Book Club

Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash 

Our international club has had over a hundred members from 22 countries in 10 years. We have read more than a hundred books from all over the world. I hope to be able to share some of that experience this wonderful club has had.

Reviewed books read and discussed in the Book Club (in alphabetical order, to be continued)
Abdolah, Kader "The House of the Mosque" - Sep 2010 
Albom, Mitch "The five people you meet in heaven" - Dec 2008 
Ali, Sabahattin "Madonna in a Fur Coat" - Jun 2016
Arnold, Gaynor "Girl in a Blue Dress" - Apr 2009
Atwood, Margaret "The Handmaid’s Tale" - Jan 2018
Austen, Jane "Persuasion" - Feb 2006
Bâ, Mariama "So Long a Letter" - Feb 2017
Bender, Sue "Plain and Simple" - Apr 2007
Berg, Elisabeth Open House" - Jul 2003
Betancourt, Íngrid "Even Silence has an End" - Aug 2011
Bollen, Christopher "The Destroyers" - Apr 2018
Boyne, John "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" - Jun 2009
Brijs, Stefan "The Angel Maker" - Nov 2012
Brontë, Charlotte "Jane Eyre" - Jan 2012
Brown, Daniel James "The Boys in the Boat" - Jan 2012 
Buck, Pearl S. "The Good Earth" - Oct 2009
Burton, Jessie "The Miniaturist" - Mar 2016
Buruma, Ian "Murder in Amsterdam" - Dec 2007
Cather, Willa "My Ántonia" - Oct 2008
Chabon, Michael "Summerland" " - Apr 2004
Chang, Leslie T. "Factory Girls" - Dec 2011 
- "Remarkable Creatures" - Oct 2010
Clinton, Hillary Rodham "Living History" - Jun 2004
Cullen, Bill "It's a long way from Penny Apples" - Sep 2004
Dallaire, Roméo "Shake Hands with the Devil" - Aug 2009
Delacourt, Grégoire "The list of my desires/My Wish List" - Nov 2015
de Loo, Tessa "The Twins" - Dec 2004
Dugain, Marc "The Officer's Ward" - Apr 2015
- "Middlemarch" - Jun 2007
Dostoevsky, Fyodor "The Adolescent" - Dec 2005
Dunmore, Helen "The Siege"" - Nov 2011 
Edwards, Kim "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" - Jan 2008
Falcones, Ildefonso "Cathedral of the Sea" - Aug 2010
Fredriksson, Marianne "Hanna's Daughters" - Jun 2006
Fuller, Alexandra "Don't let's go to the dogs tonight" - May 2003
García Márquez, Gabriel "Love in the Time of Cholera" - Nov 2008
Gavalda, Anna "Hunting and Gathering" - Feb 2007
Ghosh, Amitav "The Glass Palace" - Feb 2005
Gillham, David R. "City of Women" - Sep 2013
Glasfurd, Guinevere "The Words in my Hand" - Feb 2018
Glover, Douglas "Elle" - Mar 2005
Golden, Arthur "Memoirs of a Geisha" - Oct 2005
Gowda, Shilpi Somaya "Secret Daughter" - Mar 2013
Grass, Günter "Crabwalk" (Im Krebsgang) - Aug 2012
Griffin, John Howard "Black like me" - Dec 2009
Gruen, Sara "Water for Elephants" - Sep 2009
Hamsun, Knut "Pan" - Mar 2011
Hannah, Kristin "Winter Garden" - May 2013
Hansen, Dörte "This House is Mine" - Mar 2017
Harris, Joanne "Five Quarters of the Orange" - Feb 2003
Hertmans, Stefan "War and Turpentine" - Jun 2018  
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan "Infidel: My Life" - Mar 2008
Hosseini, Khaled "The Kite Runner" - Oct 2007
- "A Thousand Splendid Suns" - Jun 2011
Ishiguro, Kazuo "When we were orphans" - May 2002
Jonasson, Jonas "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" - Aug 2013
Kennedy, Emma "Shoes for Anthony" - 2015" - Mar 18
Koch, Herman "The Dinner" - Nov 2017
Kidd, Sue Monk "The Secret Life of Bees" - Aug 2004
- "Prodigal Summer" - Jan 2003
Kladstrup, Donald & Petie "Wine and War" - Mar 2012
Krasnow, Iris "The Surrendering to Motherhood" - Jan 2003
Kristof, Nicholas D. & Wudunn, Sheryl "Half the Sky" - May 2012
Kulin, Ayşe "Rose of Sarajevo" - Apr 2016
Laker, Rosalind "The Golden Tulip" - Apr/May 17
Lamb, Christina "The Sewing Circles of Herat" - May 2005 
Lanchester, John "The Debt to Pleasure" - Oct 2002
Landvik, Lorna "Welcome to The Great Mysterious" - May 2004
Lawson, Mary "Crow Lake" - Mar 2004
Leapman, Michael "The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild" - Jan 2004
LeBor, Adam "City of Oranges" - Jan 2013
Lee, Harper "To Kill a Mockingbird" - Nov 2010
Lessing, Doris "The Golden Notebook" - Jan 2009
Letts, Billie "Where the Heart is" - Oct 2001
Lewis, Oscar "Children of Sanchez" - Jun 05  
Lewycka, Marina Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" - Nov 2006
Ling, Laura & Ling, Lisa "Somewhere Inside" - Oct 2012
MacDonald, Ann-Marie "Fall On Your Knees" - Jan 2002
- "The Way the Crow Flies" - Oct 2004
Mahfouz, Naguib "Children of the Gebelawi" (Children of our Alley) - Jun 2013 
Mason, Daniel "The Piano Tuner" - Dec 2006
McCall Smith, Alexander "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" Series - Nov 2004 + Jun 2008
McEwan, Ian "Atonement" - Nov 2002
Mercier, Pascal "Night Train to Lisbon" (Nachtzug nach Lissabon) - Mar 2010
Milton, Giles "Nathaniel's Nutmeg" - Sep 2001
Mistry, Rohinton "A Fine Balance" -  Jun 2002
Moggach, Deborah "Tulip Fever" - Nov 2007
Moore, Christopher "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff" - Feb 2010
Mortenson, Greg "Stones into Schools" - Apr 2011
- "Three Cups of Tea" - May 2009
Mosse, Kate "Labyrinth" - Aug 2006 
Mulisch, Harry "The Discovery of Heaven" - Feb 2004
Müller, Herta "The Appointment" - Dec 2010
Nichols, Peter "A Voyage for Madmen" - Jan 2005
Niffenegger, Audrey "The Time Traveler's Wife" - Mar 2006
Noble, Elizabeth "The Reading Group" - Sep 2005
Noor Al-Hussein, Queen of Jordan "A Leap of Faith" - Jan 2007
Oates, Joyce Carol "Carthage" - Nov/Dec 2016
Pamuk, Orhan "My Name is Red" - Feb 2013
Patchett, Ann "The Patron Saint of Liars" - May 2015 
Pagnol, Marcel "Jean de Florette" - Oct 2015 
Pearson, Allison "I Don't Know How She Does It" - Jan 2006
Picoult, Jodi "My Sister's Keeper" - Feb 2009
Plath, Sylvia "The Bell Jar" - Jan 2017
Pollard, Helen "The Little French Guesthouse" - May 2018
Pollock, David C., & Van Reken, Ruth "Third Culture Kids" - Sep 2007
Rowlatt, Bee & Witwit, May "Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad" - Sep 11
Şafak, Elif "The Forty Rules of Love" - Feb 2012 + Apr 2016
Sawyer, Anh Vu "Song of Saigon" - Apr 2004
Shakib, Siba "Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep" - Apr 2006
Shaffer, Mary Ann; Barrows, Annie "The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society" - Oct 2010
Sobel, Dava "Galileo's Daughter" - Sep 2006
Soueif, Ahdaf "The Map of Love" - Sep 2002
Stone, Irving "The Agony and the Ecstasy" - Aug 2008 
Syal, Meera "Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee" - Dec 2003
Steinbeck, John "The Grapes of Wrath" - Mar 2009
- "East of Eden" - Sep 2012 
Tademy, Lalita "Cane River" - Mar 2003
Tan, Amy "The Joy Luck Club" - Mar 2002
Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi "The Time Regulation Institute" - Dec 2014
Tekin, Latife "Swords of Ice" - Feb 2011
Trojanow, Ilija "The Collector of Worlds" - Apr 2010
Tolstoy, Leo "Anna Karenina" - Aug 2005
Ung, Loung "First they killed my father" - Apr 2013
Urquhart, Jane "The Stone Carvers" - Feb 2008
van Loon, Karel "A Father's Affair" - Dec 2002
Vance, J.D. "Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis" - Jun 17 
Vreeland, Susan "Girl in Hyacinth Blue" - Dec 2001
Waltari, Mika "The Dark Angel" - May 2007 
- "The Egyptian" - May 2006 
Wharton, Edith "The House of Mirth" - Mar 2004
White, Colin & Boucke, Laurie "The UnDutchables" - Nov 2005
Wiesel, Elie "Night" - Mar 2007
Wisner, Franz "How the World Makes Love" - Jun 2010
Woolf, Virginia "To the Lighthouse" - May 2010 
Woolfolk Cross, Donna "Pope Joan" - Apr 2002
Worth, Jennifer "Call the Midwife" - Jul 16
Zusak, Markus "The Book Thief" - Jan 2011
Zweig, Stefanie "Nowhere in Africa" - Apr 2008 + Jan 2016