Banff Book Discussion Weekend’s Historical Book List 1961 – 2021
NB! The Authors in bold and with an asterisk beside their name indicates that they were the guest author for that year. Prior to 1985 the Banff Book Discussion Weekend was under the umbrella of the University of Calgary and they provided professors from the U. of Calgary to make presentations on one book being discussed that weekend.
| Author | Year | Book Title |
| Achebe, Chimea | 1977 | Things Fall Apart |
| Adamson, Gil * | 2012 | The Outlander |
| Adiga, Aravind | 2011 | White Tiger |
| Albee, Edward | 1972 | The American Dream |
| Ali, Monica | 2007 | Brick Lane |
| Anderson – Dargatz, Gail* | 1998 | The Cure for Death by Lightning |
| Ardrey, R. | 1968 | African Genesis |
| Atwood, Margaret | 1999 | Alias Grace |
| ??? | Survival | |
| 1981 | The Edible Woman | |
| 1988 | The Handmaid’s Tale | |
| Austen, Jane | 1994 | Mansfield Park |
| Badami, Anita Rau | 2009 | Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? |
| Baldwin,J. | 1965 | The Fire Next Time |
| Beauchemin,Y. | 1990 | Alleycat |
| Benioff, David | 2017 | City of Thieves |
| Beresford-Howe | 1989 | The Book of Eve |
| Birdsell, Sandra * Guest Author | 2003 | The Russlander |
| Bergson Henri | 1964 | The Creative Mind |
| Bissoondath, Neil | 1992 | A Casual Brutality |
| Booth, Martin | 2013 | A Very Private Gentleman |
| Boyden, Joseph | 2009 | Three Day Road |
| Brink, Andre | 1989 | A Dry White Season |
| Bronte,Emily | 1997 | Wuthering Heights |
| Butala, Sharon * | 2008 | The Girl in Saskatoon |
| Burnham, J. | 1971 | The Machiavellians |
| Camus,A. | 1964 | The Fall |
| 1966 | Exile and the Kingdom | |
| 1980 | The Outsider | |
| Cary, J. | 1966 | The Horse’s Mouth |
| Cathers, Willa | 2014 | My Antonia |
| Chekhov, A. | 1984 | Ward 6 |
| Chevalier, Tracy | 2003 | The Girl with the Pearl Earring |
| Choy, Wayson | 2004 | The Jade Peony |
| Clarke, A. | 1971 | The City and the Stars |
| Clark, Joan * | 2016 | The Birthday Lunch |
| Coady, Lynn * | 2021 | Watching you Without Me |
| Collins, Wilkie | 2012 | The Moonstone |
| Conrad,J. | 1966 | Heart of Darkness |
| Courtney, Bryce | 2004 | The Power of One |
| Cowan, Shannon* | 2002 | Leaving Winter |
| Crane, S. | 1969 | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Crummey, Michael | 2016 | Sweetland |
| Davidson, Andrew * | 2014 | The Gargoyle |
| Davies,Robertson | 1982 | What’s Bred in the Bone |
| 1979/2020 | Fifth Business | |
| deBeauvoir, S. | ?? | The Second Sex |
| 1979 | Les Belles Images | |
| De Rosnay, Tatiana | 2012 | Sarah’s Key |
| Diamant, Anita | 2003 | The Red Tent |
| Dickens,C. | 1990? | Hard Times |
| Dickens, Charles | 2008 | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Doerr, Anthony | 2016 | All the Light We Cannot See |
| Doerr, Harriot | 1992 | Stones of Ibarra |
| Drabble, Margaret | 1988 | The Realms of Gold |
| Doige, Norman | 2019 | The Brains way of Healing |
| Eliot, G. | 1985 | Mill on the Floss |
| Eliot, T.S. | ?? | The Hollow Men |
| ??? | Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
| Endicott, Marina * | 2009 | Good to A Fault |
| Esquivel, Laura | 1995 | Like Water for Chocolate |
| Fairbairn, Ann | 2013 | Five Smooth Stones |
| Fallis, Terry * Virtual | 2020 | The Best Laid Plans |
| Findley, Timothy | 1982 | The Wars |
| 1994 | Not Wanted on the Voyage | |
| 1997 | The Piano Man’s Daughter | |
| Flanery, Patrick | 2015 | Absolution |
| Forster, E.M. | 1965 | Passage to India |
| Fowler, J. | 1985? | The French Lieutenant’s Woman |
| Frankel, Victor | 1972 | Man’s Search for Meaning |
| Fromm, Erich | 1965 | The Art of Loving |
| ?? | May Man Prevail | |
| Fry, Alan | ?? | The Revenge of Annie Charlie |
| Galloway, Steven | 2105 | The Cellist of Sarajevo |
| Galsworthy, John | 2000 | A Man of Property |
| Gide, A. | 1984 | The Immoralist |
| Glover, Douglas | 2009 | Elle |
| Goto, Hiromi * Guest Author | 1997 | Chorus of Mushrooms |
| Govier, Katherine | 2008 | Three Views of Crystal Water |
| Grenville, Kate | 2010 | The Secret River |
| Grove, F.P. | 1979 | Fruits of the Earth |
| Gulland, Sandra* (2011) | 2006 | The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B |
| 2011 | Mistress of the Sun | |
| Guterson, David | 1998 | Snow Falling on Cedars |
| Haley, Susan | 1989 | Getting Married in Buffalo Jump |
| Halvorson,Marilyn | 1993 | Let It Go |
| Hamid, Mohsin | 2020 | The Reluctant Fundamentalist |
| Hardy, Thomas | 1996 | Under the Greenwood Tree |
| Hay, Elizabeth * | 2018 | His Whole Life |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | 2010 | The Scarlet Letter |
| Herr, Michael | 1985 | Dispatches |
| Hess, H. | 1972 | Siddhartha |
| 1983 | Narcissus and Goldmund | |
| Holt, S. | 1967 | Terror in the Name of God |
| Hugo, Victor * Dr. James Black U. of C. | 1986 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| Hulme, Keri | 1994 | The Bone People |
| Hertmans, Stefan | 2019 | War and Turpentine |
| Irving, John | 1991 | A Prayer for Owen Meany |
| Ishiquro, Kazuo | 1992 | The Remains of the Day |
| Johnson, Jane | 2013 | The Tenth Gift |
| Jolley, Elizabeth | 1991 | The Well |
| Jones, Lloyd | 2011 | Mr. Pip |
| Joyce, Rachel | 2014 | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry |
| Jung, C.G. | 1969 | The Undiscovered Self |
| Kawabata, Yasunari | 1982 | The Sound of the Mountain |
| Kazantzakis, N. | 1969 | Zorba the Greek |
| Kesey, K. | 1984 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest |
| Kidd, Sue Monk | 2017 | The Invention of Wings |
| Kierkegaard | 1964 | Fear and Trembling |
| King, Thomas | 1992 | Medicine River |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | 2005 | Poisonwood Bible |
| Kipling, Rudyard | 2002 | Kim |
| Kogawa, J. | 1984 | Obasan |
| Kriesel, H. | 1980 | The Rich Man |
| Krishnamurti | 1980 | The First and Last Freedom |
| Kundera, Milan | 1986 | The Farewell Party |
| Lam, Vincent | 2008 | Blood Letting and Miraculous Cures |
| Lawrence, D.H. | 1980 | Sons and Lovers |
| Mahfouz, Naquis | 2018 | Palace Walk |
| Lawrence, Margaret | 1982 | The Drummer of All The World |
| 1985 | (short story) from The Tomorrow Tamer | |
| 1978 | Stone Angel | |
| LeCarre, Jean | 2007 | Absolute Friends |
| Lee, Harper | 2006 | To Kill a Mocking Bird |
| Lessing, D. | 1981 | Memoirs of a Survivor |
| Letts, Billie | 2002 | The Honk and Holler Opening Soon |
| Lively, P. | 1990 | Moon Tiger |
| MacIntyre, Linden * | 2013 | The Bishop’s Man |
| Maclean , Norman | 1993 | A River Runs Through It |
| MacLennan, H. | 1983 | Voices in Time |
| 1967 | The Watch That Ends the Night | |
| 1978 | Two Solitudes. | |
| 2001 | Barometer Rising | |
| MacLeod, Alistair*(2006) | 2002 & 2006 | No Great Mischief |
| Martell, Yann | 2005 | Life of Pi |
| Marty, Sid * | 2007 | Switchbacks |
| Maugham, W. S | 2003 | The Painted Veil |
| McCourt, Frank | 2000 | Angela’s Ashes |
| McEwen, Ian | 2007 | Saturday |
| McLuhan, Marshall | 1968 | Understanding Media |
| Marquez, C.G. | 1993 | Chronicles of a Death Foretold |
| Meninger, K. | 1968 | Man Against Himself |
| Michaels, Anne * | 1999 | Fugitive Pieces |
| Miller, Walter, Jr. | 1985 | Canticle for Liebowitz |
| Mistry, Rohinton | 1993 | Such a Long Journey |
| 1998 | A Fine Balance | |
| Moore,Brian | 2001 | The Magician’s Wife |
| Moriarty, Laura | 2016 | The Chaperone |
| Morrison, Toni | 1999 | Beloved |
| Munro, Alice | 1988 | The Progress of Love |
| Naipaul, V.S. | 1983 | Bend in the River |
| Nietzsche | 1973 | Beyond Good and Evil |
| Niven, Catherine Simmons * | 2005 | A Fine Daughter |
| Nixon, Rosemary * | 1995 | The Cock’s Egg |
| Noah, Trevor | 2021 | Born a Crime |
| Oliva, Peter * Guest Author | 1996 | Drowning in Darkness |
| O’Neill, G & N | 1973 | Open Marriage |
| Ondaatje, Michael * Dr. Susan Dorscht U. of C. | 1989 | In the Skin of the Lion |
| Ondaatje, Michael | 2021 | Warlight |
| Ostenso, Martha | 1995 | Wild Geese |
| Orwell, G. | 1972 | Keep the Aspidistra Flying |
| Parkinson | 1972 | Parkinson’s Law |
| Patchett, Anne | 2005 | Bel Canto |
| Paton, A. | 1981 | Cry the Beloved Country |
| Pearl, Matthew | 2018 | The Last Dickens |
| Peter, L.J. & Hull,R. | 1971 | The Peter Principle |
| Pieper, J. | 1975 | Leisure, the Basics of Culture |
| Pirsig, R. | 1983 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| Proulx, E. Annie | 1996 | The Shipping News |
| Rees, Roberta * | 2004 | Beneath the Faceless Mountain |
| Ricci,Nino | 1995 | Lives of the Saints |
| Richardson, Bill * | 2000 | Bachelor Brother’s Bed and Breakfast |
| Richler, M. | 1976 | The Incomparable Atuk |
| Robinson, J. | 1965 | Honest to God |
| Roland, S.& Graham, G. | 1967 | Dear Enemies |
| Ross, Sinclair | 1999 | As For Me and My House |
| Rushdie, Salmon | 2001 | The Moor’s Last Sigh |
| Russel, B. | 1971 | Has Man a Future |
| 1966 | Marriage and Morals | |
| 1967 | In Praise of Idleness | |
| Ryga, George | 1981 | The Ecstasy of Rita Joe |
| Sapergia, Barbara | 1986 | Dirt Hills Mirage |
| Sawyer, Robert * | 2010 | Wake |
| Schumacher, E.F. | 1978 | Small is Beautiful |
| Segal, E. | 1982 | Love Story |
| Selvadurai, Shyam | 2015 | The Hungry Ghosts |
| Shattuck, Jessica | 2020 | The Women in the Castle |
| Shaw, G.B. | 1969 | Man and Superman |
| 1964 | St. Joan | |
| Shelley, M. | 1983 | Frankenstein |
| Sinclair, L. | 1969 | Socrates |
| Smith, L. | 1972 | Killers of the Dream |
| Solzhenitsyn, A. | 1979 | Warning to the West |
| Steinbeck, John | 2004 | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Steiner, G. | 1979 | Nostalgia for the Absolute |
| Stegner, Wallace | 1989 | Angle of Repose |
| 2000 | Crossing To Safety | |
| Stenson, Fred* | 2001 | The Trade |
| Stone, I. | 1974 | Clarence Darrow For The Defence |
| Swift, Graham | 2011 | Last Orders |
| Swift, J. | 1978 | Gulliver’s Travels |
| Tan, Amy | 1992 | The Joy Luck Club |
| Taylor, G.R. | 1971 | The Biological Time Bomb |
| Tey, Josephine | 1990 | Daughter of Time |
| Thomas, Dylan | 1983 | Under Milkwood |
| Thomas, Lewis | 1987 | Lives of a Cell |
| Tillich, P. | 1990 | The Courage To Be |
| Toews, Miriam | 2021 | Women Talking |
| Trafford, Tyler* | 2015 | Almost A Great Escape |
| Trollope, Anthony | 2018 | The Warden |
| Vanderhaeghe, Guy | 2006 | The Last Crossing |
| Van Herk, Aritha * | 1985 | Tent Peg |
| Vermette, Katherina * | 2019 | The Break |
| Verghese, Abraham | 2012 | Cutting For Stone |
| Vine, Barbara | 1996 | Asta’s Book |
| Wagamese, Richard (Sandi Boucher in his place)* | 2017 | Medicine Walk |
| Walker, Alice | 1991 | The Temple of My Familiar |
| Weiner, Eric | 2017 | The Geography of Bliss |
| Wharton, Thomas* | 1997 | Icefields |
| White, Patrick | 1988 | Fringe of Leaves |
| Wilde, O. | 1979 | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Wilder, Thornton | 1993 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| Wilson, Colin | 1978 | The Outsiders |
| Wilson, Ethel | 1994 | Swamp Angel |
| Winters, Ben H. | 2019 | Underground Airlines |
| Winton, Tim | 2014 | Cloudstreet |
| Wolfe, Tom *Dr. Adriena Kertzer | 1990 | Bonfire of the Vanities |
| Wright, Lauralie* | 1987 | The Suspect |
| Wyndham, John | 1982 | The Chrysalids |
| Xianran | 2010 | Sky Buriel |
* Denotes Guest Speaker