"Books around the world" Drop-in book club

thursday, September 24, 2026 

Our September book is: 

The Anomaly, by Herve Le Tellier


Each month we read a book by an international author. Our hour-long Zoom chats are lively, thought-provoking, and reminiscent of our college days. You are welcome to join at any time!

Our next meeting is on Thursday, September 24th at 7:00pm
 

Here is a short intro of 

The Anomaly, by Herve Le Tellier


A New York Times bestseller and a “Best Thriller of the Year“

Winner of the Goncourt Prize and now an international phenomenon, this dizzying, whip-smart novel blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight.

Who would we be if we had made different choices? Told that secret, left that relationship, written that book? We all wonder—the passengers of Air France 006 will find out.

In their own way, they were all living double lives when they boarded the plane:
     Blake, a respectable family man who works as a contract killer.
     Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star who uses his womanizing image to hide that he’s gay.
     Joanna, a Black American lawyer pressured to play the good old boys’ game to succeed with her Big Pharma client.
     Victor Miesel, a critically acclaimed yet largely obscure writer suddenly on the precipice of global fame.
    About to start their descent to JFK, they hit a shockingly violent patch of turbulence, emerging on the other side to a reality both perfectly familiar and utterly strange. As it charts the fallout of this logic-defying event, The Anomaly takes us on a journey from Lagos and Mumbai to the White House and a top-secret hangar.
    In Hervé Le Tellier’s most ambitious work yet, high literature follows the lead of a bingeable Netflix series, drawing on the best of genre fiction from “chick lit” to mystery, while also playfully critiquing their hallmarks. An ingenious, timely variation on the doppelgänger theme, it taps into the parts of ourselves that elude us most.


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In our "Books Around the World" Book Club,

so far we have read books by authors of 30 nationalities.
Here is the list for your reference.

Albanian

  • The Concert — Ismail Kadare
  • Free — Lea Ypi

American

  • Wickett’s Remedy — Myla Goldberg
  • Cannery Row — John Steinbeck
  • A Good Man Is Hard to Find — Flannery O’Connor
  • Queen Esther — John Irving

Armenian-American

  • Here Comes, There Goes, You Know Who — William Saroyan

Bulgarian

  • A Short Tale of Shame — Angel Igov

Chinese

  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress — Dai Sijie

Colombian

  • Fruit of the Drunken Tree — Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Croatian

  • On the Edge of Reason — Miroslav Krleža

Czech

  • Immortality — Milan Kundera

Danish

  • The Trouble with Happiness — Tove Ditlevsen

French-Moroccan

  • In the Country of Others — Leïla Slimani

German

  • Three Comrades — Erich Maria Remarque
  • Kairos — Jenny Erpenbeck

Hungarian

  • Eye of the Monkey — Krisztina Tóth

Indian

  • Blind Faith — Sagarika Ghose
  • A Fine Balance — Rohinton Mistry

Iranian

  • Foreigner — Nachid Rachlin

Irish

  • This Is Happiness — Niall Williams
  • Spill, Simmer, Falter, Wither — Sara Baume

Israeli-American

  • Raising Sparks — Ariel Kahn

Italian-American

  • The Life of God (As Told by Himself) — Franco Ferrucci

Japanese

  • A Wild Sheep Chase — Haruki Murakami

Japanese-British

  • An Artist of the Floating World — Kazuo Ishiguro

Nigerian

  • I Do Not Come to You by Chance — Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Norwegian

  • Giants in the Earth — O. E. Rølvaag

Peruvian

  • The Bad Girl — Mario Vargas Llosa

Portuguese

  • The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis — José Saramago

Senegalese

  • So Long a Letter — Mariama Bâ

South African

  • Double Negative — Ivan Vladislavic

Spanish

  • Nada — Carmen Laforet
  • A Heart So White — Javier Marías

St. Kitts & Nevis / British

  • Cambridge — Caryl Phillips

Swedish

  • Sweetness — Torgny Lindgren

Turkish

  • Madonna in a Fur Coat — Sabahattin Ali

Vietnamese-Canadian

  • Vi — Kim Thúy