Book selections for previous months are archived here.
Here are the March recommendations from the Book Lover’s Club:
Beyond the secret Garden:The Life of Frances Hodgson-Burnett by Ann Thwaite
The Safe Keep by Yale Van Der Wouden
Mourinho- a hardback autobiography full of photos
The Good Girl’s Guide to getting lost by Rachel Friedman
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams
Passing on by Penelope Lively
The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
I Will Crash by Rebecca Watson
Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell
The Position of Spoons and other intimacies by Deborah Levy
How to Solve Murders like a lady by Hannah Dolby
The Many Futures of Maddy Hart by Laura Pearson
Nobody’s Wife by Laura Pearson
Our books on a “Letters” theme were:
Letters from the edge - 12 Women of the World write home - published by New International
Can any Mother help me? By Jenna Bailey
Letters to Margaret by Hunter Davies
The Missing Letters of Mrs Bright by Beth Miller
The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Theriault
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Letters from Lockdown by Natasha Kaplinski
Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey
I Wanted you to know by Laura Pearson
Letters from a faint-hearted feminist by Jill Tweedy
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Ladies of Letters by Carole Hayman
Things I want my daughters to know by Elizabeth Noble
Every letter tells a story by Martin Wigmore
Here are the February recommendations from the Book Lover’s Club:
The North Shore by Ben Tufnell
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare for 8 year olds by Andrew Matthews and Tony Ross
The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Grief is the thing with feathers by Max Porter
Dad Jokes by Kit and Andrew Childers
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Rooster House by Victoria Belim
Murder on the Marlowe Belle by Robert Thorogood
The Sunlit Weapon by Jaqueline Winspear
Detroit 67 and the year that changed soul by Stuart Cosgrove
Constanza by Rachel Blackmore
The Paper Man by Billy O’Callaghan
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
The Forgotten Book Club by Kate Storey
Instructions for Heartbreak by Sarah Handiside
Matthew Perry Friends, lovers and the big terrible thing by Matthew Perry
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
On the theme of “Treason”:
Dictator by Robert Harris
A Column of Fite by Ken Follett
The Greys of Bradgate by Joan Stevenson
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
The Shadow Queen by Anne O’Brien
Edith and Kim by Charlotte Philby
The Last Tudor by Phillippa Gregory
A Spy and a Traitor by Ben McKintyre
A History of Treason by National Archive Staff
Here are the January recommendations from the Book Lover’s Club:
No one round here reads Tolstoy by Mark Hodkinson
Before Life of Elizabeth Valentine by Laura Pearson
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Mrs Winterbottom takes a gap year by Joanna Nell
Gifts by Laura Barnett
Staying Down by Mike Stephen’s
Temples of Delight by Barbara Trapido
1001 paintings by Stephen Farthing
Ordinary Time by Cathy Rentzenbrink
So thrilled for you by Holly Bourne (out Jan 25)
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
Mystery in White by J Jefferson Farjon
The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks
On the Greenwich Line by Shady Lewis
Earth by John Boyne
The Schubert Treatment by Claire Oppert
The Angel Makers by Patti McCracken
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
On the theme of “Cheese”
Who moved my cheese? By Rebecca Johnston
Say Cheese by David Pelham
The Cheese Robbery by Tim Wares
The Art of the Break by Mary Wimmer
Welsh Rarebit Tales by Harle Oren Cummins
The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginsberg
I am the cheese by Robert Cormier
Here are the December recommendations from the Book Lover’s Club:
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Temples of Delight by Barbara Trapido
All the colours of the dark by Chris Whitaker
Remembering by Julie Gardner
Banksy- most iconic artworks by Art Works Studios
The Eye in the door by Pat Barker
Everybody died so I got a dog by Emily Dean
The Dirty Bits by Leslie Cunliffe
I wanted you to know by Laura Pearson ( audio)
Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The city of Tears by Kate Atkinson
Mrs Winterbottom takes a gap year by Joanna Nell
Snowdrops by A D Miller
On the theme of “Christmas”:
High Rising by Angela Thirkell
‘‘Twas the night shift before Christmas by Adam Kay
Gifts by Laura Barnett
Here comes Santa Paws by Laurien Berenson
A poem for every day of Christmas by Brian Bilston
Village Christmas by Laurie Lee
And so this is Christmas by Brian Bilston
How the grinch stole Christmas by Dr Seuss
Twas the night before Christmas by Clement C Moore
The Railway detectives Christmas case by Edward Marston
Our November recommendations:
1342 IQ facts by Johns LLoyd and the QI team
Reckless by R J McBrien
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay
The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
Everybody died so I got a dog by Emily Dean
Small Bomb at Dimperley by Lissa Evan’s
Tell me everything by Elizabeth Strout
London number 1 dog walking agency by Kate MacDoughall
The Seven Ages of Death by Richard Shepherd
Shy Creature by Claire Chambers
Babel by R F Kuang
Marzahn, Mon amour by Katja Oskamp
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
The Party by Tessa Hadley
The book of George by Kate Greathead (out Jan 25)
Slow Dance by Rainbow Raul
The Familiars by Stacey Halls
Life Sentences by Billy O’Callaghan
A Fortunate Woman by Polly Morland
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
Day 1 by Abigail Dean
Books read by the group for our theme “Americana”:
Sleepless in Manhattan by Sarah Morgan
Sweet Water by Christina Baker Kline
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Streets of Laredo by Larrry McMurtry
The Lincoln Highway by Amol Towles
Notes from a big Country by Bill Bryson
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
The Catchers by Xan Brooks
All the colours of the dark by Chris Mortimer
Americana by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
The Unfolding by A M Homes