Group of 97 book club
Here's the list of books we read in 2023:
The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See
Still Life, Sarah Winman
Room With a View E.M. Forster
Where You Come From, Sasa Stanisic
The Glass Pearls, Emeric Pressburger
Horse, Geraldine Brooks
Wifedom, Anna Funder
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
Votes for best book of 2023:
1. Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan , 2. Still Life, Sarah Winman , 3. Wifedom, Anna Funder
We have already read five books during the first half of 2023:
The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See
Still Life, Sarah Winman
Room With a View E.M. Forster
Where You Come From, Sasa Stanisic
The Glass Pearls , Emeric Pressburger
Horse, Geraldine Brooks
Our book group members read eight books in 2022.
Here's the list and the votes for the top three books:
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
The Salt Path, Raynor Winn
Devotion, Hannah Kent
Labyrinth, Amanda Lohrey
Disappearing Earth, Julia Phillips
A Room Made of Leaves, Kate Grenville
Slowworm’s Song, Andrew Miller
Scary Monsters, Michelle de Kretser
Votes for best book of 2022: 1 Slowworm’s Song, Andrew Miller 2. Disappearing Earth, Julia Phillips 3. Labyrinth, Amanda Lohrey
Our first book for 2022 is a classic: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Next we'll be doing The Salt Path by Raynor Winn.
We read fewer books in 2021, just six all up:
The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams
Rodham, Curtis Sittenfeld
The Dead, James Joyce
Bruny, Heather Rose
The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry
The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard
Here's how we rated them. Our top 3 for best book of 2021:
1. The Secret Scripture. 2. The Transit of Venus. 3. The Dead and Rodham (tied)
We already have our first two books for 2021:
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams to be discussed this January and Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld for March, 2021
Despite months of Covid 19 restrictions, we still managed to read eight books this year.
For several months we had our meetings online via Zoom. Thankfully we could eventually resume face to face.
The list of books read for 2020 is:
The Weekend, Charlotte Wood
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
Ordinary People, Sally Rooney
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
The Used World, Haven Kimmel
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Paris in the Present Tense, Mark Helprin
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
Votes for best book of 2020:
1. Americanah, 2. The Weekend, 3. Normal People, 4 Pachinko
