Prior Belligerati Book Selections


Title

Venue

2003

July: V by Thomas Pynchon [Sadie's Flying Elephant]
Aug: Underworld by Don DeLillo [The Argus]
Sep: Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer [Hawaii West]
Oct: Water Music by T.C. Boyle [Dovre Club]
Nov: The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer [Philosopher's Club]
Dec: Lamb by Christopher Moore [Xmas party & "light reading" airlift]


2004


Jan: The Confidence Man by Herman Melville [Lost and Found Saloon]
Feb: How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman [Edinburgh Castle]
Mar: Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux [Geekboy's secret lair - stew tasting]
Apr: The Odyssey by Homer [First and Last Chance Saloon - Oakland]
May: Ulysses by James Joyce (pt.1) [SF Irish bar crawl]
Jun: Ulysses by James Joyce (pt.2) [Bloomsday 100 - more SF Irish bar crawl]
Jul: Novels and more by Charles Bukowski [Ha Ra]
Aug: Underground by Haruki Murakami [Yokoso Nippon]
Sep: Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor by John Barth [Trader Sam (Rum and sailors, two great tastes that go great together)]
Oct: The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles. [Meeting/drink and snack at Geekboy's]
Nov: Suttree by Cormac McCarthy. [Merchant's in Oakland]
Dec: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
by Jose Saramago.
[BRC Annual Light Reading Party at the Secret Lair]


2005


Jan: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. [Zeitgeist SF]
Feb: Pied Piper by Nevil Shute. [John Barleycorn SF]
Mar: Mother London by Michael Moorcock. [Kell's SF]
Apr/May: Mason "&" Dixon by Thomas Pynchon. [Apr - Casa Goldie]
[May - Mars SF]
June: JR by William Gaddis. [Royal Exchange, SFCA]
July/August/September:
BRC Summer Reading Free For All
Read whatever you want
[July - Zeitgeist]
[Aug. - TBD]
[Sept. - TBD]
October: A Smuggler's Bible by Joseph McElroy. Conga Lounge [Oak]
November: A Smuggler's Bible by Joseph McElroy [TBD]
December: [Jesus' Son] by [Denis Johnson]. [BRC Annual Light Reading Party at the Secret Lair]


2006


Jan: PKD Free Read by Philip K Dick. [Albatross - Berzerkely]