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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. The Pelican Child by Joy Williams

2. Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

3. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

4. Three Days in June by Anne Tyler

5. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

6. Orbital by Samantha Harvey

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

8. Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel

9. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

10. Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

11. Baumgartner by Paul Auster

12. You are Here by David Nicholls

13. Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

14. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

15. Appliance by J O Morgan

16. Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks

17. On Connection by Kae Tempest

18. Heartburn by Nora Ephron

19. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

20. Vesper Flights by Helen McDonald

21. Stories I Forgot to Tell you by Dorothy Gallagher

22. Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

23. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

24. A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk

25. Whatever Happened to Interracial Love by Kathleen Collins

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

27. My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay

28. Euphoria by Lily King

29. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

30. Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates

31. The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

32. Milkman by Anna Burns

33. Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

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

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

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

37. Normal People by Sally Rooney

38. The Beacon by Susan Hill

39. Animal Farm by George Orwell

40. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

41. Q&A by Vikas Swarup

42. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

43. The Children Act by Ian McEwan

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

45. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

46. Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro

47. Black Faces, White Faces by Jane Gardam

48. The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

49. A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

50. Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro

51. The Thing around your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

52. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

53. Dear Life by Alice Munro

54. 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!