We're reading
I Have Some Questions for You
by Rebecca Makkai
Our next meeting
Wednesday 18 December
7:30pm at the Tulse Hill Hotel
We're reading
Our next meeting
Anyone can suggest a book for us to read. Pitch it to the group and we all get to vote. The winning book, and any other suggestions, are posted here. So come along to a meeting and bring a book suggestion!
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November 2024
by A K Blakemore
Hear Him Calling by Carly Reagon
The Beasts of Paris by Stef Penney
Brian by Jeremy Cooper
October 2024
by Mary Annaïse Heglar
Brotherless Night by V V Ganeshanathan
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
August 2024
by Colm Tóibín
July 2024
by Caoilinn Hughes
June 2024
by Percival Everett
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt
How I Won a Nobel Prize by Julius Taranto
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
May 2024
by Andrew O'Hagan
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
April 2024
by Margaret Atwood
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
March 2024
by Megan Nolan
Free by Lea Api
Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Penance by Eliza Clark
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
February 2024
by Alice Winn
How to be Both by Ali Smith
Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty
January 2024
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Ratline by Philippe Sands
The Romantic by William Boyd
Alison by Lizzy Stewart
The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
Still Life by Sarah Winton
December 2023
by Jennifer Egan
The New Life by Tom Crewe
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Levin
November 2023
by Hervé Le Tellier
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Years by Annie Ernaux
Lie With Me by Philippe Benson
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
October 2023
by Linda Grant
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee
September 2023
by Parini Sheriff
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Yellowface by Rebecca F Huang
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
Ordinary Human Feelings by Megan Nolan
Kala by Colin Walsh
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
August 2023
by E.M. Forster
Lessons by Ian McEwan
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
July 2023
by Bryan Washington
The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen
Lessons by Ian McEwan
To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher
June 2023
by Jan Carson
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
The Story of the First by Linda Grant
May 2023
by Natasha Brown
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
A Fortunate Woman by Polly Borland
French Braid by Anne Tyler
Foster by Claire Keegan
Mrs March by Virginia Feito
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
Consent by Annabel Lyon
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński
April 2023
by J L Carr
by Jimi Famurewa
Wise Children by Angela Carter
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Levin
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
March 2023
by Maggie O'Farrell
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
I'm Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait
February 2023
by Hernan Diaz
A Helping Hand by Celia Dale
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan
A Killing in November by Simon Mason
Bad Traffic by Simon Lewis
Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
December 2022
by Barbara Kingsolver
My Dirty California by Jason Mosberg
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
November 2022
by Ted Chiang
In the Wars by Dr Waheed Arian
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Memorial by Bryan Washington
The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura
I'm Waiting for You by Kim Bo-Young
October 2022
by Doireann Ni Ghríofa
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
This Cultural Life Radio 4
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell
August 2022
by Matthew Green
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Matrix by Lauren Groff
In a Good Light by Clare Chambers
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Burial Rights by Hannah Kent
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
July 2022
by Brian Klein
June 2022
by Elif Shafak
May 2022
by Edith Wharton
Shadowlands by Matthew Green
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Winchelsea by Alex Preston
Heartstopper Netflix
April 2022
by Tessa Hadley
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
March 2022
by Amor Towles
A Good Year for the Roses by Mark Timlin
Winchelsea by Alex Preston
February 2022
by Rose Tremain
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Trojan Horse Affair – This American Life
Southlake – NBC News
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
January 2022
by Simone de Beauvoir
POP. 1280 by Jim Thompson
The Manningtree Witches by A. K. Blakemore
A Stranger City by Linda Grant
The Machine Stops by E M Forster
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sarte
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
Dopesick Disney+
Couples Therapy BBC
December 2021
by Francis Spufford
Matrix by Lauren Groff
November 2021
by Paul Auster
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
October 2021
by John Carreyrou
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
September 2021
by Hadley Freeman
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Why We Kneel, How We Rise by Michael Holding
August 2021
by Katherine Heiny
Fault Lines by Emily Itami
The Promise by Damon Galgut
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny
