Seit 2008 bin ich glaube ich jetzt in meinem Bookclub und ich möchte ihn nicht mehr missen. Eine schottische Arbeitskollegin hatte mich darauf aufmerksam gemacht und ich bin sehr froh, dass sie mich damals einfach mitgeschleppt hat. Englischsprachig und mit etwa 10 aktiven wundervollen Ladies aus den unterschiedlichsten Nationalitäten, haben wir uns so über die Jahre einmal monatlich durch eine ganze Reihe Literatur gefräst, dabei immer überaus lecker gegessen und diverse Weinlabel haben wir auch studiert. Zum 100. Buchjubiläum haben wir ein Lesezeichen angefertigt mit allen Büchern die bis dahin gelesen wurden und ich dachte, ich liste hier einfach mal die ersten 100 und was danach noch kam und kommt. Mein erstes war damals Ann Patchett’s „Run“, die Bücher davor die ich unabhängig vom Bookclub gelesen habe, markier ich mal mit Sternchen.

1. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell*
2.  I capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
3. Life of Pi – Yann Martel*
4. The Lady and the Monk – Pico Yyer
5. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
6. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
7. A Complicated Kindness – Miriam Toews
8. Reading Lolita in Teheran – Aznar Nafisi*
9. Northern Lights – Philip Pullman
10. The Sea – John Banville
11. Beloved – Toni Morrison*
12. The Fig Eater – Jody Shields
13. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger*
14. The Penelopiad – Margaret Atwood*
15. Felicia’s Journey – William Travor
16. Mating – Norman Rush
17. Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
18. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
19. Blindness – Jose Saramago*
20. The History of Love – Nicole Krauss*
21. The Cunning Man – Robertson Davies
22. March – Geraldine Brooks
23. Palace Walk – Naguib Mahfouz*
24. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen*
25. Persuasion – Jane Austen*
26. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry*
27. Notes on a Scandal – Zoe Heller*
28. The Tortilla Curtain – T. C. Boyle*
29. The Testament of Gideon Mack – James Robertson
30. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
31. Never let me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro*
32. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark*
33. Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert*
34. Bel Canto – Ann Patchett*
35. Our Stealing Horses – Per Peterson
36. Duet – Carol Shields
37. Sweetest Dream – Doris Lessing
38. My Life in Orange – Tim Guest
39. The Birth House – Ami McKay
40. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
41. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen – Paul Torday
42. Fall on your knees – Ann-Marie Macdonald*
43. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
44. Regeneration – Pat Barker
45. Blood Letting and other Miraculous Cures – Vincent Lam
46. All My Sisters – Judith Lennox
47. Run – Ann Patchett
48. Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
49. Slumdog Millionaire – Vikas Swarup
50. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle – David Wroblewski
51. The Knitting Circle – Ann Hood
52. When I forgot – Elina Hirovnen
53. Sorrows of an American – Siri Hustvedt
54. The Elegance of the Hedgehog- Muriel Barbery
55. A Case of Exploding Mangoes – Mohammed Hanif
56. Saving Fish from Drowning – Amy Tan
57. The Book of Negroes – Lawrence Hill
58. We need to talk about Kevin – Lionel Shriver
59. Little Bee – Chris Cleave
60. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
61. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer
62. One Day – David Nicholls
63. The Selected Work of T. S. Spivet – Reif Larsen
64. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox – Maggie O’Farrell
65. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
66. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
67. Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
68. The Thousand Autumns of Jakob de Zoet – David Mitchell
69. Brooklyn – Colm Toibin
70. Room – Emma Donoghue
71. The Glass Castle – Jeanette Walls
72. The Slap – Christos Tsiolkas
73. Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
74. The Einstein Girl – Philip Sington
75. The Summer without Men – Siri Hustvedt
76. Sunset Park – Paul Auster
77. Tiger’s Wife – Tea Obreht
78. Let the Great World Spin – Colum McCann
79. South of the border, west of the sun – Haruki Murakami
80. A thousand Acres – Jane Smiley
81. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
82. So much pretty – Cara Hoffman
83. Life among the Savages – Shirley Jackson
84. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
85. The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
86. The Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt
87. How to be an American Housewife – Margaret Dilloway
88. Case Histories – Kate Atkinson
89. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
90. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
91. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
92. Bring up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel
93. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mum – Amy Chua
94. The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
95. The Newlyweds – Nell Freudenberger
96. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
97. Capital – John Lanchester
98. The Interpretation of Murder – Jed Rubenfield
99. Howards End is on the Landing – Susan Hill
100. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake – Aimee Bender
101. The Teleportation Accident – Ned Beauman
102. The Hare with the Amber Eyes – Edmund de Waal
103. The Outsider – Albert Camus
104. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
105. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
106. Life after Life – Kate Atkinson
107. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
108. The Light between Oceans – ML Stedman
109. Giovannis Room – James Baldwin
110. Stoner – John Williams
111. Dear Life – Alice Munro
112. Zeitoun – Dave Eggers
113. Light Years – James Salter
114. Eine blaßblaue Frauenhandschrift – Franz Werfel
115. The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
116. The Spinning Heart – Donal Ryan
117. The Paying Guests – Sarah Waters
118. The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
119. Woman – Charles Bukowski
120. The Paris Wife – Paula McLean
121. The Man who fell to Earth – Walter Tavis
122. Thérèse Raquin – Emile Zola
123. The Gaze – Elif Shafak
124. Karnak Cafe – Naguib Mahfouz
125. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
126. Amongst Women – John McGahern
127. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
128. The Red Notebook – Antoine Laurain
129. The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton
130. City of Thieves – David Benioff
131. Ali and Nino – Kurban Said
132. Mobile Library – David Whitehouse
133. The Interestings – Meg Wolitzer
134. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
135. My Name is Lucy Barton – Elizabeth Strout
136. The Vegetarian – Han Kang
137. The Meursault Investigation – Kamel Daoud
138. The Danish Girl – David Ebershoff
139. Invitation to a Beheading – Vladimir Nabokov
140. The Periodic table – Primo Levi
141. The Thief – Fuminori Nakamura
142. Augustus – John Williams
143. How to be Both – Ali Smith
144. The Blackwater Lightship – Colm Toibin
145. The Opposite of Loneliness – Marina Keegan
146. The Gap of Time – Jeannette Winterson
147. The Heart is a lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
148. The Sellout – Paul Beatty
149. The Ministry of utmost happiness – Arundhati Roy
150. The Humans – Matt Haig
151. A Horse walks into a bar – David Grossman
152. Their eyes were watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
153. Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
154. Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore – Matthew J. Sullivan
155. Future Home of the Living God – Louise Erdrich
156. The Power – Naomi Alderman
157. Frankenstein – Mary Shelly
158. If we were villains – M. L. Rio
159. All the lights we cannot see – Anthony Doerr
160. Everything I never told you – Celeste Ng
161. The Children’s Act – Ian McEwan
162. The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin
163. Warlight – Michael Ondaatje
164. The Tsar of Love and Techno – Anthony Marra
165. Keep the aspidistra flying – George Orwell
166. Tinkers – Paul Harding
167. Washington Black – Esi Eguyan
168. The people in the trees – Hanya Yanagihara
169. My Year of rest and relaxation – Ottessa Moshfegh
170. The Western Wind – Samantha Harvey
171. Rot und Schwarz – Stendhal
172. Angerichtet – Herman Koch
173. Educated – Tara Westover
174. The Glass House – Simon Mawer
175. Normal People – Sally Rooney
176. The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
177. The Glass Hotel – Emily St. John Mandel
178. The Invisible Man – H. G. Wells
179. Austerlitz – W. G. Sebald
180. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Seth Grahame-Smith
181. Marrow and Bone (Mark und Bein) – Walter Kempowski
182. The Hunting Party – Lucy Foley
183. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 – Cho Nam-Joo
184. The Fall – Albert Camus
185. The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
186. Why be happy when you could be normal? – Jeanette Winterson
187. Popular Music from Vittula – Mikael Niemi
188. Frankissstein – Jeanette Winterson
189. Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
190. The Tenth Man – Graham Greene
191. The Overstory – Richard Powers
192. Kindred – Octavia Butler
193. The Last Resort – Jan Carson
194. My dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell
195. A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
196. The Offing – Benjamin Myers
197. The Sympathizer – Viet Than Nguyen
198. The Victim – Saul Bellow
199. Digging to America – Anne Taylor
200. A Man’s search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
201. Leave the world behind – Rumaan Alam
202. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
203. Where the Crowdads sing – Delia Owens
204. The Lamplighters – Emma Stonex
205. Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel
206. A history of wild places – Shea Earnshaw
207. When we cease to understand the world – Benjamin Labatut
208. The Geometer Lobachevsky – Adrian Duncan
209. Intimacies – Katie Kitamura
210. Grey Bees – Andrej Kurkow
211. Lolly Willowes – Sylvia Townsend-Warner
212. The Paris Bookseller – Kerri Maher
213. My name is Michael Sibley – John Bingham
214. Gaudy Night – Dorothy Sayers
215. Love and Ruin – Paula McLain
216. Once there were wolves – Charlotte McConaghy
217. Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
218. Snap – Belinda Bauer
219. Birnam Wood – Eleanor Catton
220. The wind knows my name – Isabel Allende
221. Too much happiness – Alice Munro