Tikipunga Book Club reading lists
Reading lists of books discussed at Tikipunga Book Club meetings.
Updated:
20/02/2019 5:00 p.m.
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February 2019
Topic: an author you have recently discovered
- Last Letter Home by Rachael Hore
- The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
- War Gardens by Lalage Snow
- Hold by Michael Donkor
- Spin the Bottle by Monica McInerney
- Fool's Gold by Fleur McDonald
- Highest Duty by Chesley Sullenberger
- Stella Rimington
- Robert B Parker
- Stuart MacBride
- Jacqueline Winspear
- The Conjuror's Bird by Martin Davies
- The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
- The Year of the Farmer by Rosalie Ham
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- The Time in Between by Marcello Fois
- Orkney Twilight by Clare Carson
December 2018
Topic: a favourite children's story
- Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery
- Anne of Avonlea by L M Montgomery
- John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat by Jenny Wagner
- Lifetimes: a beautiful way to explain life and death to children by Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen
- Circus Time by Marion Conger
- Pookie by Ivy Wallace
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Secret Seven and Famous Five series by Enid Blyton
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Mary Poppins Opens the Door by P L Travers
- Mary Poppins Comes Back by P L Travers
- Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome
- Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne
- Biggles by W E Johns
November 2018
Topic: biography
- The Real Hornblower: the life and times of Admiral Sir James Gordon by Bryan Perrett
- The Favored Daughter by Fawzia Koofi
- Love at the End of the Road by Rae Roadley
- Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
- Daughter of the East by Benazir Bhutto
- Gerald Durrell: the authorised biography by Douglas Botting
- The Girl from Leam Lane: the life and writing of Catherine Cookson by Piers Dudgeon
- Dancing Through It: my journey in the ballet by Jenifer Ringer
- Dames and Divas: 21 remarkable women by David Leser
- Driving to Treblinka: a long search for a lost father by Diana Wichtel
- By Sorrow's River by Larry McMurtry
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