Welcome to the Book Group Page here you can find out all about the Book Groups that Savidge Reads is currently involved with and has been a part of. If you want to read thoughts on Book Groups in general then you can visit this post here.
The Riverside Readers
Earlier this year Simon founded a new London Book Group on the Southbank with Kimbofo. You can find out all about The Riverside Readers; such as what they are reading next and when, how the group works and what they have already read on their very own site. Simply click here.
Other Book Groups Savidge Reads is in and what they have read;
The Rogue Book Group (Random Reads with Novel Insights)
- In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
- The Parasites – Daphne Du Maurier
- No Time For Goodbye – Linwood Barclay
- The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
- To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- The Rendezvous & Other Stories – Daphne Du Maurier
- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (which I still haven’t finished – appalling)
Previous Book Groups and Their Reads;
The Milkround Book Group
- Empire Falls – Richard Russo
- A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseni
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy
- The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory
- On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
- Winter in Madrid – C J Sansom
- Tales of the Jazz Age – F Scott Fitzgerald
- Animals People – Indra Sinha
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- The House At Riverton – Kate Morton
- Aiding and Abetting – Muriel Spark
- Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
- Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Interpretation of Murder – Jed Rubenfield
- Restless – William Boyd
- An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
- On Beauty – Zadie Smith
- London Fields – Martin Amis
- Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safron Foer
- Kafka on the Shore – Hariku Murakami
- Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine – Marina Lewycka
- We Need To Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
- The Handmaids Tale – Margaret Atwood
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Thingbooks Book Group
- American Psycho – Brett Easton Ellis
- The Bell – Iris Murdoch
Hi Simon! This is all a bit professional!
Now let’s hope someone turns up, otherwise it may just be you and me having a natter.
Aww, I really hope you guys had a good time! I look forward to making it next time.
it was a great 1st meeting.
looking very much forward to all ahead
& seeing everyone again.
Agreed.
Ooh am looking forward to the next one. Will have to start re-reading Sylvia alongside Sunnyside though!
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