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                        The Book Club:  
                        List of books read and reviewed since the club began:   
                        
                        2025  
                        
                        2024  
                        
                        2023  
                        
                        2022  
                        
                        2021  
                        
                        2020  
                        
                            -  169: Notes from a Small Island, by Bill Bryson 
 
                            -  168: My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante 
 
                            -  167: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, by Laurie Lee 
 
                            -  166: The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho 
 
                            -  165: Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel 
 
                            -  164: A Single Thread, by Tracy Chevalier 
 
                            -  163: Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh 
 
                            -  162: The Sealwoman's Gift, by Sally Magnusson 
 
                            -  161: The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt 
 
                            -  160: The Trip of a Lifetime, by Monica McInerney 
 
                            -  159: The Wood for the Trees, by Richard Fortey 
 
                         
                        2019  
                        
                        2018  
                        
                             
                        2017  
                        
                            -  137: Christmas Days, by Jeanette Winterson 
 
                            -  136: The Five People you meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom 
 
                            -  135: The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan 
 
                            -  134: The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, by Phaedra Patrick 
 
                            -  133: The Book of Negroes, by Lawrence Hill 
 
                            -  132: The Hendersons, by Daphne Glazer  
 
                            -  131:  Sweet Caress, by William Boyd 
 
                            -  130:  Exposure, by Helen Dunmore 
 
                            -  129:  The Wild Places, by Robert MacFarlane 
 
                            -  128:  The Garden of Evening Mists, by Tan Twan Eng 
 
                         
                             
                        2016  
                        
                            -  127:  A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding, by Jackie Copleton 
 
                            -  126:  Wake, by Anna Hope 
 
                            -  125:  A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler 
 
                            -  124:  Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent 
 
                            -  123:  The Shipping News, by Annie Proulx 
 
                            -  122:  All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr 
 
                            -  121:  On The Beach, by Neville Shute 
 
                            -  120:  The Last King of Lydia, by Tim Leach 
 
                            -  119:  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark 
 
                            -  118:  The Flea Palace, by Elif Shafak 
 
                            -  117:  The Headscarf Revolutionaries, by Brian Lavery 
 
                         
                        2015  
                        
                        2014  
                        
                        2013  
                        
                            -  100:  The Siege of Krishnapur, by JG Farrell 
 
                            -   99:  The Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving Stone 
 
                            -   98:  The Universe versus Alex Woods, by Gavin Extence 
 
                            -   97:  The One Hundred Year Old Man, by Jonas Jonasson 
 
                            -   96:  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby 
 
                            -   95:  The Quiet American, by Graham Greene  
 
                            -   94:  A Long, Long Way, by Sebastian Barry 
 
                            -   93:  Wolf Hall, by Hilary  Mantel 
 
                            -   92:  The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K Dick 
 
                            -   91:  The Code of the Woosters, by P.G. Wodehouse 
 
                            -   90:  Enigma, by Robert  Harris 
 
                         
                        2012  
                        
                            -  89:  Any Human Heart , by William Boyd  
 
                            -  88:  The Siege , by Helen Dunmore 
 
                            -  87:  Our Hidden Lives , by Simon Garfield 
 
                            -  86:  Great Expectations , by Charles Dickens 
 
                            -  85:  The Complaints , by Ian Rankin 
 
                            -  84:  The Post Office Girl , by Stefan Zweig
 
                            -  83:  Restless , by William Boyd
 
                            -  82:  Life of Pi,  by Yan Martel 
 
                            -  81:  The Moonstone,  by Wilkie Collins
 
                            -  80:  Snowdrops , by A.D. Miller   
 
                            -  79:  The Song Before it is Sung, by Justin Cartwright 
 
                         
                        2011  
                        
                            -  78:  Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett  
 
                            -  77:   The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson  
 
                            -  76:   The Visible World, by Mark Slouka  
 
                            -  75:   Farewell My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler 
 
                            -  74:   Started Early, Took My Dog, by Kate Atkinson 
 
                            -  73:   South Riding, by Winifrid Holtby  
 
                            -  72:   Perfume, by Patrick Sȕskind 
 
                            -  71:   Old Filth, by Graham Gardham 
 
                            -  70:   Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C Clarke  
 
                            -  69:   Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann  
 
                            -  68:   The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway  
 
                            -  67:   Ellis Island, by Kate Kerrigan 
 
                         
                        2010  
                        
                            -  66:  A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens   
 
                            -  65:   The Help, by Kathryn Stockett   
 
                            -  64:   Family Album, by Penelope Lively 
 
                            -  63:   We Need to Talk about Kevin, by Kionel Shriver   
 
                            -  62:   Empire of the Sun, by J G Ballard   
 
                            -  61:   Bright Day, by J B Priestly 
 
                            -  60:   The Uncommon Reader, by Alan Bennett   
 
                            -  59:   The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Shaffer and Barrows   
 
                            -  58:   Wildwood, by  Roger Deakin  
 
                            -  57:   That They May Face the Rising Sun, by John McGahern   
 
                            -  56:   Notes to my Mother-in-Law, by Phylida Law   
 
                         
                        2009  
                        
                            -  55:   Water, Ox-tales Anthology   
 
                            -  54:   One Day, by David Nichols   
 
                            -  53:   Dreams from my Father, by Barack Obama    
 
                            -  52:   Guernica, by  Dave Boling  
 
                            -  51:   The Great Gatsby, by FScott Fitzgerald   
 
                            -  50:   Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte   
 
                            -  49:   Afghanistan, Where God only comes to Weep, by Siba Shakib   
 
                            -  48:   Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky   
 
                            -  47:   The Truth, by Terry Pratchett 
 
                            -  46:   Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg   
 
                            -  45:   Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K Jerome 
 
                         
                        2008  
                        
                            -  44:   Goodbye to Berlin, by Christopher Isherwood   
 
                            -  43:   Engelby, by Sebastian Faulks 
 
                            -  42:   Guantanamo, by Dorothea Dieckmann   
 
                            -  41:   Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones 
 
                            -  40:   Two Caravans, by Marina Lewycka 
 
                            -  39:   Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom 
 
                            -  38:   Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut 
 
                            -  37:   1599, A Year in the Life of Willim Shakespeare, by James Shapiro   
 
                            -  36:   Freedom next Time, by John Pilger 
 
                            -  35:   Bury the Chains, by Adam Hochschild    
 
                            -  34:   A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini   
 
                            -  33:   by the tide of humber, by Daphne Glazer   
 
                         
                        2007  
                        
                            -  32:   Valerie Thornhill
 
                            -  31:   The Road, by Cormac McCarthy  
 
                            -  30:   The True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey  
 
                            -  29:   Dylan Thomas and other poets   
 
                            -  28:   Black Swan Green, by  David Mitchell 
 
                            -  27:   Measuring the World, by Danny Kelmann  
 
                            -  26:   The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold  
 
                            -  25:   Winter in Madrid, by CJ Sansom  
 
                            -  24:   Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson  
 
                            -  23:   The March, by E.L. Doctorow  
 
                            -  22:   The Story of Lucy Gault, by Willaim Trevor  
 
                            -  21:   On Beauty, by Zadie Smith  
 
                         
                        2006  
                        
                            -  20:   In Restoration, by  Valerie Thornhill 
 
                            -  19:   Rooms of Dust, by Sarah Pat O'Brien  
 
                            -  18:   Gentlemen and Players, by Joanne Harris  
 
                            -  17:   A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby  
 
                            -  16:   A Short History of Tractors, by Marina Lewicka  
 
                            -  15:   Sky Burial, by Xue Xinran  
 
                            -  14:   Stuart: A Life Backwards, by Alexander Masters  
 
                            -  13:   Saturday, by Ian McEwan  
 
                            -  12:  Margrave of the Marshes, by John Peel  
 
                            -  11:   Touching the Void, by Joe Simpson  
 
                            -  10:   Snow, by Orhan Pamuk  
 
                            -    9:  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon  
 
                         
                        2005  
                        
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