The group had its first meeting in November 2014 and its first discussion in January 2015. This is a list of all the books we have read since the group started plus the ones we are due to read before October 2023. (Please check we have been able to keep to our schedule before you come along for the first time.)
AUTHOR | BOOK TITLE | DISCUSSION YEAR |
Ben Aaronovitch | Lies Sleeping | 2022 |
C. N. Adichie | Half a Yellow Sun | 2015 |
Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | 2022 |
Isabel Allende | Violeta | 2023 |
Anita Anand | The Patient Assassin | 2022 |
Kate Atkinson | Life after Life | 2015 |
Kate Atkinson | Transcription | 2020 |
Margaret Attwood | The Handmaid’s Tale | 2021 |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | 2017 |
Pat Barker | The Silence of the Girls | 2019 |
M.C Beaton | Agatha Raison – kissing Christmas goodbye | 2018 |
Alan Bennett | The Uncommon Reader | 2015 |
Malorie Blackman | Noughts and Crosses | 2016 |
Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | 2019 |
Anita Brookner | Hotel Du Lac | 2015 |
J Browing Rowe | A Terrible Kindness | 2023 |
Bill Bryson | One Summer America 1927 | 2017 |
Bill Bryson | The Body: a Guide for Occupants | 2021 |
Jesse Burton | The Muse | 2019 |
Jessie Burton | The Miniaturist | 2015 |
Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland | 2016 |
Candice Carty-Williams | Queenie | 2021 |
Diane Chamberlain | Silent Sister | 2017 |
Tracy Chevalier | A Single Thread | 2023 |
Paulo Coelho | The Alchemist | 2016 |
Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | 2015 |
Anthony Doerr | All The Light We Cannot See | 2017 |
Gerald Durrell | My Family and Other Animals | 2018 |
George Eliot | Middlemarch | 2020 |
Sebastian Faulks | Birdsong | 2017 |
Elena Ferrante | My Brilliant Friend | 2017 |
Cal Flyn | Islands of Abandonment | 2023 |
Lucy Foley | The Hunting Party | 2022 |
Karen Joy Fowler | We are All Beside Ourselves | 2018 |
Felix Francis | Triple Crown, a Dick Francis novel | 2019 |
Robert Galbraith | The Cuckoo's Calling | 2015 |
Robert Galbraith | Troubled Love | 2023 |
Philippa Gregory | Tidelands | 2020 |
John Grisham | The Whistler | 2018 |
Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time | 2016 |
Matt Haig | How to Stop Time | 2018 |
Matt Haig | The Midnight Library | 2021 |
Sophie Hannah | The Mystery of Three Quarters | 2020 |
Thomas Hardy | The Mayor of Casterbridge | 2018 |
Thomas Hardy | Far from the Madding Crowd | 2023 |
Joanne Harris | Lollipop Shoes | 2017 |
Robert Harris | Munich | 2022 |
Paula Hawkins | The Girl on the Train | 2016 |
Victoria Hislop | The Sunrise | 2015 |
Victoria Hislop | Cartes Postales from France | 2019 |
Peter Hoeg | Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow | 2015 |
Ruth Hogan | The Keeper of Lost Things | 2019 |
Gail Honeyman | Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine | 2019 |
Gill Hornby | Miss Austen | 2021 |
Anthony Horowicz | Forever and a Day | 2020 |
Antony Horowitz | The Magpie Murders | 2018 |
Khaled Hosseini | A Thousand Splendid Suns | 2015 |
Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | 2021 |
John Irving | The Cider House Rules | 2016 |
Kazuo Ishiguro | The Buried Giant | 2018 |
Alan Johnson | This Boy | 2016 |
Rachel Joyce | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | 2015 |
John Le Carre | Constant Gardener | 2017 |
Andrea Levy | The Long Song | 2020 |
Susan Lewis | One minute later | 2022 |
Penelope Lively | Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A life in Times | 2020 |
Hannah Lowe | The Kids | 2023 |
Helen MacDonald | H is for Hawk | 2016 |
Ian Mc Ewan | The Children’s Act | 2018 |
Alex Michaelides | The Silent Patient | 2021 |
Rohinton Mistri | A Fine Balance | 2017 |
Sue Monk Kidd | The Secret Life of Bees | 2016 |
Heather Morris | The Tattooist of Auschwitz | 2019 |
Michael Murpurgo | Private Peaceful | 2022 |
Maggie O’Farrell | Hamnet | 2022 |
Michelle Obama | Becoming | 2022 |
Tea Obreht | The Tiger’s Wife | 2021 |
George Orwell | 1984 | 2017 |
Delia Owens | Where the Crawdads Sing | 2022 |
Sarah Perry | The Essex Serpent | 2017 |
Jean Rhys | Wide Sargasso Sea | 2017 |
Sally Rooney | Normal People | 2020 |
C J Sansom | Dominion | 2021 |
Elif Shafak | Island of Missing Trees | 2023 |
Elif Shafak | The Architects Apprentice | 2021 |
Anita Shreve | The Lives of Stella Bain | 2019 |
Anita Shreve | The Stars are Fire | 2023 |
Graeme Simsion | The Rosie Project | 2020 |
Ali Smith | How to be Both | 2019 |
Zadie Smith | White Teeth | 2016 |
Catherine Steadman | Something in the Water | 2020 |
Margaret Steadman | The Light Between the Oceans | 2018 |
Douglas Stuart | Shuggie Bain | 2022 |
Donna Tartt | The Goldfinch | 2015 |
Donna Tartt | A Secret History | 2022 |
Claire Tomalin | A Life of My Own | 2021 |
Rose Tremain | The Gustav Sonata | 2019 |
Stuart Turton | The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | 2020 |
Anne Tyler | A Spool of Blue Thread | 2018 |
Anne Tyler | Clock Dance | 2022 |
Salley Vickers | Aphrodite's Hat | 2016 |
Evelyn Waugh | A Handful of Dust | 2021 |
Alison Weir | Richard III and Princes in the Tower | 2018 |
Colson Whitehead | The Underground Railroad | 2019 |
Raynor Winn | The Salt Path | 2020 |
P. G. Wodehouse | The Inimitable Jeeves | 2016 |