Number
|
Date
|
Host
|
Author/Title
|
|
139
|
17th July 2007
|
Max
|
Daniel Kehlmann: Measuring
the World
|
|
138
|
5th June 2007
|
Eliane
|
Mikhail Sholokhov: And Quiet
Flows the Don
|
|
137
|
17th April 2007
|
Sam
|
Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities
|
|
136
|
13th March 2007
|
Max
|
Dorit Rabinyan: Persian Brides
|
|
135
|
28th January 2007 Top
|
Nicki
|
Andre Gide: The Immoralist
|
|
134
|
28th December 2006
|
Eliane
|
Sandor Marai: Embers
|
|
133
|
6th November 2006
|
Max
|
Sarah Waters: Fingersmith
|
|
132
|
9th October 2006
|
Eliane
|
Anthony Trollope: The Warden
|
|
131
|
20th August 2006
|
Sam
|
Aldous Huxley: Antic Hay
|
|
130
|
23rd July 2006
|
Nicki
|
Hilary Mantel: Beyond Black
|
|
129
|
5th June 2006
|
Max
|
Alice Munro: Runaway
|
|
128
|
4th May 2006
|
Eliane
|
Marcel Proust: In Search of
Lost Time
Volume 1: Swann's Way
|
|
127
|
6th February 2006
|
Sam
|
Anton Chekhov: The Story of
a Nobody
|
|
126
|
9th January 2006 Top
|
Martine
|
Orhan Pamuk: Snow
|
|
125
|
27th October 2005
|
Max
|
Patrick O'Brian: Master &
Commander
|
|
124
|
2nd September 2005
|
Eliane
|
Joseph Roth: The String of Pearls
|
|
123
|
17th July 2005
|
Sam
|
Luis Sepulveda: The Old Man
who read Love Stories
|
|
122
|
10th May 2005
|
Max
|
Halldor Laxness: Iceland's
Bell
|
|
121
|
14th March 2005
|
Martine
|
Anita Desai: Fasting, Feasting
|
|
120
|
21st February 2005
|
Eliane
|
Jeff Noon: Vurt
|
|
119
|
10th January 2005 Top
|
Sam
|
Jules: Verne: Around the World
in Eighty Days
|
|
118
|
2nd November 2004
|
Max
|
Andrei Makine: A Life's Music
|
|
117
|
19th August/28th September 2004
|
Eliane/Sam
|
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
|
|
116
|
19th July 2004
|
Nicki
|
Amy Levy: Reuben Sachs
|
|
115
|
11th June 2004
|
Martine
|
Henry James: Washington Square
|
|
114
|
29th April 2004
|
Max
|
Bohumil Hrabal: Too Loud a Solitude
|
|
113
|
26th March 2004
|
Sam
|
Beryl Bainbridge: Master
Georgie
|
|
112
|
26th February 2004
|
Eliane
|
Hjalmar Soderberg: The Serious
Game
|
|
111
|
26th January 2004 Top
|
Nicki
|
Kurban Said: Ali and Nino
|
|
110
|
16th December 2003
|
Martine
|
Doris Lessing: The Fifth Child
|
|
109
|
8th October 2003
|
Sam
|
Victor Hugo: Les Miserables
|
|
108
|
13th August 2003
|
Max
|
Carol Shields: Unless
|
|
107
|
8th July 2003
|
Eliane
|
Alexandre Dumas: The Man in the
Iron Mask
|
|
106
|
19th May 2003
|
Martine
|
Andre Schwarz-Bart: The
Last of the Just
|
|
105
|
14th April 2003
|
Sam
|
Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa:
The Leopard
|
|
104
|
19th March 2003
|
Max
|
Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage
|
|
103
|
29th January 2003 Top
|
Eliane
|
Halldor Laxness: Independent
People
|
|
102
|
16th December 2002
|
Martine
|
Elizabeth Jane Howard: Getting
It Right
|
|
101
|
14th November 2002
|
Sam
|
James Ellroy: The Black Dahlia
|
|
100
|
2nd October 2002
|
Max
|
Andrew Miller: Ingenious Pain
|
|
99
|
5th September 2002
|
Eliane
|
Alexander Pushkin: The Queen
of Spades and other stories
|
|
98
|
July 2002
|
Martine
|
Haruki Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart
|
|
97
|
13th June 2002
|
Sam
|
Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of
San Luis Rey
|
|
96
|
May 2002
|
Eliane
|
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet
Letter
|
|
95
|
10th April 2002
|
Max
|
J B Priestley: The Good Companions
|
|
94
|
7th February 2002
|
Martine
|
George and Weedon Grossmith:
The Diary of a Nobody
|
|
93
|
9th January 2002 Top
|
Sam
|
Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin
|
|
92
|
22nd November
|
Eliane
|
J M Coetzee: Disgrace
|
|
91
|
27th October
|
Holly Lodge, Eardisley,
Herefordshire
|
Charles Dickens: Our Mutual
Friend
|
|
90
|
15th August
|
Eliane
|
Tim Winton: Cloudstreet
|
|
89
|
5th July
|
Max
|
Gustave Flaubert: Sentimental
Education
|
|
88
|
1st June
|
Nicki
|
Tracy Chevalier: Girl with
a Pearl Earring
|
|
87
|
27th April
|
Sam
|
Mark Twain: Pudd'nhead Wilson
|
|
86
|
27th March
|
Martine
|
Philip Pullman: Northern Lights
|
|
85
|
8th January and 20th February 2001 Top
|
Max, The Fox Reformed and Shamsudeens
|
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
|
|
84
|
20th November
|
Sam's House
|
Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls
|
|
83
|
12-16th October
|
Cottage in Cornwall
|
Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
|
|
82
|
31st August
|
Max
|
Robertson Davies: The Rebel Angels
|
|
81
|
21st July
|
Martine
|
Nadine Gordimer: The House
Gun
|
|
80
|
9th June
|
Martine
|
Willa Cather: My Antonia
|
|
79
|
2nd May
|
Sam
|
John Irving: A Prayer for Owen
Meany
|
|
78
|
27th March
|
Max
|
Andrea Levy: The Fruit of the Lemon
|
|
77
|
27th February
|
Eliane
|
Fanny Trollope: Domestic Manners
of the Americans
|
|
76
|
28th January 2000 Top
|
Martine
|
Don DeLillo: Underworld
|
|
75
|
30th November
|
Yum Yum's Restaurant, Stoke Newington
|
Junichiro Tanizaki: The Makioka
Sisters
|
|
74
|
25th October
|
Sam
|
Eudora Welty: The Robber Bridegroom
|
|
73
|
28th September
|
Max
|
Ernest Hemingway: For Whom
the Bell Tolls
|
|
72
|
20th-24th August
|
David Duerden (Sam's dad), Morpeth
|
Favourite poems and passages
|
|
71
|
2nd August
|
Eliane
|
William Shakespeare: Richard
II
|
|
70
|
8th July
|
Martine
|
Patrick Hamilton: Hangover
Square
|
|
69
|
4th June
|
Nicki
|
Guy de Maupassant: Bel-Ami
|
|
68
|
21st April
|
Sam
|
Iris Murdoch: The Bell
|
|
67
|
22nd March
|
Max
|
John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy
of Dunces
|
|
66
|
15th February
|
Eliane
|
Peter Carey: Jack Maggs
|
|
65
|
11th January 1999 Top
|
The Fox Reformed, Stoke Newington
|
Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery
and Imagination
|
|
64
|
1st December
|
Martine
|
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small
Things
|
|
63
|
15th October
|
Piddletrenthide, Dorset
|
Favourite Poems
|
|
62
|
1st October
|
Sam
|
Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
|
|
61
|
21 August
|
Nicki
|
Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs and
Steel
|
|
60
|
15th July
|
Max
|
Ivan Turgenev: Fathers and
Sons
|
|
59
|
13th June
|
Eliane
|
Jim Crace: Quarantine
|
|
58
|
18th May
|
Sam
|
William Faulkner: The Sound
and The Fury
|
|
57
|
22nd April
|
Martine
|
Raymond Chandler: Farewell
My Lovely
|
|
56
|
23rd March
|
Eliane
|
Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome
|
|
55
|
23rd February
|
Max
|
Ann Michaels: Fugitive Pieces
|
|
54
|
23rd January 1998 Top
|
Nicki
|
Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge
|
|
53
|
4th December
|
Sam
