Book group reports

List of Books read at the book group

Authors	Titles
	A
ADICHE Chimamanda Ngozi	Americanah
AKBAR Kaveh	Martyr!
ALBOM Mitch	Have a Little Faith
ALBOM Mitch	The Five People You Meet in Heaven
AOYAMA Michiko	What You Are Looking For Is In The Library.
ATWOOD Margaret	The Hand Made's Tale
AUSTEN Jane	Persuasion

	B
BACKMAN Frederick	A Man Called Ove
BACKMMAN Frederik	A Man Called Ove
BALLARD J.G.	Empire of the Sun
BALLARD J.G.	Empire of the Sun by J.G. BALLARD
BARBERY Muriel	The Elegance of the Hedgehog
BARNES Julian	The Sense of an Ending
BARRY Sebastian	Days Without End
BLOODWORTH James	Hired (hardback)
BOWLES Paul	Stories
BOYT Susie	Loved and Missed
BUTLER Octavia	Dawn (Lilith's Blood 1)

	C
CAMUS Albert	A Happy Death
CATHER Willa	Death Comes for the Archbishop
CHACOUR Eric	What I know about you
CHAPAN Gary	The Five Love Languages
CHERSTERTON G. K.	The Man Who Was Thursday-A Nightmare
CHEVALIER Tracy	The Last Runaway
CLEAVE Chris	Everyone Brave is Forgiven
CLEAVE Chris	The Other Hand (UK edition of Little Bee)
COE Jonathan	The Accidental Women
COLLINS Gail	When Everything Changed; Am Women 1960 to the Present
CONRAD Joseph	Heart of Darkness
de BOTTON Alain	How Proust can change your life

	D
DEMICK Barbara	Nothing to Envy
DENCH Julie	Shakespear The Man Who Pyas The Rent
DESAI Kiran	The Inheritance of Loss
DIDION Joan	The Year of Magical Thinking
DOERR Anthony	All the Light We Cannot See
DONOGUE Emma	Room
DREW Alan	Gardens of Water
DRYSDALE Helena	Mother Tongues, Travels through Tribal Europe

	E F
EDUGYAN Esi	Washington Black
EISLER Benita	Naked in the Marketplace; the Lives of George Sand
ERDICH Louise	The Sentence
ERDICH Louise	The Round House
EVARISTO Bernardine	Girl, Woman, Other
EVERETT Percival	James
FAULKS Sebastian	Where My Heart Used to Beat
FAULKS Sebastian	Human Traces
FOWLER Karen Joy	The Jane Auxsten Book Club
FULLER Alexandra	Don't Let's Go to nthe Dogs Tonight

	G
GALCHEN Rivka	Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch
GALE Martha	Knowing Place
GALE Patrick	A Perfectly Good Man
GARMUS Bonnie	Lessons in Chemistry
GLASS Julia	A House Among the Trees
GOLDSBY Robin Meloy	Waltz of the Asparagus People
GORDIMER Nadine	The Pickup
GREER Andrew Sean	A story of a marriage
GREER Germaine	The Whole Woman
GREER Germaine	The Female Eunuch
GREGORY Philippa	The Other Boleyn Girl
GRUEN Sara	Water for Elephants
GUTERSON David	Snow Falling on Cedars

	H I
KANG Han	The Vegetarian
HALLIDAY Lisa	Asymmetry by Lisa HALLIDAY
HALLIDAY Lisa	Asymmetry
HARRIS Robert	Imperium
HARVEY Samantha	Orbital
HASHIMI Nadia	When the Moon is Low
HEALEY Emma	Elizabeth is Missing
HILL Lawrence	Someone knows my name
HISLOP Victoria	The Island
HOSSEINI Khalad	The Kite Runner
HOSSEINI Khalad	A Thousand Splendid Suns
HURSTEN Zora Neale	Their Eyes Were Watching God
HUSTVEDT Siri	The Summer Without Men
IRVING John	Last Night in Twisted River
JOHNSON Adam	The Orphan Master’s Son
JONASSON Jonas	The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

	K L
KELMAN Stephen	Pigeon English
KEWYCKA Marian	A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian
KING Laurie R.	The Beekeeper's Apprentice
KINGSOLVER Barbara	The Lacuna
KINGSOLVER Barbara	The Bean Trees
KINGSOLVER Barbara	Demon Copperhead
KRAKOUER Jon	Into Thin Air
KRISTOF Nicholas and Sheryl WuDunn	Half the Sky
LAWRENCE D.H.	Sons and Lovers
LEVY Andrea	Small Island
LEVY Deborah	Swimming Home

	M N
MAGUIRE Gregory	Wicked
MAKKAI Rebecca	The Great Believers
MANDELA Nelson	Long Walk to Freedom (hardback)
MARKLEY Stephen	Ohio
MARTEL Yann	Life of Pi
MASON Daniel	The Piano Tuner
MAWER Simon	The Glass Room
McCARTHY Cormac	Child of God
McCARTHY Cormac	Outer Dark
McCULLOUGH David	John Adams
McEWAN Ian	Atonement
MENGISTE Maaza	The Shadow King
MESSUD Claire	The Emperor’s Children
MICHELL Lynn	White Lies
MILLER Madeline	The Song of Achilles
MISTRY Rohinston	Family Matters
MONK Kidd Sue	The Secret Life of Bees
MORTENSON Greg	Three Cups of Tea
MUNRO Alice	The View from Castle Rock
MUNRO Alice	Runaway
N.G. Celeste	Our Missing Hearts
NAFISI Azar	Reading Lolita in Tehran
NAPOLITANO Ann	Hello Beautiful
NAVAID Mariam	The Guilty Can’t Say Goodbye
NEMIROVSKY Irène	Suite Française
NOTT-BOWER Susie	The Making of Her

	O P Q R
O’CONNELL Fergus	Call the Swallow
O'FARRELL Maggie	I Am, I am
OBAMA Barack	Dreams from My Father
ORANGE Tommy	There There
PATCHET Ann	Tom Lake
PATCHETT Ann	Bel Canto
PATCHETT Ann	The Dutch House
PERKINS-VALDEZ Dolen	Wench
PICOULT Jodi	Leaving Time
POWELLKaren P	Fifteen Wild Decembers by Karen Powell
PURNELL Sonia	A Woman of No Importance
RICHARDS Ben	The Mermaid and the Drunks
ROSNAY Tatiana de	Sarah’s Key
ROTH Philip	American Pastoral
ROY Arundhati	The God of Small Things

	S
SCHINE Cathleen	The Kunstlers in Paradise
SHAFFER Mary Ann & Annie Barrows	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
SHEYNGART Gary	Super Sad True Love Story
SHIELDS Carol	Unless
SHRIVER Lionel	We Need to Talk About Kevin
SHUTE Neville	Pied Piper
SITTENFELD Curtis	Rodham
SLIMANI Lila	In The Country of Others
SMILEY Jane	Horse Heaven
SMITH Zadie	White Teeth
SOBEL Dava	Galileo’s Daughter
SOLITatjana	The Lotus Eaters
SOYINKA Wolé	Aké: The Years of Childhood
STEINER Susie	Missing Presumed
STIBBE Nina	Love, Nina – Despatches from Family Life
STOCKETT Kathryn	The Help
STROUT Elisabeth	Olive Kitteridge

	T V W
T0EWS Myriam	Women Talking
TAYLOR Dora M.	Serpents and Ladders
THACKERAY William Makepeace	Vanity Fair
TOIBIM Colm	Nora Webster
TOIBIN Colm	Long Island
TYLER Anne	A Spool of Blue Thread
VERGEHESE Abraham	Cutting for Stone
VERGEHESE Abraham	The Tennis Partner
VERONESI Sandro	The Hummingbird
WALLS Jeanette	The Glass Castle
WHITEHEAD Colson	The Underground Railroad
WOLFF Tobias	Old School
WOODMAN Richard	1805
YOUSAFZAI Malaya (with Christina Lamb)	I Am Malala
ZUSAK Markus	The Book Thief


updated july 2026