The Book Group 10th anniversary list
The best so far?
Ten years in the life of a London book group…
Atonement – Ian McEwan (Nov 2001) *
Oxygen – Andrew Miller (Dec 01)
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen (Jan 02) ***
Stupid White Men – Michael Moore (Mar 02)
Rings of Saturn – WG Sebald (Apr 02)
The Year of the Goat – Mario Vargas Llosa (Jun 02)
Twelve Bar Blues – Patrick Neate (Sep 02)
Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust ??? (Oct 02)
Life of Pi – Yann Martel (Jan 03) *
A Fine Balance – Rohan Mistry (Mar 03)
Light of Day – Graham Swift (May 03)
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami (June 03)
Code of the Woosters- PG Wodehouse (July 03) **
Voyage au bout de la Nuit – Celine (Sept 03)
Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates (Oct 03)
Tomorrow’s People – Susan Greenfield (Dec 03)
Touching the Void – Joe Simpson (Jan O4)
Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre (March 04) **
Elizabeth Costello – J. M. Coetzee (April 04)
The Comedians -Graham Greene (June 04)
The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst (Sept 04)
Clear – Nicola Barker (Nov 04)
Havoc in its Third Year -Ronan Bennett (Dec 04)
The Plot against America – Philip Roth (Jan 05)
A Heart so White – Javier Marias (March 05)
A Tale of Love and Darkness – Amos Oz (April 05) **
Saturday – Ian McEwan (June 05)
The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth (July 05)
Identity -Milan Kundera (Sept 05)
Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood (Nov 05) **
We need to talk about Kevin – Lionel Shriver (Dec 05)
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini (Jan 06)
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell (March 06) ***
Prague – Arthur Phillips (May 06)
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe (July 06)
Kalooki Nights – Howard Jacobson (Sept 06) **
People’s Act of Love – James Meek (Nov 06)
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (Jan 07) **
The Secret River – Kate Grenville (Mar 07)
Homo Faber -Max Frisch (May 07)
My Name is Red – Orhan Pamuk (Sep 07)
Run Rabbit Run – John Updike (Nov 07)
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote (Jan 08)
Blindness – José Saramago (Feb 08)
What Sport Tells Us About Life – Ed Smith (May 08)
The Enchantress of Florence – Salman Rushdie (Jul 08)
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Michael Chabon (Sep 08) **
Engleby – Sebastian Faulks (Nov 08)
Homecoming – Bernhard Schlink (Jan 09)
Audacity of Hope – Barrack Obama (Feb 09)
Oscar Wao – Juan Diaz (Apr 09) *
Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow (Jun 09)
Scoop – Evelyn Waugh ** (Nov 09)
Pnin – Nabokov (Jan 10)
Therese Raquin – Emile Zola (Mar 10)
The Razor’s Edge – Somerset Maugham (May 10)*
The Death of Ivan Ilyich / Kreuzer Sonata – Tolstoy (Jul 10)
Alone in Berlin – Hans Fallada (Aug 10)
Freedom – Jonathan Franzen (Sep 10) *
Byzantium Endures – Michael Moorcock (Jan 11)
The Bottle Factory Outing – Beryl Bainbridge (Mar 11)
The Heather Blazing – Colm Toibin (Apr 11)
The Tunnel – William H. Gass (Jun 11)
Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos (Aug 11)
The Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt (Oct 11)*
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain (Nov 2011)
On the Shelf of Honour
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