|
Maxim Gorky: My Childhood
|
|
52
|
27th October
|
Martine
|
Honoré de Balzac: Cousin Bette
|
|
51
|
29th September
|
Eliane
|
Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
|
|
50
|
27th August
|
Max
|
Luke Rhinehart: The Dice Man
|
|
49
|
7th July
|
Sam
|
Henry James: The Portrait of a
Lady
|
|
48
|
30th May
|
Nicki
|
Dava Sobel: Longitude
|
|
47
|
7th May
|
Martine
|
Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier
|
|
46
|
2nd April
|
Eliane
|
Graham Greene: The Power and
the Glory
|
|
45
|
17th March
|
Martine
|
Benito Perez Galdos: Nazarin
|
|
44
|
24th February
|
Max
|
Michael Ondaatje: The English
Patient
|
|
43
|
6th January 1997 Top
|
Sam
|
Pat Barker: The Ghost Road
|
|
42
|
|
Nicki
|
Patricia Highsmith: Ripley's Game
|
|
41
|
|
Eliane
|
Rudyard Kipling: Kim
|
|
40
|
|
|
Lawrence Sterne: The Life and
Opinions of Tristram Shandy
|
|
39
|
|
Sam
|
John Steinbeck: Cannery Row
|
|
38
|
|
Martine
|
Rabindranath Tagore: The Home
and the World
|
|
37
|
|
Puerto Pollenca, Majorca
|
Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland
|
|
36
|
|
Nicki
|
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
|
|
35
|
The Day That Max Forgot
|
Eliane
|
Jane Smiley: A Thousand Acres
|
|
34
|
1996 Top
|
Eliane
|
William Gibson: The Neuromancer
|
|
33
|
|
Sam
|
Oscar Moore: A Matter of Life
and Sex
|
|
32
|
|
Martine
|
Oscar Wilde: Salome
|
|
31
|
|
Eliane
|
Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
|
|
30
|
|
Max
|
Peter Hoeg: Miss Smilla's Feeling
for Snow
|
|
29
|
|
Martine/Sam
|
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
|
|
28
|
|
Eliane
|
Taslima Nasrin: Lajja (Shame)
|
|
27
|
|
Nicki
|
Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty
Horses
|
|
26
|
|
Max
|
Nicholson Baker: The Fermata
|
|
25
|
|
Nicki
|
Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness
|
|
24
|
1995 Top
|
|
James Baldwin: Another Country
|
|
23
|
|
Martine
|
Rose Tremain: Sacred Country
|
|
22
|
|
Nicki
|
George Eliot: Daniel Deronda
|
|
21
|
|
Cottage in The Mendips
|
Paul Bowles: Let it Come Down
|
|
20
|
|
Max
|
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
|
|
19
|
|
Eliane
|
Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent
|
|
18
|
|
Sam
|
Esther Freud: Hideous Kinky
|
|
17
|
|
Max
|
Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin
|
|
16
|
1994 Top
|
Nicki
|
David Lodge: The Art of Fiction
|
|
15
|
|
Eliane
|
Elizabeth Gaskell: Ruth
|
|
14
|
|
Sam
|
Barry Unsworth: Sacred Hunger
|
|
13
|
|
Max
|
Armistead Maupin: Tales and More
Tales of the City
|
|
12
|
|
Martine
|
Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club
|
|
11
|
|
Eliane
|
V.S. Naipaul: The Mimic Men
|
|
10
|
|
Sam
|
Hermann Hesse: Peter Camenzind
|
|
9
|
|
Max
|
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
|
|
8
|
|
Martine
|
Roddy Doyle: The Van
|
|
7
|
1993 Top
|
Eliane
|
Helen Zahavi: Dirty Weekend
|
|
6
|
|
Nicki
|
Rosamund Lehmann: The Weather
in the Streets
|
|
5
|
|
Max
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Family
Moskat
|
|
4
|
Nicki joins
|
Eliane
|
Stendhal: Scarlet and Black
|
|
3
|
|
|
Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon
|
|
2
|
|
|
Primo Levi: The Periodic Table
|
|
1
|
1992 Top
|
|
Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone
|