Suggestions for the 2013–2014 Reading List

Here is a list of books we might want to consider reading (together or alone) sometime in the future. Those that came quite close to being picked this year are asterisked; those we eventually read are double asterisked.

Fiction

• And the Mountains Echoed—Khaled Hosseini
• The Crying of Lot 49—Thomas Pynchon*
• Cutting for Stone—Abraham Verghese**
• Gone With the Wind—Margaret Mitchell
• The Great Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald*
• The Headmaster's Wager—Vincent Lam
• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame—Victor Hugo
• Just What Kind of Mother Are You?—Paula Daly
• Love in the Time of Cholera—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Runaway—Alice Munro
• Uncle Tom's Cabin—Harriet Beecher Stowe*
• 11/22/63—Stephen King**

Nonfiction

• The Blank Slate—Steven Pinker
• Man's Search for Meaning—Victor E. Frankl
• Thinking, Fast and Slow—Daniel Kahneman
• Who Is This Man—John Ortberg*
• What Einstein Told His Cook—Robert L. Wolke
• Wild Swans—Jung Chang