Evening Book Club reading lists
Reading lists of books discussed at Evening Book Club meetings.
Updated:
11/07/2017 9:31 p.m.
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July 2017
Topic: feminism
- The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
- Face Value by Autumn Whitefield-Madrano
- Rosie the Riveter
- On the Wilder Shores of Love by Lesley Blanch
- The Wilder Shores of Love by Lesley Blanch
- Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- My Autobiography by Jackie Shilling
- For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
- Inside Stories by Frances Walsh
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
June 2017
Topic: saga
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
- Neapolitan Novels series by Elena Ferrante
- Jessica by Bryce Courtenay
- The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
- The Trowenna Sea by Witi Ihimaera
- Barkskins by Annie Proulx
- Some Luck by Jane Smiley
- Infinitesimal by Amir Alexander
- A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
- Last Hundred Years series by Jane Smiley
- Goneville by Nick Bollinger
- Gangster by Lorenzo Carcaterra
- A Fort of Nine Towers by Qais Akbar Omar
- Shogun by James Clavell
- The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
May 2017
Topic: travel
- Down Under by Bill Bryson
- Slovenia for Children
- Austin Mitchell’s Talkin’ Yorksher
- Venetian Curiosities by Donna Leon
- Mustn’t Grumble by Joe Bennett
- Angkor and the Khmer Civilization by Michael D Coe
- Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban
- Narrowboat Nomads by Steve Haywood
- Storms and Dreams by John Dunmore
- Frontiers of Heaven by Stanley Stewart
- Honey and Dust by Piers Moore Ede
- Earth of Distant Suns by Michael Carroll
- The Making of the British Landscape by Francis Pryor
- The Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman
- Airframe by Michael Crichton
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- The Man Who Invented History by Justin Marozzi
- Traveler’s Tales, Greece: true stories ed by Larry Habegger, Sean O’Reilly and Brian Alexander
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