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Books for Reading Groups

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PICADOR is proud to present a list of our favorite books for reading groups. We hope that the accompanying guides will provide you a starting place for discussion, and suggest a variety of perspectives from which you might approach the titles on our list.

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Out Stealing Horses

A Novel

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY...

"...NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY.... NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD Out Stealing Horses has been embraced across the world as a classic, a novel..."

By Anne Born and Per Petterson

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Middlesex

A Novel

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near...

"...Times Book Review (cover review) "A towering achievement. . . . [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being." --Los Angeles Times Book Review (cover review) "A big, cheeky, splendid novel. . . it goes places few narrators would dare to tread..."

Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Eugenides

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The Echo Maker

A Novel

Winner of the 2006 National Book Award The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who...

"...Winner of the 2006 National Book Award The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who.... Winner of the 2006 National Book Award..."

Richard Powers Richard Powers

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Housekeeping

A Novel

A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent...

"...doesn't want to miss any pleasure it might yield." --Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times Book Review..."

Marilynne Robinson Marilynne Robinson

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Gilead

A Novel

Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the...

"...Review "Incandescent . . . magnificent . . . [a] literary miracle."--Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment..."

Marilynne Robinson Marilynne Robinson

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The Red Tent

A Novel

A New York Times Bestseller A decade after the publication of this hugely popular international bestseller, Picador releases the tenth anniversary...

Anita Diamant Anita Diamant

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