Books and Coffee Past Presenters
Year
Speaker
Author
Title
1951
William Braswell
Chester Eisinger
Paul Fatout
Robert Lowe
Barriss Mills
Herbert Muller
Albert Rolfs
Louise Rorabacher
Emerson Sutcliffe
Hemingway
Miller
-Pound
Faulkner
Niebuhr
Fatout
Orwell
Kent
Across the River and Into the Trees
Death of a Salesman
“Mark Twain”
Letters
Collected Stories
Faith in History
Ambrose Bierce
Animal Farm
Declensions in the Air
1952
Welsey Carroll
Richard Voorhees
Richard Cordell
Harold Watts
Roy Curtis
Richard Greene
R. W. Babcock
Richard Crowder
Boswell
Greene
Irvine
Mann
Hall
Altick
-Williams
London Journal
The Power and the Glory
The Universe of George Bernard Shaw
The Holy Sinner
Leave Your Language Alone!
The Scholar Adventurers
“On Reading Shakespeare”
Later Collected Poems
1953
Herbert Muller
William Hastings
J. H. McKee
Arthur Koenig
George Schick
Darrel Abel
H. B. Knoll
Raymond Himelick
Ceram
Wouk
Ferril
Dostoievsky
Boswell
Steinbeck
Walton
Cabell
Gods, Graves, and Scholars
The Cain Mutiny
I Hate Thursday
The Diary of a Writer
Boswell in Holland
East of Eden
The Compleat Angler
Quiet Please
1954
Paul Fatout
George S. Wykoff
Lewis Freed
R. M. Bertram
Laird Bell
Bernard Schmidt
Victor Gibbens
William Braswell
Boswell
Bonavia-Hunt
Eliot
Cary
Smith
Michener
Randolf & Wilson
Thurber
Boswell on the Grand Tour
Pemberley Shades
The Cocktail Party
The Horse's Mouth
Man and His Gods
The Bridges at Toki-Ri
Down in the Holler
Thurber Country
1955
Richard Cordell
Arnold Drew
Russell Cosper
M. W. Tillson
Maurice Beebe
Walter Maneikis
Virgil Lokke
Robert Ogle
Larson
Jarrell
Kafka
Ives
Faulkner
Algren
West
White
An American in Europe
Pictures from an Institution
The Castle
Tales of America
A Fable
The Man with the Golden Arm
The Day of the Locusts
The Second Tree from the Corner
1956
Lewis Freed
R.W. Babcock
Alberto Moravia
Calvin Hoffman
Burham Carter
Dean Doner
C.S. Lewis
Thomas Mann
Richard Crowder
Leo Vander Bijl
Glenn Griffin
Wallace Stevens
Irving Stone
Sloan Wilson
A Ghost at Noon
The Murder of the Man who was
Shakespeare
The Scretape Letters
The Confessions of Felix Krull,
Confidence Man
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Lust for Life
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1957
Chester Eisinger
Darrel Abel
Robert Hunting
William Bache
Margaret Church
Albert Fulton
William Stafford
Roy Curtis
Trilling
Wilson
Ross
Wilbur
Rilke
O’Neill
Greene
Sapir
The Middle of the Journey
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
The Final Comedy of Lemuel Gulliver
The Beautiful Changes
Letters to a Young Poet
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
The Quiet American
Language
1958
Welsey Carroll
Ernest Kinne
Raymond Himelick
Mark Rowan
Robert Lowe
Merrill May
Charles Green
Alvin Rolfs
Boswell
Thomas
Cozzens
Camus
Williams
Jean-Aubry
Agee
Brenan
Boswell in Search of a Wife
Under Milk Wood
By Love Possessed
The Fall
Selected Letters
The Sea-Dreamer
A Death in the Family
South from the Granada
1959
Paul Fatout
John Harrison
William Keirce
Hugo Reichard
Harold Watts
A. A. DeVitis
William Hastings
Johnson
Amis
Lord
Bronte
Macleish
Greene
Pasternak
The Lunatic Fringe
Lucky Jim
A Night to Remember
Wuthering Heights
J.B.
Our Man in Havana
Doctor Zhivago
1960
R. M. Bertram
Robert Miller
Richard Voorhees
Louise Rorabacher
Henry Salerno
Barnet Koyyler
Robert Hogan
Barriss Mills
DeVries
Penn Warren
Powell
Lederer & Burdick
Brecht
Ellison
T. Williams
W. C. Williams
The Tents of Wickedness
The Cave
At Lady Molly’s
The Ugly American
Mother Courage
Invisible Man
Sweet Bird of Youth
Patterson
1961
Richard Crowder
M. William Tillson
Merrill May
Robert Ogle
Russell Cosper
Bruce Woodford
John Vickery
Richard Cordell
Durrell
Brosnan
Snow
Guareschi
di Lampedusa
Nemerov
Sampson
Behrman
The Alexandria Quartet
The Long Season
The Affair
The World of Don Camillo
The Leopard
The Melodramatists
Something Terrible This Way Comes
Portrait of Max
1962
Dean Doner
George Shick
Raney Stanford
William Roscelli
Robert Lowe
Felix Stefanile
Glenn Griffin
Salinger
Nicolson
Beckett
Greene
Hardy
Allen, ed.
Gardner
Franny and Zooey
The Age of Reason
Murphy
A Burnt-Out Case
Selected Poems
New American Poetry
Excellence: Can We Be Equal and
Excellent, Too?
1963
Forthcoming
1964
Harold Watts
William Stucky
Roland Duerksen
John Tuckey
Nathalie Sarraute
Caroline Gordon
Frederick C. Crews
Henry Nash Smith
Clifford Nault
William Braswell
William Bache
Northrop Frye
Reynolds Price
Peter Quennell
The Planetarium
Old Red and Other Stories
The Pooh Perplex
Mark Twain: The Development of a
Writer
Anatomy of Criticism
A Long and Happy Life
Shakespeare: A Biography
R. Voorhees
Alvin Rolfs
Thomas Towers
Paul Fatout
Albert Fulton
Chester Eisinger
Margaret Church
P.G. Wodehouse
Anthony Sampson
John Cheever
George Ade
Penelope Houston
Saul Bellow
Jean-Paul Sartre
Biffin's Millions
Anatomy of Britain
The Waphot Saga
The Chicago Stories
The Contempory Cinema
Herzog
The Words
1965
1966
1967
Ray Browne
Richard Costa
Raney Stanford
R.V. Cassill
G.B. Schick
C.E. Nelson
Colin Wilson
Dean Doner
David Miller
Harold Watts
May Swenson
William Gass
Terry Tabin
Henry Salerno
Malcolm Lowry
Edwin Wallant
Thomas Berger
Edward Pottle
St. John Perse
J.R. Tolkien
Ugo Betti
May Swenson
William Gass
Parey G. Adams
Harold Penter
The Short Stories of Herman Melville
Under the Volcano
The Tenants of Moonbloom
Little Big Man
The Earlier Years
Seamarks
The New Literature
The Music Man
The Lord of the Rings
Corruption in the Palace of Justice
Half Sun Half Sleep
Omensetter's Luck
Travellers and Travel Liars
The Homecoming
1968
When She was God
The Unvanquished
1969
1970
William Stafford
Alan McKenzie
A. E. Karlson
Robert Perloff
Murdoch
Updike
Miller
McLuhan
Lynne Waldeland
H. M. Reichard
Mark Rowan
Morris
Watson
Elliott
Robert Toal
Felix Stefanile
Bruce Woodford
Harwood Hess
Sr. Joan Grumman
Emil Roy
Joseph Rubenstein
McCarthy
Jacob Adler
Chomsky
Cleaver
Stoppard
Poatman and
Weingartner
Ibsen
The Nice and the Good
Couples
The Price
Understanding Media: The Extensions
of Man
One Day
The Double Helix
An Hour of Last Things
The Year of the People
“A Reading”
“A Reading”
Language and Mind
Soul on Ice
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Teaching as a Subversive Activity
The Wild Duck
1971
1972
1973
1974
Frank Tuohy
Albert Kalson
A. L. Lazarus
Barriss Mills
Richard Grabau
Leslie Field
J. Alfred Chiscon
Robert Lowe
Tuohy
Hampton
Arthur Hansen
Nisbet
Leonie Adams
Stephen Ross
Barbara Cook
William Palmer
William Stuckey
Margaret Moan
Mailer
Borgese
Fowles
Percy
Millett
Rozak
Malamud
Zindel
Massa
Darrel Abel
Arturo Vivante
Nancy Hansen
Thomas Adler
Valerie Rudolph
David Cook
Richard Crowder
Oates
H. F. Robinson
William Hileman
W. Eugene Davis
Norma Compton
Borgstrom
Vonnegut
Roth
Compton/Hall
William Epstein
Robert Magliola
Raymond Himelick
Mailer
Borges
Plath
Drury
Miller
Smith
Mankiewicz/Kael
de Rachewiltz
Fingers in the Door and Other Stories
The Philanthropist
“A Reading”
“A Reading”
The Making of a Counter-Culture
Pictures of Fidelman
The Effect of Gamma Rays ...
Vachel Lindsay: Fieldworker for the
American Dream
The Degradation of the Academic
Dogma
“A Reading”
Essays
Ascent of Woman
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Love in the Ruins
Sexual Politics
The Edge of Impossibility
“A Reading”
