Evening Book Club reading lists

April 2019

Topic: a New Zealand author

• The Denniston Rose by Jenny Pattrick
• Mother’s Day by Laurence Fearnley
• Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance by Lloyd Jones
• The Curative by Charlotte Randall
• The Taliban Cricket Club by Timeri N Murari
• The Dog Runner by Bren MacDibble
• Great Tales from New Zealand History by Gordon McLauchlan
• Rocking Horse Road by Carl Nixon
• The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
• Everybody’s Story of New Zealand by A H Reed
• Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey
• Stefania’s Dancing Slippers by Jennifer Beck
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Pearly Gates by Owen Marshall 

March 2019

Topic: science fiction

• Foreigner by C J Cherryh
• The Mortal Word by Genevieve Cogman
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey
• The Hollow City by Dan Wells
• Nerilka’s Story and The Coelura by Anne McCaffrey
• The Blue by Nancy Bilyeau
• Vengeance in Venice by Philip Gwynne Jones
• Positive by David Wellington
• The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita Leganski
• Uglies by Scott Westerfield
• Kindred by Octavia Butler (graphic novel)
• Semiosos by Sue Burke
• Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
• Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming
• The Many Selves of Katherine North by Emma Geen
• The Address by Fiona Davis
• The First Year by Nora Roberts
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 

February 2019

Topic: a holiday read

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Silent Ones by William Brodrick
• The Perpetual Now by Michael D Lemonick
• Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch
• The Christmas Hirelings by Mary Elizabeth Brandon
• The Empire Striketh Back by Ian Doescher
• Torch by Cheryl Strayed
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
• Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
• Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs
• Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
• Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
• The Philosopher’s Kiss by Peter Prange
• One by Sarah Crossan
• Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Call Me Evie by J P Pomare
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
• The Lost Man by Jane Harper
• The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• Do No Harm by Henry Marsh
• A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett
• Scrublands by Chris Hammer
• Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill
• The Axe Factor by Colin Cotterill
• Grandad, There’s a Head on the Beach by Colin Cotterill
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• Sugar Money by Jane Harris
• Big Guns by Steve Israel
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell 
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