Wembley / Harrow Reading Circle

Our Reading Circle has been meeting with much the same membership since 2011. We take turns to host in our homes (tea, coffee and cake) and seek another member living in or near Wembley able to reciprocate this hospitality. The group is social as well literary-minded. Mostly we read modern novels. The list below will give you an idea of our tastes. We meet approximately every four weeks and always on a Saturday from 2 till 4.30. Applicants should be able to attend most meetings and have the time to read a book a month. (We usually choose books two or three months ahead of a meeting.) And we seek long-term members rather people in London on a temporary basis. We welcome diversity. Books discussed in the last two years include: God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri Movement of Stars – Amy Bell A Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriella Garcia My Invented Country – Isabella Allende Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Not Me – Michael Lavigne An Officer and a Spy – Robert Harris Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey The Metamorphosis– Frank Kafka H is for Hawk – Helen Macdonald We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler The English Passengers – Matthew Kneale The Memory of Love – Aminatta Forna One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn A History of Loneliness – John Boyne The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison The Hacienda: My Venezuelan Years – Lisa St Aubin De Teran The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Stoner - John Williams The Green Road - Anne Enright The House by the Lake -Thomas Harding A God in Ruins - Kate Atkinson Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift The Outrun - Amy Liptrot All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr I, Claudius by Robert Graves The Outsider by Albert Camus Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel