Evening Book Club reading lists

September 2018

Topic: Asia

• Mosquito by Roma Tearne
• A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
• The Vegetarian by Han Kang
• Kudos by Rachel Cusk
• Buddhism is Not What You Think by Steve Hagen
• The Gilded Fan by Christina Courtenay
• The Body is a Temple by Luke Bitmead
• Don’t Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs by Paul Carter
• Myanmar’s Enemy Within by Francis Wade
• In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
• China’s Asian Dream by Tom Miller
• China’s Great Wall of Debt by Dinny McMahon
• Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux
• Silence by Shusaku Endo
• Fish of the Seto Inland Sea by Ruri Pilgrim
• Indian Summer by Alex von Tunzelmann
• Frontiers of Heaven by Stanley Stewart
• In the Empire of Ghengis Khan by Stanley Stewart
• Confessions by Kanae Minato 

August 2018

Topic: affluenza

• Different Class by Joanne Harris

• The Likeness by Tana French

• What Money Can’t Buy by Michael J Sandel

• Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan

• Property by Lionel Shriver

• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

• I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman

• Affluenza by David Labounty

• The Joneses – DVD

• Affluenza by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss

• Future Shock by Alvin Toffler

• Slow by Brooke McAlary

• Affluence Without Abundance by James Suzman

• The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan

• Stuffocation by James Wallman

• Curing Affluenza By Richard Denniss

July 2018

Topic: a quirky title/cover

• The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris by Jenny Colgan

• My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman

• Wimmera by Mark Brandi

• Bafut Beagles by Gerald Durrell

• Star of the North by D B John

• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

• Chemistry by Weike Wang

• Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett

• Space Opera by Catherynne M Valente

• Authentic: Science Fiction Monthly Magazine

• The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson

• French Children Don’t Throw Food by Pamela Druckerman

• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

• Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna

• The Tiger and the Wolf by Adrian Tchaikovsky

• The Bear and the Serpent by Adrian Tchaikovsky

• The Hyena and the Hawk by Adrian Tchaikovsky

• Tropic of Skorpeo by Michael Morrissey

• Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

• How to Fall in Love with a Man Who Lives in a Bush by Emmy Abrahamson

• The Secret Life of Lucy Lovecake by Pippa James

• The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith

• Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

• Recipe For Scandal by Debby Holt

• Moonshine by Christina Jones

• Look Who’s Back by Timur Vermes 

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