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Hello fellow book lovers!

Quite simply, this club meets on the 1st Thursday of the month to discuss literature. So come one come all, let's share a drink, and talk about books :-)

The ‘rules’ of the book club are sim...   + More

Hello fellow book lovers!

Quite simply, this club meets on the 1st Thursday of the month to discuss literature. So come one come all, let's share a drink, and talk about books :-)

The ‘rules’ of the book club are simple:

1. Please RSVP if you intend to come
2. If you are new, please come to the group with 3 book suggestions of your own
3. The maximum page limit is 500 (unless you can convince the group otherwise!)
4. The person whose book is suggested is responsible for creating points of discussion

Past Books:

2016
Jan: Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Feb: Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline
Mar: A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Apr: Real World, Natsuo Kirino
May: Proof of Heaven, Eben Alexander
Jul: Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang
Sep: The Seed Collectors, Scarlett Thomas
Oct: Happy City, Charles Montgomery
Nov: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish, David Rakoff
Dec: The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, Jonas Jonasson

2015
Feb: The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin
Mar: Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie
Apr: The Coast of Chicago: Stories, Stuart Dybek
May: Heart of a Dog, Mikhail Bulgakov
Jun: Suite Francaise, Irène Némirovsky
Jul: The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
Aug: Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari
Sep: Sukkwan Island, David Vann
Oct: The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
Nov: Born to Run, Christopher McDougall

2014
Jan: Shame, Salman Rushdie
Feb: Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
Mar: Americanah, Chimamandah Ngozi Adichie
Apr: Arcadia, Tom Stoppard
May: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Jun: Great Apes, Will Self
Jul: The Silent World of Nicolas Quinn, Colin Dexter
Aug: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, Mary Roach
Sep: Dune, Frank Herbert
Oct: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Nov: The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Life Count of Monte Cristo, Tom Reiss
Dec: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson, Rod Bradbury (Translator)

2013:
Jan: The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson
Feb: Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Mar: Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey, Chuck Palahniuk
Apr: Fun Home & Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
May: Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin
Jun: Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone
Jul: White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America, Don Jordan & Michael Walsh
Aug: No Way Down: Life and Death on K2, Graham Bowley
Sep: Inferno, Dan Brown
Oct: The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
Nov: To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis
Dec: The Reason I Jump, Naoki Higashida

2012
Jan: A Brief History of the Dead, Kevin Brockmeier
Feb: The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
Mar: Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
Apr: Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee
May: Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
Jun: The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy
Jul: The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
Aug: Beloved, Toni Morrison
Sep: The Good Terrorist, Doris Lessing
Oct: The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
Nov: War with the Newts, Karel Čapek
Dec: Angels and Insects, A S Byatt   - Less