Book Club - book history

[midnightcatprowl]

Early this year Carrie80 compiled a list of books chosen for Book Club from the start to that point. I've taken that list, edited it a bit and added the books we chose during 2016. I thought both old book club members and any new members might find the list interesting.

Nov 2002 Kneale, English Passengers
Jan 2003 Glen, I, Lucifer
Feb 2003 Moorcock, Gloriana
Mar 2003 Hulme, The Bone People
Apr 2003 Singh, The Code Book
Apr 2003 Wodehouse, Eggs, Beans and Crumpet
May 2003 Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Jun 2003 Willis, The Doomsday Book
Jul 2003 Martel, Life of Pi
Aug 2003 Rathbone, Kings of Albion
Sep 2003 Smith The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Oct 2003 Ali, Brick Lane
Oct 2003 Postgate, Seeing Things
Nov 2003 Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Dec 2003 Gray, Poor Things
Jan 2004 Paxman, The English
Feb 2004 Hill, The Woman in Black
Mar 2004 Hoban, Riddley Walker
Apr 2004 Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
May 2004 Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
Jun 2004 Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Jul 2004 Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
Jul 2004 Harris, Pompeii
Aug 2004 Malouf Balthasar's Odyssey
Sep 2004 Christie, Murder at the Vicarage
Oct 2004 Tomalin, Unequalled Self
Nov 2004 Stephenson, Quicksilver
Dec 2004 Dickens, The Christmas Books
Jan 2005 Bennett Old Wives Tale
Feb 2005 Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
Mar 2005 Wheen, How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World
Apr 2005 Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
May 2005 Hall, Electric Michelangel
Jun 2005 Fforde, The Eyre Affair
Jul 2005 Dick, We Can Remember it for you Wholesale
Aug 2005 Lovesey, Screaming Tree
Sep 2005 Hickman, A Life Stripped Bare
Nov 2005 Hill The Various Haunts of Men
Dec 2005 Gaiman, Neverwhere
Jan 2006 Crumey Mr Mee
Feb 2006 Gold, Carter Beats the Devil
Mar 2006 Kostova The Historian
Apr 2006 Fry, The Liar
May 2006 Leonard, Hombre
Jul 2006 Holt, Song for Nero
Aug 2006 Welsh, Tamburlaine Must Die
Sep 2006 Younghusband, French
Oct 2006 Kellaway, Who Moved My BlackBerry
Nov 2006 Harris, Chocolat
Dec 2007 Connelly, Echo Park
Dec 2007 Dickens, Pickwick Papers
Apr 2008 Plath, The Bell Jar
Apr 2008 Perriam, Michael, Michael
May 2008 Barnes, Arthur and George
May 2008 Howarth Nelson: The Immortal Memory
Aug 2008 Atkinson Human Croquet
Dec 2008 Niffeneger The Time Travellers Wife
Dec 2008 McEwan On Chesil Beach
Feb 2009 Anne Tyler Digging to America
Apr 2009 Markham West with the Night
Apr 2009 Grass The Tin Drum
Jun 2009 Ryman Air
Jun 2009 Faullks Engleby
Aug 2009 Homer The Illiad
Aug 2009 Mortenson & Relin Three Cups of Tea
Nov 2009 Zusak The Book Thief
Nov 2009 Kirino Grotesque
Feb 2010 Griffin A Madness of Angels
Feb 2010 Shaffer & Barrow Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Apr 2010 Durrell My Family and Other Animals
May 2010 Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
Jun 2010 Kurlansky Salt: A World History
Jul 2010 Helgason 101 Reykjavik
Aug 2010 Banks Wasp Factory
Sep 2010 Barry Secret Scripture
Oct 2010 Ogawa Housekeeper and the Professor
Oct 2010 Fforde Shades ofGrey
Jan 2011 Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Feb 2011 Wiseman, 59 Seconds
Jul 2011 Adiga, The White Tiger
Jul 2011 Mieville Kraken
Nov 2011 Faulks A Week in December
Nov 2011 Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
Feb 2012 Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown
Mar 2012 Mortimer Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
Apr 2012 Waters, The Little Stranger
May 2012 Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
Jun 2012 Streeter, Dere Mable
Jun 2012 Stockett The Help
Dec 2012 Ellis The Inn at the Edge of the World
Dec 2012 Wiggin The Romance of a Christmas Card
Feb 2013 Jonasson The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Feb 2013 Smith The New Moon with the Old
Apr 2013 Wodehouse My Man Jeeves
Apr 2013 Howey Wool
Jun 2013 Lanchester Capital
Jun 2013 Sayers The Nine Tailors
Aug 2013 Wein Code Name Verity
Aug 2013 Tepper Grass
Oct 2013 Buckell Arctic Rising
Oct 2013 Stross Rule 34
Dec 2013 James Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Dec 2013 McKillip The Riddle Master of Hed
Feb 2014 Mohtar The Honey Month
Feb 2014 Walton Farthing
Apr 2014 Wells The Time Machine
Apr 2014 Kermode The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex
Jun 2014 Carter The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Jun 2014 Fowler We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Aug 2014 Mitchell Cloud Atlas
Aug 2014 Angelou Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now
Oct 2014 Foer Everything is Illuminated
Oct 2014 McCarthy The Road
Dec 2014 Strout Olive Kitteridge
Dec 2014 Tregellis Bitter Seeds
Feb 2015 Weir The Martian
Feb 2015 Satrapi Persepolis
May 2015 Hardinge Cuckoo Song
May 2015 Morgenstern The Night Circus
Jul 2015 Bradbury The Illustrated Man
Jul 2015 Tiptree Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
Oct 2015 Morton The No 2 Feline Detective Agency
Oct 2015 Dunmore The Seige
Feb 2016 Joyce The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Feb 2016 Bude The Cornish Coast Murder
Summer 2016 Hogan A Pleasure and a Calling
Summer 2016 Paull The Bees
Autumn 2016 Alyson Foster God is an Astronaut
Autumn 2016 Shukla The Good Immigrant

