If the book is in bold font, I have read it, if it is underlined, I have reviewed it.
Our own book club
| Jan 2023 – The Past by Tessa Hadley | Feb – Joan by Kathryn J Chen | April – The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence |
| Dec – Should we stay or Should we Go by Lionel Shriver | Feb 2022 – Sugar by Bernice L McFadden | April – A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabelle Allende |
| May – The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields | June – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus | August – These Precious Days by Ann Patchett |
| Sept – The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien | Oct – Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers | Nov – The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne |
My Second book club
| March 2023 – Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue | April – Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro | |
The Audacious Book Club
| Jan 2023 – The Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor | Feb – The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley | March – Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H |
| April – Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond | May – Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | June – Yellowface by R.F. Kuang |
| July – Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith and Migration by Alejandra Oliva | Aug – The Militia House by John Milas | Sept – |
Barak Obama’s reading lists
| Summer 2021 – Matrix by Lauren Groff, The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton, The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead, These Precious Days by Ann Patchett, Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen, The Love Songs of W E B du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang | Summer 22 – Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel, Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein, The Candy House by Jennifer Egan, A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib, Silverview by John Le Carre, Black Cake by Charmaine Wilson, The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang, The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan, Razorblade Tears by S A Cosby | Summer 23 – |
Barnes and Noble Monthly Pick
| Jan 2023 – Road of Bones by Christopher Golden, The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah, Ms Demeanor by Elinor Lipman, How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith, | Feb – And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling, Thread Needle by Cari Thomas, The Sweet Spot by Amy Poeppel, The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman, | March – The Theory of Not Quite Everything by Kara Gnodde, Iron Wiodow by Zhao, Written in Bone by Sue Black |
| Jan – Cry Wolf by Hans Rosenfeldt, Yellow Wife by Sadega Johnson, Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo | Feb – Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson, The Address Book by Deidre Mask | Mar – Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr, Madhouse at the end of Earth by Julian Sancton |
| April – The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper, Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek myths by Natalie Haynes | May – The Shadow in the Glass by JJA Harwood, Sleepless by Romy Hausmann, We Came, We Saw, We Left by Charles Wheelan | June – Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith, The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel, Elektra by Jennifer Saint, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, |
| July – Dark Things I Adore by Kate Ledari, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Cordova, The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston, Sleeper Agent by Ann Hagerdon | August – 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard, All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody, This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan, A Hundred Other Girls by Iman Hariri-Kia | Sept – Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen, The Stolen Hours by Allen Eskens, Cackle by Rachel Harrison, The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Princess Spy by Larry Loftis |
| Oct – These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham, One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig, Music is History by Questlove, Dave Shastri’s Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti, The Night Ship by Jess Kidd | Nov – The Appeal by Janice Hallett, A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross, The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey by Serena Burdick, All About Me by Mel Brooks, | Dec – The Testaments by Margaret Attwood, Nickel Boys by Colson Whithead, All Adults Here by Emma Straub, Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano, Mrs Everything by Jennifer Weiner, A Good Neighbourhood by Therese Anne Fowler, Inland by Tea Obreht |
Between The Covers
| Series 4 – People Person, by Candice Carty-Williams, Two Storm Wood, by Philip Gray Lessons In Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus, Love Marriage, by Monica Ali Metronome, by Tom Watson Exactly What You Mean, by Ben Hinshaw, The Dictator’s Wife, by Freya Berry, The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon, Arrow Of God by Chinua Achebe, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Secret River by Kate Grenville, The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo, The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa | Series 5 – The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers, Sometimes People Die, by Simon Stephenson, The Second Sight Of Zachary Cloudesley, by Sean Lusk, The Night Ship, by Jess Kidd Take My Hand, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, The Dance Tree, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell, Snap, by Belinda Bauer The Long Song, by Andrea Levy The Remains Of The Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, Moon Tiger, by Penelope Lively, Us, by David Nicholls | Series 6 – In The Blink Of An Eye, by Jo Callaghan, The Space Between Us, by Doug Johnstone, Weyward, by Emilia Hart, Strange Sally Diamond, by Liz Nugent, Hungry Ghosts, by Kevin Jared Hosein , Old God’s Time, by Sebastian Barry, Burial Rights, by Hannah Kent Lullaby, by Leïla Slimani, Death And The Penguin, by Andrey Kurkov The Summer Book, by Tove Jansson I’m Not Scared, by Niccolò Ammaniti My Family And Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell |
