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Books & Authors Mentioned
What we’re reading and recommending…
- Owl Sense by Miriam Darlington (Alice)
- Otter Country by Miriam Darlington (Julie)
- The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark (Julie)
- The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark (Julie)
- The Hothouse by the East River by Muriel Spark (Julie)
- There There by Tommy Orange (Julie)
- Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss (Alice)
- The History of Art by E.H. Gombrich (Alice)
- Emerald by Ruth Padel
Book Group…
- American War by Omar el Akkad
- The James Tait Black Award
- The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
- The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Maddadam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Utopia by Thomas More
- “An The Irish Airman Foresees His Death” by W.B. Yeats
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (book group book for September)
The Man Booker Longlist 2018…
- The Longlist
- Milkman by Anna Burns
- Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
- Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
- In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
- Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
- The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
- The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
- Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- The Long Take by Robin Robertson
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
- Past nominees & winners mentioned
- Julian Barnes
- Ian McEwan
- The Sea by John Banville
- A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
- The Sellout by Paul Beatty
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- Other books mentioned
- Crudo by Olivia Laing
- Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- Lullaby by Leila Slimani
- The Concrete Garden by Ian McEwen
- The First True Lie by Marina Mander