Selection List 2016

This is the list of books we chose from for 2016.

  • Frankie: "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" by John le Carré
  • Frankie: "Tales of the City: a Novel" by Armistead Maupin
  • Frankie: "Out of Africa" by Isaak Dinesen
  • Kim: "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver
  • Kim: "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
  • Kim: "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
  • Lauren: "Pippi Longstocking" by Astrid Lindgren
  • Lauren: "The Golden Spiders" by Rex Stout
  • Lauren: "Howl's Moving Castle" by Dianna Wynne Jones
  • Lisa: "All the light we cannot see" by Anthony Doerr
  • Lisa: "Cold comfort farm" by Stella Gibbons
  • Lisa: "Where'd you go Bernadette" by Maria Semple
  • Martha: "Mr Potter" by Jamaica Kincaid
  • Martha: "This is happy" by Camilla Gibb
  • Martha: "Martin John" by Anakana Schofield (or maybe "Malarky"?; author is local)
  • Peter: "The Epicure’s Lament" by Kate Christensen
  • Peter: "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. Le Guin (or "The Left Hand of Darkness")
  • Peter: "The Shining" by Stephen King
  • Tim: "My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante
  • Tim: "Liar's Poker" or "The Big Short" or "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis
  • Tim: "In Patagonia" or "The Songlines" or "What am I Doing Here" by Bruce Chatwin
  • Tom: "Frog Music" by Emma Donoghue
  • Tom: "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel
  • Tom: "The Female Man" by Joanna Russ