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Book Club
Whenever a good read comes along, discussion is sure to follow. And what feeds an energetic conversation about books better than a little pizza? Such is the nature of the USP Book Club. Over the course of three Wednesdays each semester, Scholars will get together to discuss some of today’s finest novels. The books are provided to interested students free of charge and are available in the USP Office. For more information on this semester's book club selections, review the descriptions below and contact Ken Johnson in the USP Office (ken_johnson@ncsu.edu).
Fall 2011 Book Club Selections!
USP Book Club: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Wednesday, September 14
6:00 PM
Sullivan Classroom, Sullivan Residence Hall
At a café in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter…
USP Book Club: Cold Mountain
Wednesday, October 12
6:00 PM
Sullivan Classroom, Sullivan Residence Hall
Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back home to the Blue Ridge mountains and to Ada, the woman he loves. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into contact with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, Ada is struggling to right her father’s derelict farm.
USP Book Club: The Thin Red Line
Wednesday, November 16
6:00 PM
Sullivan Classroom, Sullivan Residence Hall
They are the men of C-for-Charlie Company—infantrymen in “this man’s army” who are about to land grim and white-faced on an atoll in the Pacific called Guadalcanal. This is their story, a shatteringly realistic walk into hell and back.
Previous Book Club Selections (available in the Scholars Lounge Library)
Spring 2011
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Fall 2010
A Death in the Family by James Agee
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
Miss Lonelyhearts and the Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Spring 2010
Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems by Charles Simic
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Fall 2009
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen
Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa
Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
Spring 2009
Equus by Peter Shaffer
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Boll
Fall 2008
Under African Skies short story collection
God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Spring 2008
The Yacoubian Building by
Alaa el-Aswany
Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz
The Butterfly's Burden by Mahmoud Darwish
Gate of the Sun by
Elias Khoury
Fall 2007
A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes short story collection
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
Spring 2007
Dogside Story by Patricia Grace
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe
a Dao Vietnam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry by John Balaban
Fall 2006
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
English, August: An Indian Story by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Waiting by Ha Jin
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Spring 2006
Tending to Virginia by Jill McCorkle
Deliverance by James Dickey
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Fall 2005
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Spring 2005
Naked by David Sedaris
Seascape by Edward Albee
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Fall 2004
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Mazurka for Two Dead Men by Camillo Jose Cela
Dakhmeh by Naveed Nori
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Spring 2004
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahin
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinnson
Wolf Whistle by Lew Nordan
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Fall 2003
The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Spring 2003
The Straight Man by Richard Russo
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The War of the Saints by Jorge Amado
Fall 2002:
Moo by Jane Smiley
The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
Woodrow's Trumpet by Tim McLaurin
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
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