Vaucluse Book Club
Please note all book club meetings have been suspended due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Vaucluse Book Club meets on the last Friday of the month from 2pm at Mark Moran Vaucluse, 2 Laguna Street, Vaucluse.
Vaucluse Book Club is currently full. If you are interested in joining a waiting list, please contact Woollahra Libraries at libraryspaces@woollahra.nsw.gov.au, or by phone 9391 7931.
Books to be discussed in 2021
Month | Author | Title |
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January | Jeanine Cummins | American Dirt |
February | Tim Winton | The Boy Behind the Curtain |
March | Anna Burns | Milkman |
April | Chris Hammer | Scrublands |
May | Richard Flanagan | First Person |
June | Jane Harper | The Dry |
July | Favel Parrett | There was Still Love |
August | Elizabeth Strout | Olive, Again |
September | Charlotte Wood | The Weekend |
October | TBA | TBA |
November | Own choice | |
December | N/A |
Books discussed in 2020
Author | Title |
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Eleanor Catton | The Luminaries |
Celeste Ng | Little Fires Everywhere |
Kristin Hannah | The Nightingale |
Michael Ondaatje | Warlight |
Robert Dessaix | What Days Are For |
Donna Leon | By Its Cover |
Amanda Hampson | The French Perfumer |
David Nicholls | Us |
Hannah Kent | The Good People |
Tara Westover | Educated |
Books discussed in 2019
Author | Title |
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Min Jin Lee | Pachinko |
Gail Honeyman | Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine |
Mohsin Hamid | Exit West |
Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist | Two Steps Forward |
Kamila Shamsie | Home Fire |
Amor Towles | A Gentleman in Moscow |
Michelle Scott Tucker | Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World |
Dominic Smith | The Last Painting of Sara De Vos |
Melissa Ashley | The Birdman’s Wife |
Sarah Perry | The Essex Serpent |
Books discussed in 2018
Author | Title |
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Louis de Bernieres | The Dust That Falls From Dreams |
Kent Haruf | Our Souls at Night |
Evie Wyld | All the Birds, Singing |
Anne Enright | The Green Road |
Elizabeth Strout | Olive Kitteridge |
Lisa McInerney | Glorious Heresies |
Khaled Hosseini | And the Mountains Echoed |
Marilynne Robinson | Home |
Books discussed in 2017
Author | Title |
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Joseph Conrad | Lord Jim |
Sarah Hall | The Wolf Border |
Joan London | The Golden Age |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Americanah |
Erik Larson | Dead Wake |
Tim Winton | Island Home |
Mark Henshaw | The Snow Kimono |
Elena Ferrante | My Brilliant Friend |
Tony Birch | Ghost River |
Barbara Vine | The Chimney Sweeper's Boy |
Geraldine Brooks | The Secret Chord |
Books discussed in 2016
Author | Title |
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Colm Toibin | Nora Webster |
Ian McEwan | The Children Act |
Siri Hustvedt | The Blazing World |
Dai Sijie | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
Craig Sherborne | Hoi Polloi |
Anthony Doerr | All the Light We Cannot See |
M. L. Stedman | The Light Between Oceans |
Favel Parrett | Past the Shallows |
Alix Christie | Gutenberg's Apprentice |
Stephan Zweig | The World of Yesterday |
Books discussed in 2015
Author | Title |
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George Eliot | Middlemarch |
Liane Moriarty | Big Little Lies |
Judy Nunn | Maralinga |
Rachel Joyce | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry |
Graham Swift | Wish You Were Here |
Bob Reece | Daisy Bates: Grand Dame of the Desert |
Sheldon Vanauken | A Severe Mercy |
Jason Roberts | A Sense of the World |
Naguib Mahfouz | Palace Walk |
Graeme Simsion | The Rosie Project |
Books discussed in 2014
Author | Title |
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Michelle de Kretser | Questions of Travel |
Brendan Ward | The Beethoven Obsession |
Hannah Kent | Burial Rites |
Tim Flannery | The Birth of Sydney |
Lian Hearn | The Storyteller and His Three Daughters |
Margaret Drabble | The Pure Gold Baby |
Michael Frayn | Skios |
Anne Tyler | Dinner At the Homesick Restaurant |
Zadie Smith | White Teeth |
Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master & Margarita |
Books discussed in 2013
Author | Title |
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Paul Torday | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen |
John Banville | Ancient Light |
Books discussed in 2012
Author | Title |
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Nicole Mones | The last Chinese chef |
Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman | The rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif |
Aravind Adiga | The white tiger |
Kyung-sook Shin | Please look after Mother |
Kathryn Stockett | The help |
Michael Ondaatje | The English patient |
Books discussed in 2011
Author | Title |
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Colum McCann | Let the great world spin |
Marry Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
Hans Fallada | Alone in Berlin |
Muriel Barbery | The elegance of the hedgehog |
Books discussed in 2010
Author | Title |
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Mandy Sayer (ed) | The Australian long story |
Annette Gordon-Reed | The Hemingses of Monticello |
Greg Mortensen | Three cups of tea |
Michelle de Kretser | The Hamilton case |
Alexander McCall Smith | The No. 1 Ladies detective agency |
Isabel Allende | The Sum of our days |
Amy Tan | The Bonesetter's daughter |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | The purple hibiscus |
Books discussed in 2009
Author | Title |
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Irene Nemirovsky | David Golder |
Markus Zusak | The book thief |
Simon Winchester | The map that changed the world |
Lloyd Jones | Mr Pip |
Li Cunxin | Mao's last dancer |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | The great Gatsby |
Harper Lee | To kill a mockingbird |
Robert Dessaix | Choice of books by Robert Dessaix |
Barack Obama | Dreams from my father |
Books discussed in 2008
Author | Title |
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Kate Grenville | The secret river |
Rose Tremain | The road home |
Mitch Albom | Tuesdays with Morrie |
Tim Winton | Dirt music |
David Malouf | The great world |
Helen Garner | The Spare Room |
Geraldine Brooks | March |
Simon Winchester | Bomb, Book and Compass |