BOOK GROUP 3

Jan
                      WhelanReading and discussion of books chosen by members.



Group Coordinator: Jan Whelan (click to contact)
When

Second Monday in the month, at 2.30pm.
Where

Members' houses around Islington.

Book Group 3 Discussion Book Group 3 has been meeting monthly since November 2014. We meet in members' homes on the second Monday of the month. Members take it in turns at the meetings to present three books of their choice and our next book is chosen from amongst them.






Recent books read this year so far or planned to be read:
2023
January -  Le grand Meaulnes, Alain-Fournier
February - Clock Dance, Anne Tyler
March - The Power, Naomi Alderman
April - Housekeeping, Marylinne Robinson
May - The Binding, Bridget Collins
June - The Man from Beijing, Henning Mankell
July - Time after Time, Molly Keane
August -  No meeting
September - The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir
October / November / December - not chosen yet.

Here is a list of all the books we have read over previous years.
2022
January - Saturday, Ian McEwan
February - The Small House at Allington, Anthony Trollope
March - Black and British - a forgotten history, David Olusoga
April - The Last Chronicle of Barset, Anthony Trollope
May - Lily, Rose Tremain
June - Brother of the more famous Jack, Barbara Trapido
July/August/September - Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
October - Three things about Elsie, Joanna Cannon
November - The diet myth, Tim Spector
December - cancelled due to snow

2021
February  - Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell
March - Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
April - High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
May - The Warden, Anthony Trollope
June - Autumn, Ali Smith
July -  Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope
September - The treachery of spies, Manda Scott
October - Dr Thorne, Anthony Trollope
November - Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
December - Framley Parsonage, Anthony Trollope

2020 (Coronavirus) Lockdown from March 23rd
January - Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
February - The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry
March - Absolute Friends, John le Carré
April /May/June/July/August: Missed - covid19
Zoom sessions:
September- Small Island, Andrea Levy
October - The Bell, Iris Murdoch
November - Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively
December - A spool of blue thread, Anne Tyler

2019
January — Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata)
February — Purple Hibiscus (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
March — A Fringe of Leaves (Patrick White)
April — Bliss (Katherine Mansfield)
May — Stamboul Train (Graham Greene)
June — A Bend in the River (V. S. Naipaul)
July — Is There Anything You Want? (Margaret Forster)
August — Circe (Madeline Miller)
September — Fire in the Blood (Irene Nemirovsky)
October — Christ Stopped at Eboli (Carlo Levi)
November/December — The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Arundhati Roy)

2018
January — Deaf Sentence (David Lodge)
February — Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Gail Honeyman)
March — Exit West (Mohsin Hamid)
April — Riceyman Steps (Arnold Bennett)
May/June — A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)
July — The Noise of Time (Julian Barnes)
September — The Camomile Lawn (Mary Wesley)
October — The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Robert Tressell)
November — The Postman Always Rings Twice (James M Cain)
December — Once You’d Gone (Maggie O’Farrell)

2017
January — On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
February — Maigret and the Old Lady (Georges Simenon)
March — Nutshell (Ian McEwan)
April — A Week in December (Sebastian Faulks)
May  — The Grand Babylon Hotel (Arnold Bennett)
June — A Month in the Country (J L Carr)
July — The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
August/September — The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford), Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
October — Travels with my Aunt (Graham Greene)
November — Kim (Rudyard Kipling)
December — Snippets of fun including Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis) and The World’s Wife (Carol Ann Duffy)

2016
January — Strong Poison (Dorothy L. Sayers)
February — Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie)
March — The Seduction of Mrs Pendlebury (Margaret Forster)
April — Silas Marner (George Eliot)
May/June — The Handyman (Penelope Mortimer)
July — The Blue Flower (Penelope Fitzgerald)
August — Us (David Nicholls)
September — Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
October — Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
November/December — Emma (Jane Austen)

2015
January — Hard Times (Charles Dickens)
February — We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Karen Joy Fowler)
March — The Invisible Woman (Claire Tomalin)
April — Possessing the Secret of Joy (Alice Walker)
May/June — Concrete Island (JG Ballard)
July — H is for Hawk (Helen McDonald)
August/September — Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
October — A Tale of Love and Darkness  (Amos Oz)
November — The Sweet Dove Died (Barbara Pym)

2014
November — Love and Summer (William Trevor)
December — I am Pilgrim (Terry Hayes)



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