Vaucluse Book Club
Vaucluse Book Club meets on the last Friday of the month from 11am at Watsons Bay Library.
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 7100.
Books to be discussed in 2023
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January | Anthony Doerr | Cloud Cuckoo Land |
| February | Jenny Tunghui Zhang | Four Treasures of the Sky |
| March | Ayad Akhtar | Homeland Elegies |
| April | Matt Haig | The Midnight Library |
| May | Elif Shafak | The Island of Missing Trees |
| June | Bonnie Garmus | Lessons in Chemistry |
| July | Elizabeth Gilbert | City of Girls |
| August | Geraldine Brooks | Horse |
| September | Elizabeth Strout | My Name is Lucy Barton |
| October | Michelle Obama | Becoming |
| November | Own choice | |
| December | No meeting | |
Books discussed in 2022
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January | Craig Silvey | Honeybee |
| February | Brit Bennett | The Vanishing Half |
| March | Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe |
| April | Richard Powers | The Overstory |
| May | Delia Owens | Where the Crawdads Sing |
| June | Pip Williams | The Dictionary of Lost Words |
| July | David Sedaris | Theft By Finding |
| August | Maggie O'Farrell | Hamnet |
| September | Julia Baird | Phosphorescence |
| October | Lily Brett | Old Seems to be Other People |
| November | Own choice | |
| December | N/A | |
Books discussed in 2021
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Tara June Winch | The Yield |
| November | Own choice | |
| December | N/A | |
Books discussed in 2020
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Paul Torday | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen |
| John Banville | Ancient Light |
Books discussed in 2012
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |