Book Club
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If you enjoy reading, then this could be for you. Our book club meets on the second Monday of every month usually at 7.30pm occasionally we have an afternoon meeting starting at 2.00pm. Don't feel as if you've got to read every book, just choose the ones you fancy and then come along to the meeting and discuss them. In fact, come along to the meeting anyway even if you haven't had a chance to read the current book. It's all very informal with the meetings taking place in members' homes.
You can also see lists of the books that we read and discussed in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 at the bottom of this page, along with our scores out of 10.
BOOK CLUB MEMBERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SOURCING THEIR OWN BOOKS FROM LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES, CHARITY SHOPS AND ONLINE BOOKSTORES.
Monday 12th January at Alison's house
The Women by Kristen Hannah (score 9.2)
Monday 9th February at Julia's house
Falling by Elizabeth Jane Howard (score 7.6)
Monday 9th March at Jackie's house
The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns
Monday 13th April at Sally's house
The Names by Florence Knapp
Monday 11th May at Rosie's house
The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
Monday 8th June at Carol's house
The Colour by Rose Tremain
Monday 13th July at Karen's house
There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Sharif
Monday 10th August at Andy's house
Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton
Monday 14th September at Jill's house
59 Minutes by Holly Seddon
Monday 12th October at Janet's house
The Offing by Benjamin Myers
Monday 9th November at Julia's house
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Monday 14th December venue to be decided
The Book of Lost Names by Kristen Harmel
books for 2026
our reading list from 2025
1979 by Val McDermid (score 7.8)
The Memory Library by Kate Storey (score 8.5)
The Figurine by Victoria Hislop (score 7.2)
The Air raid Book Club by Alison Lyons (score 6.4)
Shakespeare by Judi Dench (score 8)
The Gardener by Sally Vickers (score 6.7)
One Night in Winter by Simon Sebag Montefiore (score 8)
The Ladies of Llanfairpwll by L K Wilde (score 9.15)
The Sky Beneath Us by Fiona Valpy (score 8.9)
Ruskin Park by Rory Cellan Jones (score 7.3)
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (score 7.5)
The Rose Arbor by Rhys Bowen (score 7)
our reading list from 2024
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell (score 9.2)
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Wood (score 7.6)
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummings (score 8.4)
One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern (score 4.5)
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (score 9.6)
The Boy with the Topknot by Sathnam Sangera (score 6.8)
Landlines by Raynor Wynn (score 5.3)
Picking Up The Pieces by Amanda Prowse (score 7.2)
Learning to Swim by Claire Chambers (score 8.7)
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (score 7.9)
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy (score 6.5)
our reading list from 2023
Taste by Stanley Tucci (score 4.5)
Keep Talking by David Dimbleby (score 5.8)
Breath by James Nestor (score 6)
Daughters of War by Diana Jeffries (score 7)
A Long petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (score 7.5)
The Secret of Elephants by Vasundra Tailor (score 8)
Lily by Rose Tremain (score 8)
The Foundling by Stacey Halls (score 8)
Still Life by Sarah Winman (score 8.1)
Mother's Boy by Patrick Gale (score 8.6)
At Risk by Stella Rimington (score 8.8)
In a Good Light by Clare Chambers (score 9.6)
our reading list from 2022
The Lie by Helen Dunmore (score 7.6)
The Italian Villa by Daniela Sacerdoti (score 6)
West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge (score 7.3)
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers (score 9.6)
The Affair by Hilary Boyd (score 6.4)
Tree Surgery for Beginners by Patrick Gale (score 7.8)
A Beautiful Spy by Rachel Hore (score 7.5)
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (score 7)
Worst. Idea. Ever by Jane Fallon
The Butterfly Box by Santa Montefiore (score 6.2)
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Antony Doerr ( 2 people enjoyed the book, no one else finished it)
Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks (score 5.8)
our reading list from 2021
The Dry by Jane Harper (score 9.4)
The Salt Path by Raynor Wynn (score 9.1)
Hamnett by Maggie O'Farrell (score 8.8)
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (score 8.8)
Miss Benson's Beetle (score 8.0)
The House of Trelawney by Hannah Rothschild (score 8.0)
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (score 7.2)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (score 6.5)
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (score 6.4)
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by Rachel Joyce (score 6.25)
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood (score 5.3)
The Guest House by Abbie Frost (score 4.8)
our reading list from 2020
The Promise by Teresa Driscoll (score 7)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (score 6.4)
Degrees of Guilt by H S Chandler (score 8)
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing (score 5.3)
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulkes (score 6.2)
Becoming by Michelle Obama (score 8)
I Thought I Knew You by Penny Hancock (score 7.5)
Beekeeper's Promise by Fiona Valpy (score 8.2)
The Flood by Rachel Bennett (score 1.2)
A Single Thread by Tracey Chevalier (score 8.75)
I Found You by Lisa Jewell (score 9)
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (score 7.8)
