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
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