Beware of the stories you read or tell;
subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness,
they are altering your world.
– Ben Okri
Find below a reading list for the Second Circle with some reviews. Click on any title in green to read the review.
The Wadebridge Bookshop, 
up the street from the Molesworth Arms, invites people in to browse and they have one of the largest collections of Books About Cornwall available anywhere – in the shop and online.
READING LIST
2022
The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse – August
Listen to the Moon by Michael Morpurgo – July
Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor – June
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee – April
Circe by Madeline Miller – March
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré – February
2021
The Comedians by Graham Greene – December
Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore – October
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart – August
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – July
Sleep No More by L.T.C. Rolt – May
Dreams of My Russian Summers (Le Testament français) by Andreï Makine – April
The Narrow Land by Christine Dwyer Hickey – March
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones – January
2020
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown – December
The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler – October
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman – August
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles – July
The Outsider / The Stranger by Albert Camus – May
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng – April
The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy – March
Paris after the Liberation by Antony Beevor – January
2019
This is Where I am by Karen Campbell – November
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr – October
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith – August
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif – July
Isambard Kingdom Brunel by L.T.C. Rolt – May
The Rings of Saturn by W G Sebald – April
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox – March
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman – January
2018
Sweet Caress by William Boyd – December
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell – October
This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann – September
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez – July
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola – May
The Farm by Richard Benson – April
Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro – April
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin – January
2017
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut – November
A Passage to India by EM Forster – October
Digger by Max Anderson – August
Giving up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel – July
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.