Looking for book ideas?

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. Free by Lea Ypi

2. The Pelican Child by Joy Williams

3. Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

4. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

5. Three Days in June by Anne Tyler

6. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

7. Orbital by Samantha Harvey

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

9. Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel

10. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

11. Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

12. Baumgartner by Paul Auster

13. You are Here by David Nicholls

14. Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

15. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

16. Appliance by J O Morgan

17. Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks

18. On Connection by Kae Tempest

19. Heartburn by Nora Ephron

20. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

21. Vesper Flights by Helen McDonald

22. Stories I Forgot to Tell you by Dorothy Gallagher

23. Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

24. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

25. A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk

26. Whatever Happened to Interracial Love by Kathleen Collins

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

28. My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay

29. Euphoria by Lily King

30. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

31. Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates

32. The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

33. Milkman by Anna Burns

34. Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

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

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

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

38. Normal People by Sally Rooney

39. The Beacon by Susan Hill

40. Animal Farm by George Orwell

41. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

42. Q&A by Vikas Swarup

43. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

44. The Children Act by Ian McEwan

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

46. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

47. Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro

48. Black Faces, White Faces by Jane Gardam

49. The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

50. A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

51. Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro

52. The Thing around your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

53. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

54. Dear Life by Alice Munro

55. 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!