Previous Selections

June 2007

Elliott Bay Book Group: By the Lake, by John McGahern. Global Issues & Ethics: The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Children of Men by P.D. James. Stages - Drama: The History Boys by Alan Bennett.

May 2007

Elliott Bay Book Group: The Duel, by Anton Chekhov. Global Issues & Ethics: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Stages - Drama: Bug by Tracy Letts. Bookseller Spotlight Book Group: Penelope Farmer's Charlotte Sometimes.

April 2007

Elliott Bay Book Group: The People's Act of Love, by James Meek. Global Issues & Ethics: The Evolution Cooperation by Robert Axelrod. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: gun, with occasional music by Jonathan Lethem. Stages - Drama: Brad Fraser's Cold Meat Party.

March 2007

Elliott Bay Book Group: The Sunlight Dialogues, by John Gardner. Global Issues & Ethics: Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar. Stages - Drama: David Hare's Stuff Happens.

February 2007

Elliott Bay Book Group: Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis. Global Issues & Ethics: On Bullshit and On Truth by Harry G. Frankfurt. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer. Stages - Drama: Lisa Kron's Well.

January 2007

Elliott Bay Book Group: The Code of the Woosters, by P.G. Wodehouse. Global Issues & Ethics: The Unconquerable World: Power, Non-Violence, and the Will of the People by Jonathan Schell. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies. Stages - Drama: Theresa Rebeck's Loose Knit. Bookseller Spotlight Book Group: The Way It Is by William Stafford.

December 2006

Elliott Bay Book Group: Winkie, by Clifford Chase. Global Issues & Ethics: The Shame of a Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol.

November 2006

Elliott Bay Book Group: Niels Lyhne, by Jens Peter Jacobsen. Global Issues & Ethics: The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Christopher Priest's The Presige. Stages - Drama: Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire.

October 2006

Elliott Bay Book Group: March, by Geraldine Brooks. Global Issues & Ethics: Sebastian Mallaby's The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crisis and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations . Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Tigana by Guy Gabriel Kay. Stages - Drama: Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson. Bookseller Spotlight Book Group: The End by Lemony Snicket

September 2006

Elliott Bay Book Group: Specimen Days, by Michael Cunningham. Global Issues & Ethics: Bob Seidensticker's Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Stages - Drama: Babylon Heights by Irvine Welsh & Dean Cavanagh.

August 2006

Elliott Bay Book Group: Paradise, by A.L. Kennedy. Global Issues & Ethics: Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression edited by Robert Atkins and Svetlana Mintcheva. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. Stages - Drama: My Name is Rachel Corrie by Alan Rickman and Katherine Viner. Bookseller Spotlight Book Group: Lucas by Kevin Brooks

July 2006

Elliott Bay Book Group: The Tortilla Curtain, by T.C. Boyle. Global Issues & Ethics: Paul Farmer's Pathologies of Power. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Stages - Drama: This Is How It Goes by Neil LaBute.

June 2006

Elliott Bay Book Group: The Wanting Seed, by Anthony Burgess. Global Issues & Ethics: Amos Oz's How To Cure a Fanatic. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

May 2006

Elliott Bay Book Group: The History of Mr. Polly, by H.G. Wells. Global Issues & Ethics: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Rosetta Codex by Richard Paul Russo. Bookseller Spotlight Book Group: The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram

April 2006

Elliott Bay Book Group: Utterly Monkey, by Nick Laird. Global Issues & Ethics: Alain de Botton's Status Anxiety. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger.

March 2006

Elliott Bay Book Group: Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis. Global Issues & Ethics: Henry Hobhouse's Forces for Change: An Unorthodox View of History. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Veniss Underground by Jeff Vandermeer.

February 2006

Elliott Bay Book Group: Invitation to a Beheading, by Vladimir Nabokov. Global Issues & Ethics: Vandana Shiva's Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Kindred by Octavia Butler.

January 2006

Elliott Bay Book Group: A Dictionary of Maqiao, by Han Shaogong. Current Events: John Dicker's The United States of WalMart. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. Mandelstam Society: The Way It Is by William Stafford. Bookseller Spotlight Book Group: Every War has Two Losers by William Stafford

December 2005

Elliott Bay Book Group: Wake Up, Sir!, by Jonathan Ames. Current Events: Robert Ingersoll's What's God Got to Do with It? Or Free Thought Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State.

November 2005

Elliott Bay Book Group: Cruisers, by Craig Nova. Current Events: Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: A Sundial in a Grave: 1610 by Mary Gentle. Mandelstam Society: Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge by Delmore Schwartz. Bookseller Spotlight Book Group: The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea

October 2005

Elliott Bay Book Group: Hash, by Torgny Lindgren. Current Events: Svetlana Broz's Good People in an Evil Time: Portraits of Complicity and Resistance In the Bosnian War. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Mandelstam Society: Selected Poems by W.H. Auden.

