November 2017 - The Japanese Lover

On November 13,  2017  we will be discussing The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende.  The meeting will be at Marian's.

Click here to place a hold at the Toronto Public Library.

Click here to purchase a copy from Chapters-Indigo.

You may also be interested in Simon and Schuster's Reading Group Guide for this book or the New York Times book review.


Upcoming books:
January 15, 2018 - The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware.
February 12, 2018 - Circling the Sun by Paula McCain.  She also wrote The Paris Wife which we read a few years ago.   It was the story of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley.

October 2017 - Our Souls At Night

This month's book is Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf.   We will be meeting on October 16, 2017 at Clara's.

Here's a lovely post about Kent Haruf's inspiration for writing this novel, his last.

September 2017 - All My Puny Sorrows

We'll be discussing All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews at the book club meeting on September 25, 2017.  We will be meeting at my place (Jane).   Everyone is responsible for getting their own copy of the book.   Click on the link above to place a hold at the Toronto Public Library.     Or click here to purchase a copy at Chapters (or to read about the book).

2016-2017 Reading List

• Headmaster’s Wager by Vincent Lam
• The Widow by Fiona Barton
• And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier
• Unbroken by Laura Hillebrand
• Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
• The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Choose your own story anything by Alice Munro
• And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
• Stalin’s Daughter by Rosemary Sullivan

2015-2016 Reading List

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Great House by Nicole Kraus
• Defending Jacob by William Landry
• The Goldfinch  by Donna Tartt
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
• Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
• The Girl on The Train by Paula Hawkins
• Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
• Life after Life by Kate Atkinson

2014-2015 Reading List

• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
• The Boys In The Boat: Nine Americans And Their Epic Quest For Gold At The 1936 Berlin Olympics  by Daniel James Brown
• The Luminaries by Eleanor Cattan
• Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
• The Sound of Language by Amulya Malladi
• Orfeo by Richard Powers
• Clara Callan by Richard Wright
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts by Susan Cain
• To the End of the Land by David Grossman

2013-2014 Reading List

• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang  
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald  
• Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger  
• The Alchemist by Paul Coelho  
• Cutting For Stone by A. Verghese  
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijee Dai  
• Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain  
• A Lost Lady by Willa Cather