Book of the Month Book Club
| Jan 2023– Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor, Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen, What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall, Queen of Thieves by Beezy Marsh, Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo, The Reunion by Kayla Olsen, Independence by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI | Feb – Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes, River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer, Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn, The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz, Maame by Jessica George | March – The London Seance Society by Sarah Penner, Weyward by Emilia Hart, The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth, The Last Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch, Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah, The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty, Lone Women by Victor Lavalle |
| April – | May – Breath Less by Amy McCulloch, Yerba Buena by Nina Lacour, The Hacienda by Isabel Canas, Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins Valdez, Part of Your World by Abby Jiminez, Darling Girl by Liz Michalski | June – The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah, Things we Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier, The Lifestyle by Taylor Hahn, The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark, Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan |
| July – First Born by Will Dean, Upgrade by Blake Crouch, The Bodyguard by Katherine Center, You’re Invited by Amanda Jayatissa, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin | August – Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter, Small Angels by Lauren Owen, Bronze Drum by Phong Nguyen, Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney, When we were Bright and Beautiful by Jillian Medoff, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford | Sept – Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen, Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood, Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn, The Attic Child by Lola Jaye, The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh |
| Oct – Sign Here by Claudia Lux, Thistlefoot by Gennarose Nethercott, The Family Game by Catherine Steadman, Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese, Fould Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong, Jacqueline in Paris by Ann Mah, As Long as Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh | Nov – We Are the Light by Matthew Quick, The Wilder Women by Ruth Emmie Lang, The Last Party by Clare MackIntosh, White Horse by Rrica T Wurth, Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli | Dec – Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun · Babel by R.F. Kuang · All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham The Circus Train by Amita Parikh. |
Belletrist Book Club
| Jan 2023 – This Could be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews | Feb – Brutes by Dizz Tate | March – |
| Jan – Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho | Feb – When we Lost Our Heads by Heather O’Neill | Mar – In the Shadow of the Mountain by Sylvia Vasquez-Lavado |
| April – Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow | May – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus | June – How to be Eaten by Maria Adelman |
| July – | Aug – Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin | Sept – If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery |
| Oct – Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth | Nov – Fledgling by Octavia E Butler | Dec – They’re Going to Love You by Meg Howry |
Gloucester Book Club
| Jan 2023 – | Feb – The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse | March – Stoner by John Williams |
| Sept – Violeta by Isabel Allende | Oct – | Nov – A Terrible Kindness by Joe Browning Wroe |
| Dec – Winter Ghosts by Kate Moss | ||
Good Housekeeping Book Club
| Jan 2023 – The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff | Feb – Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes | March – A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness by Jai Charabarti |
Good Morning America Book Club
| Jan 2023 – The Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor | Feb – River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer | March – Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson |
| Jan – A Little Closer to Home | Feb – The Violin Conspiracy by Brendon Slocumb | March – The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh |
| April – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus | May – The Change by Kirsten Miller | June – More Than You Will Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez |
| July – The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston | Aug – Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean | Sept – The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell |
| Oct – Mad Honey by Jodie Picoult | Nov – Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli | Dec – The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton |
Goodreads Choice Awards book club
