Redleaf Book Club
The Redleaf Book Club meets every second Monday of the month unless a public holiday; venue is Room 2 (small) at the Cultural Hub (Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf) between 11am - 1pm.
Redleaf 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 | Min Jin Lee | Pachinko |
| March | Tara June Winch | The Yield |
| April | Maggie O'Farrell | Hamnet |
| May | Lisa See | The Island of Sea Women |
| June | Erik Larson | Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania |
| July | Damon Galgut | The Promise |
| August | Natasha Lester | The French Photographer |
| September | Elif Shafak | Island of Missing Trees |
| October | Anne Enright | The Green Road |
| November | Jenny Tinghui Zhang | Four Treasures of the Sky |
| December | End of year celebration - no book required | |
Books discussed in 2022
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February | Pip Williams | The Dictionary of Lost Words |
| March | Elena Ferrante | My Brilliant Friend |
| April | Caroline Baum | Only: A Singular Memoir |
| May | Elizabeth Harrower | The Watch Tower |
| June | Jeanine Cummins | American Dirt |
| July | Bruce Pascoe | Dark Emu |
| August | Charlotte McConaghy | Migrations/The Last Migration |
| September | Craig Silvey | Honeybee |
| October | Matt Haig | The Midnight Library |
| November | Stan Grant | With the Falling of the Dusk |
| December | Own choice | |
Books discussed in 2021
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February | Curtis Sittenfeld | Eligible |
| March | Susan Orlean | The Library Book |
| April | Siri Hustvedt | The Blazing World |
| May | Orhan Pamuk | The Red-Haired Woman |
| June | Anne de Courcy | The Fishing Fleet |
| July | Tim Winton | The Boy Behind the Curtain |
| August | Alain de Botton | The Course of Love |
| September | Anne Patchett | Bel Canto |
| October | Elizabeth Harrower | In Certain Circles |
| November | Kamila Shamsie | Home Fire |
| December | Own choice | |
Books discussed in 2020
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Dominic Smith | The Last Painting of Sara de Vos |
| Helen Trinca | Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John |
| Charlotte Wood | The Natural Way of Things |
| Kent Haruf | Our Souls at Night |
| Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe |
| Elizabeth Gilbert | City of Girls |
| Mark Henshaw | The Snow Kimono |
| Alex Miller | The Passage of Love |
| Anne de Courcy | The Fishing Fleet |
| Bri Lee | Eggshell Skull |
Books discussed in 2019
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Khaled Hosseini | And the Mountains Echoed |
| Victoria Hislop | The Thread |
| Ann Walmsley | The Prison Book Club |
| Kate Forsyth | The Beast's Garden |
| Heather Morris | The Tattooist of Auschwitz |
| David Hunt | Girt |
| Patrick White | The Twyborn Affair |
| Peter Fitzsimons | The Ballad of Les Darcy |
| Amor Towles | A Gentleman in Moscow |
| Mohsin Hamid | Exit West |
Books discussed in 2018
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Judy Nunn | Heritage |
| Elizabeth Strout | Olive Kitteridge |
| Victoria Hislop | The Island |
| Tim Fischer | Holy See, Unholy Me |
| Anna McPartlin | The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes |
| Kim Edwards | The Memory Keeper's Daughter |
| Kathy Lette | The Boy Who Fell to Earth |
| Armando Lucas Correa | The German Girl |
| Orhan Pamuk | The Black Book |
| Ashley Hay | A Hundred Small Lessons |
Books discussed in 2017
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Americanah |
| Geraldine Brooks | The Secret Chord |
| Hazel Rowley | Franklin & Eleanor |
| Nancy Mitford | Love in a Cold Climate |
| Anthony Doerr | All the Light We Cannot See |
| Helen MacDonald | H is for Hawk |
| Liane Moriarty | Big Little Lies |
| Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North |
| Christina Stead | For Love Alone |
| Graeme Simsion | The Rosie Project |
Books discussed in 2016
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Jojo Moyes | Night Music |
| Lisa Genova | Still Alice |
| Natasha Solomons | Mr Rosenblum's List |
| Alaa Al Aswany | The Yacoubian Building |
| Felicity Volk | Lightning |
| Lisa See | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
| Jane Gleeson-White | Double Entry |
| David Nicholls | Us |
| Jessie Burton | The Miniaturist |
| Meg Noonan | The Coat Route |
Books discussed in 2015
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Camilla Lackberg | The Hidden Child |
| Marguerite van Geldermalsen | Married to a Bedouin |
| Elizabeth Stead | The Sparrows of Edward Street |
| Tim Winton | The Riders |
| Jean Rhys | Wide Sargasso Sea |
| Jojo Moyes | Me Before You |
| Irvin Yalom | The Spinoza Problem |
| Karen Joy Fowler | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves |
| Hannah Kent | Burial Rites |
| Ceridwen Dovey | Only the Animals |
Books discussed in 2014
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Simon Winchester | The Map That Changed the World |
| Aeneas Gunn | We of the Never-Never |
| Kim Scott | That Deadman Dance |
| Tim Winton | An Open Swimmer |
| Simon Mawer | Mendel's Dwarf |
| Ernest Hemingway | True At First Light |
| Katherine Boo | Behind the Beautiful Forevers |
| Jeanine Leane | Purple Threads |
| Anna Funder | All That I Am |
| Mohsin Hamid | The Reluctant Fundamentalist |
Books discussed in 2013
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick |
| David Lodge | Therapy |
| Fiona McGregor | Indelible Ink |
| Lloyd Jones | Mister Pip |
| Lorna Gibb | Lady Hester: Queen of the East |
| Helen Garner | The Spare Room |
| Michael Cunningham | The Hours |
| Stef Penney | The Tenderness of Wolves |
| Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children |
| Julian Barnes | Love etc |
Books discussed in 2012
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Somerset Maugham | The Razor's Edge |
| Geraldine Brooks | Year of Wonders |
| L P Hartley | The Go-Between |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| David Lodge | Deaf Sentence |
| Alan Paton | Cry the Beloved Country |
| Shuichi Yoshi | Villain |
| Justin Cartwright | Other People's Money |
| Liz Byrski | Last Chance Cafe |
| Julian Barnes | The Sense of an Ending |
Books discussed in 2011
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin | Three cups of tea |
| Penelope Lively | Moon tiger |
| Orhan Parmuk | My name is Red |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | An artist of the floating world |
| Michael Robotham | The suspect |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich |
| Kingsley Amis | Stanley and the women |
| Christina Stead | The man who loved children |
| Harper Lee | To kill a mocking bird |
| Muriel Barbery | The elegance of the hedgehog |
Books discussed in 2010
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Simon Winchester | Bomb, book and compass |
| Guiseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa | The Leopard |
| Laura Lippman | Life sentences |
| Aravind Adiga | The white tiger |
| Tracy Chevalier | Remarkable creatures |
| Louis de Bernieres | Birds without wings |
| David Malouf | Remembering Babylon |
| Sebastian Barry | The secret scripture |
| John Banville | The sea |
| Peter Carey | Parrot and Olivier in America |
Books discussed in 2009
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Stieg Larsson | The girl with the dragon tattoo |
| Per Petterson | Out staling horses |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford |
| Gail Tsukiyama | The Samurai's garden |
| Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Infidel |
| Qiu Xiaolong | Death of a red heroine |
| Geraldine Brooks | People of the book |
| Anne Henderson | Enid Lyons : leading lady to a nation |
| Philip Roth | Indignation |
| Margaret Throsby | Talking with Margaret Throsby |
Books discussed in 2008
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Markus Zusak | The book thief |
| Irene Nemirovsky | Suite Francaise |
| Vikram Seth | Two Lives |
| Patrick Gale | Notes from and exhibition |
| Mark Kurzem | The Mascot |
| Khaled Hosseini | A thousand splendid suns |
| Anita Desai | Fasting, feasting |
| Ian McEwan | On Chesil beach |
| Anne Enright | The gathering |
| Janet Frame | Towards another summer |
Books discussed in 2007
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Vikram Seth | An Equal Music |
| Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night |
| Andrea Levy | Small Island |
| Jenna Blum | Those Who Saved Us |
| Marina Lewycka | A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian |
| Catherine Cole | The Grave at Thu Le |
| Nicole Krauss | The History of Love |
| Christopher Kremmer | Inhaling the Mahatma |
| Elizabeth George | What Came Before he Shot Her |
| Charles Frazier | Thirteen Moons |
Books discussed in 2006
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Bem Le Hunte | There Where the Pepper Tree Grows |
| Lusia Przybyszewicz | All that there was |
| Nigel Marsh | Fat, Forty and Fired |
| Anne Fairbairn | Poetry with Anne Fairbairn as Guest Poet |
| Mary Lawson | Crow Lake |
| Allan Hollingsworth | The Line of Beauty |
| Milan Kundera | The Joke |
| Barbara Trapido | Frankie and Stankie |
| Scott McBain | The Mastership game |
| Kate Grenville | Secret River |
Books discussed in 2005
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Marge Piercy | Three women |
| Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner |
| Charlotte Wood | The Submerged Cathedral |
| Michelle Krester | The Hamilton Case |
| Ian McEwan | Comfort of Strangers |
| Ian McEwan | Atonement |
| Ian McEwan | Black Dogs |
| Ian McEwan | The Child in Time |
| Ian McEwan | Enduring Love |
| Ian McEwan | The Cement Garden |
| Helen Garner | Joe Cinque's Consolation |
| Tim Winton | Dirt Music |
| Anne Fairbairn | Feathers and the horizon |
| Anne Fairbairn | Shadows of our dreaming |
| Anne Fairbairn | Sunlines |
| Katherine Fox | Malicious Intent |
| Marian Halligan | The Point |
Books discussed in 2004
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Tracy Chevalier | Girl with a pearl earring |
| Patrick White | The Aunt's Story |
| Helen Garner | The First Stone |
| Gerldine Brooks | Foreign correspondence |
| Richard Flanagan | Death of a River guide |
| Barbara Kingsolver | The Poisonwood Bible |
| Anthony O'Neill | The Lamplighter |
| Joseph Conrad | Lord Jim |
| Peter Goldsworthy | Three Dog Night |
| Iris Murdoch | The Sandcastle |
| Niall Williams | As it is in Heaven |
Books discussed in 2003
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Margaret Atwood | Alias Grace |
| Simon Winchester | Surgeon of Crowthorn |
| Yann Martel | Life of Pi |
| Warren Fellows | The Damage done |
| Kate Jennings | Moral Hazard |
| Mara Moustafine | Secrets and Spies |
| Elizabeth Von Arneim | Elizabeth in her German Garden |
| Alain de Botton | The Consolation of Philosophy |
| Christina Lamb | The sewing circles of Herat |