Bookworms
Convenor: Nick Arlett
“No. I can survive well enough on my own—if given the proper reading material.” – Sarah J. Maas
WELCOME!
Bookworms is a novel-reading group that meets once a month with members taking it in turns to choose and introduce a novel. Most choices are modern novels but occasionally we have a classic from a previous century (Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility) and also novels in translation (Haruki Murakami South of the Border, West of the Sun). See below for a full list of novels.
Some, but not all, of our novels we now borrow as sets from the library.
When: 10:30 - 12.00, 1st Wednesday of the month.
Coronavirus Crisis: ALL MEETINGS CANCELLED. The group will continue to discuss the novels by email, on the specified dates.
Where: Café Roma, 11 Halford Street, Leicester LCE LE1, in the upstairs room
For anyone reading this page with a view to joining us, I regret to say that, at the moment (January 2020), we have as many members as we can accommodate. Please contact the Chair, Steph Smith, or the Groups Co-ordinator, Neil Taylor, with a view to forming a new reading group. You may also check this page regularly, as I will post here when space becomes available.
Next books:
2020
6th May L.P.Hartley The Go-Between
3rd June Patrick White The Solid Mandala
1st July Elena Ferrante My Brilliant Friend
Novels so far:
2015
Sheila Hancock Miss Carter’s War
Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees
Jonathan Franzen Freedom
Paula Hawkins The Girl on the Train
Ian McEwan The Children Act
Kate Atkinson Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Haruki Murakami South of the Border, West of the Sun
2016
Anne Tyler A Spool of Blue Thread
Catherine Chanter The Well
Zadie Smith On Beauty
Anthony Doerr All The Light We Cannot See
Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending
Jesse Burton The Miniaturist
Patricia Highsmith Strangers on a Train
Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
Emma Donoghue Room
Jonas Jonasson Hitman Anders And The Meaning Of It All
Claire Fuller Our Endless Numbered Days
2017
P.I.Paris Casting Off
William Boyd Sweet Caress
Richard Flanagan Wanting
Nadeem Aslam Season of the Rainbirds
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
Keith Stuart A Boy Made of Blocks
Colm Toibin Nora Webster
Margaret Atwood MaddAddam
Carol Shields The Stone Diaries
Jenny Michigan The Cover of Snow
Aravind Adiga The White Tiger
Sarah Waters The Paying Guests
2018
Sebastian Barry Secret Scripture
Robert Harris Conclave
Kate Morton The Distant Hours
Evan S. Connell Mrs Bridge
Paul Beatty The Sellout
Gail Honeyman Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Virginia Baily Early One Morning
Graham Swift Waterland
Will Dean Dark Pines
Elizabeth Bowen The Heat of the Day
Elizabeth Strout Anything is Possible
Madelein Thien Do Not Say We Have Nothing
2019
Andrea Camilleri The Shape of Water
Ann Turner The Lost Swimmer
Sally Rooney Conversations with Friends
Jon McGregor Reservoir 13
Pat Barker The Eye in the Door
Ali Smith The Accidental
Christina Stead The Man Who Loved Children
Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing
Patrick Gale A Place Called Winter
Anna Burns Milkman
John Lanchester Fragrant Harbour
Muriel Spark A Far Cry From Kensington
2020
Michael Frayn The Tin Men
Stephen Done The Last Train
William Faulkner As I Lay Dying
Raynor Winn The Salt Path