Evening Book Club reading lists

March 2021

Topic: courage and perseverance

• The Glass House by Eve Chase
• We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• The Siege by Helen Dunmore
• The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama
• Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
• A Sister’s Courage by Molly Green
• Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos
• Into the Silence by Wade Davis
• The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg 

February 2021

Topic: a holiday read

• Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? By Roz Chast
• The Body: a guide for occupants by Bill Bryson
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
• Loser’s Blues by Paula Gosling
• The Zero Trap by Paula Gosling
• Hoodwink by Paula Gosling
• A Running Duck by Paula Gosling
• The Woman in Red by Paula Gosling
• Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
• The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay
• Miniature Moss Gardens by Megumi Oshima
• Red Mandarin Dress by Qui Xiaolong
• Sister to Sister by Olivia Hayfield
• Talking to the Dead by Helen Dunmore
• Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
• The Mirror and The Light by Hilary Mantel
• The Third Hotel by Laura Van den Berg
• The Heavens by Sandra Newman
• Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
• How to Draw a Map by Malcolm and Alexander Swanston
• Common Murder by V L McDermid
• The Secretary by Zoe Lea
• An Uncommon Woman by Nicole Alexander
• Belgravia by Julian Fellowes 

December 2020

Topic: a debut novel

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• The Gradual by Christopher Priest
• The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
• The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
• The Sealwoman’s Gift by Sally Magnusson
• A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers
• Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho
• Little Culinary Triumphs by Pascale Pujol
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Ali and the Whale by Norman Tolra
• Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
• Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
• Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
• The Mannequin Makers by Craig Cliff
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
• A Place for Everything by Judith Flanders
• Victory Park by Rachel Kerr
• After Z-hour by Elizabeth Knox
• The Pearl that Broke It’s Shell by Nadia Hashimi
• A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi
• For the Most Beautiful by Emily Hauser