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Actually, the tiny list of group reads at the moment. But I'm sure as it grows it will become much more useful as an easy to access resource for the books we've read as a group.

Please don't nominate any of these for future group reads.

Previous

2015
Jul: How to Be Both by Ali Smith - Baileys Prize Winner
Aug: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler - Open Choice
Sep: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin - Fantasy
Oct: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson - Open Choice
Nov: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - Banned/Challenged Books
Dec: Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai - Open Choice

2016
Jan: Mauprat by George Sand - Classics
Feb: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Open Choice
Mar: Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto - Translated Fiction
Apr: Eva Luna by Isabel Allende - Open Choice
May: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - Historical Fiction
Jun: The Bees by Laline Paull - Open Choice
Jul: The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney - Baileys Prize Winner
Aug: Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart - Open Choice
Sep: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter - Short Stories
Oct: Outline by Rachel Cusk - Open Choice
Nov: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin - Science-Fiction
Dec - Jan: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows - 2016 Runners up

2017
Feb: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - Open Choice
Feb: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy - Read Around the World: India [Asia]
March: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey - Myths, Fairytales & Retellings
April: White Teeth by Zadie Smith - Literary Award Winners
April: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi - RAtW: Ghana [Africa]
May: Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly - Non-Fiction
June: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - Open Choice
June: The Secret History by Donna Tartt - RAtW: USA [North America]
July: The Power by Naomi Alderman - Baileys Prize Winner
July: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir - NF: Memoir/Autobiography
August: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood - Crime/Mystery
August: Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez - RAtW: Argentina [South America]
September: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas - Teen/Young Adult
September: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks - NF: Feminism
October: The Shipping News by Annie Proulx - Open Choice
October: The Bone People by Keri Hulme - RAtW: New Zealand [Oceania]
November: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg - LGBTQ
November: The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert - NF: Natural History
December: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi - has TV/Film adaptation
December: Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - RatW: Switzerland [Europe]

2018
January: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - 2017 Runner up
January: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - 2017 Runner up
February: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery - 1900-1909
February: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang - RAtW: China [Asia]
March: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin - Open Choice
March: Unnatural Selection by Mara Hvistendahl - NF: Science
April: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Children's Books
April: Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta - RAtW: Nigeria [Africa]
May: Alice by Christina Henry - Horror
May: Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard - NF: History
June: The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui - Open Choice
June: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel - RatW: Mexico [N. America]
July: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie - Women's Prize for Fiction Winner 2018
July: Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis - NF: Open Choice
August: The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith - 1950s
August: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector - RAtW: Brazil [S. America]
September: Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor - Open Choice
September: The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater - NF: True Crime
October: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - Fantasy
October: Am I Black Enough For You? by Anita Heiss - RAtW: Australia [Oceanea]
November: Beloved by Toni Morrison - Black & African American
November: Sylvia Pankhurst by Katherine Connelly- NF: Biography
December: Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon - Open Choice
December: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah - RAtW: France [Europe]

2019
January: Umami by Laia Jufresa - 2018 Runner Up
January: Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick - 2018 NF Runner up
February: Night and Day by Virginia Woolf - 1910s
February: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee - RAtW: Japan [Missed Countries]
March: Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers - Open Choice
March: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit - NF: Essays
April: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman - Debut works
April: Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin - RAtW: South Korea [Asia & Oceania]
May: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel - Comic/Graphic Novel
May: Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis - NF: Civil Rights/Social Justice
June: Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera - Open Choice
June: So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ - RAtW: Senegal [Africa]
July: Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine - Open Choice
July: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones - Women's Prize for Fiction
August: Ariel by Sylvia Plath - 1960s
August: The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart - RAtW: Guadeloupe [the Americas]
September: The Word for Woman is Wilderness by Abi Andrews - Open Choice
September: Lizzie Siddal by Lucinda Hawksley - NF: Historical Biography
October: The Leavers by Lisa Ko - Asian-American/Canadian
October: Flights by Olga Tokarczuk - RAtW: Poland [Europe]
November: Rebecca Daphne du Maurier - Gothic
November: Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward - NF: Open Choice
December: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd - Open Choice
December: Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson - RAtW: Canada [Open Choice]

2020
January: She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore - 2019 Runner Up
January: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft - NF: 2019 Runner Up
February: Passing by Nella Larsen - 1920s
February: First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung - RAtW: Cambodia [Missed Countries]
March: Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli - Open Choice
March: My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Néel - NF: Travel
March: Alone Time by Stephanie Rosenbloom - NF: Travel
April: The Matchstick Girl by Suzanne Hocking - LGBT+
April: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga - RAtW: Zimbabwe

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Current
May: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin - Science Fiction
May: Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez - NF: Open Choice

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Upcoming
June: The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld - Open Choice
June: Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck - RAtW: Sweden

Group Reads organised by alphabetically by author:

A
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun (Feb 2016)
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women (Apr 2018)
Naomi Alderman - The Power (Jul 2017)
Isabel Allende - Eva Luna (Apr 2016)
Isabel Allende - The House of the Spirits (Oct 2018)
Abi Andrews - The Word for Woman is Wilderness (Sep 2019)
Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Jan 2018)
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (Feb 2017)
Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace (Aug 2017)