[Halicarnassus]

Interesting list. I've only read 6 of those and I read quite a bit. It's probably down to my reading mostly dead authors.

[midnightcatprowl]

Early in 2016 Carrie80 compiled a list of books chosen for Book Club from the start to that point. I've taken that list, edited it a bit and added the books we chose during 2016 and now re-edited it to add the books we chose for Jan/April 2017. I thought both old book club members and any new members might find the list interesting.

Nov 2002 Kneale, English Passengers
Jan 2003 Glen, I, Lucifer
Feb 2003 Moorcock, Gloriana
Mar 2003 Hulme, The Bone People
Apr 2003 Singh, The Code Book
Apr 2003 Wodehouse, Eggs, Beans and Crumpet
May 2003 Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Jun 2003 Willis, The Doomsday Book
Jul 2003 Martel, Life of Pi
Aug 2003 Rathbone, Kings of Albion
Sep 2003 Smith The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Oct 2003 Ali, Brick Lane
Oct 2003 Postgate, Seeing Things
Nov 2003 Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Dec 2003 Gray, Poor Things
Jan 2004 Paxman, The English
Feb 2004 Hill, The Woman in Black
Mar 2004 Hoban, Riddley Walker
Apr 2004 Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
May 2004 Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
Jun 2004 Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Jul 2004 Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
Jul 2004 Harris, Pompeii
Aug 2004 Malouf Balthasar's Odyssey
Sep 2004 Christie, Murder at the Vicarage
Oct 2004 Tomalin, Unequalled Self
Nov 2004 Stephenson, Quicksilver
Dec 2004 Dickens, The Christmas Books
Jan 2005 Bennett Old Wives Tale
Feb 2005 Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
Mar 2005 Wheen, How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World
Apr 2005 Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
May 2005 Hall, Electric Michelangel
Jun 2005 Fforde, The Eyre Affair
Jul 2005 Dick, We Can Remember it for you Wholesale
Aug 2005 Lovesey, Screaming Tree
Sep 2005 Hickman, A Life Stripped Bare
Nov 2005 Hill The Various Haunts of Men
Dec 2005 Gaiman, Neverwhere
Jan 2006 Crumey Mr Mee
Feb 2006 Gold, Carter Beats the Devil
Mar 2006 Kostova The Historian
Apr 2006 Fry, The Liar
May 2006 Leonard, Hombre
Jul 2006 Holt, Song for Nero
Aug 2006 Welsh, Tamburlaine Must Die
Sep 2006 Younghusband, French
Oct 2006 Kellaway, Who Moved My BlackBerry
Nov 2006 Harris, Chocolat
Dec 2007 Connelly, Echo Park
Dec 2007 Dickens, Pickwick Papers
Apr 2008 Plath, The Bell Jar
Apr 2008 Perriam, Michael, Michael
May 2008 Barnes, Arthur and George
May 2008 Howarth Nelson: The Immortal Memory
Aug 2008 Atkinson Human Croquet
Dec 2008 Niffeneger The Time Travellers Wife
Dec 2008 McEwan On Chesil Beach
Feb 2009 Anne Tyler Digging to America
Apr 2009 Markham West with the Night
Apr 2009 Grass The Tin Drum
Jun 2009 Ryman Air
Jun 2009 Faullks Engleby
Aug 2009 Homer The Illiad
Aug 2009 Mortenson & Relin Three Cups of Tea
Nov 2009 Zusak The Book Thief
Nov 2009 Kirino Grotesque
Feb 2010 Griffin A Madness of Angels
Feb 2010 Shaffer & Barrow Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Apr 2010 Durrell My Family and Other Animals
May 2010 Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
Jun 2010 Kurlansky Salt: A World History
Jul 2010 Helgason 101 Reykjavik
Aug 2010 Banks Wasp Factory
Sep 2010 Barry Secret Scripture
Oct 2010 Ogawa Housekeeper and the Professor
Oct 2010 Fforde Shades ofGrey
Jan 2011 Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Feb 2011 Wiseman, 59 Seconds
Jul 2011 Adiga, The White Tiger
Jul 2011 Mieville Kraken
Nov 2011 Faulks A Week in December
Nov 2011 Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
Feb 2012 Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown
Mar 2012 Mortimer Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
Apr 2012 Waters, The Little Stranger
May 2012 Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
Jun 2012 Streeter, Dere Mable
Jun 2012 Stockett The Help
Dec 2012 Ellis The Inn at the Edge of the World
Dec 2012 Wiggin The Romance of a Christmas Card
Feb 2013 Jonasson The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Feb 2013 Smith The New Moon with the Old
Apr 2013 Wodehouse My Man Jeeves
Apr 2013 Howey Wool
Jun 2013 Lanchester Capital
Jun 2013 Sayers The Nine Tailors
Aug 2013 Wein Code Name Verity
Aug 2013 Tepper Grass
Oct 2013 Buckell Arctic Rising
Oct 2013 Stross Rule 34
Dec 2013 James Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Dec 2013 McKillip The Riddle Master of Hed
Feb 2014 Mohtar The Honey Month
Feb 2014 Walton Farthing
Apr 2014 Wells The Time Machine
Apr 2014 Kermode The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex
Jun 2014 Carter The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Jun 2014 Fowler We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Aug 2014 Mitchell Cloud Atlas
Aug 2014 Angelou Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now
Oct 2014 Foer Everything is Illuminated
Oct 2014 McCarthy The Road
Dec 2014 Strout Olive Kitteridge
Dec 2014 Tregellis Bitter Seeds
Feb 2015 Weir The Martian
Feb 2015 Satrapi Persepolis
May 2015 Hardinge Cuckoo Song
May 2015 Morgenstern The Night Circus
Jul 2015 Bradbury The Illustrated Man
Jul 2015 Tiptree Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
Oct 2015 Morton The No 2 Feline Detective Agency
Oct 2015 Dunmore The Seige
Feb 2016 Joyce The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Feb 2016 Bude The Cornish Coast Murder
Summer 2016 Hogan A Pleasure and a Calling
Summer 2016 Paull The Bees
Autumn 2016 Alyson Foster God is an Astronaut
Autumn 2016 Shukla The Good Immigrant
Jan/April 2017 Simon Michael The Brief
Jan/April 2017 Tomasi Di Lampedusa The Leopard

[midnightcatprowl]

Interesting list. I've only read 6 of those and I read quite a bit. It's probably down to my reading mostly dead authors.

Well quite a few of those authors are dead but we do read quite a few 'live' ones! I've just re-posted the list with the two books we've read this year added to it.

I find that one of the useful things about a Book Club is that, if you feel committed to participating, it makes you try books and authors you'd otherwise never have considered. Some you read and probably you'll never touch that author again, but then you find something which for you is a gem and that author becomes part of your reading life. I've also found that I find some books very significant reads and I'm glad I've read them even though I might not be able to face that author again.

[MistyMeena]

Thank you for putting this list up and for updating it.

[Halicarnassus]

Interesting list. I've only read 6 of those and I read quite a bit. It's probably down to my reading mostly dead authors.

Well quite a few of those authors are dead but we do read quite a few 'live' ones! I've just re-posted the list with the two books we've read this year added to it.

I find that one of the useful things about a Book Club is that, if you feel committed to participating, it makes you try books and authors you'd otherwise never have considered. Some you read and probably you'll never touch that author again, but then you find something which for you is a gem and that author becomes part of your reading life. I've also found that I find some books very significant reads and I'm glad I've read them even though I might not be able to face that author again.

Yes, I agree that it is good occasionally to read outside your usual genres.