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appendix

An alphabetical listing of the authors, books, plays, poems,

and stories discussed or mentioned in The End of Your Life Book

Club:

Louisa May Alcott, LittleWomen

Dante Alighieri,PurgatorioW. H. Auden, Muse des Beaux Arts, from CollectedPoems

Jane Austen

Russell Banks, ContinentalDrift

Muriel Barbery, TheEleganceoftheHedgehog,translated

by Alison Anderson

Ishmael Beah,ALongWayGone

Alan Bennett, TheUncommonReaderThe Holy Bible

Elizabeth Bishop

Roberto Bolao, TheSavageDetectives,translated

by Natasha Wimmer

The Book of Common Prayer

Geraldine Brooks,March; People of the Book

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The Buddha, The Diamond Cutter Sutra,translated by

Gelong Thubten TsultrimLewis Carroll,Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Robert Chapman, Billy Budd,play and screenplay, with

Louis O. Coxe

Sindy Cheung, I Am Sorrow

Julia Child,MasteringtheArtofFrenchCooking

Agatha Christie

Karen Connelly, TheLizardCagePat Conroy, TheGreatSantini

Colin Cotterill

Roald Dahl, CharlieandtheChocolateFactory

Patrick Dennis,AuntieMame

Charles Dickens

Joan Didion,ABookofCommonPrayer; The Year of

Magical Thinking

Siobhan DowdNancy Hatch Dupree

Dave Eggers

T. S. Eliot,MurderintheCathedral

Ralph Waldo Emerson

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Zelda Fitzgerald

Ian Fleming, ChittyChittyBangBangKen Follett, ThePillarsoftheEarth

Esther Forbes, Paul Revere and the World

He Lived In;JohnnyTremain

E. M. Forster, HowardsEnd

Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Erle Stanley Gardner

Nikki Giovanni

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William Golding, LordoftheFlies

Sue GraftonGnter Grass, TheTinDrum

The Haggadah

David Halberstam, TheColdestWinter

Susan Halpern, TheEtiquetteofIllness

Mohsin Hamid, TheReluctantFundamentalist

Patricia Highsmith, StrangersonaTrain; The Price of Salt;

The Talented Mr. RipleyAndrew Holleran

Khaled Hosseini, TheKiteRunner; A Thousand Splendid Suns

Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler

John Irving,APrayerforOwenMeany

Christopher Isherwood, TheBerlinStories; Christopher

and His Kind

Jerome K. Jerome, ThreeMeninaBoat

Ben Johnson, VolponeCrockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon

Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

Jon Kabat-Zinn, FullCatastropheLiving; Wherever You Go,

There You Are; Coming to Our Senses

Walter Kaiser

Mariatu Kamara, TheBiteoftheMango,with Susan

McClellandCarolyn Keene, Nancy Drew series

John F. Kennedy, ProfilesinCourage

Elizabeth T. King

Larry Kramer

Jhumpa Lahiri, InterpreterofMaladies; The Namesake;

Unaccustomed Earth

Anne Lamott, TravelingMercies

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Stieg Larsson, TheGirlwiththeDragonTattoo,translated

by Reg KeelandVictor LaValle, BigMachine

Munro Leaf, TheStoryofFerdinand,illustrated by

Robert Lawson

Dennis Lehane

Donna Leon

C. S. Lewis, TheChroniclesofNarnia

Alistair MacLean, TheGunsofNavarone; Where Eagles Dare;Force 10 from Navarone; Puppet on a Chain

Malcolm X, TheAutobiographyofMalcolmX: As Told to Alex Haley

Thomas Mann, Tonio Krger; Death in Venice; The Magic Mountain;

Mario and the Magician; Joseph and His Brothers,translated by

John E. Woods

Ngaio Marsh

W. Somerset Maugham, OfHumanBondage; The Painted Veil;

Collected Short Stories,including The VergerJames McBride, TheColorofWater

Val McDermid

Ian McEwan, OnChesilBeach

Herman Melville,Billy Budd

James Michener

Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

Rohinton Mistry,AFineBalanceMargaret Mitchell,Gone With the Wind

J. R. Moehringer, TheTenderBar

Toni Morrison

Daniyal Mueenuddin, InOtherRooms, Other Wonders

Alice Munro, TooMuchHappiness

Iris Murdoch

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Nagarjuna, SeventyVersesonEmptiness,translated

by Gareth SparhamIrne Nmirovsky, SuiteFranaise,translated by Sandra Smith

Edith Nesbit, TheRailwayChildren

Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father

John OHara,AppointmentinSamarra

Mary Oliver, WhyIWakeEarly,including Where Does

the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?

Frances Osborne, TheBolterSara Paretsky

Randy Pausch, TheLastLecture,with Jeffrey Zaslow

Susan Pedersen, EleanorRathboneandthePoliticsofConscience

Harold Pinter, TheCaretaker

Reynolds Price, FeastingtheHeart

Thomas Pynchon

Arthur Ransome, SwallowsandAmazons

David Reuben, M.D., EverythingYouAlwaysWantedtoKnowAboutSex: But Were Afraid to Ask

David K. Reynolds,A Handbook for ConstructiveLiving

F. W. Robertson

Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping; Gilead; Home

David Rohde

John Ruskin

Tim Russert, BigRussand MeDavid Sedaris

Maurice Sendak, WheretheWildThingsAre; In the Night Kitchen

Peter Shaffer; Equus;FiveFingerExercise

William Shakespeare,King Lear; Othello

George Bernard Shaw, SaintJoan

Bernie Siegel, M.D., Love, Medicine and Miracles

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Alexander McCall Smith, TheNo. 1 Ladies Detective Agency:

The Miracle at Speedy MotorsAleksandr Solzhenitsyn, TheGulagArchipelago

Natsume Soseki, Kokoro,translated by Edwin McCellan

Wallace Stegner, CrossingtoSafety

Edward Steichen, TheFamilyofMan,prologue by

Carl Sandburg

Wallace Stevens

Lydia Stone, PinkDonkeyBrown,illustrated by Mary E. DwyerElizabeth Strout, OliveKitteridge

Josephine Tey, BratFarrar

William Makepeace Thackeray

Michael Thomas,ManGoneDown

Mary Tileston, DailyStrengthforDailyNeeds

Colm Tibn, TheStoryoftheNight; The Blackwater Lightship;

The Master; Brooklyn

J. R. R. Tolkien, TheHobbit; The Lord of the RingsWilliam Trevor, Felicias Journey

Liv Ullmann

John Updike, Couples; My Fathers Tears

Leon Uris

Marina Vaizey

Sheila Weller, GirlsLikeUs

Elie Wiesel, NightTennessee Williams,AStreetcarNamedDesire

P. G. Wodehouse

Geoffrey Wolff, TheDukeofDeception

Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny;MarjorieMorningstar;

The Winds of War

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