Cricklereaders Book Group
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Current Read
Cricklereaders December 2025 – Julia by Sandra Newman
The last book of the year is Julia by Sandra Newman. 1984 from Julia's viewpoint. London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction...
Cricklereaders November 2024 – Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
November's Cricklereaders choice is The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. Join the group on the sofa at the library on Sunday 3 November, 1030 am, or read along at home.
Calendar of Meetings
The group meets every six weeks at the library. To find out when the next meeting is, view the library events calendar.
Previous Reads
Cricklereaders November 2024 – Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
November's Cricklereaders choice is The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. Join the group on the sofa at the library on Sunday 3 November, 1030 am, or read along at home.
Cricklereaders September 2024 – The Fraud by Zadie Smith
In her first historical novel, Zadie Smith transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant, in which a cockney butcher, recently returned from Australia, lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy, with his former...
Cricklereaders August 2024 – Before the Coffee Gets Cold
In August the group is reading Before the Coffee Gets Cold, the million copy selling Japanese cult read. Deftly written and nimbly translated, Kawaguchi’s life-affirming tale of café-based time travel and symbolic hot beverages has all the hallmarks of a beloved cult...
Cricklereaders May 2024 – A Man Walks Into A Room
In May, Cricklereaders are reading A Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss. Award-winning American novelist Nicole Krauss first captivated readers with her groundbreaking debut novel Man Walks into a Room, a novel in which Krauss explores what it is to lose one's...
Cricklereaders February 2024 – Victory City by Salman Rushdie
In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a...
Cricklereaders January 2024 – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
New book is Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Waterstones said: Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings...
Cricklereaders November 2023 – Winter in Sokcho
A n out-of-season South Korean resort, a mysterious foreign visitor and a young woman whose dual nationality and anguished diffidence mark her out as an anomaly among her community are the main components of French-Korean author Elisa Shua Dusapin’s compact first...
Cricklereaders October 2023 – Death and the Penguin
The group is reading Death and the Penguin by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov. Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. He longs...
Cricklereaders September 2023 Stella Maris
September's book is Stella Maris, the sequel to July's The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy. The two books are the last works by McCarthy before his death aged 89 in June this year. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand...
Cricklereaders July 2023 The Passenger
The group has chosen Tennessee-born author Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger for their July meeting. A sunken jet, a missing body, and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all understanding. The Passenger is a dark, hallucinogenic novel from Cormac McCarthy, the...
Cricklereaders November 2024 – Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
November's Cricklereaders choice is The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. Join the group on the sofa at the library on Sunday 3 November, 1030 am, or read along at home.
Cricklereaders September 2024 – The Fraud by Zadie Smith
In her first historical novel, Zadie Smith transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant, in which a cockney butcher, recently returned from Australia, lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy, with his former...
Cricklereaders August 2024 – Before the Coffee Gets Cold
In August the group is reading Before the Coffee Gets Cold, the million copy selling Japanese cult read. Deftly written and nimbly translated, Kawaguchi’s life-affirming tale of café-based time travel and symbolic hot beverages has all the hallmarks of a beloved cult...
Cricklereaders May 2024 – A Man Walks Into A Room
In May, Cricklereaders are reading A Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss. Award-winning American novelist Nicole Krauss first captivated readers with her groundbreaking debut novel Man Walks into a Room, a novel in which Krauss explores what it is to lose one's...
Cricklereaders February 2024 – Victory City by Salman Rushdie
In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a...
Cricklereaders January 2024 – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
New book is Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Waterstones said: Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings...
Cricklereaders November 2023 – Winter in Sokcho
A n out-of-season South Korean resort, a mysterious foreign visitor and a young woman whose dual nationality and anguished diffidence mark her out as an anomaly among her community are the main components of French-Korean author Elisa Shua Dusapin’s compact first...
Cricklereaders October 2023 – Death and the Penguin
The group is reading Death and the Penguin by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov. Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. He longs...
Cricklereaders September 2023 Stella Maris
September's book is Stella Maris, the sequel to July's The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy. The two books are the last works by McCarthy before his death aged 89 in June this year. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand...
Cricklereaders July 2023 The Passenger
The group has chosen Tennessee-born author Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger for their July meeting. A sunken jet, a missing body, and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all understanding. The Passenger is a dark, hallucinogenic novel from Cormac McCarthy, the...
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Information Sessions
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Meeting Calendar
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1 August
12 September