21st Century Literature discussion

Here's an alphabetical list of books that have already been read and discussed in this group, with the dates they were read. We'll endeavor to keep this list current, but there may be a delay in updating it with the most recent books.

11/22/63 by Stephen King 03/2012 and 11/2016
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami 04/2012
The Accidental by Ali Smith. 07/2013
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 11/2014
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 01/2012
American Gods by Neil Gaiman 01/2015
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 08/2014
Arcadia by Lauren Groff 09/2014
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach 01/2012
Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead 04/2015
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter 09/2014
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain 11/2012
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt, 02/2016
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 10/2016
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell 02/2015
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly, 01/2016
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi, 11/2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings by James Marlon 12/2015
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz 11/2012
The Cave by José Saramago 04/2012
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt 12/2013
The Circle by Dave Eggers 02/2014
City of Thieves by David Benioff 10/2013
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 05/2012
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra 11/2013
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 06/2012
Cracks in the Invisible by Stephen Kampa 07/2013
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 01/2012
Dear Life by Alice Munro 12/2013
Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser 04/2012
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock 10/2013
Different Hours by Stephen Dunn 04/2013
Dirt Music by Tim Winton 08/2013
Diving Belles by Lucy Wood, 02/2016
Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos 09/2013
Empire Falls by Richard Russo 08/2013
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld 07/2014
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck, 04/2016
Euphoria by Lily King 03/2016
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story by D.T.Max 12/2012
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer 06/2014
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa 07/2014
Fever and Spear by Javier Marias 10/16
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemesin 07/16
Finding My Elegy by Ursula K. Le Guin 11/2012
Fire to Fire by Mark Doty 06/2012
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North 10/2015
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner 01/2014
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson 12/2014
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 05/2015
Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru 04/2014
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 01/2014
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker 04/2014
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 10/2012
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 01/2013
HHhH by Laurent Binet 04/2013
The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna 07/2016
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss 06/2013
Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins 12/2013
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 10/2012
How to be both by Ali Smith 01/2015
In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente 07/2015
The Infatuations by Javier Marías 11/2013
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin 09/16
Invisible by Paul Auster 06/2014
The Islanders by Christopher Priest 07/2014
Jerusalem by Gonçalo M. Tavares 03/2015
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami 11/2014
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver 03/2013
Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann 04/2014
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson 09/2013
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 06/2015
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 10/2015
Loquela by Carlos Labbé, 03/2016
The Lost Time Accidents 04/2016
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton 05/2014
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin 01/2016
The Maid's Version by Daniel Woodrell 12/2014
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides 05/2012
The Master by Colm Tóibín 01/2013
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, 09/2015
Min Kamp / My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard 05/2016
The Mind-Body Problem by Katha Pollitt 12/2012
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami, 11/2015
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 05/2013
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 08/2015
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk 02/2012
My Noiseless Entourage by Charles Simic 08/2013
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil 05/2013
The Narrow Road to the Deep North 05/2016
Nemesis by Philip Roth 03/2013
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill 06/2016
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 07/2012
Night Film by Marisha Pessl 10/2013
NW by Zadie Smith 12/2012
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 10/2013
Orfeo by Richard Powers, 12/2015
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson 10/2014
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 10/2013
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf, 04/2016
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson 10/2014
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace 08/2012
Paperboy by Bob Thurber 02/2013
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey 02/2012
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth Mckenzie 09/2016
Provinces of Night by William Gay 08/2014
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi 10/2013
A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell 07/2015
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks 01/2016
Seiobo There Below by Laszlo Krasznahorkai 05/2015
The Sellout, Paul Beatty 08/16
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes 07/2012
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt 06/2012
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray 03/2012
Slade House by David Mitchell, 03/2016
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee 02/2012
Some Luck by Jane Smiley 06/2015
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, 09/2015
Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke 09/2013
Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire 10/2014
Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds 06/2013
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 04/2015
Stone mouth by Iain Banks 08/2016
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell 04/2013
The Sympathizer by Nguyen, Viet Thanh 06/2016
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki 03/2014
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman 02/2014
Tenth of December by George Saunders 05/2014
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín 01/2013
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver 05/2013
The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin 04/2015
Time and Materials by Robert Hass 05/2012
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 06/2013
Traveler of the Century by Andrés Neuman 02/2015
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri 09/2012
The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits 01/2015
Vanishing Point by David Markson 12/2012
The Vegetarian by Han Kang 07/2016
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 09/2012
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler 03/2014
The White Tiger Adiga, Aravind 10/2012
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi 10/2012
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 07/2013
The World's Smallest Bible by Dennis Must 07/2015
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany 08/2015
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers 02/2013

Last Updated 6/7/2016

Thanks to some fantastic work by Luella and Hugh, our folders have been updated to make older book discussions easier to find.

Here’s a step-by-step guide to locating older discussions. There are a few ways to do it. Keep in mind that the bookshelf can be sorted by title, author, and date for your searching convienience.

1. Find the book you are interested in in the group bookshelf . Note that all books are tagged with the year they were read.
2. Click on the “View Activity” link for the chosen book. For more recent books, a direct link to the discussion will open and you’re done. For older discussions, you will get a link to the folder for the year the book was read. For example, click “View Activity” for “The White Tiger” and the link for ‘2012 Book Discussions’ will open.
3. Click on the ‘Links to 2012 Book Discussions’ (or whatever year you’re in). From there, click on the title of the book you’re looking for, and you will be redirected one more time to a post with direct links to all of the topics for that book.

Alternatively, you can go directly to the folder for the year corresponding to the book you are interested in (‘2012 Book Discussions’, ‘2013 Books Discussions’, etc.) and click on ‘topics’ at the top of the posts to sort by the names of the books / discussions in that folder and scroll to the one you are interested in.

Please report any broken links or other issues you have to one of the moderators and we’ll get it fixed. Happy Browsing!

Thanks so much to Luella and Hugh for making those discussions more easily accessible!!

Whitney wrote: "Here's an alphabetical list of books that have already been read and discussed in this group, with the dates they were read. We'll endeavor to keep this list current, but there may be a delay in up..."

I've read a dozen of these, most of them quite good. I esp. liked The Goldfinch and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I also see two Zadie Smith novels on the list but neither is White Teeth -- an excellent book.

American Gods is also very good.