Books for 2024 meetings are:
- “Madness of July” James Naughtie – Wednesday 10 January 2024
- “The Places In Between” Rory Stewart – Wednesday 13 March 2024
- “The Island of Missing Trees” Elif Shafak – Wednesday 8 May 2024
- “Hiding The Elephant” Jim Steinmeyer – Wednesday 10 July 2024
- “Dark Matter” Blake Crouch – Wednesday 11 September 2024
- “Julia” Sandra Newman – Wednesday 13 November 2024
Plus a ‘bonus’ book of ‘Unruly’ by David Mitchell over the summer break.
Books for 2023 meetings are:
- “What if?” Randall Munroe – Wednesday 11 January 2023
- “Something Wicked This Way Comes” Ray Bradbury – Wednesday 8 March 2023
- “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things” Jon McGregor – Wednesday 10 May 2023
- “Surrender: 40 songs, one story” Bono – Wednesday 12 July 2023
- “Undoctored” Adam Kay – Wednesday 13 September 2023
- “Bring Up The Bodies” Hilary Mantel – Wednesday 8 November 2023 (also, optionally, “Wolf Hall” by the same author)
Books for 2022 meetings are:
- “How to Make the World Add Up” Tim Harford – Wednesday 12 January 2022
- “The Thursday Murder Club” Richard Osman – Wednesday 9 March 2022
- “The Descent of Man” Grayson Perry – Wednesday 11 May 2022
- “Harlem Shuffle” Colson Whitehead – Wednesday 13 July 2022
- “Three Cups of Tea” Greg Mortenson AND “Middlesex” Jeffrey Eugenides – Wednesday 14 September 2022
- “Empire of Pain” Patrick Keefe – Wednesday 9 November 2022
Books for 2021 meetings are:
- “The Poisonwood Bible” Barbara Kingsolver – Wednesday 13 January 2021
- “Let It Go” Dame Stephanie Shirley – Wednesday 10 March 2021
- “The Angel’s Game” Carlos Ruiz Zafon – Wednesday 12 May 2021
- “Stories of Your Life and Others” Ted Chiang – Wednesday 14 July 2021
- “The Professor and the Madman” Simon Winchester – Wednesday 8 September 2021
- “The Midnight Library” Matt Haig – Wednesday 10 November 2021
Additional recommended reading:
- “The Memory Police” Yoko Ogawa
- “Gentleman in Moscow” Amor Towles
- “Sapiens: a brief history of humankind” Yuval Noah Harari
- “The Shadow of the Wind” Carlos Ruiz Zafon, predecessor book to “The Angel’s Game” to which the latter is a prequel.
These sessions are “second Wednesday of odd-numbered months” at 20:00, location wherever the pandemic may dictate!
Books for 2020 meetings are:
- “The Travelling Vet” Jonathan Cranston – Wednesday 8 January 2020
- “Permanent Record” Edward Snowden – Wednesday 11 March 2020
- “The Shining” Stephen King – Wednesday 13 May 2020
- “The Body: A Guide for Occupants” Bill Bryson – Wednesday 8 July 2020
- “The Handmaid’s Tale” Margaret Atwood AND “Strange Fire” Tommy Wallach – Wednesday 16 September 2020
- “Birds Without Wings” Louis de Bernieres – Wednesday 11 November 2020
Mostly “second Wednesday of odd-numbered months” at 20:00, Black Horse, Kidlington.
Books for 2019 meetings are:
- “The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle” Stuart Turton​ – Wednesday 9 January 2019
- “Walking on Glass” Iain Banks – Wednesday 13 March 2019
- “The Racketeer” John Grisham – Wednesday 8 May 2019​
- “Bel Canto” Ann Patchett – Wednesday 10 July 2019
- “Song of Achilles” Madeleine Miller – Wednesday 11 September 2019
- “A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories” Flannery O’Connor – Wednesday 13 November 2019
“Second Wednesday of odd-numbered months” at 20:00, Black Horse, Kidlington.
Books for 2018 meetings are:
- “The Spy who came in from the cold” John le Carré – Wednesday 10 January 2018
- “The Complete Maus” Art Spiegelman – Wednesday 14 March 2018
- “The Citadel” A J Cronin – Wednesday 9 May 2018
- “When breath becomes air” Paul Kalanithi – Thursday 12 July 2018
- “A man called Ove” Fredrik Backman – Wednesday 12 September 2018
- “The Princess Bride” William Goldman – Wednesday 14 November 2018
All Most of these meetings are “second Wednesday of odd-numbered months”, 20:00 at Black Horse, Kidlington.
Books for 2017 meetings are:
- “Fatherland” Robert Harris – Wednesday 11 January 2017
- “Nocturnes” Kazuo Ishiguro – Wednesday 8 March 2017
- “The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared” Jonas Jonasson – Wednesday 10 May 2017
- “All the light we cannot see” Anthony Doerr – Wednesday 12 July 2017
- “Trigger Warning: short fictions and disturbances” Neil Gaiman – Wednesday 13 September 2017
- “Time-travelling with a hamster” Ross Welford – Wednesday 8 November 2017
All these meetings are “second Wednesday of odd-numbered months”, 20:00 at Black Horse, Kidlington.
Books for 2016 meetings were:
- “A Tale of Two Cities” Charles Dickens – (Wednesday 13 January 2016)
- “Blue Sky July” Nia Wyn – (Wednesday 9 March 2016)
- “The Martian” Andy Weir – (Thursday 19 May 2016)
- “Dreams from My Father” Barack Obama – (Thursday 14 July 2016)
- “Vernon God Little” D.B.C. Pierre – (Thursday 15 September 2016)
- “Educating Rita” play by Willy Russell – (Thursday 10 November 2016)
Note that January and March meetings are on Wednesday and that May meetings onwards are on Thursday – all meetings start at 20:00, venue is The Black Horse, Kidlington.
Books for 2015 meetings were:
- “Alan Turing: The Enigma” Andrew Hodges – (14 January 2015)
- “The Great Gatsby” F Scott Fitzgerald – (11 March 2015)
- “The Long Earth” Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter (13 May 2015)
- “Baking Cakes in Kigali” Gaile Parkin – (8 July 2015)
- “Complications” Atul Gawande – (9 September 2015)
- “Dissolution” CJ Sansom – (11 November 2015)
