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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |