Tring Book Club - The List

Tring Book Club started at the beginning of 2010, so it seemed appropriate (initially with a request from Heather) that I should list all the books we have discussed at our meetings over the last four years. Here they are:

Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime

The Black Dahlia by James Elroy

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Other Hand by Chris Cleave

Headlong by Michael Frayn

One Day by David Nicholls

Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

Room by Emma Donoghue

Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse

Fasting Feasting by Anita Dessai

Started Early, Took my Dog by Kate Atkinson

What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn
Great House by Nicole Krauss

Any Human Heart by William Boyd

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Snowdrops by A.D. Miller

The Silent Land by Graham Joyce

Charles Dickens – Various

Mr Phillips by John Lanchester

Pure by Andrew Miller

The Children’s Book by A S Byatt

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There but for the by Ali Smith

The Lighthouse by Alison Moore

The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen

The Sea by John Banville

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell

The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas

Dear Life by Alice Munro


I actually missed the very first meeting at Tring School (after the first year we have met every two months at The Bell at Aston Clinton) and so cannot find what books were discussed then. Hopefully someone will remember.