OW Book Club - Books chosen
The following books have been read and discussed by our OW Book Groups
The Afternoon Book Group - The Survivors
30.10.24 | Weds 17:00 | The Perfect Golden Circle | Benjamin Myers |
25.9.24 | Weds 17:00 | A Fortunate Woman | Penny Morland |
28.9.24 | Weds 17:00 | The Making of the Modern Middle East | Jeremy Bowen |
24.7.24 | Weds 17:00 | The Wager | David Grann |
12.6.24 | Weds 17:00 | The Trees | Percival Everett |
8.5.24 | Weds, 17:00 | The Offing | Benjamin Myers |
3.4.24 | Weds, 17:00 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
28.2.24 | Weds, 17:00 | Do not pass go | Tim Moore |
10.1.24 | Weds | No more secrets | Betty Webb |
13.12.23 | Weds | Unruly | David Mitchell |
8.11.23 | Weds 16:00 | The Secret Hours | Mick Herron |
11.10.23 | Weds 16:00 | A Town Called Solace | Mary Lawson |
30.8.23 | Weds 16:00 | Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver |
26.7.23 | Weds 16:00 | Act of Oblivion | Robert Harris |
28.6.23 | Weds 16:00 | The Reckoning | John Grisham |
24.5.23 | Weds 16:00 | The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald |
26.4.23 | Weds 16:00 | East West Street | Philippe Sands |
22.3.23 | Weds | Sea of Tranquility | Emily St John Mandel |
22.2.23 | Weds 16:30 | Burn: A story of fire, wounds and healing | Ben Short |
11.1.23 | Weds 16:30 | Pandora | Susan Stokes Chapman |
7.12.22 | Weds 16:30 | The Late Train to Gypsy Hill | Alan Johnson |
9.11.22 | Weds 16:30 | How to kill your family | Bella Mackie |
5.10.22 | Weds 17:00 | The Night Ship | Jess Kidd |
7.9.22 | Weds 16:30 | Rachel's Holiday | Marion Keyes |
13.7.22 | Weds 16:30 | Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie |
8.6.22 | Weds 16:30 | Company of Liars | Karen Maitland |
27.4.22 | Weds, 16:30 | Shuggie Bain | Douglas Stuart |
16.3.22 | Combined | Ghostwritten | David Mitchell |
16.2.22 | Combined | Unreasonable Behaviour, an autobiography | Dan McCullin |
19.1.22 | Weds | A Perfect Spy | John Le Carre |
18.1.22 | Tues | Hamnet | Maggie O'Farrell |
8.12.21 | Weds | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson |
30.11.21 | Tues | The Jealousy Man | Jo Nesbo |
10.11.21 | Weds | Stories of your life and others | Ted Chiang |
19.10.21 | Tues | Lanny | Max Porter |
13.10.21 | Weds | There are places in the world where rules are less important than kindness | Carlo Rovelli |
15.9.21 | Weds | A Song for the Dark Times | Ian Rankin |
31.8.21 | Tues | The Porpoise | Mark Haddon |
11.8.21 | Weds | Any Human Heart | William Boyd |
20.7.21 | Tues | Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
14.7.21 | Weds | The Midnight Library | Matt Haig |
15.6.21 | Tues | The Fox | Frederick Forsyth |
9.6.21 | Weds | The Clay Machine Gun | Victor Pelerin |
12.5.21 | Weds | Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari |
11.5.21 | Tues | A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles |
14.4.21 | Weds | Vile Bodies | Evelyn Waugh |
13.4.21 | Tues | Behind the Beautiful Forevers | Katherine Boo |
9.3.21 | Tues/Weds | The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes |
The Evening Book Group
9.9.2024 | 20:30 | (A choice of...) The Bee Sting My year of rest and relaxation Butter The Details |
Paul Murray Otessa Moshfegh Asako Yuzuki Ia Genberg |
3.6.24 | 20:30 | The Satsuma Complex | Bob Mortimer |
2.5.24 | 20:30 | The Overstory Backup: The Island of Missing Trees |
Richard Powers Elif Sharak |
18.3.24 | 20:30 | Lessons in Chemistry | Bonnie Garmus |
19.2.24 | 20:30 | Prophet Song | Paul Lynch |
22.1.24 | 20:30 | Ghost Stories of an Antiquary | M R James |
11.12.23 | 20:30 | Babylon | David Malouf |
13.11.23 | 21:00 | The Driver's Seat | Muriel Spark |
9.10.23 | 20:00 | The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
4.9.23 | 20:00 | All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy |
Skippy Dies | Paul Murray | ||
Elizabeth is Missing | Emma Healey | ||
19.6.23 | 20:00 | Money | Martin Amis |
22.5.23 | 20:00 | All the light we cannot see | Anthony Doerr |
24.4.23 | 20:00 | Summer | Ali Smith |
13.3.23 | 20:00 | The Angel | M J Trow |
13.2.23 | 20:00 | The Midnight Library | Matt Haig |
9.1.23 | 20:00 | Case Study | Graeme Macrae Burnet |
7.11.22 | 20:00 |
One Day |
David Nicholls |
5.10.22 | Weds 8pm | The Plains In Parenthesis |
Gerald Murnane David Jones |
24.8.22 | Weds 8pm | The Netanyahus | Joshua Cohen |
6.7.22 | Weds 8pm | High House | Jessie Greengrass |
25.5.22 | Weds, 8pm | The New Confessions Death and the Penguin |
William Boyd Andrei Kurkov |
13.4.22 | Weds | The Promise | Damon Galgut |
9.3.22 | Combined | Sudden Appearance | Claire North |
Thurs | Midland | James Flint | |
Mon | Diary of a Young Naturalist | Dara McAnulty | |
17.11.21 | Thurs | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
1.11.21 | Mon | The Leopard | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa |
13.10.21 | Thurs | We Are Satellites | Sarah Pinsker |
27.9.21 | Mon | Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup | John Carreyrou |
9.9.21 | Thurs | A Gentleman in Moscow and (whatever we can manage of) Sapiens |
Amor Towles Yuval Noah Harari |
16.8.21 | Mon | English Monsters | John Scudamore |
15.7.21 | Thurs | The Eight Mountains | Paolo Cognetti |
12.7.21 | Mon | Going to the Wars | John Verney |
10.6.21 | Thurs | Hamnet | Maggie O'Farrell |
24.5.21 | Mon | Hamnet | Maggie O'Farrell |
13.5.21 | Thurs | Telex from Cuba | Rachel Kushner |
15.4.21 | Thurs | Reservoir 13 | Jon McGregor |
12.4.21 | Mon | The Discomfort of Evening | Marieke Lucas Rijneveld |
8.3.21 | Mon/Thurs | The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes |
If you are interested in joining an OW Book Group, please email a.douglas@warwickschool.org.