Banff Book Discussion Weekend: Historical Book List 1961-2024 – updated Jun 3/25 |
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| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart | 1977 |
| Adamson, Gil* | The Outlander | 2012 |
| Adiga, Aravind | White Tiger | 2011 |
| Albee, Edward | The American Dream | 1972 |
| Ali, Monica | Brick Lane | 2007 |
| Anderson-Dargatz, Gail | The Cure For Death By Lightning | 1998 |
| Ardrey, Robert | African Genesis | 1968 |
| Atwood, Margaret | Alias Grace | 1999 |
| Atwood, Margaret | Survival | ???? |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Edible Woman | 1981 |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid’s Tale | 1988 |
| Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park | 1994 |
| Badami, Anita Rau | Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? | 2009 |
| Baldwin, James | The Fire Next Time | 1965 |
| Beauchemin, Yves | The Alleycat | 1990 |
| Benioff, David | City of Thieves | 2017 |
| Beresford-Howe, Constance | The Book of Eve | 1989 |
| Bergson, Henri | The Creative Mind | 1964 |
| Birdsell, Sandra* | The Russlander | 2003 |
| Bissoondath, Neil | A Casual Brutality | 1992 |
| Booth, Martin | A Very Private Gentleman | 2013 |
| Boyden, Joseph | Three Day Road | 2009 |
| Brink, Andre | A Dry White Season | 1989 |
| Brooks, Geraldine (Zoom) | Horse | 2023 |
| Burnham, J. | The Machiavellians | 1971 |
| Butala, Sharon* | The Girl in Saskatoon | 2008 |
| C. Northcote Parkinson | Parkinson’s Law | 1972 |
| Camus, Albert | Exile and the Kingdom | 1966 |
| Camus, Albert | The Fall | 1964 |
| Camus, Albert | The Outsider | 1980 |
| Cary, Joyce | The Horse’s Mouth | 1966 |
| Cathers, Willa | My Antonia | 2014 |
| Chang, Janie | Library of Legends | 2022 |
| Chariandy, David (Zoom) | Brother | 2022 |
| Chekhov, Anton | Ward 6 | 1984 |
| Chevalier, Tracy | The Girl with the Pearl Earring | 2003 |
| Choy, Wayson | The Jade Peony | 2004 |
| Clark, Joan* | The Birthday Lunch | 2016 |
| Clarke, Arthur C. | The City and the Stars | 1971 |
| Cody, Lynn* (Zoom) | Watching You Without Me | 2021 |
| Collins, Wilkie | The Moonstone | 2012 |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness | 1966 |
| Courtney, Bryce | The Power of One | 2004 |
| Cowan, Shannon | Leaving Winter | 2002 |
| Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage | 1969 |
| Crummey, Michael | Sweetland | 2016 |
| Davidson, Andrew* | The Gargoyle | 2014 |
| Davies, Robertson | What’s Bred in the Bone | 1982 |
| Davies, Robertson (2020 Zoom) | The Fifth Business | 1979 & 2020 |
| de Beauvoir, Simone | Les Belles Images | 1979 |
| de Beauvoir, Simone | The Second Sex | ???? |
| De Rosnay, Tatiana | Sarah’s Key | 2012 |
| Diamant, Anita | The Red Tent | 2003 |
| Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities | 2008 |
| Dickens, Charles | Hard Times | 1990? |
| Doerr, Anthony | All the Light We Cannot See | 2016 |
| Doerr, Harriot | Stones of Ibarra | 1992 |
| Doige, Norman | The Brain’s Way of Healing | 2019 |
| Drabble, Margaret | The Realms of Gold | 1988 |
| Ekwuayasi, Francesca * | Butter Honey Pig Bread | 2023 |
| Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) | Mill on the Floss | 1985 |
| Eliot, T. S. | Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | ???? |
| Eliot, T.S. | The Hollow Men | ???? |
| Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | 1997 |
| Endicott, Marina* | Good to a Fault | 2009 |
| Esquivel, Laura | Like Water for Chocolate | 1995 |
| Fairbairn, Ann | Five Smooth Stones | 2013 |
| Fallis, Terry* (Zoom) | The Best Laid Plans | 2020 |
| Findley, Timothy | Not Wanted on the Voyage | 1994 |
| Findley, Timothy | The Piano Man’s Daughter | 1997 |
| Findley, Timothy | The Wars | 1982 |
| Flanery, Patrick | Absolution | 2015 |
| Forster, E. M. | Passage to India | 1965 |
| Fowles, John | The French Lieutenant’s Woman | 1985? |
| Frankel, Victor | Man’s Search for Meaning | 1972 |
| Fromm, Erich | May Man Prevail | ???? |
| Fromm, Erich | The Art of Loving | 1965 |
| Fry, Alan | The Revenge of Annie Charlie | ???? |
| Galgut, Damon (Zoom) | The Promise | 2022 |
| Galloway, Steven | The Cellist of Sarajevo | 2015 |
| Galsworthy, John | A Man of Property | 2000 |
| Genova, Lisa | Remember | 2023 |
| Gide, Andre | The Immortalist | 1984 |
| Glover, Douglas | Elle | 2009 |
| Goto, Hiromi* | Chorus of Mushrooms | 1997 |
| Govier, Katherine | Three Views of Crystal Water | 2008 |
| Grenville, Kate | The Secret River | 2010 |
| Grove, F. P. | Fruits of the Earth | 1979 |
| Gulland, Sandra* (2011) | Mistress of the Sun | 2011 |
| Gulland, Sandra* (2011) | The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B | 2006 |
| Guterson, David | Snow Falling on Cedars | 1998 |
| Haley, Susan | Getting Married in Buffalo Jump | 1989 |
| Halvorson, Marilyn | Let It Go | 1993 |
| Hamid, Mohsin (Zoom) | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | 2020 |
| Hardy, Thomas | Under the Greenwood Tree | 1996 |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter | 2010 |
| Hay, Elizabeth* | His Whole Life | 2018 |
| Herr, Michael | Dispatches | 1985 |
| Hertmans, Stefan | War and Turpentine | 2019 |
| Hess, Hermann | Siddhartha | 1972 |
| Hess, Hermann | Narcissus and Goldmund | 1983 |
| Holt, Simma | Terror In the Name of God | 1967 |
| Hugo, Victor *Dr. James Black, UofC | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 1986 |
| Hulme, Keri | The Bone People | 1994 |
| Irving, John | A Home for Owen Meany | 1991 |
| Irving, John | A Prayer for Owen Meany | 1991 |
| Ishiquro, Kazuo | The Remains of the Day | 1992 |
| Itani, Frances* | The Company We Keep | 2022 |
| Johnson, Jane | The Tenth Gift | 2013 |
| Jolley, Elizabeth | The Well | 1991 |
| Jones, Lloyd | Mr. Pip | 2011 |
| Joyce, Rachel | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | 2014 |
| Jung, C. G. | The Undiscovered Self | 1969 |
| Kawabata, Yasunari | The Sound of the Mountain | 1982 |
| Kazantzakis, Nikos | Zorba the Greek | 1969 |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | 1984 |
| Kidd, Sue Monk | The Invention of Wings | 2017 |
| Kierkegaard, Owen | Fear and Trembling | 1964 |
| Kimmel, Fran | No Good Asking | 2022 |
| King, Thomas | Medicine River | 1992 |
| King, Thomas | Sufferance | 2023 |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | The Poisonwood Bible | 2005 |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Kim | 2002 |
| Kogawa, Joy | Obasan | 1984 |
| Kriesel, Henry | The Rich Man | 1980 |
| Krishnamurti, Jiddu | The First and Last Freedom | 1980 |
| Kundera, Milan | The Farewell Party | 1986 |
| Lam, Vincent | Blood Letting and Miraculous Cures | 2008 |
| Lawrence, D.H. | Sons and Lovers | 1980 |
| Lawrence, Margaret | Stone Angel | 1978 |
| Lawrence, Margaret | The Drummer of All The World | 1982 |
| Lawrence, Margaret | The Tomorrow Tamer (short story from) | 1985 |
| LeCarre, Jean | Absolute Friends | 2007 |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mocking Bird | 2006 |
| Leferti, Christy (Zoom) | The Beekeeper of Aleppo | 2021 |
| Lessing, Doris | Memoirs of a Survivor | 1981 |
| Letts, Billie | The Honk and Holler Opening Soon | 2002 |
| Lively, Penelope | Moon Tiger | 1990 |
| MacIntyre, Linden* | The Bishop’s Man | 2013 |
| Maclean, Norman | A River Runs Through It | 1993 |
| MacLennan, Hugh | Barometer Rising | 2001 |
| MacLennan, Hugh | The Watch That Ends the Night | 1967 |
| MacLennan, Hugh | Two Solitudes | 1978 |
| MacLennan, Hugh | Voices in Time | 1983 |
| MacLeod, Alistair* (2006) | No Great Mischief | 2002 & 2006 |
| Mahfouz, Naquis | Palace Walk | 2018 |
| Marquez, C.G. | Chronicles of a Death Foretold | 1993 |
| Martell, Yann | Life of Pi | 2005 |
| Marty, Sid* | Switchbacks | 2007 |
| Maugham, W. S. | The Painted Veil | 2003 |
| McCourt, Frank | Angela’s Ashes | 2000 |
| McEwen, Ian | Saturday | 2007 |
| McLuhan, Marshall | Understanding Media | 1968 |
| Menninger, Karl | Man Against Himself | 1968 |
| Michaels, Anne* | Fugitive Pieces | 1999 |
| Miller, Madeline | Circe | 2023 |
| Miller, Walter, Jr. | Canticle for Liebowitz | 1985 |
| Mistry, Rohinton | A Fine Balance | 1998 |
| Mistry, Rohinton | Such a Long Journey | 1993 |
| Mitchell, W.O. | Who Has Seen the Wind | 2022 |
| Moore, Brian | The Magician’s Wife | 2001 |
| Moriarty, Laura | The Chaperone | 2016 |
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved | 1999 |
| Munro, Alice | The Progress of Love | 1988 |
| Naipaul, V.S. | Bend in the River | 1983 |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich | Beyond Good and Evil | 1973 |
| Niven, Catherine Simmons* | A Fine Daughter | 2005 |
| Nixon, Rosemary* | The Cock’s Egg | 1995 |
| Noah, Trevor (Zoom) | Born a Crime | 2021 |
| Oliva, Peter* | Drowning in Darkness | 1996 |
| Ondaatje, Michael (Zoom) | Warlight | 2021 |
| Ondaatje, Michael *Dr. Susan Dorscht UofC | In the Skin of the Lion | 1989 |
| O’Neill, George & Nena | Open Marriage | 1973 |
| Orwell, George | Keep the Aspidstra Flying | 1972 |
| Ostenso, Martha | Wild Geese | 1995 |
| Owens, Delia (Zoom) | Where the Crawdads Sing | 2021 |
| Patchett, Anne | Bel Canto | 2005 |
| Paton, Alan | Cry the Beloved Country | 1981 |
| Pearl, Matthew | The Last Dickens | 2018 |
| Peter, Dr. Lawrence J. & Hull, Raymond | The Peter Principle | 1971 |
| Pieper, Josef | Leisure, the Basics of Culture | 1975 |
| Pirsig, Robert M. | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | 1983 |
| Proulx, E. Annie | The Shipping News | 1996 |
| Quinn, Kate | The Rose Code | 2024 |
| Rees, Roberta* | Beneath the Faceless Mountain | 2004 |
| Ricci, Nino | Lives of the Saints | 1995 |
