Paddington Library Book Club
Paddington Library Book Club meets on the first Wednesday of the month (with the exception of January) from 6-7pm at Paddington Library.
Paddington Library Book Club is currently full. If you are interested in joining a waitlist, please contact Woollahra Libraries at libraryspaces@woollahra.nsw.gov.au
Books to be discussed in 2023
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February | Louis de Bernieres | The Dust that Falls from Dreams |
| March | Anthony Doerr | Cloud Cuckoo Land |
| April | Tinghui Zhang | Four Treasures of the Sky |
| May | Emily St. John Mandel | Sea of Tranquility |
| June | Bridget Collins | The Betrayals |
| July | Ayad Akhtar | Homeland Elegies |
| August | Bonnie Garmus | Lessons in Chemistry |
| September | Damon Galgut | The Promise |
| October | Ian McEwan | Lessons: A Novel |
| November | John Boyne | A History of Loneliness |
| December | Geraldine Brooks | Horse |
Books discussed in 2022
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February | Min Jin Lee | Pachinko |
| March | Matt Haig | The Midnight Library |
| April | Maggie O'Farrell | Hamnet |
| May | Craig Silvey | Honeybee |
| June | Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness |
| July | Tara June Winch | The Yield |
| August | Brit Bennett | The Vanishing Half |
| September | Erik Larson | Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania |
| October | Elizabeth Gilbert | City of Girls |
| November | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North |
| December | Pip Williams | The Dictionary of Lost Words |
Books discussed in 2021
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina |
| March | Anne Enright | The Green Road |
| April | Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe |
| May | Ann Patchett | Bel Canto |
| June | Celeste Ng | Little Fires Everywhere |
| July | Jeanine Cummins | American Dirt |
| August | David Nicholls | Us |
| September | Min Jin Lee | Pachinko |
| October | Khaled Hosseini | And the Mountains Echoed |
| November | Siri Hustvedt | The Blazing World |
| December | Richard Flanagan | First Person |
Books discussed in 2020
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Curtis Sittenfeld | Eligible |
| Shirley Barrett | Rush Oh! |
| Khaled Hosseini | And the Mountains Echoed |
| David Nicholls | Us |
| Erik Larson | Dead Wake |
| Hannah Kent | The Good People |
| Evie Wyld | All the Birds, Singing |
| Eleanor Catton | The Luminaries |
| Kent Haruf | Our Souls at Night |
| Min Jin Lee | Pachinko |
| Siri Hustvedt | The Blazing World |
Books discussed in 2019
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Amor Towles | A Gentleman In Moscow |
| Anthony Doerr | All the Light we Cannot See |
| Elizabeth Strout | Olive Kitteridge |
| Heather Morris | The Tattooist of Auschwitz |
| Michael Ondaatje | Warlight |
| Ian McEwan | The Children Act |
| Kamila Shamsie | Home Fire |
| Gail Honeyman | Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine |
| Mohsin Hamid | Exit West |
| Jane Harper | The Dry |
| Haruki Murakami | Norwegian Wood |
Books discussed in 2018
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Mark Henshaw | The Snow Kimono |
| Geraldine Brooks | Year of Wonders |
| Rose Tremain | The Gustav Sonata |
| Ailsa Piper | Sinning Across Spain |
| Margaret Atwood | The Handmaids Tale |
| Martin Walker | Children of War |
| William Dalrymple | The Return of a King |
| Rohinton Mistry | A Fine Balance |
| Dominic Smith | The Last Painting of Sara de Vos |
| Clive James | Unreliable Memoirs |
| Julia Baird | Victoria the Queen |
Books discussed in 2017
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Liane Moriarty | Big Little Lies |
| Helen MacDonald | H is for Hawk |
| Sarah Hall | The Wolf Border |
| Karen Joy Fowler | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves |
| Rose Tremaine | The Road Home |
| Alain de Botton | The Course of Love |
| Charlotte Wood | The Natural Way of Things |
| Lauren Groff | Fates and Furies |
| Geraldine Brooks | The Secret Chord |
| Andy Weir | The Martian |
| Ian McGuire | Smart Water |
Books discussed in 2016
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Ian McEwan | Atonement |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Americanah |
| Kate Atkinson | Life After Life |
| M. L. Stedman | The Light Between Oceans |
| Helen Garner | The First Stone |
| Emily St John Mandel | Station Eleven |
| Harper Lee | To Kill A Mockingbird & Go Set A Watchman |
| Ali Smith | How To Be Both |
| Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men and a Boat |
| Paul Fischer | A Kim Jong-Il Production |
| Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger |
Books discussed in 2015
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Connie Willis | Bellwether |
| Jean Rhys | Wide Sargasso Sea |
| Josephine Tey | The Daughter of Time |
| Marilynne Robinson | Gilead |
| Thomas Hardy | Far From the Madding Crowd |
| Barbara Trapido | Brother of the More Famous Jack |
| Ursula Le Guin | The Dispossessed |
| Evie Wyld | All the Birds, Singing |
| Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman |
| Julie Myerson | Then |
| Iain Peters | An Instance of the Fingerpost |
Books discussed in 2014
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| M L Stedman | The Light Between Oceans |
| Amy Waldman | The Submission |
| Clive James | The Silver Castle |
| Hannah Kent | Burial Rites |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | The Lowland |
| Henning Mankell | A Treacherous Paradise |
| Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North |
| Graham Greene | Our Man In Havana |
| Markus Zusak | The Book Thief |
| Jaspreet Singh | Helium |
Books discussed in 2013
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| John Steinbeck | East of Eden |
| Simon Mawer | The Glass Room |
| Ruth Park | The Harp in the South |
| Malcolm Knox | The Life |
| C J Sansom | Dominion |
| David Malouf | Ransom |
| Graham Greene | The Quiet American |
| Anna Seba | That Woman: the Life of Wallis Simpson |
| Linda Jaivin | The Infernal Optimist |
Books discussed in 2012
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Daphne du Maurier | Rebecca |
| Arnold Zable | Violin Lessons |
| Muriel Barbery | The Elegance of the Hedgehog |
| Kate Grenville | The Secret River |
| Stieg Larsson | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo |
| Emma Donoghue | Room |
| Kathryn Stockett | The Help |
| Marina Mewycka | A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian |
| Stephenie Meyer | Twilight |
| Robertson Davies | Murther & Walking Spirits |
| Helen Garner | The First Stone |
Books discussed in 2011
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Mary Anne Shaffer & Annie Barrows | The Guernsey Literary |
| Peter Carey | Parrot and Olivier in America |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Never let me go |
| Jane Austen | Persuasion |
| Howard Jacobson | The Finkler Question |
| Damon Galgut | In a strange room |
| J. G. Farrell | Troubles |
| Joseph Heller | Catch-22 |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita |
| Paul Torday | Salmon fishing in the Yemen |
Books discussed in 2010
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Chimamanda Adichie | Half of a yellow sun |
| Nancy Horan | Loving Frank |
| Amanda Foreman | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire |
| Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead revisited |
| Alex Miller | Lovesong |
| Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa | The Leopard |
| M J Hyland | This is how |
| John Fante | Ask the dust |
| Sarah Waters | The little stranger |
| Rebecca Stott | Darwin and the barnacle |
Books discussed in 2009
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Cunxin Li | Mao's last dancer |
| Geraldine Brooks | People of the book |
| Helen Garner | The spare room |
| Kate Atkinson | Case histories |
| Ian McEwan | Enduring love |
| Khaled Hosseini | A Thousand splendid suns |
| Barbara Kingsolver | The Poisonwood bible |
| Mitch Albom | The Five people you meet in heaven |
| William P Young | The Shack |
| Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin | Three cups of tea |
| Aravind Adiga | The white tiger |
Books discussed in 2008
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Rachel Seiffert | Afterwards |
| Ann Patchett | Bel Canto |
| Alice Sebold | The lovely bones |
| Tracy Chevalier | Girl with a pearl earring |
| Audrey Niffenegger | The time traveler's wife |
| Markus Zusak | The book thief |
| Elizabeth Gilbert | Eat, pray, love |
| Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |