Read Harder Book Group Recap: October

New York

• Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, Sonia Shah (February 23 2016)
• Sacred Games: A Novel, Vikram Chandra
• If I Was Your Girl, Meredith Russo (May 2016)
• Knulp: Three Tales from the Life of Knulp, Herman Hesse
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Sterling Unabridged Classics), Jules Verne
• L’Etranger (French Edition), Albert Camus
• Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel, Salman Rushdie
• The New Gods
• The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?, Jared Diamond
• The Wheel of Time series, Robert Jordan
• A Little Life: A Novel, Hanya Yanagihara
• Ring (Ring Series, Book 1), Koji Suzuki
• Smaller and Smaller Circles, F.H. Batacan
• My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind, Scott Stossel
• You’re Fine, Gina Tron
• M Train, Patti Smith
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics), Joan Didion
• Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander), Diana Gabaldon
• Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Laini Taylor (audio)
• Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York’s Bravest, Ginger Adams Otis
• Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir, Alan Cumming (audio)
• Passing
• And the Birds Rained Down, Jocelyn Saucier
• The Country of Ice Cream Star, Sandra Newman
• We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel, Matthew Thomas

Boston

• Daughters unto Devils , Amy Lukavics
• Fates and Furies: A Novel, Lauren Groff
• Pretty Girls: A Novel, Karin Slaughter
• Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral, Mary Doria Russell
• Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson
• The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
• A Book of Common Prayer, Joan Didion
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, Janet Mock
• Tiger Lily, Jody Lynn Anderson
• Peter Pan: Centennial Edition (Signet Classics), J. M. Barrie

Philadelphia

• Dreamstrider, Lindsay Smith
• Room: A Novel, Emma Donoghue
• Wool, Hugh Howey
• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert
• NYou’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir, Felicia Day
• None of the Above, I.W. Gregorio
• The Dwelling: A Novel, Susie Moloney
• The House, Christina Lauren
• Neverwhere: A Novel, Neil Gaiman
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed
• The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
• The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters
• More Happy Than Not, Adam Silvera
• Bad Feminist: Essays, Roxane Gay
• The Book of Disquiet , Fernando Pessoa
• Regeneration (Regeneration Trilogy), Pat Barker
• Nimona, Noelle Stevenson
• Lumberjanes Vol. 1,  Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Brooke Allen, Shannon Watters
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain
• Armada: A Novel, Ernest Cline
• Ready Player One: A Novel, Ernest Cline
• The Storyspinner (The Keepers’ Chronicles), Becky Wallace
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James
• The Children of Men, P.D. James
• We Are Water: A Novel (P.S.), Wally Lamb
• She’s Come Undone (Oprah’s Book Club), Wally Lamb
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks
• If I Stay, Gayle Forman
• The Plague, Albert Camus
• A Madness So Discreet, Mindy McGinnis
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Fair Coin, E.C. Myers
• Mistborn: The Final Empire (Book No. 1), Brandon Sanderson (audio)
• Steelheart (The Reckoners), Brandon Sanderson (audio)
• Throne of Glass, S.J. Maas (audio)

Houston

• Hunting and Gathering, Anna Gavalda
• Moving Through The Streets, Joseph Veramu
• The Proud Breed, Celeste De Blasis
• The Son, Philipp Meyer
• Huntress (A Grace Murphy Novel Book 1), Nicole Hamlett
• Gil’s All Fright Diner, A. Lee Martinez
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, Caitlin Doughty
• Odd Thomas series, Dean Koontz
• Ticktock: A Novel, Dean Koontz
• Pym: A Novel, Mat Johnson
• The Intuitionist: A Novel, Colson Whitehead
• Geek Love: A Novel, Katherine Dunn
• The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach
• Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus, Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy

Los Angeles

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, Erik Larson
• OOne Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
• The House of the Spirits: A Novel, Isabel Allende
• The Girl With All the Gifts, M.R. Carey
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert
• Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
• The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
• The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster

Glasgow

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel, Susanna Clarke
• The Neopolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante
• Janice Galloway’s works in general
• Why Not Me?, Mindy Kaling
• Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson
• Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, Jenny Lawson
• Courtney Milan’s works in general
• Brave Enough, Cheryl Strayed
• 750 Years in Paris, Vincent Mahé
• The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance, Edward de Waal