The Book Club

Books reviewed

2006

• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis – August 2006
• The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald – August 2006
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón – September 2006
• by Dava Sobel – September 2006
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson – October 2006
• The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis – October 2006
• The Mission Song by John le Carré – November 2006
• The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard – November 2006
• The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan – December 2006
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins – December 2006

  2007

• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones – March 2007
• The Solid Mandala by Patrick White – March 2007
• In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant – April 2007
• The Secret River by Kate Grenville – April 2007
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy – May 2007
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut – May 2007
• The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall – June 2007
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll – June 2007
• The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver – July 2007
• Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier – July 2007
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini – August 2007
• The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare – August 2007
• The Broken Shore by Peter Temple – September 2007
• The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty – September 2007
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville – October 2007
• East of Time by Jacob G. Rosenberg – October 1997
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan – November 2007
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler – November 2007
• Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell – December 2007
• The Children by Charlotte Wood – December 2007

  2008

• The Memory Room by Christopher Koch – March 2008
• Naked by David Sedaris – March 2008
• Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis – April 2008
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks – April 2008
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson – May 2008
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway – May 2008
• Breath by Tim Winton – June 2008
• Demons at Dusk by Peter Stewart – June 2008
• Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie – July 2008
• Miracles of Life by J. G. Ballard – July 2008
• Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks – August 2008
• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow – August 2008
• Disquiet by Julia Leigh – September 2008
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole – September 2008
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore – October 2008
• Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sánchez Piñol – October 2008
• The Outsider by Albert Camus – November 2008
• Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi – November 2008
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer – December 2008

  2009

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck – March 2009
• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga – March 2009
• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates – April 2009
• The Private Patient by P. D. James – April 2009
• The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas – May 2009
• Darwin and the Barnacle by Rebecca Stott – May 2009
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – June 2009
• Ransom by David Malouf – June 2009
• The Housekeeper + the Professor by Yōko Ogawa – July 2009
• The Collector by John Fowles – July 2009
• Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child – August 2009
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides – August 2009
• The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – September 2009
• Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer – September 2009
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters – October 2009
• Ask the Dust by John Fante – October 2009
• This is How by M. J. Hyland – November 2009
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark – November 2009
• Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd – December 2009
• Summer Reads – December 2009

  2010

• Cloudstreet by Tim Winton – March 2010
• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers – March 2010
• Solar by Ian McEwan – April 2010
• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson – April 2010
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys – May 2010
• The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk – May 2010
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen – June 2010
• Reading by Moonlight by Brenda Walker – June 2010
• One Day by David Nichols – July 2010
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth – July 2010
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy – August 2010
• Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel – August 2010
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – September 2010
• Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare – September 2010
• Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor – October 2010
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger – October 2010
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand – November 2010
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen – November 2010
• Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey – December 2010
• Dead Man's Chest by Kerry Greenwood – December 2010

  2011

• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Our Kind Of Traitor by John le Carré

• Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
• The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead

• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• Me and Mr Booker by Corey Taylor

• Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
• The Happy Life by David Malouf

• The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Past The Shallows by Favel Parrett

• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• Kinglake 350 by Adrian Hyland

• The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

• The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
• A Visit from the Goon Squad' by Jennifer Egan

• Summer Special 2012
• How I Became A Famous Novelist'' by Steve Hely

  2012

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The Submission by Amy Waldman

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

• The Light Between Oceans by M.L Stedman
• The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

• The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
• The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

• The Cook by Wayne Macauley
• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

• The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
• The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch

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