Sunderland University alumni book society
Reads for Q1 2023

• In The Blink Of An Eye – Jo Callaghan
• Just Sayin’ – Malorie Blackman
• My Father’s House – Joseph O’Connor

Reads for Q4 2022

• Undoctored – Adam Kay
• Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes* – Rob Wilkins
• Lucy By The Sea – Elizabeth Strout

Reads for Q3 2022

• People Person – Candice Carly-Williams
• Tasting Sunlight – Ewald Arenz
• The Last To Disappear – Jo Spain

Reads for Q2 2022

• Little Sister –  Gytha Lodge
• Metronome – Tom Watson
• One Italian Summer – Rebecca Serle

Reads for Q1 2022

• Should We Fall Behind – Sharon Duggal
• Box 88 – Charles Cumming
• Blood Ties – Brian McGilloway

Reads for Q4 2021

• The Image of Her – Sonia Velton
• People of Abandoned Character – Clare Whitfield
• Nothing But Blue Sky – Kathleen MacMahon

Reads for Q3 2021

• Lean Fall Stand – Jon McGregor
• Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
• Consent – Annabel Lyon

Reads for Q2 2021

• Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
• Dead Ground – M. W. Craven
• The Deception of Harriet Fleet – Helen Scarlett

Reads for Q1 2021

• The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
• Dead Man’s Daughter – Roz Watkins
• A Suitable Lie – Michael J Malone

Reads for Q4 2020

• Dignity – Alys Conran
• My House Is Falling Down – Mary Loudon
• The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually – Hellen Cullen
• Cut Short – M. W. Craven

Reads for Q3 2020

• When I Was Ten – Fiona Cummins
• The Curator – M. W. Craven

Reads for Q2 2020

• Silver Sparrow – Tayari Jones
• The Split – Sharon Bolton
• After The End – Clare Mackintosh

Reads for Q1 2020

• Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
• War Doctor – David Nott
• The Hollow Man – Oliver Harris

Reads for Q4 2019

• Degrees of Guilt – H S Chandler (Helen Fields)
• What She Saw Last Night – M J Cross (Mason Cross)
• Breakers – Doug Johnstone
• Thunder Bay – Douglas Skelton
• How We Disappeared – Jing Jing Lee
• East of Hounslow – Khurrum Rahman
• The Body: A Guide For Occupants – Bill Bryson

Reads for Q3 2019

• Black Summer – M. W. Craven
• If I Die Before I Wake – Emily Koch
• Blackberry and Wild Rose – Sonia Velton
• Perfect Crime – Helen Fields
• What Red Was – Rosie Price
• Take It Back – Kia Abdullah
• Big Sky – Kate Atkinson
• An American Marriage – Tayari Jones

Reads for Q2 2019

• Star of the north – D. B. John
• The Suspect – Fiona Barton
• Salt Lane – William Shaw
• If Only I Could Tell You – Hannah Beckerman
• With Our Blessing – Jo Spain
• The Ghost Factory – Jenny McCartney

Reads for Q1 2019

• The Binding – Bridget Collins
• The Flower Girls – Alice Clark Platts
• All That Remains – Sue Black
• A Different Drummer – William Melvin Kelley
• Blood Orange – Harriet Tyce
• Marked For Death – Tony Kent

Reads for Q4 2018

• The puppet show – M W Craven
• Perfect silence – Helen Fields
• Transcription – Kate Atkinson
• Bridge of clay – Markus Zusak
• Butterfly – Yusra Mardini
• The winter soldier – Daniel Mason

Reads for Q3 2018

• Educated – Tara Westover
• The hate u give – Angie Thomas.
• The lost – Mari Hannah
• The trick to time – Kit de Waal
• Take nothing with you – Patrick gale
• In your defence – Sarah Langford
• Take me in – Sabine Durrant

Reads for Q2 2018

• Almost love – Louise O’Neill
• I still dream – James Smythe
• Dear Mrs bird – A J Pearce
• The Child finder – Rene Downfield
• Darling – Rachel Edwards
• The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder – Sarah J Harris
• Six stories- Matt Wesolowski
• Hydra – Matt Wesolowski

Reads for Q1 2018

• The Woman in the Window – A J Finn
• The Fourth Monkey – J D Barker
• They All Fall Down – Tammy Cohen
• The Boy Made of Snow – Chloe Mayer
• Perfect Death – Helen Fields
• The Confession – Jo Spain

Reads for Q4 2017

• The girl with seven names – Hyeonseo Lee
• I know my name – C J Cooke
• What we lose – Zinzi Clemmons
• The less you know the sounder you sleep – Juliet Butler
• Perfect prey – Helen Fields
• Resurrection bay – Emma Viskic
• Lost for words – Stephanie Butland
• This is going to hurt – Adam Kay
• Killing state – Judith O’Reilly
• You don’t know me – Imran Mahmood

Reads for Q3 2017

• Her Perfect Life – Sam Hepburn
• Perfect Remains – Helen Fields
• Dear Amy – Helen Callaghan
• My Name is Leon – Kit De Waal
• Into The Water – Paula Hawkins
• My Name is Nobody – Matthew Richardson
• Dead Woman Walking – Sharon Bolton

Reads for Q2 2017

• Fellside by M R Carey
• Sirens by Joseph Knox
• The Ballroom by Anna Hope
• Blood Wedding by Pierre Lamaitre
• Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
• The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Reads for Q1 2017

• Night – Elie Wiesel
• Yours in Sisterhood – Eileen McCabe
• Cold Earth – Ann Cleeves
• Wild Swans – Jung Chang
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
• The girl with all the gifts – M R Carey

Reads for Q4 2016

• The Pomegranate Tree – Vanessa Altin
• Looking at the stars – Jo Cotterill
• Cell 7 – Kerry Drewery
• Disclaimer – Renee Knight
• No name lane – Howard Linskey
• Close you eyes – Michael Robotham
• Another one goes tonight – Peter Lovesey

Reads for Q3 2016

• The loving husband – Christobel Kent
• Now and again – Charlotte Rogan
• Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist – Sunil Yapa
• Now you see me – Sharon Bolton
• The improbability of love – Hannah Rothschild
• Nothing to envy – Barbara Demick
• But you did not come back – Marceline Loridan-Ivens
• I See You – Clare Mackintosh

Reads for Q2 2016

• A Whole Life – Robert Seethaler
• Little Paris Bookshop – Nina George
• Asking for It – Louise O’Neill
• Where there’s smoke – Simon Beckett
• The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
• An Unrestored Woman – Shobha Rao

Reads for Q1 2016

• Patrick Gale. A Place Called Winter
• Paula Hawkings. The Girl on the Train
• Bill Browder. Red Notice

Reads for Q4 2015

• Ann Cleeves. The Moth Catcher
• Sara Novic. Girl at war
• Sally Magnusson. Where memories go