The Inward Sea
That Championship Season
Report from Engine Co. 82
The Citizen Kane Book
Discretions
The Hungry Planet
Breakfast of Champions
The Great American Novel
Foundations of Home Economics
Research
Marilyn
Dr. Brodie’s Report
The Bell Jar
1975
William Buffington
Clayton Lein
Robert Miller
Solzhenitsyn
Heller
Pirsig
Beverly Stone
Dorothy Deering
Robert Ringel
Kennedy
Terkel
Mayhew
Jan Wojcik
Pynchon
Margaret Church
James Stegenga
Samuel Hay
Ledesma
Fromm
Rosengarten
G. R. Thompson
Lester Cohen
Cheryl Oreovicz
Felix Haas
Mihoshi
Vidal
Doctorow
Michener
William Bache
Judd Chesler
Dorothy Mennen
A. H. Ismail
Ann Weiser
O’Brien
Sklar
Shaffer
Solomon
Miller/Swift
Michael Yetman
Virgil Lokke
Bellow
Irwin
1978
David Miller
Kathleen Ryder
Jerome Christensen
Juanita Dudley
Joseph Dagnese
Leonore Woodman
Barris Amis
Tolkien
Bettelheim
Percy
Didion
Isherwood
Roth
Wright
The Slimarillion
The Uses of Enchantment
Lancelot
A Book of Common Prayer
Christopher and His Kind: 1929-1939
The Professor of Desire
American Hunger
1979
Danielle Roemer
Allan Clark
Leonard Neufeldt
LaVerne Gonzalez
Shaun Hughes
Ralph McInemy
Carpenter
Gaddis
Solzhenitsyn
Singer
White
Tolkien: A Biography
J. R.
The Gulag Arhcipelago: Three
Shosha
A Fringe of Leaves
“A Reading”
1976
1977
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956
Something Happened
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance
Times of Remember
Working
The Carnegie Commission on Higher
Education
Gravity’s Rainbow
Cervantes: The Man and the Genius
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate
Shaw
The Divided Self
Burr: A Novel
Ragtime
Centennial
At Swim-Two-Birds
Movie Made America
Equus
Dr. Solomon’s Proven Master Plan
Words and Women: New Language in
New Times
Humbolt’s Gift
The Game of the Impossible: A Rhetoric
of Fantasy
1980
Jacob Adler
Felix Stenfanile
Thomas Ohlgren
Hellman
Hugo Reichard
Lois Magner
Medawar
Chargoff
Victor Raskin
Oz
Three Memoirs
“A Reading”
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous
Fourteenth Century
Advice to a Young Scientist
Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life
Before Nature
Unto Death: Crusade and Love
1981
Harold Watts
Charles Ross
Donald Seybold
Raymond Goodson
Muriel Harris
Chester Eisinger
Styron
Wolfe
Irving
Hofstadter
Jong
Updike
Sophie’s Choice
The Right Stuff
The World According to Garp
Gödel, Excher, Bach
Fanny
The Coup
1982
David Miller
William Palmer
William Stafford
Leon Gottfried
Frank Herbert
Tim O'Briens
John Updike
V.S. Naipaul
Darlene Clark Hine
Rolf H. W. Theen
Toni Morrison
John Le Carre
God Emperor of Dune
Going After Cacciato
Rabbit is Rich
Among the Believers: As Islamic
Journey
Tar Baby
Smiley's People
Alan McKenzie
Thomas Adler
Jeanne Halpern
Richard Crowder
Michener
Shaffer
Kidder
Mariani
Leon Trachtman
Margaret Rowe
McCormmach
Trombley
Richard Voorhees
Valerie Rudolph
Orwell
Truman
John Contreni
Marshall
Deutelbaum
Sanford Goldstein
William Keirce
Eco
Spoto
1983
1984
Tuchman
Fugard
Wain
Space
Amadeus
The Soul of a New Machine
William Carlos Williams: A New World
Naked
Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist
“All That Summer She Was Mad:”
Virginia Wolf
1984
Dear Bess: The Letters of Harry to Bess
Truman
The Name of the Rose
The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of
Alfred Hitchcock
“Master harold” and the boys
Samuel Johnson
1985
Michael Yetman
Irwin Weiser
Kennedy
Turkle
Neil Myers
Myrdene Anderson
Harry Targ
Shaun Hughes
Merwin
Rothchild
Clements
Tolkien
Iron Weed
The Second Self: Computers and the
Human Spirit
Opening the Hand
Machina Ex Dea
Witness to War
The Book of Lost Tales
1986
Albert Kalson
Marlon Ross
Roland Frye
Harold Woodman
Alan Nadel
Cheryl Oreovicz
Frayn
Rader
Frye
Vidal
Fussell
Fraser
Noises Off
Tennessee: Cry of the Heart
Is God a Creationist?
Lincoln: A Novel
Class
The Weaker Vessel
1987
G. R. Thompson
W. Eugene Davis
Elizabeth Capaldi
Varro Tyler
Norman Harris
Irving
Mortimer
Gazzaniga
Tyler
Baraka
Dorothy Deering
Lopez
The Cider House Rules
Paradise Postponed
The Social Brain
Hoosier Home Remedies
The Autobiography of Leroi Jones/Amiri
Baraka
Arctic Dreams
1988
David Caputo
Willliam Palmer
Patrica Henley
Ewart Skinner
Timothy Brennan
Leslie Field
Bloom
McMurtry
Ford
Walcott
Calvino
Bellow
The Closing of the American Mind
Texasville
Rock Springs
Collected Poems, 1948-84
Invisible Cities
More Die of Heartbreak
1989
James Stegenga
Djelal Kadir
Stanley Goldman
James Berlin
Ellen Jones
Marianne Boruch
Kennedy
Fuentes
Attenborough
Stone
Bradbury
Bishop
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Christopher Unborn
The First Eden
The Trial of Socrates
My Strange Quest for Mensonge
The Complete Poems: 1927-1979
1990
Sonya Margerum
Marshall
Deutelbaum
Emily Mobley
David Miller
Fraser
Brady
The Warrior Queens
Citizen Welles
Walker
Booth
Gordon Mork
Ann Astell
Mayer
Eco
The Temple of My Familiar
The Company We Keep: An Ethics of
Fiction
Why Did The Heavens Not Darken?
Foucault’s Pendulum
1991
Seth Weiner
Victor Raskin
Wendy Flory
Nicholas Schenkel
Dorothy Deering
Calvin Schrag
Turow
Tannen
Rich
Harrison
Rushdie
Lyotard
Burden of Proof
You Just Don’t Understand
Your Native Land, Your Life
Mother Earth, Father Sky
The Satanic Verses
The Postmodern Condition
1992
Thomas Adler
Robert May
Eric McCollum
Zina Breschinsky
Marilyn Haring
Lax
Ripley
Middlebrook
Rutherford
Kozol
William Bache
Bache
Woody Allen: A Biography
Scarlett
Anne Sexton: A Biography
Russka: A Novel of Russia
Savage Inequalities: Children in
American Schools
Design and Closure in Shakespeare’s
Major Plays
1993
Charles Ross
Mary Niepokuj
Shaun Hughes
Anthony Tamburri
Michael Yetman
Patricia Henley
Byatt
Grafton
Vollmann
Palazzeschi
Stone
Henley
Possession: A Romance
“I” is for Innocent
Fathers and Crows
Man of Smoke
Outerbridge Reach
The Secret of Cartwheels
1994
William Palmer
Paul White
LeCarré
Nicholl
Chuck Wachtel
Alexie
Patrick O’Donnell
Diane Rubenstein
Randy Roberts
Auster
Miller
Sperber
The Night Manager
The Reconing: The Murder of
Christopher Marlowe
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in
Heaven
Leviathan
The Passion of Michael Foucault
Shake Down the Thunder
1995
Leonard Harris
Daniel Morris
James Porter
Alan McKenzie
Butler
McCarthy
Mosley
Nuland
Patricia Harken
John Kirby
Munro
Calasso
Mind of My Mind
The Crossing
Black Betty
How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final
Chapter
Open Secrets
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
1996
Charles Ross
Charles Ingrao
Jocelyn Lieu
Ann Astell
Shirley Rose
Melinda Zook
Boiardo/Ross
Kaplan
Ishiguro
Norris
Smiley
Behn
Orlando in Love
Balkan Ghosts
The Unconsoled
Dakota: A Spiritual Autobiography
Moo
The Rover
1997
Thomas Adler
A. G. Rud
Wendy Flory
Mary Niepokuj
Lisa Anderson
Barker
Negroponte
Parker
Salzman
Delany/Man
The Ghost Road
being digital
Herman Melville
Lost in Place
Having Our Say
1998
James Saunder
Emily Allen
J. Johnson-Eilola
Clayton Lein
Morrison
Rice
Joyce
Jourdain
Paradise
Violin
Twilight, A Symphony
Music, The Brain, and Ecstacy
1999
Dino Felluga
Tom Bacher
Klemperer
Downes & Mui
Siobhan Somerville
Stephen Beering
Cunningham
Axtell
I Will Bear Witness
Unleasing the Killer App: Digital
Strategies for Market Dominance
The Hours
The Pleasures of Academe
Margaret Rowe
Irwin Weiser
Anne Fernald
Kristina Bross
Bayley
Krakauer/
Gammelgaard/
Boukrev & Dewalt
Lee
Harris
Elegy for Iris
Into Thin Air
Climbing High
The Climb
A Gesture Life
Hannibal
Joe Palmer
Mary Niepokuj
Jamaica Kinkaid
Shaun Hughes
Koetzee
Rowling
Kindaid
Heaney
Disgrace
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Talk Stories
Beowulf
2000
2001
2002
Charles Ross
Donald Platt
S. K. Robisch
Suzie Suriam
Gao Xingjian
Heaney
Matthiessen
Smith
Soul Mountain
Electric Light
Tigers in the Snow
White Teeth
2003
John Kirby
Sharon Solwitz
Tolkien
Munro
Ryan Schneider
Marta
VanLandingham
Wendy Stallard
Flory
Carter
Eco
The Lord of the Rings
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship,
Loveship, Marriage
The Emperor of Ocean Park
Baudolino
Kushner
Angels in America
