These are some of the books we have read and discussed recently:
2024
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
- Natural Causes by James Oswald
- All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle
- My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal
- The Rotters Club by Jonathan Coe
2023
- Espedair Street by Iain Banks
- Money by Martin Amis
- Disgrace by J.M.Coetzee
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Thank Heaven Fasting by E.M Delafield
- The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- The Distant Echo by Val McDermid
- The Color of Water by James McBride
2022
- Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- Last Stories by William Trevor
- Any book you enjoyed recently (see separate list)
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- Any novel by Elizabeth Jane Howard
2021
No meetings due to Covid
2020
- Snap by Belinda Bauer.
- Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake.
- Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan.
- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen.
2019
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
- Poetry of Simon Armitage.
- Mythos by Stephen Fry.
- Northern Lights (also known as The Golden Compass) by Philip Pullman.
- Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell.
- Poetry or prose on the theme of Food.
- My Uncle Silas by H. E Bates.
- Stalin Ate my Homework by Alexei Sayle.
- Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett.
- Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy.
- The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters.
- The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
- Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl.
- Poetry or prose for Spring or Easter.
2018
- At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier.
- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis.
- Claudine at School by Colette.
- Swing Time by Zadie Smith.
- Poetry of Thomas Hardy.
- The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.
- The Nation’s Favourite Poems on CD.
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood.
- The Soldier’s Return by Melvyn Bragg.
- Short Stories by Alan Sillitoe.
- Poetry in Translation by Horace.
- The Road Home by Rose Tremain.
- The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson.
- I Robot by Isaac Asimov.
- A biography or autobiography of your choice.
- The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbra
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