For the first six months of 2025 members of our group have read and good mix of books:
Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout
The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese
Mermaid Singing, Charmian Clift
Romulus My Father, Raimond Gaita
Plainsong, Kent Haruf
Monday, 2 June 2025
First book choices for 2025
Saturday, 24 May 2025
Best Books for 2024
Book Group 2024
The books chosen by our book group member during 2024 were:
Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
Sam Neill, Did I Ever Tell You This
Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
Richard Flanagan, Question 7
Rebecca F Kuang, Yellowface
Lee Cole, Groundskeeping
Kristin Hannah, The Women
Votes for best book of 2024: 1. Crossing to Safety, 2. Tom Lake and Groundskeeping, 3. Question 7
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
Friday, 4 February 2022
First books for 2022
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.
Monday, 3 January 2022
Book group votes for best books of 2021
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)