| Jan 2023 – Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown | Feb – Lore Olympus Vol II, The Maid by Nita Prose, I’m Glad My Mum Died by Jenette McCurdy | March – Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman |
| Jan – Beautiful World, Where are You by Sally Rooney | Feb – Lore Olympus Vol. 1 by Rachel Smythe | Mar – Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner |
| April – The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna, Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Hill we Climb by Amanda Gorman | May – Rock, Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney, A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J Maas | June – The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas |
| July – Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir | Aug – | Sept – The Last Thing he Told me by Laura Dave |
| Oct – | Nov – You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr | Dec – Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe |
Indie Book of the Month
| Jan 2023 – The Things That we Lost by Jyoti Patel | Feb – The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Naylor | March – The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff |
| Jan – Little Wing by Freya North | Feb – Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson | Mar – Sell us the Rope by Stephen May |
| April – The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad | May – Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris | June – Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi |
| July – The Yellow Kitchen by Margaux Vialleron | Aug – The Mermaid’s Tale by Lei Wei-Jing | Sept – |
| Oct – Euphoria by Elin Cullhed, translated by Jennifer Hayashida | Nov – Limberlost by Robbie Arnott | Dec – The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedic |
Inspire Online Book Club
| Jan 2023 – The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro | Feb – To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara | March – Breakfast with Einstein by Chad Orzel |
| Jan – Diary of a Somebody | Feb – The Wonder | Mar – The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex |
| April – Summerwater by Sarah Moss | May – Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia | June – Lampedusa by Steven Prince |
| July – Songbirds by Christy Lefteri | Aug – Annie Stanley All at Sea by Sue Teddern | Sept – The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong |
| Oct – The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki | Nov – The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson | Dec – The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes. |
Jenna Bush Hager’s Book Club on Today America
| Jan 2023 – Sam by Allegra Goodman | Feb – Maame by Jessica George | March – Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown |
| Jan – The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan | Feb – Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson | Mar – Groundskeeping by Lee Cole |
| April – Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow | May – Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt | June – The Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany |
| July – The Measure by Nikki Erlick | Aug – The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford | Sept – Solito by Javier Zamora |
| Oct – The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn | Nov – The Cloisters by Katy Hays | Dec – The Secret History by Donna Tartt |
Libby Online global ebook Book Club
| April – Music is History by Questlove | July – The Girl in his Shadow by Audrey Blake | Nov – A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger |
LoveReading Book Club
| Jan 2023 – Flight by Lynn Steger Strong | Feb – The Seamstress of Sardinia by Bianca Pitzorno | March – How to Kill Men and Get Away with It by Katy Bent |
| Jan | Feb – The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee, Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby | Mar – Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson |
| April – When we Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo | May – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus | June – Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny |
| July – The Attic Child by Lola Jay | Aug – The Frequency of Us by Keith Stuart | Sept – Trust by Hernan Diaz |
| Oct – Ted’s Cafe by Roger Sanders | Nov – The Fish by Joanne Stubbs | Dec – Can I Stray by Jenna Adams |
London Review Bookshop – Author of the month
| Jan 2023 – Katherine Mansfield | Feb – Irmgard Keun | March – Claudia Rankine |
| Jan – JL Carr | Feb – Toni Morrison | March – Rachel Kushner |
| May – Sarah Moss | June – Barbara Pym | July – Jamaica Kincaid |
| August – Beryl Bainbridge | Sept – | Oct – Gordon Burn |
| Nov – Colm Toibin |
Natalie Portman’s Book Club
| Jan 2023 – An Immense World by Ed Yong | Feb – | March – Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner |
| Jan 2022 – | Feb – | March – The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg |
| April – What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez | May – Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo | June – Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker |
| July – A Sister’s Story by Donnatella Di Pietrantonio | Aug – The Family Roe by Joshua Prager | Sept – Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk |
| Oct – Fruiting Bodies by Kathryn Harlan | Nov – Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux | Dec – Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez |
Oprah Winfrey
| Feb 2023 Bitter Sweet by Susan Cain | March – Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano | |
| Jan – | Feb – Bewilderment by Richard Powers, | Mar – |
| April – The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck | May – Finding Me by Viola Davies | June – |
| July – Nightcrawling by Leila Motley | Aug – | Sept – That Bird has My Wings by Jarvis Jay Masters |
| Oct – | Nov – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver | Dec – |
Subtle Asian Book Club
| Jan 2023 – Last Night at the Telegraph Club by | Feb – Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor | March – Other Words for Home, by Jasmine Warga |
Rebel Book Club (Non-fiction)
| Jan 2023 – Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman | Feb – We Are Bellingcat | March – Let’s Talk: How to Have Better Conversations’ by Nihal Arthanayake. |
| April – Free by Lea Ypi | ||
| Jan 2022 – Black Spartacus by Sudhir Hazareesingh | Feb – Solve for Happy by Mo Gawdat | Mar – Zero Zero Zero by Roberto Saviano |
| April – Get Rich or Lie Trying by Symeon Brown | May – The Lonely Century by Noreena Hertz | June – The Transgender Issue: An argument for justice by Shon Faye |
| July – Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe | Aug – Super Senses by Emma Young | Sept – All We Can Save Ed by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson |
| Oct – Breath by James Nestor | Nov – The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku | Dec – |
Richard and Judy Book Club
| Spring 2023 – The Match by Harlan Coben, A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Roe, The Favour by Nora Murphy, The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan, Twelve Secrets by Robert Gould, The French House by Jacqui Bloese |
| Spring 22 – The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewel, False Witness by Karin Slaughter, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margo by Marianne Cronin, The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles, The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave and The Search by Tana French |
| Summer 22 – Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins-Reid, Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena, The Beloved Girls by Harriet Evans, The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley-Heller, Out of Her Depth by Lizzy Barber and Tell Me Your Lies by Kate Barber |
| Autumn 2022 – Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty, A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins, Never by Ken Follett, One of the Girls by Lucy Clarke, Lily by Rose Tremain, How To Kill Your Best Friend by Lexie Elliott. |
| Winter 2022 – Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay, One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner, Little Wing by Freya North, The Herd by Emily Edwards, Payday by Celia Walden, The Girls Who Disappeared by Claire Douglas |
Waterstones Book of the Month fiction, non-fiction and crime/thriller
| Jan 2023 – Godmersham Park by Jill Hornby, Notes on an Execution by Danya Kufafka, Stolen Focus by Johann Hari, The Homes by J. B. Mylet, A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Roe, The Raptures by Jan Carson | Feb – Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors, Overlands | March – A Fortunate Woman by Polly Morland, Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus |
| Jan | Feb – Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson, Mad House at the end of the Earth by Julian Sancton and Sixteen Horses by Greg Buchanan | March – Still Life by Sarah Winman, Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner, |
| April– Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor, Spring Can Not be Cancelled by Martin Gayford & David Hockney, How to Kidnap the Rich by Rahul Raina, | May – Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason, Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs, The Khan by Saima Mir, The Lost Storyteller by Amanda Block, The Dark Tide by Simon McCleave, The Echo Chamber by John Boyne | June – Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead, Free by Yea Lpi, The Maidens by Alex Michaelides, The Dark Remains by McIlvanney and Rankin, The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohammed, |
| July – Matrix by Lauren Groff, Light Seekers by Femi Kayoda, The Devil You Know by Dr Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne | August – A Fatal Crossing by Tom Hindle, Life Between the Tides by Adam Nicolson , Heatwave by Victor Jestin, News of the Dead by james Robertson, | Sept – The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty, Taste by Stanley Tucci, A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham, The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell |
| Oct – The Christie Affair by Nina di Gramont, The Ruin of all Witches by Malcolm Gaskill, Bewilderment by Richard Powers | Nov – Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, What Writers Read by Pandora Sykes, Breathless by Amy McCulloch, A Woman Made of Snow by Elizabeth Gifford, |
Reese Book Club
| Jan 2023 – The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes | Feb – The House of Eve by Sadequa Johnson | March – The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah |
| March – The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont | April – True Biz by Sara Novic | May – The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams |
| June – Counterfeit by Kirsten Chen | July – Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola | August – Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAlister |
| Sept – On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton | Oct – Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng | Nov – Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed |
Jamie Oliver’s Cookbook Club
| Jan 2023 – The Italian Pantry by Theo Randall | Feb – Hopper | March – Gennaro’s Cucina |
| Jan -Mississippi Vegan by Timothy Pakron | Feb – Sambal Shiok by Mandy Yin | March – Thali by Maunika Gowardhan |
| April – Nistisima by Georgina Hayden | May – All Day Baking: Savoury not Sweet by Michael James and Pippa James | June – Cuidad do Mexico by Edson Diaz Fuentes |
| July – Dominique’s Kitchen by Dominique Woolf | Aug – Home Food by Olia Hercules | Sept – Big Has Home by Hasan Semay |
| Oct – In Bibis Kitchen by Hawa Hassan and Julia Turshen | Nov – One by Jamie Oliver |