Book Club

A colleague and I were discussing her new Breakfast Book Club and I thought I could assist by offering a list of the books studied as part of the Back Door Bookers Book Club I am gratefully a part of.  I also thought that sharing this list might help others.

Here are the books we've had thus far (I have forgotten some):

• The Red Tent - such a classic - women will really appreciate
• Middlesex by Geoffrey Eugenides – this was a beauty 
• Dirt Music by Time Winton – great story – incredible writer - good to do an Australian author/setting
• Monkey Grip by Helen Garner – great because it's set in melbourne 
• The Slap – we also analysed the tv series episode 1 - what a series!
• Big Love- TV series one
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Hemmingway
• Castle of Adventure by Enid Blyton – a children's classic - this was fabulous – focus on the changes in childhood and boy/girl stereotypes
• The Submission by Amy Waldman
• The Secret River by kate Grenville – set in Australia – colonial times and issues between white settlers and Aboriginal people – really moving
• The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald – we wanted to get this one in before the release of the film – such an incredible book and good for deep analysis
• How it feels by Brendan Cowell – this is actually pretty disturbing - but we wanted to do this one as an up and coming author - fairly full on themes 
• The Byron Journals  by Daniel DuCrou – we did this one because we had the author coming to speak at our book club - DuCrou was a real charmer and we enjoyed this book meet so much
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Book club is such fun!