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 - lots of female authors, some male and at least two non-binary writers. 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 2024.
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.
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Appliance by J O Morgan
Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
On Connection by Kae Tempest
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Vesper Flights by Helen McDonald
Stories I Forgot to Tell you by Dorothy Gallagher
Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love by Kathleen Collins
We are Attempting to Survive our Time by A L Kennedy
My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay
Euphoria by Lily King
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
Milkman by Anna Burns
Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Will you Please be Quiet, Please by Raymond Carver
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Beacon by Susan Hill
Animal Farm by George Orwell
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Q&A by Vikas Swarup
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
Let me be like Water by S.K. Perry
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Black Faces, White Faces by Jane Gardam
The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Thing around your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Dear Life by Alice Munro
An Education by Nick Hornby
Happy reading!
Adrienne