The Men Only Book Club
Originally three members, PS, PG, CC, but from 2006 up to six, NB, SH, RM (joining in that order).
The months below are those in which we reviewed the book; we've never had a December book (but that doesn't stop us going to the pub for 'bookless book club'!).
On 19th February 2011 we got into the Review section of the Saturday Telegraph in a piece written by Viv Groskop, Forget fight club – join book club. Viv had stumbled on this site and got in touch to arrange a telephone interview. The resulting mentions were very fair.
2004
September: Lord Of The Flies — William Golding [CC]
October: Story of an Accusation — Terence Reese & The Great Bridge Scandal — Alan Truscott [PG]
November: Pompei — Robert Harris [PS]
2005
January: Rings of Saturn — WG Sebald [CC]
February: Hangover Square — Patrick Hamilton [PG]
March: The Republic — Plato [PS]
April: The Rotters' Club — Jonathan Coe [NB]
May: Moab is my Washpot — Stephen Fry [PG]
June: Journey by Moonlight — Antal Szerb [CC]
July: Kitchen Confidential — Anthony Bourdain [PS]
August: Christie Malry's Own Double-entry — BS Johnson [NB]
September: If I Told You Once — Judy Budnitz [SH]
October: The Complete Maus — Art Spiegelman [CC]
November: The Hollow Man — John Dickson Carr [PG]
2006
January: A Long Long Way — Sebastian Barry [PS]
February: Period Piece — Gwen Raverat [NB]
March: Barnaby Rudge — Charles Dickens [SH]
April: Beowulf — Seamus Heaney (translator) [CC]
May: One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez [RM]
June: The Shadow of the Wind — Carlos Ruiz Zafón [PG]
July: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories — Ernest Hemingway [PS]
August: Pale Fire — Vladimir Nabokov [NB]
September: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress — Robert Heinlein [SH]
October: The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera [RM]
November: Moby Dick — Herman Melville [CC]
2007
January: Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad [PG]
February: Vendetta — Michael Dibdin [PS]
March: A Confederacy of Dunces — John Kennedy Toole [NB]
April: Baumgartner's Bombay — Anita Desai [SH]
May: Surfacing — Margaret Atwood [RM]
June: Beyond a Boundary — CLR James [CC]
July: Wyrd Sisters — Terry Pratchett [PG]
August: Suite Francaise — Irene Nemirovsky [PS]
September: The History of Luminous Motion — Scott Bradfield [NB]
October: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen — Paul Torday [RM]
November: The Satanic Verses — Salman Rushdie [SH]
2008
January: The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoevesky [CC]
February: The Three Imposters — Arthur Machen [PG]
March: The Eyre Affair — Jasper Fforde [PS]
April: The Fall — Albert Camus [NB]
May: The Road — Cormac McCarthy [RM]
June: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — John Le Carré [SH]
July: Murphy — Samuel Beckett [CC]
August: Candide — Voltaire [PG]
September: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush — Eric Newby [PS]
October: Catch-22 — Joseph Heller [NB]
November: Narziss and Goldmund — Hermann Hesse [SH]
2009
January: The Colony of Unrequited Dreams — Wayne Johnston [RM]
February: As I Lay Dying — William Faulkner [CC]
March: The Man Who was Thursday — GK Chesterton [PG]
April: The Riddle of the Sands — Erskine Childers [PS]
May: Millennium People — JG Ballard [NB]
June: Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel García Márquez [SH]
July: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive — Jared Diamond [RM]
August: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller — Italo Calvino [CC]
September: Brighton Rock — Graham Greene [PG]
October: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Stieg Larsson [PS]
November: Slaughterhouse Five — Kurt Vonnegut [NB]
2010
January: War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy (trans. Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky) [SH]
February: Stasiland — Anna Funder [RM]
March: Quiet Days in Clichy — Henry Miller [CC]
April: Apathy for the Devil — Nick Kent [PG]
May: Le Grand Meaulnes — Alain-Fournier [PS]
June: Little Big Man — Thomas Berger [NB]
July: On The Beach — Nevil Shute [SH]
August: A Canticle for Leibowitz — Walter M Miller Jr. [RM]
September: The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov [CC]
October: Skippy Dies — Paul Murray [PG]
November: The Finkler Question — Howard Jacobson [PS]
2011
January: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow — Peter Høeg [NB]
February: The Beginning and the End — Naguib Mahfouz [SH]
March: The Inheritors — William Golding [RM]
April: The Good Soldier — Ford Madox Ford [CC]
May: Riddley Walker — Russell Hoban [PG]
June: The Dressmaker — Beryl Bainbridge [PS]
July: Portnoy's Complaint — Philip Roth [NB]
August: Northanger Abbey — Jane Austen [SH]
September: Saturday — Ian McEwan [RM]
October: Ficciones — Jorge Luis Borges [CC]
November: The Go-Between — LP Hartley [PG]
Last updated: 14-Dec-2011