Dapto Tuesday Book Club

16/01/2012 at 11:30 pm Leave a comment

Another year of great reading has come and gone, and it’s time to begin a new list. But before we do that, which one did we enjoy the most in 2011?

We like to award points to all our books read throughout the year and find out which was our favourite. Well, the prize goes to The Book of Emmett by Deborah Forster. You can read our review here. Why not add it to your reading list for 2012 and let us know what you think.

Our preference list is as follows -

1. The Book of Emmett by Deborah Forster

2. Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee

3. Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

4. Trespass/The Road Home by Rose Tremian

5. My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin

6. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

7. Room by Emma Donoghue

8. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

9. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

10. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

11. A Mercy by Toni Morrison

12 Long Song by Andrea Levy

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What we’re reading in 2012

Corrimal Bookchat 1
Jan - Parrot & Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Feb - The help by Kathryn Stockett
Mar - The story of Danny Dunn by Bryce Courtenay
Apr - Life, liberty and the pursuit of sausages by Tom Holt
May - The longest winter by Mary Jane Staples
Jun - Water for elephants by Sara Gruen
Jul - The lieutenant by Kate Grenville
Aug - Truth by Peter Temple
Sep - All my sins by Linda Sole
Oct - The shifting fog by Kate Morton
Nov - Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Dec - Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence

Corrimal Bookchat 2
Feb - Pillars of the earth by Ken Follett and
Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle
Mar - Biography of choice - Members to borrow their choice
Apr - The elegance of the hedgehog by Mriel Barbery
May - Noah's compass by Anne Tyler
Jun - Sarah's Key by Tatiana Rosnay
Jul - Shooting the fox by Marion Halligan
Aug - The good mayor by Andrew Nicoll
Sep - The lieutenant by Kate Grenville
Oct - The help by Kathryn Stockett
Nov - The road home by Rose Tremain
Dec - Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Cosmo Club
Feb - The city of falling angels by John Berendt
Mar - Dear friends and gentle people; Poor man's orange; Missus; A power of roses by Ruth Park
Apr - Four fires by Bruce Courtenay or The chant
of Jimmy Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
May - Love has no limits by Tanya Hayes
Jun - The truth by Peter Temple; The winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow

Dapto Book Club
Jan - Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
Feb - The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson
Mar - The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Apr - Dubliners by James Joyce
May - Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Jun - The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
Jul - The Report by Jessica Kane
Aug -The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
Sep - A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Oct - The Women in Black by Madeleine St John
Nov - Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
Dec - Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow

Thirroul Afternoon Book Club
Jan - The Merry-go-round in the sea by Randolph Stow
Feb - Summertime by J.M Coetzee
Mar - Bel canto by Ann Pratchett
Apr - Own choice by Thomas Hardy
May - Ransom by David Malouf
Jun - Who dun it? Own choice or Donna Leon
Jul - Biography - Own choice
Aug - No country for old men by Cormac McCarthy
Sep - Anthony Trollope - Own choice or Barchester Towers
Oct - For the term of his natural life by Marcus Clarke Or Own choice of Australian non-fiction
Nov - The Finkler question by Howard Jacobsen
Dec - Fiction or non-fiction on Food

Thirroul Evening Book Club
Jan - Wild Lavender by Belinda Alexander
Feb - The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adam
Mar - Beatrice and Virgil -Yann Martel
Apr - Bel canto by Ann Pratchett
May - An imaginary life by David Malouf
Jun - The time traveller's wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Jul - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Aug - The Colour of magic by Terry Pratchett
Sep - The Girl with the pearl earing by Tracy Chevalier
Oct - Persuasion by Jane Austen
Nov - The Thirty nine steps by John Buchan
Dec - Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Warrawong Book Talk
March Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
April Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
May Friends like these by Wendy Harmer
June The earth hums in B flat by Mari Strachan
July The happiest refugee by Anh Do
August The help by Kathryn Stockett
September A tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
October Major Pettigrews last stand by Helen Simonson
November Alias Grace and The Handmaid's tale by Margaret Attwood
December Daughters in law by Joanna Trollope

Wollongong Bookworms
May - The memory keeper's daughter by Kim Edwards & The distant hours by Kate Morton
Jun - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Jul - The room by Emma Donohue
Aug - A beautiful place to die by Malla Nunn
Sep - The boat by Le Nam
Oct - Caleb's crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Nov - Under the linden tree by Margaret Reid
Dec - The deep end of the ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
2012
Jan - The happiest refugee - Anh Do
Feb - The Yiddish policeman's union by Michael Chabon
Mar - An evil cradling by Brian Keenan

Wollongong Readers