Book Circle 3
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CURRENT GROUP STATUS
The group meets on the second Wednesday of each month, at the convener's house in Hanwell. Participants arrive at 2:00pm or soon after for a hot drink, and then we have a discussion about a novel for roughly an hour after that.
Planned reading for the first few months of 2024 are
- April, Beloved by Toni Morrison, chosen by Babs
There are no vacancies for new members in this group at the moment.
Convener: Grace Craddock, tel 07570 445389, or email through the bluebird icon, above right
The list of books read by this group over the last few years have been:
March 2024, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (chosen by Julia)
February 2024, The Overstory by Richard Powers (chosen by Rita)
January 2024, The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (chosen by Carol)
December 2023, Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahira (chosen by Dorothy)
November 2023, The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (chosen by Grace)
October 2023, The Hours by Michael Cunningham (chosen by Ruth)
September 2023, The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (chosen by Thelma)
July 2023, Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (chosen by Wendy)
June 2023, March by Geraldine Brooks (chosen by Vivienne)
May 2023 - Picture Palace by Paul Theroux
April 2023 - Restless by William Boyd
March 2023 - God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
February 2023 - Docherty by William McIlvanney
January 2023 - Day by A L Kennedy
December 2022 - How to be Both by Ali Smith
November 2022 - The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
October 2022 - The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
September 2022 - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
August 2022 - Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
May 2021 - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
April 2021 - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
March 2021 - Educated by Tara Westover
February 2021 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
January 2021 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Novels by Black Authors
December 2020 - The Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy
November 2020 - Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
October 2020 - Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
September 2020 - Girl, Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Novels on 'Women in times of Conflict'
July 2020 - Every Secret Thing by Gillian Slovo
June 2020 - Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
May 2020 - Milkman by Anna Burns
April 2020 - The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
March 2020 - The Slap by Chistos Tsiolkas
Australian novels
December 2019 - Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
November 2019 - Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
October 2019 - My Brother Jack by George Johnson
September 2019 - My Place by Sally Morgan
Our previous selection was to work through the twentieth century decade by decade
July 2019 - our 1990s choice was Possession by A S Byatt.
June 2019 - Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, representing the 1980s.
May 2019 - for the 1970s, A Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym.
April 2019 - The Master and Margarita by Michail Bugakov, published in the 1960's
March 2019 - the 1951-1960 book, Kingfishers Catch Fire by Rumer Godden
February 2019 - for the 1940's, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
January 2019 - our 1930's book, South Riding by Winifred Holtby
December 2018 - for our 1920's book, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
November 2018 - our 1911-1920 book, In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield
October 2018 - the 1901-1910 choice, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
September 2018 - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng