Canonbury Cottage Book Club
The Canonbury Cottage Book Club meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 2:30pm at Canonbury Cottage in McKell Park, 159 Darling Point Road, Darling Point.
Canonbury Cottage Book Club is currently full. If you are interested in joining a waitlist, please contact Woollahra Libraries at libraryspaces@woollahra.nsw.gov.au, or by phone 9391 7100.
Books to be discussed in 2023
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February | Andrew Sean Greer | Less |
| March | Bonnie Garmus | Lessons in Chemistry |
| April | Eif Shafak | The Island of Missing Trees |
| May | Damon Galgut | The Promise |
| June | Sebastian Barry | The Temporary Gentleman |
| July | Khaled Hosseini | And the Mountains Echoed |
| August | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Americanah |
| September | Laura Purcell | The Corset |
| October | Tara June Winch | The Yield |
| November | Kelly Bowen | The Paris Apartment |
| December | Miranda Riwoe | Stone, Sky, Gold Mountain |
Books discussed in 2022
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February | Madeline Miller | Circe |
| March | Tony Birch | The White Girl |
| April | Pip Williams | The Dictionary of Lost Words |
| May | David Nicholls | Us |
| June | Orhan Pamuk | The Red-Haired Woman |
| July | Anne De Courcy | The Fishing Fleet |
| August | Elizabeth Harrower | The Watch Tower |
| September | Jane Gardam | Old Filth |
| October | Maggie O'Farrell | Hamnet |
| November | Jonathan Kaufman | Kings of Shanghai |
| December | Lisa Emanuel | The Covered Wife |
Books discussed in 2021
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February | Ali Smith | How to Be Both |
| March | Min Jin Lee | Pachinko |
| April | Jeanine Cummins | American Dirt |
| May | Dominic Smith | The Last Painting of Sara de Vos |
| June | Anne Enright | The Green Road |
| July | Daniel James Brown | The Boys in the Boat |
| August | Vicki Laveau-Harvie | The Erratics |
| September | Bri Lee | Eggshell Skull |
| October | Richard Flanagan | First Person |
| November | Elizabeth Harrower | The Watch Tower |
| December | Orhan Pamuk | The Red-Haired Woman |
Books discussed in 2020
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Ann Patchett | Bel Canto |
| Amor Towles | A Gentleman in Moscow |
| Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe |
| Kate Atkinson | Life After Life |
| Heather Morris | Tattooist of Auschwitz |
| Daniel James Brown | The Boys in the Boat |
| Emily Ruskovich | Idaho |
| Michelle Obama | Becoming |
| Delia Owens | Where the Crawdads Sing |
| Alex Michaelides | The Silent Patient |
| David Wroblewski | The Story of Edgar Sawtelle |
Books discussed in 2019
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Boris Pasternak | Dr Zhivago |
| Elisabeth Asbrink | 1947 When Now Begins |
| Elizabeth Gilbert | The Signature of All Things |
| Colm Toibin | The Master |
| Mary Lovell | The Mitford Girls |
| Michael Ondaatje | Warlight |
| Helen Macdonald | H is for Hawk |
| Julian Leatherdale | The Opal Dragonfly |
| Kamila Shamsie | Home Fire |
| Gail Honeyman | Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine |
Books discussed in 2018
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Bowen | A House In Paris |
| William Boyd | Any Human Heart |
| John Steinbeck | Travels with Charley |
| Jane Harper | The Dry |
| Eugene O'Neill | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Anh Do | The Happiest Refugee |
| Bill Browder | Red Notice |
| Mary Lovell | The Riviera Set |
| Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North |
| Dinah Jefferies | The Tea Planters Wife |
| Frederick Backman | A Man Called Ove |
Books discussed in 2017
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Karen Joy Fowler | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves |
| Rose Tremaine | The Gustave Sonata |
| Curtis Sittenfeld | Eligible |
| Tan Tan Neg | The Garden of Evening Mists |
| Alain de Botton | The Course of Love |
| Julian Barnes | The Noise of Time |
| M. L. Steadman | The Light Between Oceans |
| Elizabeth Strout | Olive Kitteridge |
| Bernadette Murphy | Van Gogh's Ear |
| Albert Camus & Kamel Daoud | The Stranger & The Meuresault Investigation |
Books discussed in 2016
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Peter Temple | Truth |
| William Landay | Defending Jacob |
| Joan London | The Golden Age |
| Michael Ondaatje | Running in the Family |
| Mark Henshaw | The Snow Kimono |
| David Malouf | Fly Away Peter |
| Darragh McKeon | All That Is Solid Melts Into Air |
| Philip Roth | The Human Stain |
Books discussed in 2015
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| John Williams | Stoner |
| Francine Prose | Lovers at the Chameleon Club |
| Kathleen Tessaro | The Perfume Collector |
| Ian McEwan | The Children Act |
| Tea Obrecht | The Tigers Wife |
| James McBride | The Colour of Water |
| Margaret Atwood | Blind Assassin |
| Patrick Deville | Plague and Cholera |
| Azar Nafisi | Reading Lolita in Tehran |
Books discussed in 2014
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Marcel Proust | Swann's Way |
| Herman Koch | The Dinner |
| Laura Hillenbrand | Unbroken |
| Claire Messud | The Woman Upstairs |
| Abraham Verghese | Cutting for Stone |
| Rohinton Mistry | A Fine Balance |
| Hannah Kent | Burial Rites |
| Will Schwalbe | The End of Your Life Book Club |
Books discussed in 2013
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Julian Barnes | Sense of an Ending |
| Peter Godwin | When the Crocodile Eats the Sun |
| Adele Ferguson | Gina Reinhart |
| Anna Funder | All That I Am |
| Irvin D. Yalom | The Spinoza Problem |
| Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead Revisited |
| Hilary Mantel | An Experiment In Love |
| Wallace Stegner | Crossing To Safety |
| Alan Bennett | An Uncommon Reader |
Books discussed in 2012
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Peter Evans | Nemesis |
| Penelope Lively | The Photograph |
| Rachael Henning | Letters of Rachel Henning |
| Paula McLain | The Paris Wife |
| Margaret Forster | Good Wives |
| Edmund de Waal | The Hare with the Amber Eyes |
| Ernest Hemingway | A Moveable Feast |
| Kader Abdolah | The House of the Mosque |
| Fiona McGregor | Indelible Ink |
Books discussed in 2011
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Lucy Wadham | Secret Life of France |
| Tony Blair | A Journey |
| Kathryn Stockett | The Help |
| Louis de Bernières | Birds Without Wings |
| Jeffrey Eugenides | Middlesex |
| Jonathan Franzen | Freedom |
| Paul Torday | Salmon fishing in the Yemen |
| Damon Young | Distraction |
| Hazel Rowley | Franklin & Eleanor: an extraordinary marriage |
Books discussed in 2010
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| T.C. Boyle | The Women |
| Simon Winchester | Bomb, Book and Compass |
| Greg Mortenson | Three cups of tea |
| J. D. Salinger | The catcher in the rye |
| Hilary Mantel | Change of climate |
| Tobias Wolf | Old school |
| Alex Miller | Lovesong |
Books discussed in 2009
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Gregory David Roberts | Shantaram |
| Nora Ephron | I feel bad about my neck |
| Frances Osborne | The Bolter |
| Mohsin Hamid | Reluctant fundamentalist |
| Philip Roth | Indignation |
| Geraldine Brooks | People of the Book |
| Carlos Ruiz Zafon | The angel's game |
| Mary Ann Shaffer | The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society |
| Barack Obama | Dreams of my father |
Books discussed in 2008
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Andrei Makine | A life's music |
| Sattareh Farman-Farmaian | Daughter of Persia |
| Edna Mazya | The full catastrophe |
| Lionel Shriver | We need to talk about Kevin |
| Mark Kurzem | The mascot |
| Pat Barker | Regeneration |
| Damon Galgut | Good doctor |
| Margaret Atwood | Cat's eye |
| Bryce Courtenay | The persimmon tree |
Books discussed in 2007
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Nicole Krauss | History of Love |
| Irene Nemirovsky | Suite Francaise |
| Omar Nasiri | Inside the Global Jihad |
| Ayn Rand | The Fountainhead |
| Richard Dawkins | The God Delusion |
| Markus Zusak | The Book Thief |
| Kate Mosse | Labyrinth |
Books discussed in 2006
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| John Berendt | The city of falling angels |
| Bem Le Hunt | There, Where the Pepper Tree Grows |
| Irvin D. Yalom | Schopenhauer Cure |
| Hazel Rowley | Tete a Tete : Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Satre |
| Kate Grenville | The Secret River |
| Dane Kennedy | The highly civilized man : Richard Burton and the Victorian World |
| Bryce Courtenay | Whitehorn : a novel of Africa |
Books discussed in 2005
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Patrick White | Flaws in the glass: a self portrait |
| Ken Follett | The Hammer of Eden |
| Irvin Yalom | When Nietzsche Wept |
| Pat Cavenish O'Neill | A Lion in the Bedrom |
| Michael Crichton | State of Fear |
| Tim Winton | Dirt Music |
| Lee Cunxin | Mao's Last Dancer |
| Carlos Ruiz Zafon | The Shadow of the Wind |
| Dan Brown | Angels and Demons |