Book Club Reads

Book Club Reads


NON‑FICTION

 

Memoir, Biography & Personal Narratives

 

• Angela’s Ashes — Frank McCourt

Becoming - Michelle Obama 

• Dadland — Keggie Carew

• Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? — Séamas O’Reilly

Educated - Tara Westover 

• The Santaland Diaries — David Sedaris

• The Madness of Grief — Richard Coles

The Salt Path - Raynor Winn

This is Going to Hurt - Adam Kay

 

 

Social Science, Culture & Ideas

 

• Invisible Women — Caroline Criado Perez

• Stolen Focus — Johann Hari

• The Uninhabitable Earth — David Wallace‑Wells

• The School of Life — Alain de Botton

 

 

Science, Medicine & Psychology

 

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — Rebecca Skloot

• The Brain — David Eagleman

• Being Mortal — Atul Gawande

• Why We Sleep — Matthew Walker

 

 

Nature, Travel & Place

 

• What the Wild Sea Can Be — Helen Scales

• Raising Hare — Chloe Dalton

 

 

History, Politics & Real‑World Events

 

• Down and Out in Paris and London — George Orwell

• The Optician of Lampedusa

• The Five — Hallie Rubenhold

 

 

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FICTION

 

A

 

• A God in Ruins — Kate Atkinson

• A Man Called Ove — Fredrik Backman

A Place Called Winter - Patrick Gale

• A Sweet Obscurity — Patrick Gale

• A Terrible Kindness — Jo Browning Wroe

• A Thousand Ships — Natalie Haynes

A Spool of Blue Thread - Anne Tyler

• A Town Called Solace — Mary Lawson

All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

And the Mountains Echoed - Khalid Hosseini

Autumn - Ali Smith

 

 

B

   Best of Friends - Kamila Shamshie

• Bitter Orange — Claire Fuller

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C

 

• Crow Lake — Mary Lawson

 

 

 

D

 

• Days Without End — Sebastian Barry

• Dear Life — Alice Munro

• Disgrace — J.M. Coetzee

• Dream Count — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 

 

E

 

• Early One Morning — Virginia Baily

• Eileen — Ottessa Moshfegh

• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine — Gail Honeyman

• Elmet — Fiona Mozley

• Elizabeth Is Missing — Emma Healey

 

 

F

 

• Fates and Furies — Lauren Groff

• Fat Chance — Nick Spalding

    Flamingo - Rachel Elliott

• Flights — Olga Tokarczuk

• French Braid — Anne Tyler

 

 

 

G

 

• Girl, Woman, Other — Bernardine Evaristo

Go As A River - Shelley Read

• Grief Is the Thing with Feathers — Max Porter

 

 

H

 

• Hamnet — Maggie O’Farrell

• Hard by a Great Forest — Leo Vardiashvili

• He Said/She Said — Erin Kelly

• Home Fire — Kamila Shamsie

• Hot Milk — Deborah Levy

• How to Stop Time — Matt Haig

 

 

I

 

• In Memoriam — Alice Winn

• Intermezzo — Sally Rooney

 

 

J

 

• Jernigan — David Gates

 

 

K

 

• Kairos — Jenny Erpenbeck

   KLara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro 

 

 

L

 

• Lean Fall Stand — Jon McGregor

• Lessons — Ian McEwan

• Lessons in Chemistry — Bonnie Garmus

• Less — Andrew Sean Greer

Letters From Father Christmas - JRR Tolkien

• Light on Snow — Anita Shreve

• Little Fires Everywhere — Celeste 

Love Nina - Nina Stibbe

 

 

 

M

 

• Magpie — Elizabeth Day

• Magpie Lane — Lucy Atkinson

• Moonfleet — J. Meade Faulkner

• Motherland — William Nicholson

• My Brilliant Friend — Elena Ferrante

 

 

 

N

 

• Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro

• Normal People — Sally Rooney

• Now We Shall Be Entirely Free — Andrew Miller

 

 

O

 

• Our Endless Numbered Days — Claire Fuller

• Our Missing Hearts — Celeste Ng

 

 

P

 

• Prodigal Summer — Barbara Kingsolver

• Purity — Jonathan Franzen

 

 

R

 

• Reservoir 13 — Jon McGregor

 

 

S

  Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan

• So Much Life Left Over — Louis de Bernières

• Some Kind of Fairy Tale — Graham Joyce

• Sorrow and Bliss — Meg Mason

• Still Life — Sarah Winman

   Stoner - John Williams 

• Suite Française — Irène         Némirovsky

• Swing Time — Zadie Smith

 

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T

 

 

• The Beauty of the End — Debbie Howells

The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri 

The Book of Fire - Christy Lefteri

• The Book Thief — Markus Zusak

• The Children Act — Ian McEwan

  The Coast Road - Alan Murrin

• The Consequences of Marriage — Isla Dewar

• The Dust That Falls from Dreams — Louis de Bernières

• The Dutch House — Ann Patchett

• The Essex Serpent — Sarah Perry

• The Flamingo — Rachel Elliott

• The Forty Rules of Love — Elif Shafak

• The Girl on the Train — Paula Hawkins

The Girls - Emma Cline 

The Good People - Hannah Kent

The Heart’s Invisible Furies - John Boyne

The Hunting Party - Lucy Foley

The Island - Victoria Hislop

The Land in Winter - Andrew Miller

The Leopard - Jo Nesbo

The Lido - Libby Page

The Light Between Oceans - ML Steadman

The Lollipop Shoes - Joanne Harris

The Magic Cottage - James Herbert

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

The Marriage Portrait — Maggie O’Farrell

The Mersault investigation - Kamel Daoud

The Midnight Library- Matt Haig 

The Night Guest - Fiona McFarlane

The Only Story - Julian Barnes 

The Outsider - Albert Camus

The Paris Library - Janet Skeslien Charles

The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Heller

The Promise - Damon Galgut

The Quality of Mercy - Barry Unsworth

The Quality of Silence - Rosamund Lupton

 The Sanatorium — Sarah Pearse

 The Safekeep — Yael van der

 Wouden

The Sellout - Paul Beatty 

The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes 

The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Filer

The Taste of Blue Light - Lydia Ruffles

The Testaments - Margaret Atwood

 The Weekend - Charlotte Wood

Tin Man - Sarah Winman

Trespasses - Louise Kennedy 

 

U

Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver 

Us  - David Nicholls

 

V

Violeta - Isabel Allende 

 

 

War light - Michael Ondatjee 

We All Want Impossible Things - Catherine Newman

Where My Heart Used to Beat - Sebastian Faulks

Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owen 

Whispers Through a Megaphone - Rachel Elliott

Widows - Linda La Plante

Winter Garden - Kristin Hannah