Vaucluse Daytime Book Club
Vaucluse Book Club meets on the last Friday of the month at 2.30pm at Mark Moran, 2 Laguna Street, Vaucluse.
Vaucluse Book Club is currently full. If you are interested in joining the Redleaf Book Club, new members can join a waiting list by contacting Woollahra Libraries at libraryspaces@woollahra.nsw.gov.au, or by phone 9391 7931.
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Books to be discussed in 2018
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January | Louis de Bernieres | The Dust That Falls From Dreams |
| February | Kent Haruf | Our Souls at Night |
| March | Evie Wyld | All the Birds, Singing |
| April | Anne Enright | The Green Road |
| May | Elizabeth Strout | Olive Kitteridge |
| June | Lisa McInerney | Glorious Heresies |
| July | Khaled Hosseini | And the Mountains Echoed |
| August | ||
| September | Marilynne Robinson | Home |
| October | ||
| November | Readers choice |
Books discussed in 2017
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January | Joseph Conrad | Lord Jim |
| February | Sarah Hall | The Wolf Border |
| March | Joan London | The Golden Age |
| April | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Americanah |
| May | Erik Larson | Dead Wake |
| June | Tim Winton | Island Home |
| July | Mark Henshaw | The Snow Kimono |
| August | Elena Ferrante | My Brilliant Friend |
| September | Tony Birch | Ghost River |
| October | Barbara Vine | The Chimney Sweeper's Boy |
| November | Geraldine Brooks | The Secret Chord |
Books discussed in 2016
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January | Colm Toibin | Nora Webster |
| February | Ian McEwan | The Children Act |
| March | Siri Hustvedt | The Blazing World |
| April | Dai Sijie | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
| May | Craig Sherborne | Hoi Polloi |
| June | Anthony Doerr | All the Light We Cannot See |
| July | M. L. Stedman | The Light Between Oceans |
| August | Favel Parrett | Past the Shallows |
| September | Alix Christie | Gutenberg's Apprentice |
| October | Stephan Zweig | The World of Yesterday |
| November | Individual choice |
Books discussed in previous years
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | George Eliot | Middlemarch |
| 2015 | Liane Moriarty | Big Little Lies |
| 2015 | Judy Nunn | Maralinga |
| 2015 | Rachel Joyce | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry |
| 2015 | Graham Swift | Wish You Were Here |
| 2015 | Bob Reece | Daisy Bates: Grand Dame of the Desert |
| 2015 | Sheldon Vanauken | A Severe Mercy |
| 2015 | Jason Roberts | A Sense of the World |
| 2015 | Naguib Mahfouz | Palace Walk |
| 2015 | Graeme Simsion | The Rosie Project |
| 2014 | Michelle de Kretser | Questions of Travel |
| 2014 | Brendan Ward | The Beethoven Obsession |
| 2014 | Hannah Kent | Burial Rites |
| 2014 | Tim Flannery | The Birth of Sydney |
| 2014 | Lian Hearn | The Storyteller and His Three Daughters |
| 2014 | Margaret Drabble | The Pure Gold Baby |
| 2014 | Michael Frayn | Skios |
| 2014 | Anne Tyler | Dinner At the Homesick Restaurant |
| 2014 | Zadie Smith | White Teeth |
| 2014 | Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master & Margarita |
| 2013 | Paul Torday | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen |
| 2013 | John Banville | Ancient Light |
| 2012 | Nicole Mones | The last Chinese chef |
| 2012 | Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman | The rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif |
| 2012 | Aravind Adiga | The white tiger |
| 2012 | Kyung-sook Shin | Please look after Mother |
| 2012 | Kathryn Stockett | The help |
| 2012 | Michael Ondaatje | The English patient |
| 2011 | Colum McCann | Let the great world spin |
| 2011 | Marry Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
| 2011 | Hans Fallada | Alone in Berlin |
| 2011 | Muriel Barbery | The elegance of the hedgehog |
| 2010 | Mandy Sayer (ed) | The Australian long story |
| 2010 | Annette Gordon-Reed | The Hemingses of Monticello |
| 2010 | Greg Mortensen | Three cups of tea |
| 2010 | Michelle de Kretser | The Hamilton case |
| 2010 | Alexander McCall Smith | The No. 1 Ladies detective agency |
| 2010 | Isabel Allende | The Sum of our days |
| 2010 | Amy Tan | The Bonesetter's daughter |
| 2010 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | The purple hibiscus |
| 2009 | Irene Nemirovsky | David Golder |
| 2009 | Markus Zusak | The book thief |
| 2009 | Simon Winchester | The map that changed the world |
| 2009 | Lloyd Jones | Mr Pip |
| 2009 | Li Cunxin | Mao's last dancer |
| 2009 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The great Gatsby |
| 2009 | Harper Lee | To kill a mockingbird |
| 2009 | Robert Dessaix | Choice of books by Robert Dessaix |
| 2009 | Barack Obama | Dreams from my father |
| 2008 | Kate Grenville | The secret river |
| 2008 | Rose Tremain | The road home |
| 2008 | Mitch Albom | Tuesdays with Morrie |
| 2008 | Tim Winton | Dirt music |
| 2008 | David Malouf | The great world |
| 2008 | Helen Garner | The Spare Room |
| 2008 | Geraldine Brooks | March |
| 2008 | Simon Winchester | Bomb, Book and Compass |