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.
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel | |||||||
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| 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 | ||||||
| November 2022 | Elizabeth is Missing’ | Emma Healey. | ||||||
| 2023 | ||||||||
| January | Taming the Four Horsemen | Robin-Hanbury-Tenison | ||||||
| February | The Offing | Benjamin Myers | ||||||
| March | First They Killed My Father | Loung Ung | ||||||
| April | We Are All Made of Molecules' | Susan Nielsen | ||||||
| May | 44 Scotland Street | Alexander McCall Smith. | ||||||
| June | Braiding Sweetgrass' | Robin Kimmerer | ||||||
| July | 'Golden Age' | Wang Xiaobo | ||||||
| September | This Much is True' | Miriam Margolyes | ||||||
| October | The Picture of Dorian Gray' | Oscar Wilde | ||||||
| November | Notes From a Small Island' | Bill Bryson. | ||||||
| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | ||||||
| 2024 | ||||||||
| Jan | The Road to Little Dribbling | Bill Bryson | ||||||
| Feb | Full Tilt | Dervla Murphy | ||||||
| Mar | Still Life | Sarah Winman | ||||||
| April | Homage to Catalonia | George Orwell | ||||||
| May | The Keeper of Stories | Sally Page | ||||||
| June | The History of Bees | Maja Lunde | ||||||
| July | The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society | Chris Stewart | ||||||
| Sept | How to Stop Time | Matt Haig | ||||||
| Oct | Lessons in Chemistry | Bonnie Garmus | ||||||
| Nov | The Goodbye Cat | Hiro Arikawa | ||||||
| 2025 | ||||||||
| Jan | Red Tape and White Knuckles | Lois Pryce | ||||||
| Feb | A Single Thread | Tracey Chevalier | ||||||
| April | The Spy and the Traitor | Ben Macintyre | ||||||
| May | Abroad in Japan | Chris Broad | ||||||
| June | Noughts and Crosses | Malorie Blackman | ||||||
| July | Notwithstanding | Louis de Berniere | ||||||
| Sept | Orbital | Samantha Harvey | ||||||
| Oct | The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot | Robert Macfarlane | ||||||