The (almost) complete BOOK LIST

 

2005

March: No 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
April: Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
May: A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
June: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
July: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
August: no meeting
September: The History of the world in 10 and a half Chapters  by Julian Barnes
October: The Children of Men by PD James
November: If not now when by Primo Levi
December: We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver

2006

January: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
February: The Spire by William Golding
March: Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
April: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
May: Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes
June: Cider House Rules by John Irving
July: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Maria Marquez
August: no meeting
September: Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
October: Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
November: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
December: Thankyou Jeeves by PG Wodehouse

2007

January: Watchmen by Alan Moore
February: Animal Farm by George Orwell
March: The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
April: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
May: War of the Worlds by HG Wells
June: "The Road to Wigan Pier"  by George Orwell
July: The Island by Victoria Hislop
August: no meeting
September: Adrain Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend
October: Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
November: "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
December: "Pobby and Dingan" by Ben Rice

2008

January: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
February: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
March:  Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger.
April: 'From The Edge Of The Couch' by Dr Raj Persaud
May: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
June: "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes.
July: Lolita by Valdimir Nabokov
August: no meeting
September: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
October: The Plague by Albert Camus
November: Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson
December: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

2009

January: Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
February: The Reluctant Fundamenatlist by Moshin Hamid.
March:  A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
April: Tamara Drew by Posy Simmonds
May:  Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
June: Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
July: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
August: Turn of the Screw by Henry James
September: Jackdaws by Ken Follett
October: K-PAX by Gene Brewer
November: Disgrace by J M Coetzee
December: Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder.

2010

January: no meeting
February: Travels with my aunt by Graham Green
March: The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge
April: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by anonymous
May: The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
June: The Future Homemakers of America by Laurie Graham
July: The Wishing Tree by James Buxton
August: "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" by Haruki Murakami
September: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Wolf
October: Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas.
November: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer.
December: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larrson

2011

January: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
February: Restoration by Rose Tremain
March: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
April: The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
May: A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
June: A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
July: Twelth Night by William Shakespeare
August: Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London.
September: Goodbye to Berlin by Chritopher Isherwood.
October: When I lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
November: One Day by David Nicholls
December: Death in August by Marco Vichi

2012



January: Peter Pan by J M Barrie
February: 'A Long Way Gone' by Ishmael Beah
March: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
April: Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
May: "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes
June: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
July: "And then there were none" by Agatha Christie
August: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
September: A Perfectly Good Man, by Patrick Gale
October: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle
November: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.
December: "Minds at War"

2013


January: Hard Times by Charles Dickens
February: The Long Walk by Slawomir Rawicz
March: Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
April: Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
May: Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
June: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
July: "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga
August: Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
September: 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
October:  Every man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
November: Corpse in the Koryo" (an Inspector O novel) by James Church
December: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

2014

January: Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
February: Room by Emma Donoghue
March: Akenfield, portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe.
April: Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
May: On the Road by Jack Kerouac
June: Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
July: Vilette by Charlotte Bronte
August: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
September: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
October: Under the Skin by Michael Faber
November: A History of Lonliness by John Boyne
December: Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

2015

January: The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
February: The Memory Book by Rowan Coleman
March: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
April: The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
May: Beloved by Toni Morisson
June: This Boy by Alan Johnson  
July: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
August: Rabbit, Run by John Updike
September: Salam Brick Lane by Tarquin Hall
October: Concrete Island by JG Ballard
November: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
December: Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende

2016

January: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
February: Coming up for Air by George Orwell
March: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
April: The Children Act by Ian McEwan

May: Norwegian Rock by Paul Sutton-Reeves            6.1

June: Untold Stories by Alan Bennett                8.4

July: Skylight by David Hare                    5.4

August: Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling            5.5

September: The Ventriloquist's Tale by Pauline Melville        4.5

October: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante            5.8

November: Dubliners by James Joyce                6.5

December: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway        6.9

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2017

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January: On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks        6

February: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde        7.1

March: The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck            7.8            

April: The Woman in Black by Susan Hill                6.4

May: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout            7.4

June: The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler            7.4

July: The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark            7

August: All That Man Is by David Szalay                3.9

September: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny            4.75

October: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain        7.6

November: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig    4.8

December: Flight Behaviour by Barbara KIngsolver        7.5

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2018

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January: Silas Marner by George Eliot                8.3

February: Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance                6.7

March: My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout        5.7

April: Doors Open by Ian Rankin                    7.5

May: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman    8.25

June: Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor                6.7

July: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shafer and Annie Barrows    6.8

August: New Boy by Tracy Chevalier                8

September: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov        5.3

October: Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee            4.6

November:  Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge    7

December: his is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay            7

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2019

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January: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy    6

February: The Old Ways by Robert MacFarlane            6.4

March: Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey    6.3

April: I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers                2.9

May: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry                6.5

June: In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume            5.9

July: A Raid Over Berlin by John Martin                7.2

August: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead     7.5

September: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka  7.5

October: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison            6.3

November: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter            6

December: Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto                7.4

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2020

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January: Educated by Tara Westover                          8

February: The Salt Path by Raynor Winn                   7.5

March: How to be Right in a World Gone Wrong by James O'Brien    7.3

April: Extraordinary Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson        7

May: The New Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan           4.7

June: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons               6.5

July: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett                      7.5

August: Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse           7

September: Train Man edited by Nakano Hitori       7.6

October: Badgerlands by Patrick Barkham                 6

November: Becoming by Michelle Obama                  7.6

December: My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite    8.3

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2021

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January: Wuthering Heights  by Emily Bronte           7.5

February: Navigation Log by Martin Corrick              5.6

March: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline                   8.3

April: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo     8.8

May: Milkman by Anna Burns                                      7.5

June: Lockdown by Peter May                                       4.3

July: Le Freak by Nile Rodgers                                      7.1​

August: The 100 Year-Old Man by Jonas Jonasson   7.5

September: Regeneration by Pat Barker                    7.5

October: Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie     7.8

November: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman      7.7    

December: Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin   4.9

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2022

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January: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant                  8.4      

February: Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding   5.5

March: Kandahar Cockney by James Fergusson      5.8

April: Those Who Are Loved by Victoria Hislop      5.7

May: Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud                        4.8

June: Captain Correli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres           6.5

July: The White Ship by Charles Spencer                 7.8

August: And Away by Bob Mortimer                         6.9

September: The Body by Bill Bryson                         7.7

October: Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin          7.5

November: The Cockroach by Ian McEwan             5

December: Letter to my Daughter by Maya Angelou                6.7     

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2023

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January: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro                     6.8

February: The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham             6.5

March: Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey                           6.6

April: Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon              6.7

May: no meeting

June: You Don't Know What War Is by Yeva Skalietska        5.75

July: Why Didn't They Ask Evans by Agatha Christie            6.1

August: Time's Arrow by Martin Amis                                     7.7

September: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata   6

October: The Red Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk                6

November: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck                    5.5

December: Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie  6.3

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2024

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January: Landlines by Raynor Winn                                         6

February: Tin Man by Sarah Winman                                      6.5

March: Treacle Walker by Alan Garner                                    5.3

April: The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore             7.3

May: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa                                7.2

June: The Lie Maker by Linwood Barclay                                6.6

July: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck                                      7.4

AugustL NW by Zadie Smith                                                     6.1

September: Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard                        7

October: The Trio by Johanna Hedman                                   5

November: Zoo Station by David Downing                             7.4

December: Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken    7.6

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2025

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January: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan             7.5

February: Orbital by Samantha Harvey                                  6.1

March: Slaughterhouse 5                                                           7.3                     

April: Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

May: Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

June: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

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