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The Kreis 6 English book club has been going since November 2017, meeting once every two months to talk books. We try to choose relatively short books but if something is especially good (Milkman) we exceed the 200 pages limit. We've read a wide range of books written in English from authors across the globe. Most of the books we read are fiction but we've also read essays such as On Connection and Vesper Flights and autobiographical books such as My Name is Why and Born a Crime.

Until now we haven't chosen to discuss poems or plays but maybe that will change in the future.

Here's what we've read so far, the most recent books are at the top of the list. The ones in bold are books that I particularly enjoyed but there are many other great books on the list.

1. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

2. Orbital by Samantha Harvey

3. The Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee

4. Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel

5. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

6. Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

7. Baumgartner by Paul Auster

8. You are Here by David Nicholls

9. Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

10. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

11. Appliance by J O Morgan

12. Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks

13. On Connection by Kae Tempest

14. Heartburn by Nora Ephron

15. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

16. Vesper Flights by Helen McDonald

17. Stories I Forgot to Tell you by Dorothy Gallagher

18. Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

19. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

20. A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk

21. Whatever Happened to Interracial Love by Kathleen Collins

22. We are Attempting to Survive our Time by A L Kennedy

23. My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay

24. Euphoria by Lily King

25. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

26. Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates

27. The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

28. Milkman by Anna Burns

29. Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

30. Will you Please be Quiet, Please by Raymond Carver

31. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

32. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

33. Normal People by Sally Rooney

34. The Beacon by Susan Hill

35. Animal Farm by George Orwell

36. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

37. Q&A by Vikas Swarup

38. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

39. The Children Act by Ian McEwan

40. Let me be like Water by S.K. Perry

41. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

42. Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro

43. Black Faces, White Faces by Jane Gardam

44. The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

45. A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

46. Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro

47. The Thing around your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

48. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

49. Dear Life by Alice Munro

50. An Education by Nick Hornby
    

Happy reading!

Adrienne

PS If you would like to join the book club, get in touch. I'm planning to start a new book club soon.

If you join the book club you will:

• be motivated to read

• expand your vocabulary

• practice your English and get feedback from a teacher

• meet some new people

• have a sociable and educational night out!