World Literature Book Club
Location:
Manuel's Tavern
602 Highland Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307
(Parking is availble across the street in the lot adjacent to Midtown Cleaners & Laundry)
If you interested in receiving other cultures, and are curious to find out how global perspectives are expressed through contemporary European and world literature, this new book club may be for you. Rather than focusing on established canon, this club will delve into a few established classics such as the fable of The Little Prince, and explore emerging genres such as the graphic memoir Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story. We will also read works fantasy, historical fiction, journalism, and novels from Columbia, Egypt, France, Iceland, South Africa, Switzerland, and Turkey.
The World Literature Book Club meets at Manuel's Tavern on the first Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m.
Book Club Liaison: Liza Mueller
December Selection
The Other End of the Line by Andrea Camilleri
Previous Selections
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai WeiWei
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
The Bone Fire by György Dragomán
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro
Mona by Pola Oloixarac
Bitch by Pilar Quintana
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
Europa's The Passenger: India
A Strange Woman by Leylâ Erbil
Europa's The Passenger: Turkey, 2021
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Europa’s The Passenger: Japan, 2020
The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
Europa’s The Passenger: Paris, 2021
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
A Lover's Discourse by Xialu Guo
The Tool & The Butterflies by Dmitry Lipskerov
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
How Iceland Changed the World by Egill Bjarnason
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Maps by Nuruddin Farah
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Walking on the Ceiling by Ayşegül Savaş
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Severance by Ling Ma
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Mouthful of Birds by Samantha Schweblin
Rock, Paper, Scissors by Maxim Osipov
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrea
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
Night School by Zsofia Ba
The Wall by Max Annas
Companions by Christina Hesselholdt
Daytripper by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Brother in Ice by Alicia Kopf
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Babylon Berlin by Volker Kutscher
Breaking Lorca by Giles Blunt
Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Richard Howard
The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre
The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski
