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Literature for Lunch Archives

The Department of English Literature is working to assemble the following list of titles discussed at Literature for Lunch meetings dating back to the 1990s. If you are a long-time Lit for Lunch member in the Boise area and have title information and dates that can augment this list, please contact Professor Ann Campbell at anncampbell@boisestate.edu.

2023/24

Friday Sept 1: The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins

Friday Oct 13: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Friday Nov 17: Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner

(No December meeting because of holidays)

Friday January 5: Night Watch, Terry Pratchet

Friday Feb 2: The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker

Friday March 1: My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante

Friday April 12: The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert

Friday May 3:  The Go-Between, LP Hartley

2022/23

Friday Nov 4: Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

Friday, Jan 6: Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford

Friday Feb 3: Cold Comfort Far, Stella Gibbons

Friday April 7:  A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki

Friday May 5: The Summer Book, Tove Jansson

2008/09

Jan: Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

2004/05

Jan: Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freia Stark, Jane Fletcher Geniesse

Feb: Baghdad Sketches, Freia Stark

Mar: Brick Lane, Monica Ali

2003/04

Jan: Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels

2003/04

Nov: The Shell Collector, Anthony Doerr

Jan: Desert Queen, Janet Wallace

2002/03

Aug: Charles Darwin Voyaging, Janet Browne

Sep: The Lying Stones of Marrakech, Stephen Jay Gould

Oct: The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin

Nov: Mr. Darwin’s Shooter, Roger McDonald

2000/01

Nov: Letters From Yellowstone, Diane Smith

Feb: Mary, Bessie Head

Apr: The Joys of Motherhood, Buchi Emecheta

1998/99

Sep: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

Oct: The Indian Lawyer, James Welch

1997/98

Jan: Adam Bede, George Eliot

Mar: Oral History, Lee Smith

1996/97

Nov: The Grass Dancer, Susan Power

Dec: Clove and Cinnamon, Jorge Amado, Gabriela,

Jan: The Ghost Road, Pat Barker

Feb: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Mar: A Very Long Engagement, Sebastian Japrisot

Apr: Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson

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