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