Plymouth IVC has a very active bookclub held on the last Friday of each month.
Below is a list of the books that have been read together with a search facility.
Date | Book | Author |
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Life of Pi | Yann Martel | |
The Magnetic Pulse of Life | Alan Cruice | |
The Interpretation of Murder | Jed Rubenfeld | |
An Equal Music | Vikran Seth | |
The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | |
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian | Marina Lewycka | |
The Celestine Prophesy | James Redfield | |
My Sister’s Keeper | Jodi Picoult | |
The Book Thief | Marcus Zusak | |
The Crystal ? | (Val’s choice) | |
The Painted Veil | Somerset Maughan | |
A Winter Book | Tove Jansson | |
How Green is my Valley | Richard Llewellyn | |
His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | |
An Island Parish: A Summer of Scilly | Nigel Farrell | |
The Outcast | Sadie Jones | |
The Secret Scripture | Sebastian Barry | |
Honey & Dust: Travels in Search of Sweetness | Piers Moore Ede | |
Somewhere Towards the End | Diana Athill | |
Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows | |
Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantell | |
Small Island | Andrea Levy | |
Married to a Bedouin | Marguerite van Geldermalsen | |
Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | |
The Sound of Silence | Richard Keoghoe | |
Recipes for Cherubs | Babs Horton | |
The End of the Affair | Graham Greene | |
Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin | |
Alone on a Wide Wide Sea | Michael Morpurgo | |
Of Mice & Men | John Steinbeck | |
Sacred Hearts | Sarah Dunant | |
A Week In December | Sebastian Faulkes | |
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning | Laurie Lee | |
Princess | Jean Sasson | |
An Act of Treachery | Ann Widdecombe | |
War Horse | Michael Morpurgo | |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Mohain Hamid | |
The Fifth Child | Doris Lessing | |
Horse Boy | Rupert Isaacson | |
Blitz Cat | Robert Westall | |
2013 | ||
Jan | The Man Who Forgot His Wife | |
Feb | The Birth of Venus | Sarah Dunant |
Mar | Alone in Berlin | Hans Fallada, tr Michael Hofmann |
Apl | Animal Farm | George Orwell |
May | Ecological Ethics | Patrick Gurry |
June | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | Rachael Joyce |
July | The Girl at the Top Table | Martin Horrocks |
September | Howards End | E M Forster |
Oct | The Reason I Jump | Naski Higashida tr David Mitchell |
Nov | Perfume | Patrick Suskind |
2014 | ||
Jan | The Light Between Oceans | M L Stedman |
Feb | The 5 People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom |
Mar | The Secret History | Donna Tartt |
Apl | The Wasp Factory | Iain Banks |
May | Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter | Simone de Beauvoir |
June | The Husbands Secret | Liane Moriarty |
July | The Lost Child of Philomena Lee | Martin Sixsmith |
Sept | From My Sister’s Lips | Na’ima B Roberts |
And | ||
Infidel | Ayaan Hirsti Ali | |
Oct | Watership Down | Richard Adams |
Nov | Man’s Search for Meaning | Victor Frankl |
2015 | ||
Jan | Saddled with Darwin | Toby Green |
Feb | Enduring Love | Ian McEwan |
Mar | The Woolpack | Cynthia Harnett |
Apl | Toast | Nigel Slater |
May | The Miniaturist | Jessie Burton |
June | Railway Man | Eric Lomax |
July | Fever | Mary Beth Keane |
September | Us | David Nicholls |
Oct | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
Nov | The Earth Hums in B Flat | Mari Strachan |
2016 | ||
Jan | The Memory Keeper’s Daughter | Kim Edwards |
Feb | After the Fire, A Still Small Voice | Evie Lloyd |
Mar | A Buzz in the Meadow | Dave Goulson |
Apl | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Bronte |
May | The Whitest Flower | Brendan Graham |
June | The Good Liar | Nicholas Searle |
July | Number 11 | Jonathan Coe |
Sept | 1984 and Brave New World | George Orwell & Aldous Huxley |
Oct | The Postmistress | Sarah Blake |
Nov | The Ship of Brides | Jojo Moyes |
2017 | ||
Jan | Coffin Road | Peter May |
Feb | Still Alice | Lisa Genova |
Mar | The House of Spirits | Isabel Allende |
Apl | Sleeping on Jupiter | Anuradha Roy |
May | A Year of Marvellous Ways | Sarah Winman |
June | A Single Swallow | Horatio Clare |
July | Puckoon | Spike Milligan |
Sept | The Dark Flood Rises | Margaret Drabble |
Oct | The High Mountains of Portugal | Yann Martel |
Nov | Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
2018 | ||
Jan | Lewis Man | Peter May |
Feb | The Catcher in the Rye | J D Salinger |
Mar | The Extraordinary Life of Frank Derrick | J B Morrison |
April | The Black House | Peter May |
May | Me Before You | Jojo Moyes |
June | The January Man | Christopher Somerville |
July | Feral | George Monbiot |
Sept | The Music Shop | Rachel Joyce |
Oct | Driving Over Lemons | Chris Stewart |
Nov | No Way But Gentlenesse | Richard Hines |
2019 | ||
Jan | The Heart’s Invisible Furies | John Boyne |
Feb | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khalid Hosseini |
March | Goodnight Mr Tom | Michelle Magorian |
April | Down and Out in Paris and London | George Orwell |
May | Meadowland: The private life of an English field | John Lewis-Stempel. |
June | Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine | Gail Honeyman |
July | The Housekeeper and The Professor | Yoko Ogawa |
Sept | The House by the Lake | Thomas Harding |
Oct | The Salt Path | Raynor Winn |
Nov | Rule Britannia | Daphne Du Maurier |
2020 | ||
Jan | Wait for Me: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister | Deborah Devonshire |
Feb | Wilding | Isabella Tree |
March | Once Upon a River | Diane Setterfield |
April | A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman |
May | The Beekeeper of Aleppo | Christy Lefteri. |
June | A Ring of Brightwater | Gavin Maxwell |
July | If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things | Jon McGregor |
Sept | The Sunrise | Victoria Hislop |
Oct | The Somerset Tsunami | Emma Carroll |
Nov | Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens |
2021 | ||
Jan | Walking Home | Simon Armitage |
Feb | The Lido | Libby Page |
March | We Bought an Island | Evelyn Atkins |
April | The Cuckoo’s Calling | Robert Galbraith |
May | One Man and His Bike | Mike Carter |
June | On Chapel Sands | Laura Cumming |
July | The Midnight Library | Matt Haig |
September | Cnoc Lar (The Hill) | Richard Keoghoe |
October | The Wall | John Lanchester |
November | Danziger Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers | Nick Danziger |
2022 | ||
January | The Wild Silence | Raynor Winn |
February | Shame Travels | Jasvinda Sanghera |
March | Piranesi | Susanna Clarke |
April | The Thursday Murder Club | Richard Osman |
May | Revolutionary Ride: On the Road to Shiraz | Lois Pryce |
June | Shuggie Bain | Douglas Stuart |
July | Entangled Life | Merlin Sheldrake |
September | The Man Who Died Twice | Richard Osman |
October | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |