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Society Books

Brother Alpert's Selections

All the Light We Cannot See (2017)
Anthony Doerr


The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
by Michael Chabon


American Pastoral (1997)
by Phillip Roth


The Art of Fielding: A Novel (2011)
by Chad Harbach


The Assistant (1957)
by Bernard Malamud


Born A Crime (2016)
by Trevor Noah


The Boy Detective Fails (2006)
by Joe Meno


The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin  Olympics (2013)
by Daniel James Brown


Charlie Wilson's War (2003)
by George Crile


A Conspiracy of Paper (2000)
by David Liss


County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital (2010)
by David Ansell


Cutting for Stone (2009)
by Abraham Verghese


Darkness at Noon (1941)
by Arthur Koestler


The Da Vinci Code (2003)
by Dan Brown


The Dean’s December (1982)
by Saul Bellow


The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America (2016)
by Ethan Michaeli


Doc (2011)
by Mary Doria Russell


The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006)
by Muriel Barbery


Empire Falls (2001)
by Richard Russo


Everything is Illuminated (2002)
by Jonathan Safran Foer


Every Man Dies Alone (1947)
by Hans Fallada


Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
by Hunter S. Thompson


The Finkler Question (2010)
by Howard Jacobson


Fortress of Solitude (2003)
by Jonathan Lethem


Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's Life (2006)
by Ira Berkow


The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991)
by Jose Saramago


The Hamilton Affair (2016)
by Elizabeth Cobbs


A Handful of Dust (1977)
by Evelyn Waughn


Herzog (1964)
by Saul Bellow


The Human Stain (2000)
by Philip Roth


In Cold Blood (1965)
by Truman Capote


In the Lake of the Woods (1994)
by Tim O’Brien


In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir (2009)
by Neil White


Invisible Man (1947)
by Ralph Ellison


Let the Great World Spin (2009)
by Colum McCann


The Light Between Oceans (2012)
by ML Stedman


The Living & the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (1996)
by Paul Hendrickson


Lolita (1955)
by Vladimir Nabokov


Lucky Medicine: A Memoir of Success beyond Segregation (2023)

by Lester W. Thompson


The Man With the Golden Arm (1949)
by Nelson Algren


The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995)
by Salman Rushdie


Motherless Brooklyn (1999)
by Jonathan Lethem


Not Me (2005)
by Michael Lavigne


News of the World (2016)
by Paulette Jiles


The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America (2001)
by Gus Russo


Planes (2022)
by Peter C. Baker


Playing the Moldovans at Tennis (2001)
by Tony Hawks


The Plot Against America (2004)
by Philip Roth


The Promise (2021)

by Damon Galgut


The Red Fox (1982)

by Anthony Hyde


Sabbath's Theater (1995)
by Philip Roth


Slaughterhouse Five (1969)
by Kurt Vonnegut


The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (2020)
by Erik Larson


Stormy Weather (1995)
by Carl Hiaasen


The Sympathizer (2015)
by Viet Thanh Nguyen


The Things They Carried (1990)
by Tim O’Brien


The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010)
by Isabel Wilkerson


Water Music (1980)
by T.C. Boyle


When Nietzsche Wept (1992)
by Irvin D. Yalom


White Noise (1984)
by Don DeLillo


Wise Blood (1952)

by Flannery O'Connor


The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007)
by Michael Chabon

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