2004
Ruth Salvaggio
Nancy Peterson
David Blakesley
Sally Frost Mason
Shields
Morrison
Larson
Brown
Unless
Love
The Devil in the White City
The Da Vinci Code
2005
Victor Raskin
Lynn Truss
Toby Parcel
Christian Knoeller
Ann Tyler
William Souder
Venetria Patton
Edward Jones
Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero
Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Amateur Marriage
Under the Wild Sky: John James
Audubon on the Making of “The Birds of
America”
The Known World
Samantha
Blackmon
Janet Alsup
Bill Mullen
Harold Woodman
Rebekah Nathan
Daniel Morris
Angelica Duran
Ralph Web
Michael Berube
Khalid Husseini
Deborah Tanner
Nancy Peterson
Sandor Goodhart
Sherman Alexie
Myla Goldberg
2006
2007
Tom Wolfe
Zadie Smith
Philip Roth
My Freshman Year. What a Professor
Learned by Becoming a Student
I Am Charlotte Simmons
On Beauty
The Plot Against America
What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts?
The Kite Runner
You’re Wearing That? Mothers and
Daughters in Conversation
Ten Little Indians
Bee Season
2008
John Duvall
Bich Nguyen
Don DeLillo
Michael Chabon
Julio Ramirez
Margie Berns
Thomas Friedman
Jack Kerouac
Falling Man
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
and Clay
The World is Flat
On the Road
2009
Shaun Hughes
Dorsey Armstrong
Tara Star Johnson
Beth Burnett
J.R.R. Tolkein
Ursula LeGuin
J.K. Rowling
Neil Gaiman
The Children of Húrin
Voices
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
American Gods
2010
Barbara Dixon
Donald Platt
George Bodner
Richard Johnson
Bich Nguyen
Annie Proulix
Daniel Wallace
Barack Obama
Stealing Buddha’s Dinner
Fine Just the Way it Is
Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician
Dreams from my Father
2011
Irwin Weiser
Ellen Gruenbaum
Dan Morris
Kendall Leon
J. D. Salinger
Alan Paton
Joseph O’Neill
Laura Esquivel
Catcher in the Rye
Cry the Beloved Country
Netherland
Like Water for Chocolate
2012
Carolyn E Johnson
Kris Bross
Charles Ross
Jennifer FreemanMarshall
Rebecca Skloot
Geraldine Brooks
Stieg Larsson
Heidi W. Durrow
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Caleb's Crossing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
2013
Derek Pacheco
Phillip Dunston
Patsy Schweickart
Venetria Patton
Gillian Flynn
Kamkwamba/Mealer
Julie Otsuka
Nicholas Sparks
Gone Girl
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The Buddha in the Attic
Safe Haven
2014
Emily Allen
Sharon Solwitz
Dawn Stinchcomb
Shaun Hughes
Colin Beavan
Jennifer Egan
Edwidge Danticat
Kahled Hosseini
No Impact Man
A Visit From the Goon Squad
Claire of the Sea Light
And the Mountains Echoed
2015
Melanie Shoffner
Marlo David
Monica Trieu
Nancy Peterson
John Green
Roxane Gay
Brian Leung
Louise Erdrich
The Fault in Our Stars
An Untamed State
Take Me Home: A Novel
The Round House
2016
John Duvall
Elaine Francis
Harper Lee
Mary Norris
Francis Robicheaux
Randall Munroe
Sandor Goodhart
Anthony Doerr
Go Set a Watchman: A Novel
Between You and Me: Confessions of a
Comma Queen
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to
Hypothetical Questions
All the Light We Cannot See