The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Motherwell by Deborah Orr
Hungry by Grace Dent
The Vanishing of Harry Pace from Radiolab
July 2021
by Salena Godden
Should We Stay or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver
Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
American By Day by Derek B. Miller
The Startup Wife by Anam Tahmima Anam
Snowflake by Louise Nealon
An Ordinary Wonder by Buki Papillon
June 2021
by Brandon Taylor
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nanjala Nyabola
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
May 2021
by Sarah M Broom
Hot Stew by Fiona Mosley
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Midnight Library by Matt Haig
April 2021
by George Saunders
March 2021
by Yoko Ogawa
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
February 2021
by Evie Wyld
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
number9dream by David Mitchell
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Girl A by Abigail Dean
January 2021
by Maggie O'Farrell
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Autumn by Ali Smith
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell
December 2020
by Tommy Orange
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
House of Glass by Hadley Freeman
November 2020
by Brit Bennett
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
A Drop of Patience by William Melvin Kelley
Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
October 2020
by Doris Lessing
The Spark with Paul Collier and John Kay v Destructive Individualism
The Habit of Loving by Doris Lessing
Calm with Horses by Colin Barrett
September 2020
by Anthony Marra
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
August 2020
by Jane Gardam
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
July 2020
by Yaa Gyasi
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
June 2020
by Rutger Bregman
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Cat and The City by Nick Bradley
May 2020
by Ann Patchett
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
April 2020
by Colum McCann
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
My Name Is Why by Lemm Sissay
March 2020
by John Boyne
Other suggestions: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie, Reasons to be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe
February 2020
by Chloe Benjamin
Other suggestions: American Dirt by Jeannie Cummins, Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
January 2020
by Elif Shafak
Other suggestions: The Quiet American by Graham Green, Elmet by Fiona Mozley
December 2019
by Ruth Ozeki
Other suggestions: I Never Said I Love You by Rhik Samadder, Putney by Sokfa Zinovief, Love of Country by Madeleine Bunting, Afroeuropean by Johnny Pitts
November 2019
by Melissa Broder
Other suggestions: The Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Gilgamesh by Joan London
October 2019
by Tayari Jones
Other suggestions: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coate, Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
September 2019
by Iain M. Banks
by Ann Leckie
Other suggestions: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, Three Women by Lisa Taddeo, The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
June 2019
by Daphne du Maurier
Other suggestions: The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang, The Dispossed by Ursula Le Guin
May 2019
by Miriam Toews
Other suggestions: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, The Runaways by Fatima Bhutto
April 2019
by Derek B. Miller
Other suggestions: The Odd Women by George Gissing, The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
March 2019
by Kristen Roupenian
Other suggestions: Transcription by Kate Atkinson, Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
February 2019
by Chigozie Obioma
Other suggestions: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt, Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie, A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
January 2019
by Kathleen Rooney
December 2018
by Stephen Kelman
by Nick Drnaso
Other suggestions: Inventing Ourselves by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, The Wife by Meg Wolitzer, A Man With One of Those Faces by Caimh McDonnell, Tales of the Early World by Ted Hughes
November 2018
by Anna Burns
Other suggestions: A Different Drummer by William Kelly, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
October 2018
by Iain Banks
Other suggestions: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Plainsong by Kent Haruf
September 2018
by Arthur C Clarke
by Anne Charnock
July 2018
by Kate Moore
Other suggestions: American Pastoral by Philip Roth, Natives by Akala, The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
June 2018
by Edward St Aubyn
May 2018
by Ben H Winters
Other suggestions: Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward, The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar, Blacklands by Belinda Bauer, The Boat People by Sharon Bala
April 2018
by Leïla Slimani
Other suggestions: Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo, Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, The Girls by Emma Cline
March 2018
by Sally Rooney
Other suggestions: Know Your Place by Nathan Connolly and Andrew McMillan, Solar Bones by Mike McCormack, A Rising Man by Abir Mukherkjee
February 2018
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Other suggestions: Go Went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck, Feel Free by Zadie Smith, Do No Harm by Henry Marsh
January 2018
by Paul Auster
December 2017
by Kazuo Ishiguro
November 2017
by Naomi Alderman
October 2017
by Hanya Yanagihara