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Stevenage

Book Group

Status:Active, not currently accepting new members
Leader:
Group email: Book group
When: Monthly on Wednesday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Second Wednesday of the month
Venue: Member's Home

This group is currently full. However there is a list of this years book's below, if you would like to read along with us and email your opinion it will be read out during the meeting and a reply sent to you. (email through contacts page)

The number in brackets is the average score out of 10 awarded by the readers.

Books for 2025/26

  • Lucy Foley - The Midnight Feast
  •  Anne Tyler – French Braid
  • Elif Shalak – The Island of Missing Trees
  • Alice Slater - Death of a Bookseller
  • Shari Lapena – The End of Her(6)
  • Rosie Hewlett - Medea
  • Rob Rinder - The Protest
  • Ian McEwan - Lessons
  • Samuel Burr - The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
  • Ann Patchett - Tom Lake (5)
  • Anna Mazola - The Clockwork Girl(7)

Our main reading source is through the local Library Reading Group Book List, this does incur an annual fee (£35) which is divided equally between the Reading Group members) Each group member chooses a book from the list to read during the year (usually March/April

We all read the same book and discuss at the monthly meeting. Every year we include a classic e.g. Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451