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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |