Evening Book Club reading lists

September 2020

Topic: minorities

• Heartstopper. Vol 1, 2 and 3 by Alice Oseman
• A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
• Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
• Meat Market by Juno Dawson
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
• So Much For That by Lionel Shriver
• The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
• Myanmar’s Enemy Within by Francis Wade
• The Unreliable People by Rosetta Allan
• The Story Keeper by Lisa Wingate
• An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
• The Pacific: nuclear testing and minorities
• Melody of Colors
• Ghost Fire by Wilbur Smith
• A Burning by Megha Majumdar
• No Friend but the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani
• The Good Fight by Danielle Steel
• The Rules of Influence: winning when you’re in the minority by William D Crano 

August 2020

Topic: a gothic novel

• Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
• The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
• Bird’s Eye View by Elinor Florence
• The Shipyard Girls by Nancy Revell
• Tess by Kirsten McDougall
• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
• Thin Air by Michelle Paver
• A Luminous Republic by Andres Barba
• The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
• The Treaty of Waitangi by Toby Morris
• Mophead by Selina Tusitala Marsh
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
• The Mist in the Mirror by Susan Hill
• Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley 

July 2020

Topic: translation

• The Devil that Danced on the Water by Aminatta Forna
• The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
• Apeirogon by Colum McCann
• Aue by Becky Manawatu
• The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
• The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
• Last Impressions by Joseph Kertes
• Submission by Michel Houellebecq
• MBS by Ben Hubbard
• From Russia with Blood by Heidi Blake
• The Farm by Joanna Ramos
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
• Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
• The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
• When All is Said and Done by Anne Griffin
• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• Know My Name by Chanel Miller
• The Book of Wonders by Julien Sandrel
• Unveiled by Yasmine Mohammed
• Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
• Voices by Arnaldur Indridason
• Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
• The Japanese Lover by Isabelle Allende
• Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan
• The Runaway Family by Diney Costeloe
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• Devices and Desires by Kate Hubbard
• Threads of Life by Clare Hunter
• The Hungry and the Fat by Timur Vermes