Cricklereaders Book Group
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Current Read
Cricklereaders September 2024 – The Fraud by Zadie Smith
In her first historical novel, Zadie Smith transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant, in which a cockney butcher, recently returned from Australia, lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy, with his former...
Cricklereaders May 2024 – A Man Walks Into A Room
In May, Cricklereaders are reading A Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss. Award-winning American novelist Nicole Krauss first captivated readers with her groundbreaking debut novel Man Walks into a Room, a novel in which Krauss explores what it is to lose one's...
Calendar of Meetings
The group meets every six weeks at the library. To find out when the next meeting is, view the library events calendar.
Previous Reads
Cricklereaders August 2024 – Before the Coffee Gets Cold
In August the group is reading Before the Coffee Gets Cold, the million copy selling Japanese cult read. Deftly written and nimbly translated, Kawaguchi’s life-affirming tale of café-based time travel and symbolic hot beverages has all the hallmarks of a beloved cult...
Cricklereaders February 2024 – Victory City by Salman Rushdie
In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a...
Cricklereaders January 2024 – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
New book is Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Waterstones said: Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings...
Cricklereaders November 2023 – Winter in Sokcho
A n out-of-season South Korean resort, a mysterious foreign visitor and a young woman whose dual nationality and anguished diffidence mark her out as an anomaly among her community are the main components of French-Korean author Elisa Shua Dusapin’s compact first...
Cricklereaders October 2023 – Death and the Penguin
The group is reading Death and the Penguin by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov. Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. He longs...
Cricklereaders September 2023 Stella Maris
September's book is Stella Maris, the sequel to July's The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy. The two books are the last works by McCarthy before his death aged 89 in June this year. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand...
Cricklereaders July 2023 The Passenger
The group has chosen Tennessee-born author Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger for their July meeting. A sunken jet, a missing body, and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all understanding. The Passenger is a dark, hallucinogenic novel from Cormac McCarthy, the...
Cricklereaders June 2023 The Blue Afternoon
A quest for secrets in the blue afternoon . . . Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young and ambitious architect, is being followed by an old man. When confronted, he explains that his name is Salvador Carriscant - and that he is her father. In a matter of weeks Kay...
Cricklereaders April 2023 The Lehman Trilogy
The Lehman Trilogy is a three-act play by Italian novelist and playwright Stefano Massini. It follows the lives of three immigrant brothers from when they arrive in America and found an investment firm through to the collapse of the company in 2008. It has been...
Cricklereaders March 2023 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
March's book chosen by Cricklereaders is The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, by Sheehan Karunatilaka. Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, Shehan Karunatilaka’s second novel is a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil...
Cricklereaders August 2024 – Before the Coffee Gets Cold
In August the group is reading Before the Coffee Gets Cold, the million copy selling Japanese cult read. Deftly written and nimbly translated, Kawaguchi’s life-affirming tale of café-based time travel and symbolic hot beverages has all the hallmarks of a beloved cult...
Cricklereaders February 2024 – Victory City by Salman Rushdie
In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a...
Cricklereaders January 2024 – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
New book is Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Waterstones said: Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings...
Cricklereaders November 2023 – Winter in Sokcho
A n out-of-season South Korean resort, a mysterious foreign visitor and a young woman whose dual nationality and anguished diffidence mark her out as an anomaly among her community are the main components of French-Korean author Elisa Shua Dusapin’s compact first...
Cricklereaders October 2023 – Death and the Penguin
The group is reading Death and the Penguin by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov. Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. He longs...
Cricklereaders September 2023 Stella Maris
September's book is Stella Maris, the sequel to July's The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy. The two books are the last works by McCarthy before his death aged 89 in June this year. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand...
Cricklereaders July 2023 The Passenger
The group has chosen Tennessee-born author Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger for their July meeting. A sunken jet, a missing body, and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all understanding. The Passenger is a dark, hallucinogenic novel from Cormac McCarthy, the...
Cricklereaders June 2023 The Blue Afternoon
A quest for secrets in the blue afternoon . . . Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young and ambitious architect, is being followed by an old man. When confronted, he explains that his name is Salvador Carriscant - and that he is her father. In a matter of weeks Kay...
Cricklereaders April 2023 The Lehman Trilogy
The Lehman Trilogy is a three-act play by Italian novelist and playwright Stefano Massini. It follows the lives of three immigrant brothers from when they arrive in America and found an investment firm through to the collapse of the company in 2008. It has been...
Cricklereaders March 2023 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
March's book chosen by Cricklereaders is The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, by Sheehan Karunatilaka. Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, Shehan Karunatilaka’s second novel is a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil...
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