OW Book Club - Books chosen
The following books have been read and discussed by our OW Book Groups
The Afternoon Book Group - The Survivors
| 5.11.25 | Weds 17:00 | The Whistler | John Grisham |
| 1.10.25 | Weds 17:00 | The Story of a Heart | Rachel Clarke |
| 20.8.25 | Weds 17:00 | Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space | Alex Higginbotham |
| 2.7.25 | Weds 17:00 | Black River | Nilanjara Roy |
| 7.5.25 | Weds 17:00 | The Sea | John Banville |
| 2.4.25 | Weds 17:00 | Burma Sahib | Paul Theroux |
| 26.2.25 | Weds 17:00 | Orbital | Samantha Harvey |
| 8.1.25 | Weds 17:00 | The Essex Serpent | Sarah Perry |
| 4.12.24 | Weds 17:00 | The Birdwatcher | William Shaw |
| 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
| 8.12.25 | 20:30 | Hard Rain Falling Sugarcane with Salt |
Don Carpenter James Ng'ombe |
| 27.10.25 | 20:30 | Dead Lucky Land in Winter |
Connor Hutchinson Andrew Miller |
| 1.9.25 | 20.30 | Civilisations The Five Beautyland |
Laurent Binet Hallie Rubenhold Marie-Helene Bertino |
| 2.6.25 | 20:30 | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Richard Flanagan |
| 28.4.25 | 20:30 | Wandering Stars | Tommy Orange |
| 24.3.25 | 20:30 | Goodbye to Berlin | Christopher Isherwood |
| Feb 2025 | 20:30 | A Scanner Darkly | Philip K Dick |
| Jan 2025 | 20:30 | Nobody's Fool | Richard Russo |
| Dec 2024 | 20.30 | The Stranger | Albert Camus |
| 18.11.24 | 20:30 | Creation Lake | Rachel Kushner |
| 15.10.24 | 20:30 | The Gentlemen's Hour | Don Winslow |
| 9.9.24 | 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 |
The European Book Group
Books chosen are published in English and are available either in print or Kindle for purchase or in the local public library. Books are read approximately once a month and are usually under 300 pages in length. Suggestions (both next country and next book can come from any of the group and the group will not replicate a country until all 27 Nations have been represented once. It is expected that France, Germany, Italy and the Irish Republic will be the last the 27.
| Czech Republic | Winterberg's Last Journey | Jaroslav Rudis |
| Hungary | Abigael | Magda Szabo |
| Poland | Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead | Olga Tokarczuk |
| Slovenia | The Succubus | Vlado Zabot |
| Lithuania | Tūla | Jurgis Kunčinas |
| Turkey | The White Castle | Orhan Pamuk |
| Portugal | The Return | Dulce Maria Cardoso |
| Austria | The Cafe with no Name | Robert Seetahler |
| Malta | Grasshopper | Aleks Farrugia |
| Croatia | Red Water | Jurica Pavicic |
| Denmark | Crimson | Niviaq Korneliussen |
| Latvia | Doom 94 | Janis Jonevs |
| Bulgaria | The Physics of Sorrow | Georgi Gospodinov |
If you are interested in joining an OW Book Group, please email a.douglas@warwickschools.co.uk.