A lot of us at Rayleigh Vineyard love reading, so we have a monthly book club that meets every 2nd Sunday evening of the month. We choose a book by consensus at each month’s meeting from a list within a certain genre of writing. If you’d like to find out more about the club, send us an email!
CURRENT BOOK CHOICE:
A book of your choice to read over the summer.
Previous books read:
- The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards
- The Woman in white by Wilkie Colins
- The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
- Adrian Mole and the weapsons of mass destruction by Sue Townsend
- Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- The Senators Wife by Sue Miller (Richard and Judy Bookclub)
- Five Boys by Mick Jackson
- Dear Fatty by Dawn French (Autobiographies)
- The Shack by WM Paul Young
- Nella Last’s War: The Second World War Diaries of ‘Housewife 49′ (genre: true stories)
- Catcher in the Rye – J D Sallinger (genre: BBC Top Ten favourite books of all time)
- The lady in the Lake – Raymond Chandler (genre: crime novels)
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne (books about children)
- Small Island – Andrea Levy (black writers)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khalid Husseini (set in a foreign country)
- Lives of Girls and Women – Alice Munro (books about love)
- Voyage – Stephen Baxter (Sci-Fi)
- The lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding – Agatha Christie (Christmas-titled books)
- Doctor Jeckyl and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson (Classics)
- Its Not About the Bike – Lance Armstrong (Auto-biographies)
- Chocolat – Joanne Harris (Books about Food)
- The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger (female writers)
- The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Attwood (dystopian future)
- The curious incident of the dog in the night-time – Mark Haddon
- The Gravediggers daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
- Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albon (first ever choice!)
