Broken Spines Book Group Books

Here is a listing of all the books that Broken Spines Book Group have read over the last 20 years:

Month	Book Title	Author
Feb-24	Passing	Nella Larsen
Jan-24	The Stand: Complete and Uncut Edition	Stephen King
Dec-23	Various: Secret Santa	Various
Nov-23	Beloved	Toni Morrison
Oct-23	Girl, Woman, Other	Bernadine Evaristo
Sep-23	Perfume	Patrick Suskind
Aug-23	A Canticle for Leibowitz	Walter M. Miller Jr.
Jul-23	Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption	Stephen King
Jun-23	The Book Thief	Markus Zusak
May-23	The Year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion
Apr-23	Wrong Place Wrong Time	Gillian McAllister
Mar-23	The Pearl/Fox 8	John Steinbeck/George Saunders
Feb-23	The Vorrh	Brian Catling
Jan-23	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell	Susanna Clarke
Dec-22	Various: Secret Santa	Various
Nov-22	While the Storm Rages	Phil Earle
Oct-22	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens
Sep-22	What If?	Randall Munroe
Aug-22	The Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood
Jul-22	Diary of a Young Naturalist	Dara McAnulty
Jun-22	Greetings from Bury Park	Sarfraz Manzoor
May-22	The Night Watchman	Louise Erdrich
Apr-22	The Land of Green Plums	Herta Müller
Mar-22	Jews Don’t Count	David Baddiel
Feb-22	Downbelow Station	C. J. Cherryh
Jan-22	Ducks, Newburyport	Lucy Ellman
Dec-21	Various: Secret Santa	Various
Nov-21	Boys in Zinc	Svetlana Alexievich
Oct-21	The Meaning of Human Existence	Edward O. Wilson
Sep-21	The Little Drummer Girl	John le Carré
Aug-21	The Moonstone	Wilkie Collins
Jul-21	Boomsday	Christopher Buckley
Jun-21	Life on the Edge: The Coming Age of Quantum Biology	Jim Al-Khalili & Johnjoe McFadden
May-21	The Lonely Londoners	Sam Selvon
Apr-21	Cannery Row	John Steinbeck
Mar-21	Snowblind	Ragnar Jónasson
Feb-21	Animal Farm	George Orwell
Jan-21	U.S.A.	John Dos Passos
Dec-20	Various: Secret Santa	Various
Nov-20	A Coney Island of the Mind	Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Oct-20	Girl, Woman, Other	Bernardine Evaristo
Sep-20	Look to Windward	Iain M. Banks
Aug-20	Remembered	Yvonne Battle-Felton
Jul-20	The Shining	Stephen King
Jun-20	Little Brother	Cory Doctorow
May-20	Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging	Louise Rennison
Apr-20	The Martian	Andy Weir
Mar-20	Flights	Olga Tokarczuk
Feb-20	We	Yevgeny Zamyatin
Jan-20	House of Leaves	Mark Z Danielewski
Dec-19	Various: Secret Santa	Various
Nov-19	On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal	Naomi Klein
Oct-19	Love and War in the Apennines	Eric Newby
Sep-19	Song of Solomon	Toni Morrison
Aug-19	Various: Reader’s Choice	Various
Jul-19	Dear Martin	Nic Stone
Jun-19	The Lost Girl	D H Lawrence
May-19	The Dharma Bums	Jack Kerouac
Apr-19	Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel García Márquez
Mar-19	Gorky Park	Martin Cruz Smith
Feb-19	Becoming	Michelle Obama
Jan-19	East of Eden	John Steinbeck
Dec-18	Various: Secret Santa	Various
Nov-18	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde
Oct-18	The Right Stuff	Tom Wolfe
Sep-18	The End of Eternity	Isaac Asimov
Aug-18	The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More	Roald Dahl
Jul-18	A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens
Jun-18	Puckoon	Spike Milligan
May-18	Earth Abides	George R Stewart
Apr-18	Heart of Darkness/Lord of the Flies	Joseph Conrad/William Golding
Mar-18	Maus	Art Spiegelman
Feb-18	The Bird Tribunal	Agnes Ravatn
Jan-18	Cryptonomicon	Neal Stephenson
Dec-17	Various: Secret Santa	Various
Nov-17	Roadside Picnic	Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Oct-17	The Sellout	Paul Beatty
Sep-17	The Gates of Rome	Conn Iggulden
Aug-17	Starman	Jamie Doran & Piers Bizony
Jul-17	Beloved	Toni Morrison
Jun-17	Shards of Honor	Lois McMaster Bujold
May-17	Cat’s Cradle	Kurt Vonnegut
Apr-17	The Humans	Matt Haig
Mar-17	Welcome to the Monkey House	Kurt Vonnegut
Feb-17	The North Water	Ian McGuire
Jan-17	All the Light We Cannot See	Anthony Doerr
Dec-16	Various: Secret Santa	Various
Nov-16	HHhH	Laurent Binet
Oct-16	All You Need is Kill	Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Sep-16	The Heart Goes Last	Margaret Atwood
Aug-16	Various: Reader’s Choice	Various
Jul-16	Pigeon English	Stephen Kelman
Jun-16	Wool	Hugh Howey
May-16	Wind/Pinball: Two Novels	Haruki Murakami
Apr-16	High-Rise	J G Ballard
Mar-16	The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly	Jean-Dominique Bauby
Feb-16	The Loney	Andrew Michael Hurley
Jan-16	The Mountain Shadow	Gregory David Roberts
Dec-15	Various: Secret Santa	Various
Nov-15	H is for Hawk	Helen Macdonald
Oct-15	Ask the Dust	John Fante
Sep-15	How to be Both	Ali Smith
Aug-15	Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
Jul-15	The Paying Guests	Sarah Waters
Jun-15	The Remains of the Day	Kazuo Ishiguro
May-15	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	Jonathan Safran Foer
Apr-15	Life After Life	Kate Atkinson
Mar-15	The Last Word	Hanif Kureishi
Feb-15	Esio Trot	Roald Dahl
Jan-15	The Goldfinch	Donna Tartt
Dec-14	Various: Secret Santa	Various
Nov-14	The Children Act	Ian McEwan
Oct-14	On the Beach	Nevil Shute
Sep-14	Swallows and Amazons	Arthur Ransome
Aug-14	Revolutionary Road	Richard Yates
Jul-14	More Than This	Patrick Ness
Jun-14	Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore	Robin Sloan
May-14	Various: The Old Pier Book Shop	Various
Apr-14	The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly	Sun-Mi Hwang
Mar-14	Twelve Years a Slave	Solomon Northup
Feb-14	The Death of Grass	John Christopher
Jan-14	A Fine Balance	Rohinton Mistry
Dec-13	Various: Secret Santa	Various
Nov-13	Various: Selection of Short Stories	Various
Oct-13	Dracula	Bram Stoker
Sep-13	The Twins	Saskia Sarginson
Aug-13	If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things	Jon McGregor
Jul-13	Doors Open	Ian Rankin
Jun-13	The Brass Verdict	Michael Connelly
May-13	The Beautiful Indifference	Sarah Hall
Apr-13	The Woman in White	Wilkie Collins
Mar-13	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Deborah Moggach
Feb-13	An Equal Stillness	Francesca Kay
Jan-13	The Truth About Love	Jane Elizabeth Varley
Dec-12	Various: Secret Santa & New Selected Poems, 1966-1987	Various/Seamus Heaney
Nov-12	Half of a Yellow Sun	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Oct-12	The Flamboya Tree	Clara Olink Kelly
Sep-12	The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank
Aug-12	Sea of Poppies	Amitav Ghosh
Jul-12	Fifty Shades of Grey	E L James
Jun-12	Child 44	Tom Rob Smith
May-12	Snow Crash	Neal Stephenson
Apr-12	When God was a Rabbit	Sarah Winman
Mar-12	The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test	Tom Wolfe
Feb-12	The God Delusion	Richard Dawkins
Jan-12	A Piano in the Pyrenees	Tony Hawks
Dec-11	Various: Secret Santa	Various
Nov-11	The Help	Kathryn Stockett
Sep-11	The Stand	Stephen King
Aug-11	Various: Reader’s Choice	Various
Jul-11	Ophelia in Pieces	Clare Jacob
Jun-11	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Muriel Spark
May-11	All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque
Apr-11	Witness the Night	Kishwar Desai
Mar-11	The Tent, the Bucket and Me	Emma Kennedy
Feb-11	To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee
Dec-10	Various: Secret Santa & The Good Man Jesus and the Scoudrel Christ	Various/Philip Pullman
Nov-10	Parky	Michael Parkinson
Oct-10	Les Miserables	Victor Hugo
Sep-10	The French Lieutenant’s Woman	John Fowles
Aug-10	Various: Jack Reacher Novel	Lee Child
Jul-10	The Secret Scripture	Sebastian Barry
Jun-10	Enigma	Robert Harris
May-10	We Need to Talk About Kevin	Lionel Shriver
Apr-10	Juliet, Naked or The Silver Linings Playbook	Nick Hornby/Matthew Quick
Mar-10	The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo	Stieg Larsson
Feb-10	The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint	Brady Udall
Dec-09	Various: Secret Santa & Shantaram	Various/Gregory David Roberts
Nov-09	Mr. Pip	Lloyd Jones
Oct-09	Various: Book Jamboree	Various
Sep-09	The White Tiger	Aravind Adiga
Jul-09	Pride & Prejudice & Zombies or the Island	Seth Grahame-Smith/Victoria Hislop
Jun-09	Guernica	Dave Boling
May-09	The Princess Bride	William Goldman
Apr-09	Various: Book Jamboree	Various
Mar-09	Don’t Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I’m a Piano Player in a Whorehouse	Paul Carter
Feb-09	Various: Audio Book Month	Various
Dec-08	Skipping Christmas or Little Women	John Grisham/Louisa May Alcott
Nov-08	Between a Rock and a Hard Place	Aron Ralston
Oct-08	Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
Sep-08	The Eyre Affair	Jasper Fforde
Aug-08	Various: A book group book that you didn’t read before	Various
Jul-08	Various: Free Book Challenge	Various
Jun-08	Midnight’s Children	Salman Rushdie
May-08	Catch-22	Joseph Heller
Apr-08	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	John Boyne
Mar-08	Tipping the Velvet	Sarah Waters
Feb-08	The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini
Dec-07	The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas
Nov-07	Various: Dean Koontz Month	Dean Koontz
Oct-07	After You’d Gone	Maggie O’Farrell
Sep-07
Aug-07	The Spooks Apprentice	Joseph Delaney
Jul-07	Pies & Prejudice	Stuart Maconie
Jun-07	Various: Author You’ve Never Read Before	Various
May-07	The Gathering	Anne Enright
Apr-07	The Tenderness of Wolves	Stef Penney
Mar-07	Perfume	Patrick Suskind
Feb-07	Carrie	Stephen King
Dec-06	Wicked	Gregory Maguire
Nov-06	Various: Reader’s Choice	Various
Oct-06	Jane Eyre or Moby Dick	Charlotte Bronte/Herman Melville
Sep-06	Waylander	David Gemmell
Aug-06	Watermelon	Marian Keyes
Jul-06	In Cold Blood or Breakfast at Tiffany’s	Truman Capote
Jun-06	Various: £1.99 Challenge	Various
May-06	Waterland	Graham Swift
Apr-06	Labyrinth	Kate Mosse
Mar-06	Various: Roald Dahl Month	Roald Dahl
Feb-06	Watership Down	Richard Adams
Dec-05	Various: Adrian Mole Month	Sue Townsend
Nov-05	Various: Autobiography Month	Various
Oct-05	The Big Sleep	Raymond Chandler
Sep-05	The Enchanted Wood	Enid Blyton
Aug-05	Yes Man	Danny Wallace
Jul-05	Various: James Herbert Month	James Herbert
Jun-05	Various: Reader’s Choice	Various
May-05	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Hunter S. Thompson
Apr-05	The Shadow of the Wind	Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Mar-05	Various: Sherlock Holmes Month	Arthur Conan Doyle
Feb-05	Various: Christmas Present Received	Various
Dec-04	Imajica & A Christmas Carol	Clive Barker/Charles Dickens
Nov-04	Dude, Where’s My Country	Michael Moore
Sep-04	Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte
Aug-04	Various: Reader’s Choice	Various
Jul-04	Various: Time Travel Theme	Various
Jun-04	Animal Farm	George Orwell
May-04	Domain	James Herbert
Apr-04	A Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking
Mar-04	Man and Wife	Tony Parsons
Feb-04	Various: Reader’s Choice	Various
Jan-04	The Wasp Factory	Iain Banks
Nov-03	The Runaway Jury	John Grisham
Oct-03	High Society	Ben Elton
Sep-03	The Life of Pi	Yann Martell

*Where there are missing months, this is when we either had a free reading month or the previous book choice was very long and required an additional month’s reading. I cannot remember what we read in September 2007.*
**The mystery of September 2007 may be solved – it might have been Longitude by Dava Sobel. Unfortunately, I can’t guarantee it, so won’t list by it above.**