Kabir Centre Book Club meets once a month, on a Tuesday evening at 7:30 PM. The most interesting aspect of the Book Club discussions have been the different cultural prisms through which the participants have interpreted issues. These sessions promote an understanding and appreciation of each other’s opinions, feelings and culture.
Book Club
Address:
(If the meeting is not online by Zoom)
Westmount Park United Church
4695 Bd. De Maisonneuve O.
Westmount QC H3Z 1L9
Contact:
Alaka McConnell
email: alakam@gmail.com
NEXT MEETING VIA ZOOM
Name of the book: A History of Burning
Author: Janika Oza
Date : 10th December 2024
Books discussed
The following authors/books have been read and discussed so far:
Euphoria/King Lily
The Illegal/Hill Lawrence
Constellation of Vital Phenomena/Marra Anthony
Bone and Bread/Nawaz Saleema
The Round House/Erdrich Louise
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India/Dalrymple William
Ru/Thuy Kim
The Luminaries/Catton Eleanor
My October/Rothman Claire Holdman
The Siege of Krishnapur/Farrell J.G.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers/Boo Katherine
The Round House/Erdrich Louise
Family Life/Sharma Akhil
A Brief History of Seven Killings/James Marlon
River Town/Hessler Peter
Narcopolis/Thayil Jeet
An Untamed State/Gay Roxane
Troubled Pilgrimage: A journey to Pakistan/Bhaneja Balwant
THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL/SHAFAK ELIF
THE ORENDA/BOYDEN JOSEPH
THE LOWLAND/LAHIRI JHUMPA
NO GREAT MISCHIEF/MCLEOD ALISTAIR
HOME TRUTHS/GALLANT MAVIS
HOW TO GET FILTHY RICH IN RISING ASIA/HAMID MOHSIN
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE/MARQUEZ GABRIEL GARCIA
THE DINNER/KOCH HERMAN
WAVE/DERANIYAGALA SONALI
SPORTS WRITER/FORD RICHARD
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry/Joyce Rachel
The Human Stain/Roth Philip
The Wasted Vigil/Aslam Nadeem
Too Much Happiness/Munro Alice
Gilead/Robinson Marilynne
Old Filth/Gardam Jane
Gift of Rain/Eng Tan Twan
Dahanu Road/Irani Anosh
Two Solitudes/MacLennan Hugh
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found/Mehta Suketu
Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud/Sun Shuyun
The Tiger Claw/Singh Baldwin Shauna
The Stone Angel/Laurence Margaret
The Space Between Us/Umrigar Thritty
The Secret River/Grenville Kate
The Reluctant Fundamentalist/Hamid Mohsin
The Reader/Schlink Bernhard
The Namesake/Lahiri Jhumpa
The Kite Runner/Hosseini Khaled
The Inheritance of Loss/Desai Kiran
The Immortals/Chaudhury Amit
The Hungry Tide/Ghosh Amitav
The Hero’s Walk/Badami Anita Rau
The Heart Specialist/Rothman Claire Holden
The Stone Diaries/Shields Carol
The Tin Drum/Grass Gunther
Women of Silk/Tsukiyama Gail
White Teeth/Smith Zadie
Waiting/Jin Ha
Unaccustomed Earth/Lahiri Jhumpa
Tinkers/Harding Paul
Through the Black Spruce/Boyden Joseph
Three Cups of Tea/Mortenson Gregg
The Yacoubian Building/Aswani Ala Al
The World within Her/Bissoondath Neil
The White Tiger/Adiga Arvind
The Tin Flute/Roy Gabriel
Can you hear the nightbird call?/Badami Anita Rau
A Book of Secrets/Vassanji M.G.
Cutting For Stones/Verghese Abraham
Desirable Daughters/Mukherjee Bharati
Earth & High Heaven/Graham Gwethalyn
Family Matters/Mistry Rohinton
Fasting Feasting/Desai Anita
Freedom/Franzen Jonathen
Funny Boy/Selvadurai Shyam
Half a Yellow Sun/Adiche Chimananda Ngozi
Heart is an Involuntary Muscle/Proulx Monique
If not now, When?/Levi Primo
Illustrado/Syjuco Miguel
In Between World of Vikram Lall/Vassanji M.G.
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders/Mueenuddin Daniyal
India Calling/Giridhardas Anand
Cereus Blooms at Night/Mootoo Shani
Burnt Shadows/Shamse Kamila
A Case of Exploding Mangoes/Mohammed Hanif
A Fine Balance /Mistry Rohinton
A Golden Age/Anam Tahmima
A House For Mr. Biswas/Naipaul V.S.
A Suitable Boy/Seth Vikram
Angela’s Ashes/McCourt Frank
Anil’s Ghost/Ondaatje Michael
Animal’s People/Sinha Indra
Arrow of God/Achebe Chinua
Atonement/McEwan Ian
Away/Urquahart Jane
Bell Canto/Patchet Ann
Beloved/Morrison Toni
Brick Lane/Ali Monica
India in Slow Motion/Tully Mark
Interpreter of Maladies/Lahiri Jhumpa
Shalimar the Clown/Rushdie Salman
Shantaram/Roberts Gregory David
Small Island/Levy Andrea
Snow/Pamuk Orhan
St. Urbain’s Horsemen/Richler Mordecai
The Book of Negroes/Hill Lawrence
The Buddha of Suburbia/Kureishi Hanif
The Cat’s Table/Ondaatje Michael
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary/Westoll Andrew
The Elegance of Hedgehog/Barbery Muriel
The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant/Tremblay Michel
The Finkler Question/Jacobson Howard
The Glass Palace/Ghosh Amitav
The God of Small Things/Roy Arundhati
Seventeen Tomatoes, Tales from Kashmir/Singh Jaspreet
Secret Daughter/Gowda Shilpi Somaya
Ladies Coupe/Nair Anita
Late Nights on Air/Hay Elizabeth
Life of Pi/Martel Yann
Little Bee/Cleave Chris
Love in the Time of Cholera/Marquez Gabriel Garcia
Lullabies For Little Criminals/O’Neill Heather
Maps for Lost Lovers/Aslam Nadeem
Midnight’s Children/Rushdie Salman
Olive Kitteridge/Strout Elizabeth
On Beauty/Smith Zadie
Palace Walk/Mahfouz Naguib
Please Look After Mom/Sin Kyong-Suk
Runaway/Munro Alice
Sea of Poppies/Ghosh Amitav
The Handmaid’s Tale/Atwood Margaret
The Great Gatsby/ Scott Fitzgerald