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Society Books

Brother Morris's Selections

Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
by William Faulkner


Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base (2012)
by Annie Jacobsen


Beat Not the Bones (1952)
by Charlotte Jay

A Bend in the River (1979)
by V.S. Naipal


The Big Sleep (1939)
by Raymond Chandler


Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (1932)
by Black Elk and John G. Neihardt


The Book Thief (2006)
by Markus Zuzak


The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History (2002)
by David A. Vise


The Cage (1983)
by Kenzo Kitakata


Captain Bligh and Mister Christian: The Men and the Mutiny (1973)
by Richard Alexander Hough


The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier (2004)
by Scott Zesch


The Chicago Way (2007)
by Michael Harvey


The Children of Henry VIII (1996)
by Alison Weir


Cinnamon Skin (1982)

by John G. MacDonald


The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1997)
by Francisco Jimenez


Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany (1997)
by Stephen E. Ambrose


City of Scoundrels (2012)
by Gary Krist


Collapse (2005)
by Jared Diamond


Consequence: A Memoir (2016)
by Eric Fair


Cosmopolitan: A Bartender’s Life (2003)
by Toby Cecchini


The Crying of Lot 49 (1988)
by Thomas Pynchon


Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy (2020)
by Talia Lavin


Dark Voyage (2004)
by Alan Furst


Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (2015)
by Erik Larson


The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be (2019)
by Thomas Lynch


Disgrace (1999)
by J. M. Coetzee


Fat City (1969)

by Leonard Gardner


The Fugitive Eye (1953)
by Charlotte Jay


The Ghost of Cleopatra:  Edmonia Lewis and Her Lost Masterpiece (2019)
by John Rice and Gail Tanzer


Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (2001)
by Hampton Sides


The God of Small Things (1997)
by Arundhati Roy


The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
by John Steinbeck


The Great Gatsby (1925)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald


HHhH: A Novel (2012)
by Laurent Binet


Hillbilly Elegy (2016)
by J.D. Vance


The Illustrated Man (1951)
by Ray Bradbury


An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America (2003)
by Henry Wiencek


The Innocent Killer: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction and its Astonishing Aftermath (2014)
by Michael Griesbach


I Was Dora Suarez (1990)
by Derek Raymond


The Kite Runner (2003)
Khaled Hosseini


Life of Pi (2001)
by Yann Martel


Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (2011)
by Mitchell Zuckoff


The Maltese Falcon (1929)
by Dashiell Hammett


Man Without a Gun (1999)
by Giandomenico Picco


The Martian Chronicles (1950)
by Ray Bradbury


Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America (2019)
by Christopher Wylie


The Murder of Napoleon (1982)
by David Hapgood


One Summer: America, 1927 (2013)
by Bill Bryson


Out (2003)
by Natsuo Kirino


People of the Book (2008)
by Geraldine Brooks


The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
by John Millington Synge


Ray (1980)
by Hannah Barry


Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party (2009)
by Max Blumenthal


The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002)
by Gary Shteyngart


Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2019)
by Patrick Radden Keefe


The Secret Scripture (2008)
by Sebastian Barry


Seven Years in Tibet (1953)
by Heinrich Harrer


Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)

by Kurt Vonnegut


Slaves in the Family (1998)
by Edward Ball


Small Things Like These (2020)
by Claire Keegan


Stones from the River (1994)
by Ursula Hegi


The Third Policeman (1967)
by Fann O'Brien


The Three Musketeers (1844)
by Alexandre Dumas


Thunderstruck (2006)
by Erik Larson


True Grit (1968)
by Charles Portis


Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World (1870)
by Jules Verne


Two Years Before the Mast (1840)
by Richard Henry Dana Jr.


Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010)
by Laura Hillenbrand


We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)

by Shirley Jackson


The White Devil (1612)
by John Webster


The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997)
by Haruki Murakami


The Wings of the Dove (1902)
by Henry James

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