Books Reading Group

The New York Times > Readers' Opinions > Reader Picks: Books Reading Group: "Reading Group discusses a book chosen by a vote from the readers. The authors often drop by to answer readers' questions. This list includes recent book choices, with links to the discussions and book reviews. "

Runaway By ALICE MUNRO
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare By STEPHEN GREENBLATT
The Plot Against America By PHILIP ROTH
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power By DANIEL YERGIN
The Namesake By JHUMPA LAHIRI
Ghost Wars By STEVE COLL
Everything Is Illuminated By JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
The Rebel By ALBERT CAMUS
The Portrait of a Lady By HENRY JAMES
Random Family By ADRIAN NICOLE LeBLANC
Mansfield Park By JANE AUSTEN
American Dynasty By KEVIN PHILLIPS
Brick Lane By MONICA ALI
Constantine's Sword By JAMES CARROLL
Eugene Onegin By ALEKSANDR PUSHKIN
Natasha's Dance By ORLANDO FIGES
The Human Stain By PHILIP ROTH
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books By AZAR NAFISI
The Emigrants By W. G. SEBALD
'A Problem From Hell': America and the Age of Genocide By SAMANTHA POWER
Middlesex By JEFFREY EUGENIDES
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning By CHRIS HEDGES
The Quiet American By GRAHAM GREENE
The Moral Animal By ROBERT WRIGHT
The Sea, the Sea By IRIS MURDOCH
Paris 1919 By MARGARET MacMILLAN

MORE DISCUSSIONS
• Dec. 2002: 'Unless' by Carol Shields
• Nov. 2002: 'Homage to Catalonia' by George Orwell
• Oct. 2002: 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole
• Sep. 2002 'Wealth and Democracy' by Kevin Phillips
• Aug. 2002: 'Atonement' by Ian McEwan
• July 2002: 'W. E. B. Du Bois' by David Levering Lewis
• June 2002: 'Empire Falls' by Richard Russo
• May 2002: 'American Moderns' by Christine Stansell
• Apr. 2002: 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• March 2002: 'Boswell's Presumptuous Task' by Adam Sisman
• Feb. 2002: 'True History of the Kelly Gang' by Peter Carey
• Jan. 2002: 'The Language Instinct' by Steven Pinker
• Dec. 2001: 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen
• Nov. 2001: 'Collected Fictions' by Jorge Luis Borges
• Oct. 2001: 'Tournament of Shadows' by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac
• Sep. 2001: 'The Metaphysical Club' by Louis Menand
• Aug. 2001: 'At Swim-Two-Birds' by Flann O'Brien
• July 2001: 'Way Out There in the Blue' by Frances FitzGerald
• June 2001: 'Soul Mountain' by Gao Xingjian
• May 2001: 'The Death and Life of Great American Cities' by Jane Jacobs
• Apr. 2001: 'Anil's Ghost' by Michael Ondaatje
• March 2001: 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville
• Feb. 2001: 'The Confidence-Man' by Herman Melville
• Jan. 2001: 'The Fatal Shore' by Robert Hughes
• Dec. 2000: 'Tristram Shandy' by Laurence Sterne
• Nov. 2000: 'The First Moderns' by William R. Everdell
• Sept. 2000: 'The Chief' by David Nasaw
• Oct. 2000: 'White Teeth' by Zadie Smith