September 2005

Elliott Bay Book Group: The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut. Current Events: Howard W. French's Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. Mandelstam Society: Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks.

August 2005

Elliott Bay Book Group: The Master, by Colm Toibin. Current Events: Tim Kasser's The High Price of Materialism. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Air by Geoff Ryman. Mandelstam Society: Collected Poems by Philip Larkin.

July 2005

Elliott Bay Book Group: Three Lives, by Gertrude Stein. Current Events: Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Life by Gwyneth Jones. Mandelstam Society: Collected Poems by Stanley Kunitz.

June 2005

Elliott Bay Book Group: The Sea & Poison, by Shusaku Endo. Current Events: Richard Manning's Against the Grain. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper. Mandelstam Society: Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert.

May 2005

Elliott Bay Book Group: Orient Express, by Graham Greene. Underground Fiction: Heartsnatcher by Boris Vian. Current Events: Nat Hentoff's The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami. Mandelstam Society: Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva. Bookseller Spotlight Book Group: Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl

April 2005

Elliott Bay Book Group: All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren. Underground Fiction: Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Natural History by Justina Robson. Current Issues & Global Ethics: Susan Jacoby's Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. Mandelstam Society: Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

March 2005

Elliott Bay Book Group: Heartsnatcher, by V.S. Pritchett. Underground Fiction: The Pornographer's Poem by Michael Turner. Travel Literature: Tom Bissell's Chasing the Sea. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust. Current Issues & Global Ethics: Paul Berman's Terror & Liberalism. Mandelstam Society: Complete Poems by John Keats.

February 2005

Elliott Bay Book Group: The Birth of Venus, by Sarah Dunant. Underground Fiction: Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss. Travel Literature: Redmond O'Hanlon's In Trouble Again. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Etched City by K. J. Bishop. Current Issues & Global Ethics: Barbara Ehrenreich's Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. Mandelstam Society: After Every War translated by Eavan Boland.

January 2005

Elliott Bay Book Group: Small World, by David Lodge. Travel Literature: Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon. Underground Fiction: Helen Walsh's Brass. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Meet Me in the Moon Room by Ray Vukcevich. Current Issues & Global Ethics: George Lakoff's Don't Think of an Elephant. Mandelstam Society: The Way It Is by William Stafford.

December 2004

Elliott Bay Book Group: Piano Tuner, by Daniel Mason. Underground Fiction: John Berger's G.. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Singularity Sky by Charles Stoss. Current Issues & Global Ethics: Susan George's Another World is Possible.

November 2004

Elliott Bay Book Group: Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell. Travel Literature: Peter Hessler's River Town. Underground Fiction: Aldous Huxley's Island. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Light by M. John Harrison. Current Issues & Global Ethics: Steven Hill's Fixing Elections. Mandelstam Society: Susan Howe's Pierce Arrow.

October 2004

Elliott Bay Book Group: The Company You Keep, by Neil Gordon. Travel Literature: Victoria Riccardi's Untangling My Chopsticks. Underground Fiction: Edith Templeton's Gordon. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Patern Recognition, by William Gibson. Current Issues & Global Ethics: Arundhati Roy's An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire. Mandelstam Society: Czeslaw Milosz's Second Space.

September 2004

Elliott Bay Book Group: Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut. Travel Literature: J. Maarten Troost's Sex Lives of Cannibals. Underground Fiction: Michael Houellebecq's Platform. Current Issues & Global Ethics: David Korten's When Corporations Rule the World. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Sabriel, by Garth Nix. Mandelstam Society: George Oppen's Selected Poems.

August 2004

Elliott Bay Book Group: The Book of Salt, by Monique Truong. Travel Literature: Tracy Johnston's Shooting the Boh. Underground Fiction: Zoë Heller's What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Look to Windward, by Iain M. Banks. Current Issues & Global Ethics: Robert Jensen's Citizens of the Empire. Mandelstam Society: Lorine Niedecker's Collected Works.

July 2004

Elliott Bay Book Group: The True Account: Concerning a Vermont Gentleman's Race to the Pacific Against and Exploration of the Western American Continent Coincident to the Expedition of Captain Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, by Howard Frank Mosher. Travel Literature: Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari. Underground Fiction: Ian McEwan's Enduring Love. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Barry Hughart's Bridge of Birds. Current Issues & Global Ethics: Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, by Rebecca Solnit. Poetry Potluck: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda.

June 2004

Elliott Bay Book Group: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake. Travel Literature: Ciao America, by Beppe Severgnini. Underground Fiction: L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Dante's Equation, by Jane Jensen. Current Issues & Global Ethics: Duff Wilson's Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry and a Toxic Secret. Poetry Potluck: Wallace Stevens' The Palm at the End of the Mind.

May 2004

Travel Literature: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. Elliott Bay Book Group: Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls. Underground Fiction: The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. Current Issues & Global Ethics: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell.

April 2004

Elliott Bay Book Group (fiction & nonfiction): Jose Saramago's book All the Names. Travel Literature: Beyond the Sky and the Earth, by Jamie Zeppa. Underground Fiction: Toby Olson's The Blond Box. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Gene Wolfe's There Are Doors. Current Issues & Global Ethics: Sam Smith's Why Bother Poetry Potluck: The Sonnets by William Shakespeare.

March 2004

Elliott Bay Book Group (fiction & nonfiction): Aleksander Hemon's Nowhere Man. Underground Fiction: Katherine Dunn's Geek Love. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Automated Alice, by Jeff Noon. Current Issues & Global Ethics: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, by Ward Churchill. Poetry Potluck: The Poems of Marianne Moore.

February 2004

Elliott Bay Book Group (fiction & nonfiction): Manhattan Transfer, by John Dos Passos. Underground Fiction: Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Altered Carbon, by Richard Morgan. Current Issues & Global Ethics: Angela Davis' Are Prisons Obsolete. Poetry Potluck: Osip Mandelstam's Selected Poems.

January 2004

Elliott Bay Book Group (fiction & nonfiction): A Wild Sheep Chase, by Haruki Murakami. Underground Fiction: Dostoevsky's Notes From the Underground. Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang. Current Issues & Global Ethics: Chris Hedges' War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. Poetry Potluck: Second Annual William Stafford Celebration.

December 2003

Underground Fiction: Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Fool on a Hill by Matt Ruff, Current Issues & Global Ethics: The Nature of Economies by Jane Jacobs.

November 2003

Elliott Bay Book Group (fiction & nonfiction): The Mineral Palace by Heidi Julavits, Underground Fiction: Desperate Characters by Paula Fox, Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Number9Dream by David Mitchell, Current Issues & Global Ethics: Should America Pay? Slavery and the Raging Debate Over Reparations by Raymond Winbush, Poetry Potluck:The Poetry of Robert Frost.

October 2003

Elliott Bay Book Group (fiction & non-fiction): Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald, Underground Fiction: The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace, Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Fat White Vampire Blues by Andrew Fox, Current Issues & Global Ethics: Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change by Cynthia Kaufman, Poetry Potluck: Simplicity by Ruth Stone.

September 2003

Elliott Bay Book Group (fiction & non-fiction): Prague by Arthur Phillips, Underground Fiction: Against the Grain by J.K. Huysman, Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Mount by Carol Emshwiller, Current Issues & Global Ethics: Drug Crazy by Mike Gray, Poetry Potluck: The Score of the Game by Tatiana Shcherbina.

August 2003

Elliott Bay Book Group (fiction & non-fiction): Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago, Underground Fiction: The Locusts Have No King by Dawn Powell, Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, Current Issues & Global Ethics: Persepolis , Poetry Potluck: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.

July 2003

Elliott Bay Book Group (fiction & non-fiction): The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson, Underground Fiction: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kind on Earth by Chris Ware, Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson, Current Issues & Global Ethics: The Party's Over by Richard Heinberg, Poetry Potluck: Elegy for the Departure by Zbigniew Herbert.

June 2003

Elliott Bay Book Group (fiction & nonfiction): The Speed of Light by Elizabeth Rosner, Underground Fiction: Butterfield 8 by John O'Hara, Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge, Current Issues & Global Ethics: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Poetry Potluck: Sonnets from the Portuguese (many editions) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

May 2003

Elliott Bay Book Group (fiction & nonfiction): Atonement by Ian McEwan, Underground Fiction: Lamb by Christopher Moore, Current Issues and Global Ethics: The Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner, Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein.

April 2003

Elliott Bay Book Group (fiction & nonfiction): Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan, Underground Fiction: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill, Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Scar by China Miéville, Current Issues & Global Ethics: Silencing Political Dissent by Nancy Chang, Poetry Potluck: Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai and Unfortunately, It was Paradise by Mahmoud Darwish.

March 2003

Elliott Bay Book Group (fiction & nonfiction): The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock, Underground Fiction: The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier, Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, Current Issues & Global Ethics: On Forgiveness by Richard Holloway. Poetry Potluck: The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems by William Stafford.

February 2003

Elliott Bay Book Group (fiction & nonfiction): Translated Accounts by James Kelman, Underground Fiction: Expensive People by Joyce Carol Oates, Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Tik-Tok by John Sladek, Current Issues & Global Ethics: Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge by Vandana Shiva, Poetry Potluck: Otherwise: New and Selected Poems by Jane Kenyon.

January 2003

Elliott Bay Book Group (fiction & nonfiction): Flann O'Brien's novel The Third Policeman, Underground Fiction: Donald Antrim's novel The Verificationist, Speculations - Science Fiction & Fantasy: Kelly Link's book of stories Stranger Things Happen, Current Issues & Global Ethics: Michael Ignatieff's The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience, Poetry potluck: Poems of Paul Celan.