Beware of the stories you read or tell;
subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness,
they are altering your world.
– Ben Okri
Second Circle – reading list
Find below a Reading List for the Second Circle with some reviews. We meet approximately every six weeks. Click on any title in blue to read the review. I hope you enjoy browsing.
Our next meeting is Tuesday, 25th May
The Wadebridge Bookshop, up the street from the Molesworth Arms, 
invites people in to browse. They have many bestsellers, non-fiction, classics, an extensive children’s section and one of the largest collections of Books About Cornwall available anywhere – in the shop and online.
In this digital age, a book is an especially thoughtful gift. If you are looking for a special present, a beautiful book could be just the thing.
READING LIST
2017
The Joke by Milan Kundera – May
The Hours of the Night by Sue Gee – April
Bliss by Peter Carey – March
The Poisenwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver – February
2016
Silas Marner by George Eliot – December
The Light of Evening by Edna O’Brien – October
Gertrude by Herman Hesse – September
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks – July
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut – June
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens – May
The Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill – March
Timbuktu by Paul Auster – February
2015
An Italian Education by Tim Parks – November
The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing – September
On Beauty by Zadie Smith – July
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham – June
The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli – April
Trespass by Rose Tremain – March
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth – January
2014
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy – December
Stoner by John Williams – October
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami – August
Short Stories by Alice Munro and by Anton Chekhov – July
The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig – May
Miss Garnet’s Angel by Salley Vickers – April
The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge – March
The Waves by Virginia Woolf – January
2013
December conventus
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell – November
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks – September
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry – July
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford – June
The Accidental by Ali Smith – April
The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger – March
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee – January
2012
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan – December
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee – November
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh – September
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes – August
The Quiet American by Graham Greene – June
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert – May
The Plague by Albert Camus – April
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer – March
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna – January
2011
Brodeck’s Report by Philippe Claudel – November
Perfume: The Story of A Murderer by Patrick Süskind – October
Imperium by Robert Harris – August
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad – July
Saturday by Ian McEwan – May
Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale – April
Organizational meeting – March
Go to the Withiel Book Circle reveiws.
