Book groups reading list
List of the books our book groups are currently reading.
Current book group titles
- Infidel: My Life by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
- The sense of an ending by Julian Barnes
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
- The particular sadness of Lemon cake by Aimee Bender
- Smut by Alan Bennett
- Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang
- Harare North by Brian Chikwava
- Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
- Self Help by Edward Docx
- The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore by Stella Duffy
- The London Satyr by Robert Edric
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- The Gathering by Anne Enright
- Sanctuary by William Faulkner
- Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
- Scottsboro: A Novel by Ellen Feldman
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
- The Ghost by Robert Harris
- Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The Schoolboy by Holly Howitt
- Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
- Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
- The Burnt-out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen
- The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
- The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
- The Rapture by Liz Jensen
- Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
- The Siege by Ismail Kadare
- Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
- Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
- A most wanted man by John Le Carre
- The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
- New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
- Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
- Solar by Ian McEwan
- Snow Drops by A D Miller
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
- Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
- After Dark by Haruki Murakami
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- The Courilof Affair by Irene Nemirovsky
- The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
- Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
- Blank Gaze by Jose Luis Peixoto
- Monday to Friday Man by Alice Peterson
- The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
- The Almost Moon by Alice Sebald
- The Rings of Saturn by W G Sebald
- We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
- Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
- The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon
- Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Star maker by Olaf Stapledon
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
- Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
- Derby Day by D J Taylor
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
- The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
- The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
- Candide by Voltaire
- The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
- Before I go to sleep by S J Watson
- The Dirty South by Alex Wheatle
- Island Songs by Alex Wheatle
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Crime book list
- Started early, took my dog by Kate Atkinson
- Dead lock by Sean Black
- The Burning by Jane Casey
- A Quiet Belief in Angels by R J Ellory
- Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indrioason
- Anatomy of a Murder by Imogen Robertson
- Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo