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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |