Thursday, February 1, 2024

Updated Syllabus

 Updated BBGG Reading List

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

Cooper's Creek by Alan Moorehead

The New Confessions by William Boyd
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
Headlong by Michael Frayn
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
The Son by Phillipp Meyer
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre 
All That Is by James Salter 
Consider the Lobster  by David Foster Wallace
A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr
Lucky Jim  by Kingsley Amis
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
The Sisters Brothers  by Patrick DeWitt
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The Tsar of Love and Techno  by Anthony Marra
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki 
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean 
The Whites by Richard Price
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson 
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer 
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Red Notice by Bill Browder
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin 
Gringos by Charles Portis
Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta
Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks
Autumn by Ali Smith
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Every Moment After by Joseph Moldover
Milkman by Anna Burns
We Begin Our Ascent by Joe Mungo Reed
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
There There by Tommy Orange
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
The Nickle Boys by Colson Whitehead
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
Country by Michael Hughes
The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Borges and Me by Jay Parini
The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Dubliners by James Joyce
Matrix by Lauren Groff
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Slow Horses by Mick Herron
Still Life by Sarah Winman
Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
London Fields by Martin Amis
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner