| Book Club reading list and recommendations | ||||
| Title | Author | Picked | Proposer | Comments |
| Life of Pi | Tony | |||
| Winter Games | Rachel Johnson | Bella | ||
| A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley | Sue | ||
| The Guernsey Literacy & Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shafter & Annie Barrows | Berenice | ||
| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | Sue | ||
| The Island | Victoria Hislop | Gill | ||
| Charlie Wilsons War | George Crile | Tony | ||
| The Hanging Shed | Gordon Ferris | Chris | ||
| Alone in Berlin | Hans Fallanda | Sue | ||
| Daughter of Time | Josephine Tey | Sue | ||
| My Animals and other family | Clare Baldwin | Bella | ||
| A Street car named Bob | James Bowen | Gill/Tracey? | ||
| The Spy Princess | Shrabani Basn | Brenda | ||
| Bare Bones | Patricia Cornwall | Brenda | ||
| The Thread | Victoria Hislop | Gill | not on reading list but suggested by Gillian as great book | |
| The Last Runaway | Tracey Chevalier | Berenice | ||
| Hope, A Tragedy | Salom Auslander | Sue | ||
| Defending Jacob | William Landay | Tracey | not recommended but several people read it and thought it was a great read | |
| Vulcan 607 | Roland White | Chris | ||
| The Fast Diet | Dr Michael Mosley | ? | ||
| Little Girl Lost | Brian Mc Gilloway | ? | ||
| Language of Flowers | Vanessa Diffenburgh | Susie | ||
| Inferno | Dan Brown | Chris | ||
| The Outsiders | Gerald Seymour | John | ||
| The King's Glass | Carola Hicks | Cheryl | ||
| Someone like you | Roald Dahl | David | ||
| This House is Haunted | John Boyne | Jenny | ||
| Every Contact leaves a Trace | Elenor Dymott | ? | ||
| This Boy | Alan Johnson | Tracey | ||
| Jamaica Inn | Daphne Du Maurier | John | ||
| Small Island | Andrea Levy | Susan | ||
| No one ever has sex on a Tuesday | Tracy Bloom | Gill | ||
| Rush of Blood | Mark Billington | David | ||
| The Last Runaway | Tracy Chevalier | Berenice | ||
| The Kingmakers Daughter | Philippa Gregory | Berenice | ||
| The Light Between Oceans | M L Stedman | Jenny | ||
| Secret Lives of Bees | Sue Monk kidd | Susan? | ||
| The Return | Victoria Hislop | Chris | ||
| The World according to Bob | James Bowen | Bella | ||
| If Walls could Talk | Lucy Worsley | Bella | ||
| The Dinner | Herman Koch | Jenny | ||
| Dead Man's Time | Peter James | David | ||
| The Cuckoo's Calling | Robert Galbraith | Chris | ||
| Two Brothers | Ben Elton | Susan | ||
| The Ghost | Robert Harris | Sue | ||
| The Secret Keeper | Kate Morton | Sue | ||
| The Violinist's Thumb | Sam Keen | Chris | ||
| The Alchemist's Secret | Scott Mariani | Chris | ||
| Race Against Time | Ellen McCarthy | Chris | ||
| Shadow Year | Hannah Richell | Bella | ||
| The Kite Runner | Khalid Hosseini | Jenny | ||
| Vicious Cycle | Wilbur Smith | Jenny | ||
| We Need to talk about Kevin | Lionel Shriver | David | ||
| Into the Blue | Robert Goddard | David | ||
| The Secrets of the Lighthouse | Santa Montefiore | Berenice | ||
| The Lazarus Vault | Tom Harper | John | ||
| Twentieth Century Spies | Neil Root | John | ||
| The Bookseller of Kabul | Asner Seirstad | Sue | ||
| The Mozart Conspiracy | Scott Mariani | Chris | ||
| A Commonplace Killing | Sian Bushy | Bella | ||
| Cross Your Heart: Alex Cross 21 | James Patterson | Brenda | ||
| The Orrenda | Joseph Boyden | Tony | ||
| The Seamstress | Maria Duenas | Berenice | ||
| Food of Love | Antony Capello | Jenny | ||
| Never go Back | Lee Child | Jenny | ||
| The Deceiver | Fredrick Forsyth | John | ||
| Philomena | Martin Sixsmith | sue | ||
| The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | Chris | ||
| The Fields | Kevin Maher | Tony | ||
| 12 years a Slave | Solomn Northup | Dorinda | ||
| Before I go to Sleep | S J Watson | Gill | ||
| Unravelling Oliver | Liz Nugent | Susan | ||
| A Foreign Country | Charles Cuming | Jenny | ||
| Sold with a Corpse | J M Gregson | John | ||
| Testament of Youth | Vera Brittain | Sue | ||
| The Fault in our Stars | John Green | Gillian | ||
| The Third Plantagenet | Dr Ashton-Hill | yes | Gillian | non fiction and intended for history buffs but interesting facts |
| The Son | Jo Nesbo | Tony | ||
| The Best of our Spies | Alex Girlis | Chris | ||
| Who Moved my Cheese | Dr Spencer Johnson | Chris | ||
| Childrn of the Revolution | Peter Robinsn | yes | Cheryl | Poor |
| Sycamore Row | John Grisham | Yes | sue | Good read. Good knowledge of US legal system |
| The Fault in our Stars | John Green | Gill | ||
| TheGoldfinch | Donna Tartt | Gill | ||
| The Husbands Secret | Liane Morierty | Chris | ||
| The Monogram Murders | Sophie Hannah | Bella | ||
| The Garden of Burning Sand | Corban Anderson | Dorinda | ||
| Saints of the Shadow Bible | Ian Rankin | Dorinda | ||
| Eeny, Meeny | M J Arlidge | yes | Tony | page turner |
| Started early, took my dog | Kate Atkinson | John | ||
| Personal | Lee Child | David | ||
| The Little coffee Shop of Kabul | Deborah rodriguez | yes | Berenice | everyone who read this enjoyed it |
| The Infinite Plan | Isabel Allende | Jenny | ||
| Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | Gill | ||
| Suite Francoise | Irene Nemirovsky | Sue | ||
| The Lost Empress | Steve Robinson | Susan | ||
| The Humans | Matt Haig | yes | Tony | people who read it found it interesting. Love Story with a twist and a good insight to how people are when you look from the outsiders point of view |
| The Poisoner | Stephen Bates | Brenda | ||
| The Rosie Effect | Graham Simsion | Jenny | ||
| From a Distance | Raphaella Barker | Jenny | ||
| Closer than You Think | Karen Rose | yes | Gill | very grusome with loads of twists and turns. Good Character development |
| Elephant Moon | John Sweeney | sue | ||
| A Place Called Winter | Patrick Gale | Bella | ||
| A New Menace | Roger Price | Brenda | ||
| Under Mackerel Sky | Rick Stein | Sarah | ||
| Before we Met | Lucy Whitehouse | Jenny | ||
| The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | yes | Tony | heavy going until about half way thro. Writing was good at hiding outcome |
| To Kill A Mocking Bird | Harper Lee | sue | ||
| Franklin and Winston | John Meacham | Gill | ||
| The Case of Hail Mary Celeste | Malcolm Price | yes | Gill | Terrible book |
| Jehovahs Witnesses- Reasons for Leaving | Russell Walker | Russell | ||
| The Undercover Ecconomist | Tim Harford | Chris | ||
| The Drums of Memory | Sir Steven Hastings | Chris | ||
| The Search for Richard 111 | Phillipa Langley & Michael Jones | David | ||
| Elizabeth is Missing | Emma Healey | Bella | ||
| The Silent Sister | Diane Chamberlain | Susan | ||
| Saint Zita Society | Ruth Rendaell | John | ||
| The Husbands Secret | Leanne Moriety | Jenny | ||
| Me Before You | Jojo Moyes | Jenny | ||
| Summertime | Vanessa Laye | Gill | ||
| I let you go | Clare Mackintosh | Gill | ||
| The Third Testament | Craig Russell | yes | Chris | unusual book but those who had read it enjoyed it. Hard going |
| Thinking Fast, And Slow | Daniel Kahneman | yes | Russell | Not Bedtime reading. Too much technical info for most people |
| I Know why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | Sue | ||
| The Cake Shop in the Garden | Carole Matthews | Brenda | ||
| To Kill A Mocking Bird | Harper Lee | Tony | ||
| No Better Friend | Robert Weintraub | yes | Bella | no one like this book. Full of lists |
| Half the World Away | Cath Staincliffe | Jenny | ||
| A Brief Histoy of Time | Stephen Hawking | Russell | ||
| Various Pets Alive and Dead | Marina Lewycka | John | ||
| Go Set a Watchman | Harper Lee | Gill | ||
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Chris | ||
| Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke | Lynne | ||
| The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon | yes | Sue | excellent story writer. Very wellwritten highly recommended |
| The Martian | Andy Weir | Chris | ||
| Exoskeleton | Shane Stradler | Andre | ||
| Daughter of Fire | Barbara Erskine | Dorinda | ||
| The House by the Lake | Thomas Harding | Susan | ||
| The Tea Planters Wife | Dinah Jefferies | Susan | ||
| Man on Fire | Stephen Kelman | Jenny | ||
| Better off Dead | Tom Wood | Brenda | ||
| Gray Mountain | John Grisham | yes | Gill | Bad reviews. Weak hero. Nothing resolved |
| The Seven Sisters | Lucinda Riley | yes | Gill | ok but very Mills and Boon. Setting you up for reading the series |
| The Year of the Runaways | Sunjeev Sahota | Sue | ||
| The Sunrise | Victoria Hislop | Chris | ||
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | yes | Russell | Differing views on the book but worth reading |
| What The Butler winked at | Eric Horn | yes | Tony | no one who read it enjoyed this book although there were some interesting facts about the workings of large houses in earlty 1900s |
| Transmission | Hari Kunzru | Sue | ||
| All the Light we cannot see | Anthony Doerr | Sue | ||
| The Good Liar | Nicholas Serle | no | Tony | |
| The Career of Evil | Robet Galbraith | no | Susan | |
| Bricking it | Nick Spalding | no | Susan | |
| Die Again | Tess Gerritsen | no | Brenda | |
| The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra | Vseem Khan | no | Sue | |
| Life after Life | Kate Atkinson | yes | gill | no one enjoyed this book. Idea great but execution poor |
| Big Oil in a Small Country | Andrew Smith | no | Chris | |
| The Rogue Lawyer | John Grisham | no | Chris | |
| The Stranger | Harlan Cohben | yes | Rusell | Gripping. Very quick to get into. Lots of twists and turns |
| Catch 22 | Joseph Heller | yes | Chris | Not enjoyed A book of its age |
| You are Dead | Peter James | no | Brenda | |
| Death of Lucy Kyte | Nicola Upson | no | Berenice | |
| The Las Ten Seconds | Simon Kernick | no | David | |
| To Catch a Tiger | Eden Cole | no | Kevin | |
| Life on a Limb | Sorry cant find this author | no | Kevin | |
| Lazy Blood | Ross Greenwood | no | Russell | |
| Disclaimer | Renee Knight | no | Jenny | |
| The Shock of the Fall | Nathan Filer | no | sue | |
| Maestra | L S Hilton | Yes | Gill | Terrible book. Full of very explicit sex and very liitle suspense |
| The Long Way Home | Louise Penny | no | Brenda | |
| The New Spy Master | Stephen Grey | no | Chris | |
| View from the Corner Shop- The Diary of a Yorkshire Shop Assistant in Wartime | Kathleen Hay | no | Brenda | |
| Hunters in the Dark | Lawrence Osborn | no | Jenny | |
| You Belong to Me | Samantha Hayes | no | Jenny | |
| Dead Gone | Luca Veste | Yes | David | good read. Had to discover the guilty party |
| Able Seacat Simon | Lynne Barrett-Lee | no | Bella | |
| Daughters of the Silk Road | Debbie Rix | yes | Susan | gentle easy read but different timelines not well connected |
| The Dust That Falls From Dreams | Louise de Bernieres | no | sue | |
| Moving | Jenny Éclair | No | Gill | |
| The Killing Season | Mason Cross | no | Gill | |
| Jpod | Douglas Coupland | No | Tony | |
| The Taming of the Queen | Phillippa Gregory | no | Berenice | |
| Dark Corners | Ruth Rendell | no | Brenda | |
| Intrusion | Mary McCluskie | No | Susan | |
| A Southwold Mystery | Suzette A Hill | No | Susan | |
| Spectacles | Sue Perkins | yes | Gill | some really enjoyed this book |
| The Life and Loves of a He Devil | Graham Norton | no | Gill | |
| The Periodic Table | Primo Levi | No | Sue | |
| Quiet | Susan Cain | No | Tony | |
| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | Yes | Russell | Brilliant book. Well written |
| The Pilgrim | Terry Hughes | No | Dawn | |
| Hitman Anders and the meaning of it all | Jonas Jonasson | no | Tony | |
| The Death of Lucy Kyte | Nicola Upson | no | Bella | |
| Nigel, my Family and other dogs | Monty Don | No | Chris | |
| The Secret ways of Perfume | Christina Caboni | No | Berenice | |
| The Sleeper | Emily Barr | No | David | |
| Moriarty | Anna Kronberg | no | Dawn | |
| Alone in Berlin | Hans Fallanda | No | Dawn | |
| After the Crash | Michael Bussi | Yes | Jenny | |
| Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Carlo Rovelli | no | Jenny | |
| Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood | Yes | Sue | |
| Born to Crime | Trevor Noah | no | Kerry | |
| The Whistler | John Grisham | No | Chris | |
| The Butcher's Hook | Janet Ellis | No | Brenda | |
| The Book of Night Women | Marlone James | No | Jan | |
| The Telepath Chronicles | David Gatewood | No | Russell | |
| The Devi'ls Music | Jane Rusbridge | Yes | Tony | 3 had read this. Long winded and confusing. Noone would recommend it |
| The Husbands Secret | Leanne Moriety | no | Dawn | |
| Waking Lions | Ayelet Gundar-Goshen | yes | Jenny | only one person enjoyed this book but all thought too long |
| Lying in Wait | Liz Nugent | No | Susan | |
| Secret Wife | Gill Paul | No | Gill | |
| The Silent Scream | Angela Marsons | No | Gill | |
| Hag-Seed | Margaret Atwood | No | Sue | |
| Walk across the Sun | Addison Corban | No | Dawn | |
| The Long Way Home | Saroo Brierley | yes | Chris | good book. Simply written |
| Liar,Liar | M J Arlidge | No | Tony | |
| Everyone Brave is Forgiven | Chris Cleve | No | Bella | |
| The Gift | Louis Jenson | no | Susan | |
| Lie with Me | Sabine Durrant | no | Jan | |
| I am Pilgrim | Terry Hayes | No | David | |
| Last train from Liguira | Christine Dwye Hickey | no | Berenice | |
| A Tap on the Window | Lynwood Barcley | Yes | Russell | Great page turner. 9 had read it which is a BC record |
| The Cheshire Sect | Dan Frazer | no | Jenny | |
| H is for Hawk | helen McDonald | no | Kerry | |
| Unravelling Oliver | Liz Nugent | no | Gill | |
| The Invention of Wings | Sue Monk Kidd | no | Sue | |
| Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari | No | Chris | |
| The things you can only see when you slow down | Haemin Surim | No | Chris | |
| Hitman Anders and the meaning of it all | Jonas Jonasson | no | Tony | Recommended previously |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | No | Jan | |
| Liar,Liar | M J Arlidge | yes | Russell | 4 had read it but all thought it wasn’t his best |
| Daughter of Fortune | Isabel Allende | no | Berenice | |
| The Beautiful Dead | Belinda Bower | no | David | |
| Shtum | Jem Lester | no | Phillipa | |
| American Wife | Curtis Sittenfield | no | Gill | |
| The Starvation Lake | Brian Gruley | no | Gill | |
| I'm Travelling Alone | Samuel Bjork | no | Jenny | |
| The Three | Sarah Lotz | yes | Sue | marmite book. Only 1 had finished it but others couldn’t finsh it |
| Into the Water | Paula Hawkins | no | Brenda | |
| The Girl Before | J P Delaney | No | Tony | |
| All The Missing Girls | Megan Miranda | No | Gill | |
| The Tobacconist | Robert Seethaler | Yes | Sue | |
| 11.22.63 | Stephen King | Yes | Russell | |
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