RFB Men's Club: Books to the Ceiling

Sunday, March 8, 2015

Books to the Ceiling

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.

How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. - Arnold Lobel

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Books of the RFB Men's Club

Seeing by Jose Saramago, November 8
What Work Is by Philip Levine, October 11
The Hanged Man by Robert Bartlett, September 13
Iron Council by China Mieville, August 8
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, July 12
Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges, June 15
War Music by Christopher Logue, May 17
Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton
Colorless Tsuduru and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakamii
Empire of the Summer's Moon by S.C. Gwynne
Simons Night by Jon Hassler, January 11, 2015
Titus Groan by Melvyn Peake, December 14
The Faithful Executioner by Joel F. Harrison, November 9
China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston, October 12
Neuromancer by William Gibson, September 14
Open City by Teju Cole, August 10
The Black Sheep by Honore Balzac, July 13
VALIS by Philip K. Dick, June 13
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, May 4
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugresic, April 13
The Answer to the Riddle is Me by David MacLean, March 9
Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin, February 9
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, January 12, 2014
Anathem by Neal Stephenson, December 8
The Circle by David Eggers, November 10
The Absent City by Ricardo Piglia, October 13
How the Hippies Saved Physics by David Kaiser, September 8
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, August 11
Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill, July 14
Swerve by David Greenblatt ,june 9
A Gravestone Made of Wheat by Will Weaver, May 12
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Phlibrick, April 14
Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron, March 3
How to Live by Sarah Bakewell, February 10
Blindness by Jose Saramago, January 13,2013
Little Fingers by Filip Florian, December 9th
Economy of the Unlost by Anne Carson, November 11
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria, Oct. 14
What in God's Name by Simon Rich,Sept. 9
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr, August 12
The Tetherballs of Bougainvelle by Mark Leyner, July 8
Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity, by Charles Taylor, June 3
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco, May 20
The Train by Georges Simenon, April 8
The Great Leader by Jim Harrison, March 11
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, February 12
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, January
The Marriage Plot: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, December 11th
Far North by Marcel Theroux, November 13th
The Thing About Life is that One Day You'll be Dead by David Shields, October 9
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, September 11
The Hour of the Star by Clarise Lispector, August 14
The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine, July 10
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, June 12th
Just Kids by Patti Smith, May 15th
All Things Shining by Dreyfus and Kelly, April 10th
Tinkers by Paul Harding, March 13th
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, February 20th (?)
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas llosa, January 9
American Gods by Neil Gaiman, December
The Beach by Cesare Pavese, November
The City and the City by China Meiville, October
Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon, September 19th
Silence by Shusaku Endo, August 15th
The Broom of the System" by David Foster Wallace, July 18th
Time and Again by Jack Finney, June 13th
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, May
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, April 11th
The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg, March 7th
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, February 7th
The Winter Vault by Ann Michaels, January 10
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges, December 13
The Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr, November 8th
The White Tiger, October 11th
The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich, Sept. 13th
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
The Location of Culture by Homi Bhabha