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Evening Book Club reading lists

Reading lists of books discussed at Evening Book Club meetings.
Updated: 18/09/2019 4:37 p.m.

September 2019

Topic: food

  • Queenie by Candice Cary-Williams
  • When It All Went to Custard by Danielle Hawkins
  • Bread Alone by Judi Hendricks
  • Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
  • The Third Plate by Dan Barber
  • The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker
  • Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
  • Milkman by Anna Burns
  • Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • As the Pig Turns by M C Beaton
  • There Goes the Bride by M C Beaton
  • Nathaniel’s Nutmeg by Giles Milton
  • A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
  • When the Cypress Whispers by Yvette Manessis Corporon
  • The Mulberry Tree by Jude Deveraux
  • The Waiter by Matias Faldbakken 

August 2019

Topic: an African woman author

  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
  • Masai Dreaming by Justin Cartwright
  • Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
  • We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
  • The Other Wife by Michael Robotham
  • The Woman in the Window by A J Finn
  • Elsewhere Home by Leila Aboulela
  • Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna
  • The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
  • The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  • African Nights by Kuki Gallmann
  • Night Dancer by Chika Unigwe 

July 2019

Topic: the law

  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • A Special Relationship by Douglas Kennedy
  • Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
  • The Children Act by Ian McEwan
  • The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins
  • Summary Justice by John Fairfax 

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