Evening Book Club reading lists

March 2020

Topic: a South American writer

• A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams
• Forest of the Pygmies by Isabel Allende
• City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
• The Mapmaker’s Wife by Robert Whitaker
• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
• The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
• The Confession by Jessie Burton
• Walking the Amazon by Ed Stafford
• On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks
• Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
• The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa 

February 2020

Topic: a holiday read

• The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan
• Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
• The Secretary by Renee Knight
• The Storm Sister by Lucinda Riley
• Raven Black by Anne Cleeves
• High Dive by Jonathan Lee
• Counting the Stars by Helen Dunmore
• Brodeck’s Report by Philippe Claudel
• Blackwater Rising by Attica Locke
• The End of Time by Gavin Extence
• Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
• The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
• The Huntress by Kate Quinn
• My Outback Childhood by Toni Tapp Coutts
• After the Party by Cassie Hamer
• The English Girl by Margaret Leroy
• The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
• Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
• The Human Planet: how we created the Anthropocene by Simon L Lewis
• Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
• Forty Autumns by Nina Willner
• Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen R Ghodsee
• Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
• The Body by Bill Bryson
• The Book of Wonders by Julien Sandrel

December 2019

Topic: the future

• Don’t Let My Past Be Your Future by Harry Leslie Smith
• One of Us by Craig DiLouie
• Afterburn by Richard Heinberg
• The World in 2050 by Laurence C Smith
• Armageddon Science by Brian Clegg
• Finding Frances Hodgkins by Mary Kisler
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Dodging Extinction by Anthony D Barnosky
• Mid-Century Living by Christine Fernyhough
• Memories of a Community Cop by Caroline Lawson
• The Carer by Deborah Moggach
• Surviving the 21st Century by Julian Cribb
• The Parade by Dave Eggers
• The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
• The Wall by John Lanchester
• The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley
• Temple Grandin by Sy Montgomery
• Daughter of Bad Times by Rohan Wilson
• Dawn by Selahattin Demirtas
• Beacons: stories for our not so distant future ed by Gregory Norminton