Let's read: Book Club

Book Club History 2001-2018 (in chronological order)

All the Books ever Suggested in our Book Club (since 2001)

Book Club History 2017 etc. (in chronological order)

Book Club History 2017 etc. (in alphabetical order)

Top 10 Books of the years

British Book Club 1999 etc.

Dutch Book Club 2000-01

Emma's Book Club - Our shared shelf
Oprah's Book Club

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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

Chevalier, Tracy "Girl with a Pearl Earring" - Nov 2001

- "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

Eliot, George "Daniel Deronda" - Jun 2003

- "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

Haddon, Mark "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" - May 2008

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

- "Nomad: From Islam to America" - May 2011

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

Kingsolver, Barbara "The Poisonwood Bible" - Dec 2001

- "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

Lamb, Wally "The Hour I First Believed" - Jan 2010

Lanchester, John "The Debt to Pleasure" - Oct 2002

Landvik, Lorna "Welcome to The Great Mysterious" - May 2004

Lawson, Mary "Crow Lake" - Mar 2004

- "The Other Side of the Bridge" - Sep 2008

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

Mann, Thomas "Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family" (Buddenbrooks) - Aug 2007 + Feb 2015

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

Munro, Alice "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage" - Apr 2005

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

Ruíz Zafón, Carlos "The Shadow of the Wind" - Oct 2006

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

Schami, Rafik "The Calligrapher's Secret" (Das Geheimnis des Kalligraphen) - Apr 2012

Schmitt,Éric-Emmanuel "Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran" (Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran) - May 2016
- "Oscar and the Lady in Pink" (Oscar et la Dame Rose) - May 2016

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

Turner, Nancy E. "These is my words" - Oct 2003

Tolstoy, Leo "Anna Karenina" - Aug 2005
Ung, Loung "First they killed my father" - Apr 2013

Urquhart, Jane "The Stone Carvers" - Feb 2008