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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. Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel

2. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

3. Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

4. Baumgartner by Paul Auster

5. You are Here by David Nicholls

6. Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

7. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

8. Appliance by J O Morgan

9. Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks

10. On Connection by Kae Tempest

11. Heartburn by Nora Ephron

12. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

13. Vesper Flights by Helen McDonald

14. Stories I Forgot to Tell you by Dorothy Gallagher

15. Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

16. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

17. A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk

18. Whatever Happened to Interracial Love by Kathleen Collins

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

20. My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay

21. Euphoria by Lily King

22. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

23. Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates

24. The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

25. Milkman by Anna Burns

26. Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

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

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

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

30. Normal People by Sally Rooney

31. The Beacon by Susan Hill

32. Animal Farm by George Orwell

33. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

34. Q&A by Vikas Swarup

35. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

36. The Children Act by Ian McEwan

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

38. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

39. Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro

40. Black Faces, White Faces by Jane Gardam

41. The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

42. A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

43. Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro

44. The Thing around your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

45. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

46. Dear Life by Alice Munro

47. 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!