September-December
2002
Setting up the group
November
- The Corrections,
Jonathan Franzen
December - True History of
the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
January-June
2003
January - Happenstance,
Carol Shields
February
- Rabbit, Run, John
Updike
March
- Atonement, Ian McEwan
April - Slaughterhouse 5,
Kurt Vonnegut
May
- Affinity, Sarah
Waters
June - Surfacing,
Margaret Atwood
July-
December 2003
July
- Arcadia, Jim Crace
August - Everything Is Illuminated,
Jonathan Safran Foer
September
- Life of Pi, Yann
Martel
October - If This is a Man,
Primo Levi
November - A Bend in the
River, V S Naipaul
December - Vernon God Little,
DBC Pierre
January-June
2004
January
- The Quiet American, Graham
Greene
February - The Outsider,
Albert Camus
March - The Great Gatsby,
F Scott Fitzgerald
April - Blindness,
Jose Saramago
May - Alma Cogan,
Gordon Burn
June - The Restraint of Beasts,
Magnus Mills
July-December 2004
July - The Warden,
Anthony Trollope
August - Lolita, Vladimir
Nabokov
September - Under the Skin,
Michel Faber
October - The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
November
- The
Tortilla Curtain, T Coraghessan Boyle
December - The Pickup,
Nadine Gordimer
January-June
2005
January
- Double Vision,
Pat Barker
February - How Many Miles
to Babylon?, Jennifer Johnston
March - If Nobody Speaks of
Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
April - The Accidental Tourist,
Anne Tyler
May - Atomised,
Michel Houellebecq
June - Frankie and Stankie,
Barbara Trapido
July-December
2005
July - Our Lady of the Forest,
David Guterson
September - Cloud Atlas,
David Mitchell
October
- The Colour of Blood,
Brian Moore
November - Small Island,
Andrea Levy
December - The Kite Runner,
Khaled Husseini
January
- June 2006
January - A High Wind in Jamaica,
Richard Hughes
February - Kiss of the Spiderwoman,
Manuel Puig
March - Snow,
Orhan Pamuk
April - The Human Stain,
Philip Roth
May - The Accidental,
Ali Smith
June - The Reader,
Bernhard Schlink
July-December
2006
July - Never Let Me Go,
Kazuo Ishiguro
September - Revolutionary
Road Richard Yates
October - In Cold Blood,
Truman Capote
November - Last Exit to Brooklyn,
Hubert Selby Jr
December - Scoop,
Evelyn Waugh
January-June
2007
January - The Sea,
John Banville
February - Jack
Maggs Peter Carey
March - Doctor Criminale
Malcolm Bradbury
April -
Mother's Milk Eward
St Aubyn
May - A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami
June - A Heartbreaking Work
of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers
July-December 2007
July
- The
Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
August - White Noise
Don DeLillo
September -Le Grand Meaulnes
Alain-Fournier
October - Disgrace
JM Coetzee
November - The Maze
Panos Karnezis
December -
Fugitive
Pieces Anne Michaels
January-June
2008
January
- Travels With My Aunt
Graham Greene
February - Laughter in the
Dark Vladimir Nabokov
March - The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
April - The Hours
Michael Cunningham
May
-The Gathering Anne
Enright
June - Anil's Ghost
Michael Ondaatje
July-December
2008
July - Crash JG
Ballard
August - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid
September - The Brief Wondrous
Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz
October - The
Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor
December - The Clothes on
Their Backs Linda Grant
January-June
2009
January - The String
of Pearls Joseph Roth
February - Chronicle in
Stone Ismail Kadare
March - The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry
April
6 - Austerlitz W
G Sebald
April 23 - The Invention
of Curried Sausage Uwe Timm
May - Falling Man
Don DeLillo
June - The Autograph Hound
John Lahr
August-December 2009
August - Changes
of Address Lee Langley
September - Nights at the
Circus Angela Carter
October - Netherland
Joseph O'Neill
November - The Road
Cormac McCarthy
December - Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
January-June 2010
January - The
Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery
February - The Turn of the
Screw Henry James
March - The Kindness of
Women JG Ballard
April - Beloved
- Toni Morrison
May - Brooklyn
- Colm Toibin
June - Cloud Street
- Tim Winton
July-December
2010
July - The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
August - The Bell Jar
- Sylvia Plath
September - Dirty
Weekend - Helen Zahavi
October -The Leopard
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
November - Carry Me Down
- M J Hyland
December - The Day of the
Locust - Nathanael West and Play
It As It Lays - Joan Didion
January-May
2011
January - Player
Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
February - Waterland
- Graham Swift
March - Postcards
- E Annie Proulx
April - Blood Meridian
- Cormack McCarthy
May - Ingenious Pain
- Andrew Miller
July-November
2011
July - Alone in
Berlin - Hans Fallada
August - In
the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje
September - A Clockwork
Orange - Anthony Burgess
October - The Spare Room
- Helen Garner
November - Homer and Langley
- E L Doctorow
March-June
2012
January - The
Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster
March - Generation
X - Douglas Coupland
April -The
Book of Evidence - John Banville
May - Tender is the Night
- F Scott Fitzgerald
June - A Pale View of Hills
- Kazuo Ishiguro
July-November
2012
July - The
Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
August - Wide Sargasso Sea
- Jean Rhys
September - Looking for
Mr Goodbar - Judith Rossner
October - Dubliners
- James Joyce
November - Roger Fishbite
- Emily Prager
January-May
2013
January - Oranges Are Not
the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson Feburary - A
Jew Must Die - Jacques Chessex
March - Saturday
- Ian McEwan
April - Under the Frog
- Tibor Fischer
May - Things Fall Apart
- Chinua Achebe
June - The End of Alice
- A M Homes
July - September 2013
July
- The Fancy Dress Party
- Alberto Moravia
August - The Blue Afternoon
- William Boyd
September - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Harper Lee
October - Machine Dreams - Jayne Ann Phillips
November - The Book of Daniel - E L Doctorow
January-June 2014
January - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
February - Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
March - Swimming Home - Deborah Levy
April 2 - Dark Water - Joyce Carol Oates
April 30 - Harriet Said - Beryl Bainbridge
June - Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
July-December 2014
July - Ironweed - William Kennedy
August - The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
September - Voyage in the Dark - Jean Rhys
October - Turbulence - Chico Buarque
December -All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
January-June 2015
January - The Sportswriter - Richard Ford
February -
All My Puny Sorrows - Miriam Toews
March -
Mrs Hemingway - Naomi Wood
April - Stoner - John Williams
May - The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
June - In Country - Bobbie Ann Mason
July-December 2015
July - Soldiers of Salamis - Javier Cercas
August - The Bridge - Iain Banks
September - Christie Malry's Own Double Entry - B S Johnson
October - The Quiet Soldier: Phuong's Story - Creina Mansfield
December -The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
January-June 2016
January - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer - Steven Millhauser
February - The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
March - Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
April - The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald
June - A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
July-November 2016
July - Duplicate Keys - Jane Smiley
August - Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
September - All for Nothing - Walter Kempowski
October - Cosmopolis - Don DeLillo
November - The Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante
January-June 2017
January - The Sellout - Paul Beatty
February - The Midnight Bell - Patrick Hamilton
March - Utz - Bruce Chatwin
April - For Two Thousand Years - Mihail Sebastian
May - In the Cut - Susanna Moore
June - The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
July-December 2017
July - Golden Hill - Francis Spufford
August - The Men's Club - Leonard Michaels
September - Butcher's Crossing - John Williams
October - The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
November - The Fishermen - Chicozie Obioma
December - The Vegetarian - Han Kang
January-June 2018
January - Autumn - Ali Smith
February - The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
April - Reservoir 13 - Jon McGregor
May - Lullaby - Leila Slimani
June - The Spy who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carre
July-December 2018
July - Harvest - Jim Crace
September - Moonglow - Michael Chabon
October - Bonjour Tristesse - Francois Sagan
December - Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
January-June 2019
January - Amongst Women - John McGahern
February - Cassandra at the Wedding - Dorothy Baker
March - A Far Cry from Kensington - Muriel Spark
April - The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
May - The Easter Parade - Richard Yates
June - The Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schultz
August-December 2019
August - We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
October - In a Summer Season - Elizabeth Taylor
November - Milkman - Anna Burns
December - A Month in the Country - J L Carr
January-March 2020 -
January - Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
February - The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker
March - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
July-December 2020 -
July - The Braid - Laetitia Colombani
September - Elmet - Fiona Mozley
October - Distant Star - Roberto Bolano
November - Idaho - Emily Ruskovich
December - The Artificial Silk Girl - Irmgard Keun
February-June 2021 -
February - Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson
March - Where'd You Go Bernadette - Maria Semple
April - The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
May - The Notebook - Agota Kristof
June - My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
July-December 2021 -
July - Old Filth - Jane Gardam
October - There There - Tommy Orange
November - Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
December - Nora Webster - Colm Toibin
January-June 2022 -
January - Candide - Voltaire
March - Crossing to Safety - Wallace Stegner
April - The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
June - The Mountains Sing - Nguyen Phan Que Mai
July-December 2022
July - This Census Taker - China Mieville
October - Turbulence - David Szalay
November - As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
December - Lean Fall Stand - Jon McGregor
January-June 2023
January - Oh William! - Elizabeth Strout
February -A Thousand Moons - Sebastian Barry
March - What Belongs to You - Garth Greenwell
April - One Moonlit Night - Caradoc Prichard
June - The Girls - Emma Cline
July-August2023-
July - Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
August - Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
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