Book list for 2020

Despite months of Covid 19 restrictions, we still managed to read eight books this year.

For several months we had our meetings online via Zoom. Thankfully we could eventually resume face to face.

The list of books read for 2020 is:

The Weekend, Charlotte Wood        
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett    
Ordinary People, Sally Rooney    
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
The Used World, Haven Kimmel
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie    
Paris in the Present Tense,  Mark Helprin     
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee      

Votes for best book of 2020:
1. Americanah, 2. The Weekend, 3. Normal People, 4 Pachinko

Book for January 2020

The first book in the new year will be: The Weekend by Charlotte Wood.

Best books of 2019

During 2019 we read:

Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie                
Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger               
Educated, Tara Westover    
The Arsonist, Chloe Hooper       
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante                      
A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles   
Nineteen eighty four, George Orwell        

Votes for best book of 2019: 1. A Gentleman in Moscow 2. Home Fire, 3. Educated

January's book 2019

Our first book for 2019 is Pat's choice: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie.

Best books for 2018

In 2018 we read six books.

Poum and Alexandre, Catherine Saint Phalle    
Standard Deviation, Katherine Heiny       
Exit West, Mohsin Hamid        
Butterfly on a Pin, Alannah Hill        
Extinctions, Josephine Wilson       
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman

We voted on the top books for the year and the first three were:
1. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. 2. Exit West 3 Extinctions.

September book

Our book for September 2018 is the novel, Extinctions. Extinctions, by Western Australian writer, Josephine Wilson, won the Miles Franklin award in 2017.

After that we'll be reading and discussing Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Books to date 2018

I'm a bit behind in posting our books for this year.
So far we have read
Standard Deviation by  Katherine Heiny and Exit West by Mohsin Hamid        
Our next book is: Butterfly on a Pin by Alannah Hill