Books discussed by the group: [chosen by]

'Map of Love' by Ahdaf Soueif

'Disgrace' by J.M. Coetzee

'If This Be A Man' by Primo Levi

'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' by Salman Rushdie

'Our Mutual Friend' by Charles Dickens/'Midnight is a Place' by Joan Aiken

'Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood' by Rebecca Wells

'The Shipping News' and 'Postcards' by E. Annie Proulx

'Sense and Sensibility' by Jane Austen

'Chocolat' by Joanne Davies

'Love in a Cold Climate' by Nancy Mitford

'The God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy

'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' by Louis de Bernieres

'The Waste Land', 'The Four Quartets' and 'Choruses from The Rock' by T.S. Eliot [Fiona]

'In Patagonia' by Bruce Chatwin [Judith]

'Barchester Towers' by Anthony Trollope [Emma]

'East of Eden' by John Steinbeck [Ruth]

'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens [Helen]

'The Hobbit' by J.R.R.Tolkien [Jeanette]

'Cold Comfort Farm' by Stella Gibbons [Emma]

'True History of the Kelly Gang' by Peter Carey [Fiona]

'Border Crossing' by Pat Barker [Ruth]

'When I Lived in Modern Times' by Linda Grant [Judith]

'Kidnapped' by R.L. Stevenson [Helen]

'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen [Emma]

Selection of Biographies - Dickens, Billy Connolly, Timothy West, Great Britons, Galileo, Antony Sher

'Regeneration Trilogy' by Pat Barker [Ruth]

'Life of Pi' by Yann Martel [Jeanette]

'The Cutting Room' by Louise Welsh [Judith]

'If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things' by John McGregor [Helen]

'Brick Lane' by Monica Ali [Fiona]

'Something Might Happen' by Julie Myerson [Jeanette]

'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt [Ruth]

'Oryx and Crake' by Margaret Atwood [Emma]

'Catcher in the Rye' by J. D. Salinger [consensus for joint book group]

'The Year of Reading Proust' by Phyllis Rose [Judith]

'The Woman in White' by Wilkie Collins [Helen]

'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time' by Mark Haddon [Fiona]

'Star of the Sea' by Joseph O'Connor [Jeanette]

'The Colour' by Rose Tremain [Mary]

'Forty Something' by Nigel Williams [Ruth]

'A Star Called Henry' by Roddy Doyle [Emma]

'The Industry of Souls' by Martin Booth [Judith)

'The English Passengers' by Matthew Kneale [Helen]

'Small Island' by Andrea Levy [Fiona]

'The Time Traveler's Wife' by Audrey Niffenegger [Jeanette]

'The Harmony Silk Factory' by Tash Aw [Mary]

'The Kite Runner by Khalid Hossein [Ruth]

'Shirley' by Charlotte Bronte [Emma]

'Hotel World' by Ali Smith [Mary]

'Judith Paris' by Hugh Walpole [Judith]

'The Other Side of You' by Salley Vickers [Helen]

'History of Tractors in Ukrainian' by Marina Lewycka [Emma]

'Music and Silence' by Rose Tremain [Fiona]

'Cloud Atlas' by David Mitchell [Judith]

'Three Novellas' by DH Lawrence [Ruth]

'The Accidental' by Ali Smith

'Local Girls' by Alice Hoffman

'Bel Canto' by Ann Patchett

'Secret River' by Kate Grenville

'Any Human Heart' by William Boyd

'Shadow of the Wind' by Ruiz Zafon

Any novel by Georgette Heyer

'Dreamcatcher' by Stephen King [Emma]

'Coasting' by Jonathan Raban [Ruth]

'Wine of Angels' by Phil Rickman [Beth]

Sometime in summer... 'Unimagined' by Imran Ahmad

'The City of Falling Angels' by John Berendt [Fiona]

'Mr Pip' by Lloyd Jones [Judith]

'Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver

'The End of the Affair' by Graham Greene [Ruth]

'The Reader' by Bernhard Schink [Jan 2009 - Susanne]

'The Last Templar' by Raymond Khoury [Feb 2009 - Beth]

'The French Lieutenant's Woman' by John Fowles [Mar 2009 - Emma]

Forthcoming: 'The Relucant Fundamentalist' by Mohsin Hamid [Apr 2009 - Fiona]

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