B
Mariama Bâ - So Long a Letter (Jun 2019)
Annie Barrows - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Dec 2016-Jan 2017)
Mary Beard - Women & Power: A Manifesto (May 2018)
Simone de Beauvoir - Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Jul 2017)
Alison Bechdel - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (May 2019)
Thi Bui - The Best We Could Do (Jun 2018)
Octavia E. Butler - Kindred (Aug 2015)

C
Joanna Cannon - Three Things About Elsie (Dec 2018)
Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Sep 2016)
Jung Chang - Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Feb 2018)
Katherine Connelly - Sylvia Pankhurst (Nov 2018)
Caroline Criado Perez - Invisible Women (May 2020)
Rachel Cusk - Outline (Oct 2016)

D
Tsitsi Dangarembga - Nervous Conditions (Apr 2020)
Alexandra David-Néel - My Journey to Lhasa (Mar 2020)
Angela Y. Davis - Women, Race, and Class (Jul 2018)
Angela Y. Davis - Freedom Is a Constant Struggle (May 2019)
Barbara Demick - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Jan 2019)
Rene Denfeld - The Child Finder (Jun 2020)
Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca (Nov 2019)

E
Mariana Enríquez - Things We Lost in the Fire (Aug 2017)
Laura Esquivel - Like Water for Chocolate (Jun 2018)

F
Fannie Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Nov 2017)

G
Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing (Apr 2017)

H
Kristin Hannah - The Nightingale (Dec 2018)
Lucinda Hawksley - Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel (Sep 2019)
Anita Heiss - Am I Black Enough For You? (Oct 2018)
Christina Henry - Alice (May 2018)
Patricia Highsmith - The Price of Salt (Aug 2018)
Suzanne Hocking - The Matchstick Girl (Apr 2020)
Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Apr 2019)
bell hooks - Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Sep 2017)
Keri Hulme - The Bone People (Oct 2017)
Mara Hvistendahl - Unnatural Selection (Mar 2018)

I
Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child (Mar 2017)

J
Tove Jansson - The Summer Book (Oct 2015)
N.K. Jemisin - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Sep 2015)
Tayari Jones - An American Marriage (Jul 2019)
Laia Jufresa - Umami (Jan 2019)

K
Sue Monk Kidd - The Secret Life of Bees (Dec 2019)
Lisa Ko - The Leavers (Oct 2019)
Elizabeth Kolbert - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Nov 2017)

L
Thanhha Lai - Inside Out & Back Again (Dec 2015)
Nella Larsen - Passing (Feb 2020)
Min Jin Lee - Pachinko (Feb 2019)
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness (Nov 2016)
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed (Mar 2018)
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven (May 2020)
Clarice Lispector - The Hour of the Star (Aug 2018)
Valeria Luiselli - Lost Children Archive (Mar 2020)

M
Lisa McInerney - The Glorious Heresies (Jul 2016)
L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables (Feb 2018)
Wayétu Moore - She Would Be King (Jan 2020)
Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye (Nov 2015)
Toni Morrison - Beloved (Nov 2018)
Nayomi Munaweera - Island of a Thousand Mirrors (Jun 2019)

N

O
Nnedi Okorafor - Akata Witch (Sep 2018)
Chinelo Okparanta - Under the Udala Trees (Apr 2018)

P
Laline Paull - The Bees (Jun 2016)
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar (Jun 2017)
Sylvia Plath - Ariel (Aug 2019)
Annie Proulx - The Shipping News (Oct 2017)

Q

R
Claudia Rankine - Citizen: An American Lyric (Jul 2019)
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea (May 2016)
Eden Robinson - Monkey Beach (Dec 2019)
Stephanie Rosenbloom - Alone Time (Mar 2020)
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things (Feb 2017)

S
George Sand - Mauprat (Jan 2016)
Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Dec 2017)
Simone Schwarz-Bart - The Bridge of Beyond (Aug 2019)
Mary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Dec 2016-Jan 2017)
Kamila Shamsie - Home Fire (Jul 2018)
Margot Lee Shetterly - Hidden Figures (May 2017)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein (Dec 2017)
Kyung-Sook Shin - Please Look After Mother (Apr 2019)
Dashka Slater - The 57 Bus (Sep 2018)
Ali Smith - How to Be Both (Jul 2015)
Zadie Smith - White Teeth (Apr 2017)
Rebecca Solnit - Men Explain Things to Me (Mar 2019)
Amy Stewart - Girl Waits with Gun (Aug 2016)

T
Donna Tartt - The Secret History (Jun 2017)
Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch (Jan 2018)
Angie Thomas - The Hate U Give (Sep 2017)
Karin Tidbeck - Jagannath (Jun 2020)
Olga Tokarczuk - Flights (Oct 2019)
P.L. Travers - Mary Poppins (Mar 2019)

U
Loung Ung - First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Feb 2020)

V

W
Jesmyn Ward - Men We Reaped (Nov 2019)
Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Jan 2020)
Virginia Woolf - Night and Day (Feb 2019)

X

Y
Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen (Mar 2016)

Z

wow will try

Thanks for this, I have a lot to catch up on!