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Afternoon Book Club reading lists

Reading lists of books discussed at the Afternoon Book Club meetings.
Updated: 11/09/2018 7:51 p.m.

September 2018

Topic: lost

  • A Venetian Reckoning by Donna Leon
  • Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
  • What She Lost by Susan Elliot-Wright
  • The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
  • Look Who’s Back by Timur Vermes
  • Griefland by Armen Bacon and Nancy Miller
  • The Lost by Mari Hannah
  • Two Sisters by Asne Seierstad
  • Lost Horizon by James Hilton
  • Lost for Words by Stephanie Butland
  • Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Man in the Ice by Konrad Spindler
  • A Brush with Shadows by Anna Lee Huber
  • Forgotten Civilization by Robert M Schoch
  • Lost in Translation by Ella Frances Sanders
  • Lost Heart Found by Megan Smith 

August 2018

Topic: a colour

  • The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles by Katherine Pancol
  • Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • Aesop’s Fables
  • The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  • Chrome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
  • Wild Indigo by Sandi Ault
  • The Lilac Bus by Maeve Binchy
  • The Purple Shroud by Stella Duffy
  • The White Cottage Mystery by Margery Allingham
  • Colour in the Making: from old wisdom to new brilliance by Philip Ball et al
  • Black or White by L Jackobson
  • The Green Paradox by Hans-Werner Sinn
  • Mersey Blues by Lyn Andrews
  • Charge of the White Brigade by Valerie Smith
  • The Luminous and the Grey by David Batchelor 

July 2018

Topic: death

  • The Man Who Smiled by Henning Mankell
  • The Day is Dark by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
  • The End of the Day by Claire North
  • End-of-Life Rituals by World Books, Inc.
  • Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
  • Death in the Air by Kate Winkler Dawson
  • Death Dimension by Denis Hughes
  • Dead Lions by Mick Herron
  • History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
  • Love Lies Bleeding by Edmund Crispin
  • The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
  • Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin
  • The Living and the Dead in Winsford by Hakan Nesser
  • The Silver Moon by Bryce Courtenay
  • On the Bright Side: the new secret diary of Hendrik Groen, 85 years old
  • Death’s Door by Sandra M Gilbert
  • Sacred Passage by Margaret Coberly
  • Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
  • Alone by Lisa Gardner
  • The Blackhouse by Peter May
  • Death in August by Marco Vichi
  • The Last Hours by Minette Walters 
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