Book Group 4
Our Books
2013
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Back When We Were Grown-Ups by Anne Tyler
The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas
Not Married Not Bothered by Carol Clewlow
The Return by Victoria Hislop
Dominion by C J Sansom
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
2014
The Long Song by Andrea Levy
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The Gathering Night by Margaret Elphinstone
Homeland by Clare Francis
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
The Hanging Shed by Gordon Ferris
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2015
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbary
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
This Boy by Alan Johnson
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society By Mary Ann Shaffer
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
There But For The by Ali Smith
And the Mountains Echoed by Khalid Hosseini
Harvest by Jim Crace
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Thread by Victoria Hislop
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
2016
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Simon Mawer
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
How It All Began by Penelope Lively
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Shame Travels by Jasvinda Sanghera
The Farm by Tom Rob Smith
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
2017
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Merivel: A Man of his Time by Rose Tremain
The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
Germinal by Emile Zola
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan
An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
2018
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
After You by Jo Jo Moyes
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguru
The Silk Merchant’s Daughter by Dinah Jefferies
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
Number 11 by Jonathan Coe
The Good People by Hannah Kent
Conclave by Robert Harris
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan
The Rooster Bar by John Grisham
2019
Troubles by JG Farrell
The Sea by John Banville
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
Munich by Robert Harris
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
He Said She Said by Erin Kelly
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham
Own choice of poetry
2020
A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Never Let Me Go by Kasuo Ishiguro
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
2021
The Pigeon Tunnel by John le Carré
The Other Side of You by Salley Vickers
The Man Who Didn't Call by Rosie Walsh
A Man Named Ove by Fridrick Backman
The Running Hare by John Lewis-Stempel
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
White Gold by Giles Milton
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
2022
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Purple Plain by H.E. Bates
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Under the Eagle by Simon Scarrow
The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
The Sunrise by Victoria Hislop
Ice Cold in Alex by Christopher Landon
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Right Ho Jeeves by PG Woodhouse
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
2023
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
Educated by Tara Westover
Le Freak: An upside down story of family... by Nile Rodgers
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Autumn by Ali Smith
A gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
The Keeper of Stories by Sally Page
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Bournville by Jonathan Coe