Books previously discussed

Books Reviewed by the Reading Group 

(Dates in descending order - All marks out of ten)

2019-20

March Yasmina Khadra, What the day gives the night

January Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut (6.8)

2018-19

November Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses ()

October John Lanchester, The Wall (6.6)
August Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (7.5)
July Madeline Miller, Circe (6.1)

May Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (5.9)

March James Rebanks, The Shepherd's Life ()
January Anna Burns, Milkman (7.3)

2017-18

December Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (6.4)

October Isabel Allende, Ines of My Soul (7.3)
September Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (8.3)
June John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies (7.3)
May Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow (7.4)
March Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (7)
February Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus (4)
December Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer (7.5)
November Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent (6.8)
September Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (7.7)

2016-17

July Robert Seethaler, The Tobacconist (6.4)
May John Banville, The Sea (7.5) and Hannah Kent, Burial Rites (8)
March Francis Spufford, Golden Hill (7.8)
January William Boyd, Sweet Caress (7)

December Paul Beatty, The Sellout (5.1)

October Hilary Mantel, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (7.5)

September Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved (6.1)

2015-16

June  Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant (7)
May Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend (6.5)
April Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (5.3)
March Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project (6.8)
February Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins (6.5)
January Mo Yan, Frog (5.8)
November E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime (7.4)
October Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind (8.6)
September Nell Freudenberger, The Newlyweds (5) 

2014-15

July: David Nicholls, Us (7.2)
June: Ian McKewan, The Children Act (7.5)
May: Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories, Vol. 1, Vintage Books (7.2)
April: Hallgrímur Helgason, The Hitman's Guide to Housecleaning (5.5)
February: Karen Joy Fowler, We are All Completely Beside Ourselves (6)
January: Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk (9)
December: Michelle Paver, Dark Matter: A Ghost story (7.3)
November: Jonathan Coe, EXPO 58 (6.1)
September: John Lanchester, Capital (7.2)

2013-14 

June: Robert Harris, An Officer and a Spy
May: Alice Munro, Dear Life (6)
March: Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall (5.9)
February: Ruth Ozeki, A tale for the time being (7.4)
January: Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (6.3)
December: Andrea Levy, The Long Song (4.7)


Charles Moseley, Out of Reach: an elegy for a Cambridgeshire village
John Williams, Stoner