Book Discussion Day Selections

ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½: ACE Book Discussion Day
Celebrate 62 Years — 1963—2025

1963 The Child Buyer by John Hersey
1964 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1965 The Plague by Albert Camus
1966 The Greek Passion by Nikos Kazantzakis
1967 Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima
1968 The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Conner
1969 Gideon’s Trumpet by Anthony Lewis
1970 Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
1971 Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
1972 Mr. Sammler’s Planet by Saul Bellow
1973 Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
1974 The Trial and Letter to His Father by Franz Kafka
1975 Tango and Six Plays by Slawomir Mrozek
1976 Long Distance by Penelope Mortimer
1977 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1978 Warrior Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston
1979 The First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
1980 A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
1981 Poetry Institute by William Carlos Williams
John Vargo, Leader
1982 The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
1983 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Mila Kundera
1984 Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
1985 Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
1986 The Guide by R.K. Narayan
1987 Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
1988 Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
1989 The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
1990 The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
1991 The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa
1992 Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman
1993 Mao II by Don DeLillo
1994 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
1995 Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Boll
1996 Still Life by A.S. Byatt
1997 The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
1998 Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
1999 Paradise by Toni Morrison
2000 The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago
2001 The Human Stain by Philip Roth
2002 Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino
2003 The Same Sean by Amos Oz
2004 The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry
2005 The Master by Colm Toibin
2006 Broken April by Ismail Kadare
2007 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
2008 Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
2009 Falling Man by Don DeLillo
2010 Love and Summer by William Trevor
2011 Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson
2012 The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
2013 The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
2014 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
2015 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2016 The Door by Magda Szabo
2017 Mothering Sunday: A Romance by Graham Swift
2018 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
2019 Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
2020 CANCELED DUE TO COVID
2021 On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
2022 Bewilderment by Richard Powers
2023 Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
2024 The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shack
2025 Clear by Carys Davies