Friday 29 December 2023

Best books for 2023

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

Thursday 22 June 2023

Books read so far in 2023

 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

Monday 2 January 2023

Voting for best books of 2022

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

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