| Richardson, Bill* | Bachelor Brother’s Bed and Breakfast | 2000 |
| Richler, Mordecai | The Incomparable Atuk | 1976 |
| Robinson, John A.T. | Honest to God | 1965 |
| Rolland, Solange C. & Graham, Gwethalyn | Dear Enemies | 1967 |
| Ross, Sinclair | As For Me and My House | 1999 |
| Rushdie, Salmon | The Moor’s Last Sigh | 2001 |
| Russell, Bertrand | Has Man a Future | 1971 |
| Russell, Bertrand | In Praise of Idleness | 1967 |
| Russell, Bertrand | Marriage and Morals | 1966 |
| Ryga, George | The Ectasy of Rita Joe | 1981 |
| Sapergia, Barbara | Dirt Hills Mirage | 1986 |
| Sawyer, Robert* | Wake | 2010 |
| Schumacher, E. F. | Small is Beautiful | 1978 |
| Segal, Erich | Love Story | 1982 |
| Selvadurai, Shyam | The Hungry Ghosts | 2015 |
| Shattuck, Jessica | The Women in the Castle | 2020 |
| Shattuck, Jessica (Zoom) | Women in the Castle | 2020 |
| Shaw, G. B. | Man and Superman | 1969 |
| Shaw, G. B. | St. Joan | 1964 |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein | 1983 |
| Sinclair, Lister | Socrates: A Drama in Three Acts | 1969 |
| Smith, Lillian | Killers of the Dream | 1972 |
| Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr | Warning to the West | 1979 |
| Stegner, Wallace | Angle of Repose | 1989 |
| Stegner, Wallace | Crossing to Safety | 2000 |
| Steinbeck, John | The Grapes of Wrath | 2004 |
| Steiner, George | Nostalgia for the Absolute | 1979 |
| Stenson, Fred* | The Trade | 2001 |
| Stone, Irving | Clarence Darrow For The Defence | 1974 |
| Swift, Graham | Last Orders | 2011 |
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver’s Travels | 1978 |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club | 1992 |
| Taylor, G. R. | The Biological Time Bomb | 1971 |
| Tey, Josephine | Daughter of Time | 1990 |
| Thomas, Dylan | Under Milkwood | 1983 |
| Thomas, Joan * | Wild Hope | 2024 |
| Thomas, Lewis | Lives of a Cell | 1987 |
| Tillich, Paul | The Courage To Be | 1990 |
| Toews, Miriam (Zoom) | Women Talking | 2021 |
| Trafford, Tyler* | Almost A Great Escape | 2015 |
| Trollope, Anthony | The Warden | 2018 |
| Vaillant, John | Fire Weather | 2024 |
| Van Herk, Aritha* | Tent Peg | 1985 |
| Van Pelt, Shelly | Remarkably Bright Creatures | 2024 |
| Vanderhaeghe, Guy | The Last Crossing | 2006 |
| Verghese, Abraham | Cutting For Stone | 2012 |
| Vermette, Katherena* | The Break | 2019 |
| Vine, Barbara | Asta’s Book | 1996 |
| Wagamese, Richard *(Sandi Boucher in his place) | Medicine Walk | 2017 |
| Walker, Alice | The Temple of My Familiar | 1991 |
| Weiner, Eric | The Geography of Bliss | 2017 |
| Wharton, Thomas* | Icefields | 1997 |
| White, Patrick | Fringe of Leaves | 1988 |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Picture of Dorian Gray | 1979 |
| Wilder, Thornton | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | 1993 |
| Wilson, Colin | The Outsiders | 1978 |
| Wilson, Ethel | Swamp Angel | 1994 |
| Winters, Ben H. | Underground Airlines | 2019 |
| Winton, Tim | Cloudstreet | 2014 |
| Wolfe, Tom *Dr. Adriena Kertzer | Bonfire of the Vanities | 1990 |
| Wright, Lauralie* | The Suspect | 1987 |
| Wyndham, John | The Crysalids | 1982 |
| Xinran | Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet | 2010 |
