Watsons Bay Book Club
The Watsons Bay Book Club meets on the first Friday of the month from 11am at Watsons Bay Library.
Watsons Bay Book Club is currently full. If you are interested in joining a waitlist, please contact Woollahra Libraries at libraryspaces@woollahra.nsw.gov.au, or by phone 9391 7100.
Books to be discussed in 2023
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February | Damon Galgut | The Promise |
| March | Anthony Doerr | All the Light We Cannot See |
| April | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Americanah |
| May | Alain de Botton | The Course of Love |
| June | Maggie O'Farrell | The Hand That First Held Mine |
| July | Ian McEwan | Lessons |
| August | Anthony Doerr | Cloud Cuckoo Land |
| September | Jenny Tinghui Zhang | Four Treasures of the Sky |
| October | Ayad Akhtar | Homeland Elegies |
| November | Emilky St. John Mandel | Sea of Tranquility |
| December | Elif Shafak | The Island of Missing Trees |
Books discussed in 2022
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February | Maggie O'Farrell | Hamnet |
| March | Craig Silvey | Honeybee |
| April | Brit Bennett | The Vanishing Half |
| May | Elizabeth Gilbert | City of Girls |
| June | Jane Harper | The Dry |
| July | Matt Haig | The Midnight Library |
| August | Anna Burns | Milkman |
| September | David Nicholls | Us |
| October | Pip Williams | The Dictionary of Lost Words |
| November | Richard Flanagan | First Person |
| December | Hannah Kent | The Good People |
Books discussed in 2021
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February | Celeste Ng | Little Fires Everywhere |
| March | Nicola Lagioia | Ferocity |
| April | Tara June Winch | The Yield |
| May | Khaled Hosseini | And the Mountains Echoed |
| June | Geraldine Brooks | Nine Parts of Desire |
| July | William Boyd | Ordinary Thunderstorms |
| August | Tim Winton | The Shepherd's Hut |
| September | Madeline Miller | Circe |
| October | Jeanine Cummins | American Dirt |
| November | Pat Barker | The Silence of the Girls |
| December | Connie Willis | Passage |
Books discussed in 2020
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Louis de Bernieres | The Dust that Falls from Dreams |
| Anne Tyler | Breathing Lessons |
| Min Jin Lee | Pachinko |
| Nicola Lagioia | Ferocity |
| Geraldine Brooks | Nine Parts of Desire |
| Kate Atkinson | Life After Life |
| Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe |
| William Boyd | Ordinary Thunderstorms |
| Tim Winton | The Shepherd's Hut |
| Madeline Miller | Circe |
| Pat Barker | The Silence of the Girls |
Books discussed in 2019
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Curtis Sittenfeld | Eligible |
| Kent Haruf | Our Souls at Night |
| Heather Morris | Tattooist of Auschwitz |
| Heather Rose | Museum of Modern Love |
| Gail Honeyman | Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine |
| Jessie Burton | The Miniaturist |
| Michael Ondaatje | Warlight |
| Adam Johnson | The Orphan Master's Son |
| Haruki Murakami | Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage |
| Elena Ferrante | My Brilliant Friend |
| Mohsin Hamid | Exit West |
Books discussed in 2018
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Colson Whitehead | The Underground Railroad |
| Amor Towles | A Gentleman in Moscow |
| Shirley Barrett | Rush Oh! |
| Anne Enright | The Green Road |
| Dominic Smith | The Last Painting of Sara de Vos |
| Judy Blume | In the Unlikely Event |
| Erik Larson | Dead Wake |
| Jessie Burton | The Muse |
| Connie Willis | Passage |
| Ann Patchett | Commonwealth |
| Josephine Wilson | Extinctions |
Books discussed in 2017
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North |
| Mark Henshaw | The Snow Kimono |
| Geraldine Brooks | The Secret Chord |
| Helen MacDonald | H is for Hawk |
| Elizabeth Strout | Olive Kitteridge |
| Andy Weir | The Martian |
| Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness |
| Sarah Hall | The Wolf Border |
| Charlotte Wood | The Natural Way of Things |
| Alain de Botton | The Course of Love |
| Anthony Doerr | All the Light We Cannot See |
Books discussed in 2016
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Emily St John Mandel | Station Eleven |
| Ali Smith | How To Be Both |
| Karen Joy Fowler | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Americanah |
| Siri Hustvedt | The Blazing World |
| Liane Moriarty | Big Little Lies |
| Evie Wyld | All the Birds, Singing |
| Lauren Groff | Fates and Furies |
| M L Stedman | The Light Between Oceans |
| Ian McEwan | The Children Act |
| Sarah Waters | The Paying Guests |