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. We meet approximately every six weeks. Click on any title in green to read the review. I hope you enjoy browsing.
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.