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Susannah Cartwright founded this group and If you love reading and a great discussion this is for you. Established in January 2011. We meet up once a month on a Monday at a pub in The West End of London We have met up for 164 consective months now! and are a great bunch of regulars who also love to welcome new members . - if you are interested in coming along I look forward to hearing from you. list of first 95 books we have read: 1.Ordinary People by William Boyd 2.Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 3. Intimacy by Hanif Kureshi 4.solar by Ian McEwan 5 Bradshaw Variations by Rachel Cusk 6.J Noah’s compass by Ann Tyler 7. The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conran 8 Women in love by DH Laurence 9.The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst 10. The Wild Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 11. Flauberts Parrot by Julian Barns 12. The Good Solider by Ford Maddox Ford 13. The Great Gabsby by Sott Fitzgerald 14 Something New by PG Woodhouse 15.The Secret History by Donna Tartt 16. On The Road by Jack Kerouac 17.Breakfast at Tiffenys by Truman Capote 18.Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy 19 Mill on the floss by George Elliott 20 A Handful of dust by Evelyn Ward 21 Girl in White by Sue Hubbard 22 Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle 23 Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 24 Dangling Man by Saul Bellow 25 boarder Crossing by Pat Parker 26 The Tale of two cities by Charles Dickens 27 Drown by Junot Diaz 28 And the mountains echoed by Kaled Hossein 29 Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell 30 Severed Head by Iris Murdoch 31 The last one hundred days by Patrick Mcguiness 32 A christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 33 The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Woolfe 34 A hologram for the King by Dave Eggers 35 An Artist of the floating world by Kazuo Ishiguro 36 tales of the city by Armistead Maupin 37 A hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marques 38 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 39 Washington Square by HenryJames 40 The Goldfinch by donna Tartt 41 Stoner by John Williams 42 The End of the affair by Graham Greene 43 Diary of a nobody by George and Weedon Grossman 44Lucky Jim by Kingsly Amis 45 money by Martin Amis 46 suspended sentences by Patrick Modiano 47 We are all completely besides ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler 48 In cold blood by Truman Capote 49 The Buried giant by Kazoo Ishiguro 50 how to be both by Ali Smith 51 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 52 Down and Out in Paris & London by George Orwell 53 Cement Garden by Ian McEwan 54 Funny Girl by Nick Hornby 55 Disgrace by Jim Coetzee 56 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh 57 Mixed Picture by Tom Rubins 58 Nosfomo by Joseph Conran 59 The Awakening by Kate Chopin 60 Orlando by Virginia woolf 61 Hot Milk by Deborah Levy 62 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 63 The Heart goes last by Margaret Atwood 64 The house by the lake by Tom Harding 65 The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley 66 The Gap in Time by Jeanette Winterton 67 The Periodic Table by Prima Levi 68 The Department of Speculation by Jenny Applill 69 Germianal by Emila Zola 70 Magnus Mills scheme of full employment 71 Cocktail Time by PG Wodehouse 72 The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 73. After me comes the flood by Sarah Perry 74.Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman 75. Invisable Man by Ralph Elison 76.Fairwell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway 77.Three Men in a boat by Jerome K Jerome 78. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 79.Franny and Zooey by JD Salenger 80.The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis 81.The Naked and the dead by Norman Mailer 82.The confedercacy of dunces by John Kennedy 83.Enduring Love by Ian McEwan 84.Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 85. Three red chairs by Edna O Brien 86.the god of small things by Arundal Roy 87. A sense of an ending by Julian Barnes 88.Queen Lucia by EF Benson 89. Normal People by Sally Rooney 90. The history of bees by Maja Lunde 91.Frankinstein by Mary Shelly 92. Dead Air by Iain Banks 93.Roots by Alex Haley 94.one Day by David Nicholls 95. The call of the wild by Jack London

We meet at: The New Explorer , Great Castle Street , London, W1

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