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Join us as we have a great time analyzing the books and hanging out with friends. Treat yourself to a glass of wine and tasty refreshments. 
 
When: Friday, October 17, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Where: TBA
Bring something to the table. 
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coincidence makersBook of October 2025 
  
"Klara and the Sun" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Told from the perspective of an advanced "Artificial Friend" (AF) named Klara, the novel explores themes of love, loneliness, humanity, and the ethical implications of genetic engineering and artificial intelligence.
  
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2025 
September - "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
August - "The Coincidence Makers" by Yoav Blum
July - «Призрак Александра Вольфа" by Gaito Gaidanov
June - "The World of Yesterday" by Stefan Zweig
May - "The Black Cloud" by Fred Hoyle
April - "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
March - "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid
February - "Devil in a Blue Dress" by Walter Mosley
January - "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
 
2024 
December - "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood 
November - "Reckless Love Affair" by Nadezhda Teffi
October - "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
September - "World of Wonders" by Robertson Davies
July-August -  "The Manticore" by Robertson Davies
June - "Fifth Business" by Robertson Davies. 
May - "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez
April - "The Dinner" by Herman Koch
March - "Summer House with Swimming Pool" by Herman Koch
February - "The Ginger Man" by J.P. Donleavy
January - "Steppenwolf'  by Hermann Hesse 
 
2023 
November/December - "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende.
October -"Russian Canary: Zheltukhin" byDina Rubina
September - Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
August - "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini 
July - "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
June - "Petrov's Flu"by Aleksey Salnikovy
May - "The Road"by Cormac McCarthy
April - "The Joke"by Milan Kundera
March- "Thérèse Desqueyroux"byFrançois Mauriac
February- Amy and Isabelle " by Elizabeth Strout
January -"Oscar and the Lady in Pink" by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt 
2022
December - "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garsia Markes
November - "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands"by Jorge Amado 
October  - "The City and the Dogs" by Mario Vargas Llosa
September- "The Postman Always Rings Twice"  by James Cain
August - "Death with Interruptions"  by Jose Saramago
July- "The God of Small Things"  by Arundhati Roy
June - "The Dutch House" by Ann Patchett
May - "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys 
April- "Downton Abbey" by Jessica Fellowes
March - "Where Angels Fear to Tread" by F.M. Forster
January/February -"Brideshead Revisited"by Evelyn Waugh
2021
December -"Foreigner"by Sergey Dovlatov
November -"Bel-Ami"by Guy De Maupassant
October -"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"by Fannie Flagg
September -"City of Girls"by Elizabeth Gilbert
September -"City of Girls"by Elizabeth Gilbert
August  -"The Story of the Lost Child" by Elena Ferrante
July - "Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay" by Elena Ferrante
June -"The Story of a New Name" by Elena Ferrante
May -"My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante
April - "Of Mice and Men"by John Steinbeck
March  -"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"by Carson McCullers
February - "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein
January - "Adam Bede" by George Eliot
2020
December - "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton
November - "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest " by Ken Kesey
October - "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
September - "The Trial" by Franz Kafka
Feb/March- "Ship of Fools" by Katherine Anne Porter
January -"Hotel Du Lac" by Anita Brookner
2019
December  - "My Enemies" by Viktorya Tokareva
November - "Daisy Miller"by Henry James
October - "The Ides of March" by Thornton Wilder
September - "Airport " by Arthur Hailey
August - "The Troubled Air " by Irwin Shaw
July- "Zuleikha Open her Eyes"by Guzel Yakhina
June-"The Winter of Our Discontent"by John Steinbeck
May - "Camera Obscura" and"Mashenka" by V. Nabokov
April  -"The Luzhin Defense" by V. Nabokov
March-"Never Let Me Go" byKazuo Ishiguro
Jan/February-"Light in August" by William Faulkner

2018
December- "Appointment in Samarra" by John O'Hara
November- "TheBuddhain theAttic" by Julie Otsuka
October- "GentlemenPreferBlondes"  byAnita Loos
September- "The Casual Vacancy"  by J.K. Rowling
August- "Hunting and Gathering"  by Anna Gavalda
July - "Les Faux Fuyants"  by Françoise Sagan
June - "Ivanov" by Michael Chekhov
May - "Don Quixote" by Mikhail Bulgakov
April- "The French Lieutenant's Woman" by John Fowlesy
February- "Life Invented by Herself" by Gala Dali
January  - "The Museum of Extraordinary Things" by Alice Hoffman
2017
December - "The Marriage of Opposites" by Alice Hoffman
November - "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
October - "The Time Between" by Karen White
September - "Water for Elephants" by Sara  Gruen 
August - "Ironweed" by Wiliam Kennedy
July - "The Great Gatsby" by Scott Fitzgerald
June - "The Innocent Man" by John Grisham
May - "Property Division" by Anatoly Aleksin 
April - " Theatre" by Somerset Maugham
March - "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
February - "Dandelion Wine" by Ray Bradbury
January - "Dali" by Gala Dali
2016
December - "The Sun Also Rises" by Earnest Hemingway
November - "Story of Sonia" by Marina Tsvetaeva
October - "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin 
September - "The Innocent Man" by John Grisham 
August - "The Moon and Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham
July - "A Rage to Live" by John O'Hara
June - "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen
April - "Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann 
March - "A Wilderness of Mirror" by Max Frisch
February - "Homo Faber" by Max Frisch
January - "Green Fields of California" by Ekaterina Vilmont
2015
December - "The Captain's Daughter" by Alexander Pushkin
November - "The Thorn Birds" by Colleen McCullough
October - "The Happiest Day" by Victoria Tokareva
September - "Moscow 2042"by Vladimir Voinovich
August - "Little Bee" by Chris Cleave
July - "A Foreign Woman" by Sergei Dovlatov
June - "Tender in the Night" by Scott Fitzgerald
May - "Nights in Rodanthe" by Nicholas Sparks
April - "The Black Obelisk" by Ericj Maria Remarque
March - "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C. Lewis
February - "The Funeral Party" by Ludmila Ulitskaya
January - "A Streetcar Named  Desire" by Tennessee Williams

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