1998

3.5.98 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

7.6.98 Beloved – Toni Morrison

5.7.98 Fatherland – Robert Harris

2.8.98 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernières

6.9.98 Wild Swans – Jung Chang

4.10.98 Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt

1.11.98 Vanity Fair – William Thackery

6.12.98 Possession – AS Byatt

1999

3.1.99 1,000 Acres – Jane Smiley

7.2.99 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy / Honourable School Boy / Smiley’s People – John Le Carre

7.3.99 Brazzaville Beach – William Boyd

4.4.99 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

2.5.99 Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood

6.6.99 Snow Falling on Cedars – David Gutterson

4.7.99 Behind the Scenes At the Museum – Kate Atkinson

1.8.99 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling

5.9.99 Private Papers – Margaret Forster

3.10.99 Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels

7.11.99 Longitude – Dava Sobel

5.12.99 Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes

2000

2.1.00 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

6.2.00 House of Spirits – Isabel Allende

5.3.00 Larry’s Party – Carol Shields

2.4.00 Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier

7.5.00 Northern Lights – Philip Pullman

4.6.00 In the Springtime of the Year – Susan Hill

2.7.00 Fasting, Feasting – Anita Desai

6.8.00 Stalingrad – Anthony Beevor

3.9.00 Other People’s Children – Joanna Trollope

1.10.00 Enduring Love – Ian McEwan

22.10.00 The Miller’s Tale/Prologue – Geoffrey Chaucer

3.12.00 Waterland – Graham Swift

2001

7.1.01 Man and Boy – Tony Parsons

4.2.01 Moon Tiger – Penelope Lively

4.3.01 Touching the Void – Joe Simpson

1.4.01 The Witch of Exmoor – Margaret Drabble

6.5.01 The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy

3.6.01 The Shipping News – Annie Proulx

1.7.01 The Kitchen God’s Wife – Amy Tan

5.8.01 London Fields – Martin Amis

2.9.01 The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing

7.10.01 If I Don’t Know, Serious Concerns, Making Cocoa – Wendy Cope for Kingsley Amis

4.11.01 Talking to the Dead – Helen Dunmore

2.12.01 About a Boy – Nick Hornby

2002

6.1.02 Knots and Crosses / The Falls – Ian Rankin

3.2.02 Empire of the Sun – JG Ballard

3.3.02 Music and Silence – Rose Tremain

7.4.02 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

5.5.02 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter – Mario Vargas Llosa

2.6.02 Headlong – Michael Frayn

7.7.02 See Under Love – David Grossman

4.8.02 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou

1.9.02 From the Holy Mountain – William Dalrymple

6.10.02 A Dark-Adapted Eye – Barbara Vine

3.11.02 The Illustrated Mum – Jacqueline Wilson

1.12.02 Polo – Jilly Cooper

2003

5.1.03 Writing Home – Alan Bennett

2.2.03 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

2.3.03 After Rain – William Trevor

6.4.03 An Awfully Big Adventure – Beryl Bainbridge

4.5.03 Original Sin – PD James

1.6.03 Rebecca – Sally Beauman for Daphne du Maurier

6.7.03 The Tortilla Curtain – T Coraghessan Boyle

3.8.03 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire – Amanda Foreman

7.9.03 Down by the River – Edna O’Brien

5.10.03 Junk – Melvin Burgess

2.11.03 Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud

7.12.03 Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd

2004

4.1.04 Clinging to the Wreckage and Rumpole & the Younger Generation – John Mortimer

1.2.04 True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey

7.3.04 Fingersmith – Sarah Waters

4.4.04 Falling – Elizabeth Jane Howard

2.5.04 Nice Work – David Lodge

6.6.04 The Scold’s Bridle – Minette Walters

7.7.04 Mort – Terry Pratchett

1.8.04 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark

5.9.04 The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster

3.10.04 How the Dead Live – Will Self

7.11.04 Regeneration – Pat Barker

5.12.04 The World’s Wife – Carol Ann Duffy

2005

2.1.05 White Teeth – Zadie Smith

6.2.05 A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson

6.3.05 The Hippopotamus – Stephen Fry

3.4.05 Independence Day – Richard Ford

1.5.05 Small Island – Andrea Levy

5.6.05 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾
- Sue Townsend

3.7.05 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- Dr Oliver Sacks

7.8.05 Blood Rain – Michael Dibden

4.9.05 Le Grand Meaulnes – Alain-Fournier
[Michèle Roberts was our guide]

2.10.05 The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi

6.11.05 The Gunpowder Plot – Antonia Fraser

4.12.05 We Were the Mulvaneys – Joyce Carol Oates

2006

1.1.06 Flashman – George MacDonald Fraser

5.2.06 Holidays in Hell – P.J. O’Rourke

5.3.06 We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver

2.4.06 Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman

7.5.06 Hotel World – Ali Smith

4.6.06 Time to Depart – Lindsey Davis

2.7.06 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- John Berendt

6.8.06 Rum Punch – Elmore Leonard

3.9.06 English Passengers – Matthew Kneale

1.10.06 Old Filth – Jane Gardam

5.11.06 Malignant Sadness – Lewis Wolpert

3.12.06 Miss Garnet’s Angel – Salley Vickers

2007

7.1.07 The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen

4.2.07 The Mermaids Singing – Val McDermid

4.3.07 Eleanor of Aquitaine – Alison Weir

1.4.07 What A Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe

6.5.07 My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult

3.06.07 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

1.07.07 The Female Eunuch – Germaine Greer

5.08.07 The Remorseful Day – Colin Dexter

2.09.07 Tales of City – Armistead Maupin

7.10.07 Joseph Knight – James Robertson

4.11.07 The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

2.12.07 Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally

2008

6.01.08 Alice Sebold -The Lovely Bones

3.02.08 The Birth of Venus – Sarah Dunant

2.03.08 William Pitt the Younger, A Biography – William Hague

6.04.08 Simon Armitage – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

4.05.08 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half of a Yellow Sun

8.06.08 Jan Morris – Venice

6.07.08 ÅsneSeierstad – The Bookseller of Kabul

3.08.08 Colm Toibin – The Master

7.09.08 Gore Vidal – Point to Point Navigation

Complete list of Radio 4 book club books from 1998-2008 is a post from: Book Addicts Book Group

BBC RADIO 4 covers Arts & Drama, which includes a radio book club.

Next Week, they are talking live with JOHN BERENDT, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which is set in Savannah, Georgia.  It was also made into a movie starring Kevin Spacey a few years ago.  John Berendt has also written another book this year entitled ‘City of Angels’ which is set in Venice, Italy.

About Midnight in the garden of good and evil:
“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” by John Berendt. This engaging account of life and death (murder) in secluded Savannah, Georgia, is peopled with remarkable characters and has become a modern classic.

The Radio 4 Book club discussion with John Berendt is at the following times next week:

4pm Sunday 2 July 2006
4pm Thursday 6 July 2006

THESE ARE UK TIMES, you will have to check your timezone for the time difference – probably about 5-6hours for those in the US.

I have added the Radio 4 link to the Empire Radio module on the forum.  It is working with IE so you just have to click on it to listen, but if you are using Opera or Firefox you will need a Real Player plugin to listen to it.  This plugin can be downloaded from the opera /firefox home page and you will be prompted to download it when you click on the Radio 4 link.

Radio 4 book club is a post from: Book Addicts Book Group