Geoff's Book Club

He has read in 2025:
How to Cook a Wolf by MFK Fisher
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Playground by Richard Powers
The looking Glass War by John Le Carre

He has read in 2024:
Away Off Shore by Nate Philbrick
The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
The Heaaven & Earth Grocery Store By James McBride
Death's End by Liu Cixin
Nantucket and Other Native Places edited by Chilton and Rainey
Abram's Eyes by Nate Philbrick
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Sacrifice by S. J. Bolton
Orkneyinga Saga
The Nation of Nantucket by Edward Byers
Call for the Dead by John Le Carre
A Murder of  Quality by John Le Carre
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson


He has read in 2023:

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
Still LIfe by Louise Penny
The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemison
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemison
The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien
The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien
1491 by Charles Mann
City of the Undead: Voodoo, Ghosts, and Vampires of New Orleans by Robin Roberts
Guilty Creatures by Martin Edwards

He has read in 2022:

The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemison
The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Treeline by Ben Rawlence
Fall by Neal Stephenson
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson

He has read in 2021:

Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered by Kilgariff and Hardstark
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Sigh Gone by Phuc Tran
Thick: and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Murder Must Advertise by Dorthy L. Sayers
At Night All Blood is Black" by David Diop
The Fifth Season By N.K. Jemison
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemison

He has read in 2020:

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel
Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah
Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers
Educated by Tara Westover
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel
Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carre
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens


He has read in 2019:

Lucrezia Borgia by Maria Bellonc
The Off-Islanders by Nathaniel Benchley
Circe by Madeline Miller
Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Shakespeare Requirement by Julie Schumacher
This is the Way the World Ends by Jeff Nesbit
He has read in 2018:

Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer
There There by Tommy Orange
The Courage to be Disliked by Kishimi and Koga
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Vol. 1-3 by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney
Artemis by Andy Weir
A Legacy of Spies by John Le Carre
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body  by Roxane Gay


He has read in 2017:

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Mason
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Hochschild
The Buried Giant  by Kazuo Ishiguro


He has read in 2016:

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling


He has read in 2015:

Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin
The Martian by Andy Weir
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki by Haruki Murakami




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