Book
Camus, Albert –
The Plague
Cather, Willa –
My Antonia
Chandra, Vikram –
Sacred Games
Chaucer, Geoffrey –
Canterbury
Tales (Selections)
Cheever, Susan –
American Bloomsbury
Coetzee, J.M. –
Disgrace
Conrad, Joseph –
The
Heart of Darkness
The
Secret Agent
Conway, Jill Kerr –
Written By Herself
Crane, Stephen –
The Red Badge of Courage
Cunningham, Michael –
The
Hours
Dante – (Ciaran Carson, trans.) –
The Inferno of Dante Alighieri (Selections)
Davies, Robertson –
Fifth
Business
DeWitt, Helen – The Last Samurai
Dickens, Charles –
Our Mutual
Friend
Dostoevsky, Feodor –
The Brothers
Karamazov
Drabble, Margaret –
The Seven Sisters
Ecclesiastes from
The Old
Testament
Eliot, George –
Middlemarch
Elliott, Mai –
The Sacred Willow
Emerson, Ralph Waldo –
The American Scholar: An Oration
Erdrich, Louise –
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Eugenides, Jeffrey –
Middlesex
Fairchild, B.H. –
The Art of the Lathe (Poetry)
Faulkner, William –
Light
in August
The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott –
The
Great Gatsby
Fforde, Jasper –
The
Eyre Affair
Forster, E.M. –
A
Passage to India
Howard’s
End
Franzen, Jonathan –
The Corrections
Frayn, Michael – Copenhagen
Frazier, Charles –
Cold Mountain
Friedman, Thomas –
From Beirut to Jerusalem
The
World Is Flat
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel –
Love in the Time of Cholera
Haddon, Mark –
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–Time
Hamilton, Denise –
The Jasmine Trade
Hanff, Helene –
84, Charing Cross Road
Heaney, Seamus, translator –
Beowulf
Hillerman, Tony –
A Thief of Time
Hosseini, Khaled –
The
Kite Runner
Hulme, Keri –
The
Bone People
Hurston, Zora Neale –
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous –
Brave
New World
Ibsen, Henrik –
An Enemy of the People
James, Henry –
The
Ambassadors
James, Henry –
The Portrait of a Lady
Jin, Ha –
The Crazed
Jones, Lloyd –
Mr. Pip
Joyce, James –
Dubliners
Kafka, Franz –
Metamorphosis
Kaminsky, Stuart – A Pale Red Sunrise
Black Knight in Red Square
Kidder, Tracy –
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Kingsolver, Barbara –
The Poisonwood Bible
Lahiri, Jhumpa –
Interpreter of Maladies
Lewis, C.S. –
Mere Christianity
Lightman, Alan –
Einstein’s Dreams
Luke –
Gospel
MacLaverty, Bernard –
Grace
Notes
Mahfouz, Naguib –
Midaq
Alley
McCullough, David –
1776
John Adams
Mornings on Horseback
McEwen, Ian –
Atonement
Saturday
Melville, Herman –
Bartleby, The
Scrivener
Morrison, Toni –
Beloved
Mortenson, Greg –
Three Cups of Tea
Mosley, Walter –
Devil in a Blue Dress
Munro,
Alice – Selected short stories including Carried Away
and The Bear Came Over
the Mountain
Nabokov, Vladimir –
Ada, or Ardor
Nafisi, Azar –
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nemirovsky, Irene –
Suite Francaise
O’Connell, Carol –
Find Me
O’Connor, Flannery – Selected Short Stories
Old Man
O’Neill, Joseph –
Netherland
Pamuk, Orhan –
Snow
Paretsky, Sara –
Indemnity Only
Patchett, Anne –
Bel
Canto
Pearl, Mathew –
The
Dante Club
Proulx, Annie –
The
Accordion Crimes
Raskin, Ellen – Hotflashes
Rice, Anne –
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
Robinson, Marilynne –
Gilead
Housekeeping
Rowling, J.K. –
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Rushdie, Salman –
Midnight’s Children
The Satanic Verses
Salinger, J.D. –
Catcher in The Rye
Salzman, Mark –
The Soloist
Saramago, Jose –
The
Cave
Sayers, Dorothy –
Strong
Poison
Schlink, Bernard –
The Reader
Shaffer, Mary Ann –
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
Shakespeare, William –
Hamlet
Henry IV (Parts I and II)
Smith, Zadie –
On
Beauty – )
Sobel, Dava –
Longitude
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander–
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Stegner, Wallace –
Angle
of Repose
Stoppard, Tom –
Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Toibin, Colm –
The Master
Tsukiyama, Gail –
The Samurai’s Garden
Twain, Mark –
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tyler, Anne –
Back When We Were Grownups
Dinner At the Homesick Restaurant
Urrea, Luis Alberto –
The Hummingbird’s Daughter
Vanderbeek, Jennifer –
Easter Island
Virgil – (Trans. Robert Fitzgerald) –
The Aeneid
West, Morris –
The Devil’s Advocate
Wharton, Edith –
Ethan Frome
House of Mirth
Wilder, Thornton –
Our Town
Wills, Garry –
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Winchester, Simon –
The Professor and the Madman
Wodehouse, P.G. –
The Code of the Woosters
Wolff, Tobias –
This
Boy’s Life: A Memoir
Woolf, Virginia –
Mrs.
Dalloway
Orlando
Yeats, William Butler –
“The Second Coming”
In Claremont, there is a book club that calls the Village
home. Below is a list of books they have read over the
years.
Atkinson, Kate – Behind The Scenes At The Museum
Barker, Pat – Blow Your House Down
Berger, John – To The Wedding
Conrad, Joseph – Heart Of Darkness
Cunningham, Michael – The Hours
Dante – Inferno
Didion, Joan – Political Frictions
Dorothy, Alison – The Postman
Dramant, Anita – The Rend Tent
Durrell, Lawrence – Balthazar
Durrell, Lawrence – Justine
Edgerton, Clyde – Walking Across Egypt
Elliott, George – Mill On The Floss
Elliott, Mai – The Sacred Willow
Fitch, Janet – White Oleander
Fitzgerald, Penelope – The Blue Flower
Golden, Arthur – Memoirs Of A Geisha
Hak Kyung Cha, Theresa – Dictee
Hornsby, Nick – About A Boy
Hymes, James – The Lectures Tale
Jeter Naslund, Sena – Ahab's Wife
Kingsolver, Barbara – Poisonwood Bible
Kipling, Rudyard – The Light That Failed
Kraemer, Don – Blue Oranges
Kureishi, Hanif – Intimacy
Mahfouz, Naguib – Midaq Alley
Martel, Yan – The Life Of Pi
Mattenry, Jackie – Age Of Kali
Melville, Herman – Moby Dick
Nabokov, Vladimir – Pale Fire
Ondaatje, Michael – Anil's Ghost
Rashid, Ahmed – Taliban
Roy, Aarundhati – God Of Small Things
Salzman, Mark – Lying Awake
Schlink, Bernhard – The Reader
Smith, Zadre – White Teeth
Straight, Susan – The Gettin' Place
Trevor, William – After Rain
Winchester, Simon – Professor And The Madman
Woolf, Virgina – The Guineas
Woolf, Virginia – Mrs. Dalloway
Several years ago, a group of Claremont mothers and
daughters got together for form a book club. Below is a list
of the books the mothers and daughters of the Delta Mu book
club have shared.
Hesse, Karen – Music Of The Dolphins
Creech, Sharon – Ruby Holler
Cushman, Karen – Catherine, Called Birdy
Muñoz Ryan, Pam – Esperanza Rising
Sachar, Louis – Someday Angeline
Halse Anderson, Laurie – Fever 1973
Peck, Richard – A Year Down Yonder
Creech, Sharen – Chasing Redbird
Goodall, Jane – My Life With Chimpanzees
Madden, Kerry – Gentle's Holler
Travers, PI – Mary Poppins
Hannagan, Katerine – Ida B… & Her Plans To Maximze Fun,
Avoid Disaster & (Possibly) Save The World
Nesbit, Elizabeth – The Enchanted Castle
Burnford, Sheila – The Incredible Journey
Fitzhugh, Louise – Harriet The Spy
Creech, Sharon – Blomability
Funke, Cornelia – The Thief Lord
Haddix, Margaret – Running Out Of Time
Mckinley, Robin – Beauty
Danziger, Paula – The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
Choblenko, Jennifer – Al Capone Does My Shirts
Funke, Cornelia – Inkheart
Mass, Wendy – A Mango Shaped Space
Aiken, Joan – The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase
Martin, Ann – Here Today
Peck, Richard – The River Between Us
Weeks, Sarah – So B It
Mass, Wendy – Jeremy Finke & The Meaning Of Life
Freedman, Russell – Immigrant Kid
Patterson, Katherine – Bridge To Terabithia
L'Engle, Madeline – A Wrinkle In Time
Muñoz Ryan, Pam – Becoming Naomi Leon
Woodson, Jacqueline – Last Summer With Maison
Vandehvelde, Vivian – Heir Apparent
Rowling, J.K. – Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
Zevin, Gabrielle – Elsewhere
Voigt, Cynthia – Homecoming
Abrahams, Peter – Down The Rabbit Hole
Hiassen, Carl – Hoot
Riordan, Rick – The Lightning Thief
Abrahams, Peter – Behind The Curtain
Werlin, Nancy – The Rules Of Survival
Dessen, Sarah – Lock & Key
Wharton, Edith – Ethan Frome
Zusak, Markus – The Book Thief
Martin, Ann – A Corner Of The Universe
Haddon, Mark – The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night
Clements, Andrew – Things Not Seen
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