Books we have read
These are some of the books we have read and discussed:
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction | Sue Townsend |
A gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles |
A man called Ove | Frederick Backman |
A manual for cleaning women | Lucia Berlin |
All the light we cannot see | Anthony Doerr |
American Dirt | Jeanine Cummings |
Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
An episode of Sparrows | Rumer Godden |
Animal Farm | George Orwell |
Becoming | Michelle Obama |
Betrayal | Helen Dunmore |
Birdsong | Sebastian Faulkes |
Black Diamonds | Catherine Bailey |
Bookshop on the Shore | Jenny Colgan |
Brooklyn | Colm Toibin |
By the Grand Central Station... | Elizabeth Smart |
Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbon |
Cranford | Elizabeth Gaskell |
Deaf sentence | David Lodge |
Death in a Strange country | Donna Leon |
Digging to America | Anne Tyler |
Disgrace | JM Coetzee |
East of Eden | John Steinbeck |
Enduring Love | Ian McEwan |
Flight behaviour | Barabra Kingsolver |
Fugitive Pieces | Ann Michaels |
Gaudy Nights | Dorothy L Sayer |
Good omens | Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett |
He said, she said | Erin Kelly |
Heartbreak Hotel | Deborah Moggach |
Henderson - the rain king | Saul Bellow |
Her Fearful Symmetry | Audrey Niffenegger |
Home | Marilynne Robinson |
Home Fire | Kamila Shamsie |
How Many Miles to Babylon | Jennifer Johnston |
How to stop time | Matt Haig |
Hungry | Grace Dent |
I am the Messenger | Markus Zusak |
Jalna | Mazo de la Roche |
Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
Ladder of Years | Anne Tyler |
Larry's party | Carol Shields |
Lies of Silence | Brian Moore |
Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
Light between oceans | RD Steadman |
Moon Tiger | Penelope Lively |
Mort | Terry Pratchett |
Mt Norris changes trains | Christopher Isherwood |
My name is Lucy Barton | Elizabeth Strout |
My Policeman | Bethan Roberts |
Never Let me go | Kashuo Ishiguro |
Nice Work | David Lodge |
Northern Lights | Phillip Pulman |
Notes from an Exhibition | Patrick Gale |
Odd girl out | Laura James |
Old filth | Jane Gardam |
Old Baggage | Lissa Evans |
Olive, Again | Elizabeth Strout |
Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout |
One day | David Nicholls |
Ordinary Thunderstorms | William Boyd |
Pathwork Planet | Anne Tyler |
Pigeon English | Stephen Kelman |
Place of Execution | Val McDermid |
Platform Seven | Louise Doughty |
Playing Cards in Cairo | Hugh Miles |
Portrait of an Unknown Woman | Vanora Bennett |
Room | Emma Donohue |
Saturday | Ian McEwan |
Scoop | Evelyn Waugh |
Silverview | John leCarre |
Shuggie Bain | Dougla Stuart |
Small Pleasures | Clare Chambers |
So much for that | Lionel Shriver |
Solar | Ian Mc Ewan |
Star of the Sea | Joseph O'Connor |
Still Life | Sarah Winman |
Summer Lightning | PG Wodehouse |
Surely you are joking Mr Feynman | Richard Fetyman |
Sweet tooth | Ian McEwan |
Taking Heads | Alan Bennett |
The Ballad of Peckham Rye | Muriel Spark |
The Birds and other stories | Daphne Du Maurier |
The Book Thief | Markus Zuzak |
The Bottle Factory Outing | Beryl Bainbridge |
The Burgess Boys | Elizabeth Strout |
The Children Act | Ian Mc Ewan |
The Comfort of Others | Kay Langdale |
The Conductor | Sarah Quigley |
The Doll Factory | Elizabeth Macneal |
The Essex Serpent | Sarah Perry |
The Fall | Simon Mawer |
The Glass Room | Simon Mawer |
The Hare with Amber Eyes | Edward de Waal |
The Heart is a lonely hunter | Carson McCuller |
The Heather Blazing | Colm Toibin |
The Help | Katherine Stockett |
The Human Factor | Graham Greene |
The hundred year old man... | Jonas Johnson |
The Knitting Circle | Ann Hood |
The Last Runaway | Tracy Chevalier |
The little coffee shop of Kabul | Deborah Rodeiguez |
The Lost Daughter | Elena Ferrante |
The Lost Man | Jane Harper |
The man in a wooden hat | Jane Gardam |
The other side of you | Sally Vickers |
The Private Patient | PD James |
The Promise of Happiness | Justin Cartwright |
The remains of the day | Kazuo Ishiguru |
The Salt Path | Raynor Winn |
The Sealwoman's Gift | Sally Magnusson |
The Secret of Chimneys | Agatha Christie |
The Red Tent | Anita Diamant |
The Road Hone | Rose Tremain |
The shadow of the wind | Carlos RuizZaton |
The Siege | Helen Dunmore |
The Slaves of Solitude | Patrick Hamilton |
The Sunday Philosophy Club | Andrew McCall Smith |
The tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Bronte |
The Thursday Murder Club | Richard Osman |
The Tin Man | Sarah Winman |
The Warden | Anthony Trollope |
The wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys |
The Woman at the Window | AF Finn |
The Year of the Runaways | Sunjeev Sahota |
Things fall apart | Chinua Achebe |
Three cups of tea | Gerg Mortensen |
Time of hope | CP Snow |
Travels with my Aunt | Graham Greene |
Trespass | Rose Tremain |
Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
Unless | Carol Shields |
Waterland | Graham Swift |
Where my heart used to beat | Sebastian Faulks |
White Teeth | Zadie Smith |
Whisky Galore | Compton Mackenzie |
Wild Swans | Jung Chan |