Table of Contents - The Book Clubs

2014 - Leeds Book Club

44 - Jan - ARCADIA - ??

43 - Nov - WHITE SWAN - ?

42 - Oct - MEDUSA - ?

41 - Sep - ARCADIA - ?

40 - Aug - WHITE SWAN - ?

39 - Jul - MEDUSA - ?

38 - Jun - ARCADIA - ?

37 - May - WHITE SWAN - ?

36 - Apr - MEDUSA - The Stench of Honolulu - Jack Handey

35 - Mar - ARCADIA - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

34 - Feb - WHITE SWAN - The Perks of being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

33 - Jan - MEDUSA - The Human - Matt Haig

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Arcadia LBC

32 - Nov - Heading out to Wonderful - Robert Goolrich

31 - Oct - The Magicians - Lev Grossman

30 - Sep - Any Human Heart - William Boyd

29 - Aug - Love and War in the Apennines - Eric Newby

28 - Jul - The Red House - Mark Haddon

27 - Jun - Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

26 - May - Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

25 - Apr - To say nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis

24 - Mar - Night Waking - Sarah Moss

23 - Feb - Three Men on a Boat - Jerome K Jerome 

22 - Jan - The Summer Book - Tove Jansson

21 - Nov - Hard Times - Charles Dickens

20 - Oct - The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster - GUEST - @CultureLEEDS

19 - Sep - The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins - GUEST - @CultureLEEDS

18 - Aug - The Princess Bride - William Goldman

17 - Jul - A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini - GUEST

16 - Jun - Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton

15 - May - 1984 - George Orwell - GUEST - @CultureLEEDS

14 - Apr - BloodChild and Other Stories - Octavia Butler

13 - Mar - The Year of the Hare - Arto Paasilinna

12 - Feb - Heat Wave - Richard Castle

11 - Jan - The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint - Brady Udall

10 - Nov - Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes

09 - Oct - Grace Williams Says It Loud - Emma Henderson

08 - Sep - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

07 - Aug - Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi

06 - Jul - The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst

05 - Jun - Soulless - Gail Carriger

04 - May - Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

03 - Apr - Touching the Void - Joe Simpson

02 - Mar - The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

01 - Feb - The White Woman on the Green Bicycle - Monique Roffrey

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Giraffe LBC

10 - FEB - Divergent - Veronica Roth
09 - JAN - Children of Men - P.D. James - GUEST

08 - OCT - High Rise - J.G. Ballard - GUEST
07 - JUL - The Miracle Inspector - Helen Smith - GUEST 
06 - APR - Logan's Run - Book and Film - GUEST
05 - FEB - Watchmen - Comic and Film

04 - NOV - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - GUEST
03 - OCT - The Iron Heel - Jack London - GUEST
02 - AUG - The Running Man - Stephen King
01 - JUL - Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - GUEST

How I learned to continue worrying and love the dystopian - GUEST

The List of Potentials

A Dystopian Book Club

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LBC Outlaws

08 - Jan - ?

07 - Nov - 1974 - David Peace
06 - Oct - Stone's Fall - Iain Pears
05 - Sep - Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
04 - Aug - Artists in crime - Ngaio Marsh
03 - Jul - The Moving Toyshop - Edmund Crispin
02 - Jun - The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammet

01 - May - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle

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LBC Puffins

JAN - Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - GUEST

NOV - Wee Free Men - Terry Prachett - GUEST

OCT - Black Beauty - Anna Sewell - GUEST

SEP - The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson-Burnett - GUEST

AUG - Coraline - Neil Gaiman - GUEST

JUL - Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh - Robert C O'Brien - GUEST

JUN - The Sheep Pig - Dick King-Smith - GUEST

FEB - Matilda - Roald Dahl - GUEST

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LBC3reads

07 - Jan - The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever

06 - Oct - Their eyes were watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
05 - Jul - Mason and Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
04 - Apr - O Pioneer - Willa Catha

03 - Jan - The City and the Pillar - Gore Vidal

02 - Sep - The Paris Wife - Paula McLain

01 - May - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle

An Idea Is Born - It's Book Club Jim, Just Not As We Know It

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Medusa LBC and Mini-Medusa

23 - Feb - Poppy Shakespeare - Clare Allen

22 - Nov - The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney

21 - Oct - And the mountains echoed - Khalid Hosseini

20 - Sep - Pilgrim - Timothy Findley 
19 - Aug - Westwood - Stella Gibbons 
18 - Jul - Battle Royale - Koushun Takami

17 - Jun - The 100 yr old man who climbed... - Jonas Jonasson

16 - May - The Winter Ghosts - Kate Mosse

15 - Apr - John dies at the end - David Wong

14 - Mar - Started early, took my dog - Kate Atkinson

13 - Feb - The Black House - Peter May

12 - Jan - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - GUEST 

11 - Nov - Empire of the Sun - JG Ballard
10 - Oct - Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (not *that* one)- GUEST
09 - Sep - Before I go to sleep - S.J. Watson
08 - Aug - 9 Lives - Clive Rusher - GUEST
07 - Jul - Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
06 - Jun - A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving - GUEST

05 - May - The Life of Pi - Yann Martel

04 - Apr - Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith 

03 - Mar - We need to talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver

02 - Feb - The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch

01 - Jan - Ragnarok - AS Byatt

First Book Picked

An exciting new project! - Medusa LeedsBookClub

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WSwan LBC

22 - Nov - The garden of evening mists - Tan Twan Eng

21 - Oct - Regeneration - Pat Barker
20 - Sep - Consider Phlebas - Iain M Banks
19 - Aug - Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

18 - Jul - The Fictional Man - Al Ewing

17 - Jun - The Fire Gospel - Michael Faber

16 - May - The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

15 - Apr - The Waterproof Bible - Andrew Kaufman - GUEST

14 - Mar - The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak - GUEST

13 - Feb - Weight - Jeanette Winterson - GUEST

12 - Jan - The Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates - GUEST

11 - Nov - Lighthouse Keeping - Jeanette Winterson
10 - Oct - Winter's Bone Daniel Woodrell
09 - Sep - The Wind Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami - GUEST
08 - Aug - The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman
07 - Jul - American Gods - Neil Gaiman
06 - Jun - The Travelling Hornplayer - Barbara Trapido
05 - May - Atomised - Michel Houellebecq - GUEST

04 - Apr - Even the Dogs - Jon McGregor

03 - Mar - Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

02 - Feb - The Swan Thieves - Elizabeth Kostova 

01 - Jan - Suttree - Cormac McCarthy

First Book Picked

Im just full of good ideas...WSwanLBC 

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WTFBC

04 - TBC - ???
03 - TBC - The Joss Whedon Companion - Buffy
02 - Jul - Killer Angels - Michael Shaara

01 - May - Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare

As if I'm not reading enough books...

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Leeds Guardian

Book Elf - Leeds Central Library Protest

Avid Reader - Why Libraries Are So Important

 

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Original LBC

Meeting 10 - The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson

Meeting 09 - Everything You Know - Zoe Heller

Meeting 08 - A Chat

Meeting 07 - The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga

Meeting 06 - The Island - Victoria Hislop

Meeting 05 - Firman - Sam Savage

Meeting 04 - The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak

Meeting 03 - Daisy Dalrmyple, Jane Austen et al

Meeting 02 - The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

Meeting 01 - Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

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