We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
– Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)

Book Club Season 26

Nicola’s Book Club reading list

Season 26 – “Book Award Winners” (Nov 2025 – May 2026)

“Against The Loveless World” by Susan Abulhawa (Palestine) – Winner of the Palestine Book Award 2020
“A Brief History of Seven Killings” by Marlon James (Jamaica) – Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015
“Lost Children Archive” by Valeria Luiselli (Mexico) – Winner of the Dublin Literary Award 2021
“The Garden of Evening Mists” by Tan Twan Eng (Malaysia) * – Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012

Extra book:
“The End of the Sahara” by Saïd Khatibi (Algeria) – Winner of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2023

* The book club favourite
In italics, Nicola’s Coup de Cœur