Normal People
Our book group choice for December 2018 is Normal People by Sally Rooney. Connell and Marianne both grow up in the same town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds.
2018
The Bell
Our book group choice for November 2018 is The Bell by Iris Murdoch. A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns.
The English Patient
Our book group choice for September 2018 is The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II.
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Our book group choice for July 2018 is Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking.
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A Rage in Harlem
Our book group choice for June 2018 is A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes. It’s a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.
The Examined Life
Our book group choice for May 2018 is The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz. Echoing Socrates’ time-honoured statement that the unexamined life is not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws short, vivid stories from his 25-five-year practice in order to track the collaborative journey of therapist and patient as they uncover the hidden feelings behind ordinary behaviour.
The Century Girls
Our book group choice for April 2018 is The Century Girls by Tessa Dunlop. In 2018 Britain celebrated the centenary of women getting the vote; during the intervening ten decades the lives of women in this country have been transformed.
Man With a Seagull on His Head
Our book group choice for March 2018 is Man With a Seagull on His Head by Harriet Paige. A gull falls from the sky and strikes a council worker on the beach below.
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Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?
Our book group choice for February 2018 is Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson. Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
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The Last Days of Disco
Our book group choice for January 2018 is The Last Days of Disco by David F. Ross. Early in the decade that taste forgot, Fat Franny Duncan is on top of the world. He is the undoubted King of the Ayrshire Mobile Disco scene, controlling and ruling the competition with an iron fist.
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