The Cherwell and Avon Book Group for Bath-based Oxford University alumni was founded by Deborah Collins, Anna Sabine-Newlyn and James Ellis. The first gathering was in May 2017 and and the group has been meeting every month (ish) since.
To be read:
- “Life After Life” by Kate Atkinson
- “One on One” by Craig Brown
Read:
- “A God in Ruins” by Kate Atkinson
- “Exit West” by Mohsin Hamid
- “Map of the Invisible World” by Tash Aw
- “Winter” by Ali Smith
- “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles
- “Ghost Wall” by Sarah Moss
- “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders
- “Happenstance” by Carol Shields
- “The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle” by Stuart Turton
- “Bartleby the Scrivener” by Herman Melville
- “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine” by Gail Honeyman
- “Exposure” by Helen Dunmore
- “My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante
- “Super Sad True Love Story” by Gary Shteyngart
- “Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border” by Colm Tóibín
- “The Wife” by Meg Wolitzer
- “We Need to Talk About Kevin” by Lionel Shriver
- “A Perfectly Good Man” by Patrick Gale
- “I Burn Paris” by Bruno Jasieński
- “At Freddie’s” by Penelope Fitzgerald
- “Dead Souls” by Nikolay Gogol
- “A Very British Scandal” by John Preston
- “The Good People” by Hannah Kent
- “The Ocean at the End of the Lane” by Neil Gaiman
- “A Country Road, A Tree” by Jo Baker
- “Different Class” by Joanne Harris
- “Hag Seed” by Margaret Atwood
- “The Reader on the 6.27” by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
