The Brick Lane Book Group – since 2007
as heard on BBC Radio 4
It’s official, we’ve been chosen by TimeOut as one of the best book clubs in London.
Monthly on a Tuesday, 9pm at Brick Lane Book Shop, E1
Next meeting: Tuesday, 3rd April
Current book: Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
The Brick Lane Book Group meets every month on a Tuesday for a couple of sociable hours of drinks, music and literary conversation, in a chummy atmosphere. Bring your choice of tipple! We’ll be discussing the book we’ve all been reading, amongst other things. The ambit of this group is modern literary fiction, with occasional forays into other literary forms when the mood takes us. The Brick Lane Book Group is all about kicking back and finding a little headspace amongst like-minded folk.
Anyone with a genuine love of good books is welcome! Whichever book we’re reading, you’ll be able to get it for 15% less via Brick Lane Book Shop; come along regularly (the group meets once every three weeks) and you’ll get 15% off everything else in the shop too.
We meet at Brick Lane Book Shop, 166 Brick Lane, E1. If you’re thinking about attending, please email in advance to let us know to expect you. Or if you want to be kept in the loop, let us know via the contact form.
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
2018
Solar Bones - Mike McCormack - 3rd April
The Natural Way of Things - Charlotte Wood - 1st May
Women Without Men - Shahrnush Parsipur - 5th June
We are taking a bit of a break across the summer. Please do drop me your details if you want to be added to the mailing list; at the moment I don't know the date of the next meet.
“I loved attending the Brick Lane book club and think it’s fantastic that it is so laid-back and there’s no attendance fee etc. It’s hard to find a Book Club which is not pretentious etc. and I think the Brick Lane book club gets it just about spot-on.” – Kayleigh
WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterton
Men Without Women - Haruki Murakami
Smile - Roddy Doyle
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
A Single Man - Christopher Isherwood
All My Friends are Superheroes - Andrew Kaufman
The Mark and the Void - Paul Murray
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Stoner - John Williams
Modern Romance - Aziz Ansari
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick
The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Filer
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf
The Castle - Franz Kafka
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Lila - Marilynn Robinson
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
Moon and Sixpence – Somerset Maugham
Dark Places – Gillian Flynn
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
How to be Both – Ali Smith
Dreams of my Russian Summers - Andrei Makine
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
A Beautiful Truth – Colin McAdam
What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
The Temporary Gentleman – Sebastian Barry
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing – Eimear McBride
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
Burial Rites – Hannah Kent
The Spinning Heart – Donal Ryan
Nightwoods – Charles Frazier
The Rehearsal – Eleanor Catton
Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
The Bad Girl – Mario Vargas Llosa
On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan / So Long, See You Tomorrow – William Maxwell
Notre Dame de Paris – Victor Hugo
Perla – Carolina di Robertis
The Memory of Love – Aminatta Forna
All the Pretty Horses – McCarthy, Cormac
Room – Emma Donoghue
The Contortionist’s Handbook – Craig Clevenger
Out of Sheer Rage – Geoff Dyer
Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
A Void – Georges Perec
The Beautiful and Damned – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Elizabeth Costello – J M Coetzee
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ – Philip Pullman
The Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers
Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Bell – Iris Murdoch
No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
The Black Album – Hanif Kureishi
But Beautiful – Geoff Dyer
Plainsong – Kent Haruf
The Thing Around Your Neck – Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Pure – Andrew Miller
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt
The Wayward Bus – John Steinbeck
The Plague – Albert Camus
Nineteen Eighty-four – George Orwell
Ignorance: A Novel – Milan Kundera
Notes From An Exhibition – Patrick Gale
Shades of Grey: A Novel – Jasper Fforde
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
Player One – Douglas Coupland
The Mango Orchard – Robin Bayley
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
Auto da Fe – Elias Canetti
You Shall Know Our Velocity – Dave Eggers
Scenes of Clerical Life – George Elliot
The Book of Salt – Monique Truong
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death – Jean-Dominique Bauby
Stasiland – Anne Funder
I, Lucifer – Glen Duncan
The Confusions of Young Törless – Robert Musil
The Confidence-Man – Herman Melville
Travels in the Scriptorium – Paul Auster
David Golder – Irene Nemirovsky
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
A Farewell To Arms – Ernest Hemingway
The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
Neuromancer – William Gibson
The Handmaiden’s Tale – Margaret Attwood
The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Success – Martin Amis
Persepolis – Marjane Sartrapi
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Ragtime – L.R. Doctorow
Disgrace – J.M. Coetze
Two Caravans- Monica Lewycka
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Woman Destroyed – Simone de Beauvoir
The Book of Disquiet – Fernando Pessoa
Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell
The People’s Act of Love – James Meek
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
The Siege of Krishanpur – J.G. Farrell
Lost Boys – James Miller
Breakfast at Tiffan’s – Truman Capote
Norwegian Wood – Murakami
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Candide - Voltaire
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
