List of Past Book Club Books

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PGoutis01
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So to end all of the confusion of what we have read and what we haven't read - I've organized this list. These are all the books that we have discussed in the past. And they are links to the original discussions - so I encourage you to check out the books and add to the discussions.

If anybody finds any mistakes in this list or has any suggestions - feel free to post them here. Please click on all the links and check them out for me. I will be adding the books to this list after I move them to the Official Cult Book Club Forum (after the discussion is over).

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Angel Dust Apocalypse by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Black Box by Nick Walker
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Click by Kristopher Young
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Contortionist Handbook by Craig Clevenger
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
Dog of the Marriage by Amy Hempel
The Dubliners by James Joyce
Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Generation X by Douglas Coupland
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Hell's Half Acre by Will Christopher Baer
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Ill Nature by Joy Williams
The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis
Jennifer Government by Max Berry
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Old School by Tobias Wolff
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
The Raw Shark Text by Steven Hall
Reasons To Live by Amy Hempel
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Sarah by JT Leroy
Shella by Andrew Vachss
Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Syrup by Max Barry
Wild Sheep Chase by Huraki Murakami
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

(edit - made it look better by getting rid of the dead links. I still need to add the missing books. Hopefully I'll be able to make the links sometime later this coming weekend. - Pete)

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Great List PGoutis.

Im going to try plow through a few of this books and then read up on them.

Right now Im busy as Hell at work but in New Year I will set some time aside for the Book Club. I always think that my opinions wouldnt be strong enough but then and again I never thought I would fit in at The Cult.

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Well you seem to be fitting in fine here. I don't think that there're anything to worry about either way. Wink

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Fucking fantastic job. Now I'll have to peruse THIS list. And I just spent my Amazon $100 dammit. Thanks for the info.

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Great work with that list, I'll have to peruse all those links and discover what I should be reading.

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p Good list...some books I`ve read already....Coupland,Vonnegut,Joyce,Irving...etc.
but many I didn`t read and I hope I will...

I tried to find it but not everything is translated.

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...It sounds cool...I will keep this list for the future

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That's some list, a lot of books there i'll have to buy in the future.

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the only book of ive read of these is [i]house of leaves[/i] which may seriously be the worst book ive ever read

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So I spent so much time making all of these links... and now none of them work anymore.  Maybe I will get around to fixing them when everything calms down a bit here.  I thought this was a really good way to keep track of everything.

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oh, that list sucks.  ive read those books.  try and be more original, will ya.. ?

jeez

 

still, none of these threads work here as well..  ive been trying to search out quick fixes but have yet been unsuccessful.  sorry.  great list, though--the grunt work must've sucked..

 

smile

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many of thhis books are pretty good...I didn`t read all these books, cause it`s impossible to find in Russia...
But Joyce, Vonnegut, Murakami, Coupland are great...

Could you make you own list? It would be great Smile

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JKabol wrote:

oh, that list sucks.  ive read those books.  try and be more original, will ya.. ?

jeez

 

still, none of these threads work here as well..  ive been trying to search out quick fixes but have yet been unsuccessful.  sorry.  great list, though--the grunt work must've sucked..

 

smile

-kabol

 

 

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At first I thought you were being serious.  I was thinking Kabol is being such a dick.  What the fuck?  And then I was like - he's been here long enough to know that I didn't pick all of those books.   But yeah - that's why you don't let yourself get pissed until you read the whole message!

Yeah - the links took a long time to do.  If I redid it now - it would take even longer because of no copy and pasting for some reason.  So I think I'm going to wait.  The base is there I just have to fix a few things in each link (I think) and then they will all be ready to go again... 

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yeah, he can recommend very good books...Thanks!!!

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Now I'm really glad I joined this site because I've been struggling to find books and authors that are similar to the type of stuff I read.

Besides Palahniuk and Ellis I always have a hard time finding anyone like them.

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Sorry - I still haven't fixed this thread... I need to go over all of the links and redo them. Everything is different since the site change and I honestly forgot all about this thread. I'll try to get on it soon though.

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Awesome. Thank you for that enchanting list. I hope I can find some of those books in the local libraries.

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So who's picking next months book anyway? if you don't mind me asking...

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Go to the groups section. Click on Book Club and join it. There is where you will find the "New Book Club." Although I'm not going to lie - we're having a little bit of a hard time getting it going. Right now we should be discussing Knockemstiff.

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A great list there indeed.

This is a great place for me to delve into other works outside of Chuck's. Only a few weeks ago I was scratching my head wondering what I am going to read once I finish all the Chuck's current works.

Currently trying to buy at least one or two new books a fortnight and getting them read in that time too.

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I've already read a good few from that list.
I'm a tad confused to how this "book club" works. How do we know what book is the book we're supposed to read?

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We moved the book club into the group section.

So go up to the top of the page where it says "community" and click on "group."

You join the book club there.

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And don't forget, you can pick up the book club selections here http://chuckpalahniuk.net/recommended/books/book-club-selections

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