Redleaf Book Club
The Redleaf Book Club meets on the first non-holiday Monday of the month 6pm - 7pm at Woollahra Library at Double Bay, 451 New South Head Road, Double Bay.
Redleaf Book Club is currently full. If you are interested in joining the club, new members can join a waiting list by contacting Woollahra Libraries at libraryspaces@woollahra.nsw.gov.au or by phone 9391 7931.
Books to be discussed in 2019
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February | Khaled Hosseini | And the Mountains Echoed |
| March | Victoria Hislop | The Thread |
| April | Ann Walmsley | The Prison Book Club |
| May | Kate Forsyth | The Beast's Garden |
| June | Heather Morris | The Tattooist of Auschwitz |
| July | David Hunt | Girt |
| August | Patrick White | The Twyborn Affair |
| September | Peter Fitzsimons | The Ballard of Les Darcy |
| October | Amor Towles | A Gentleman in Moscow |
| November | Mohsin Hamid | Exit West |
| December | N/A | |
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 |