One of best things about going to Oxford was the chance to discuss interesting topics with like minded people. To recreate this we have previously run a non-fiction and a fiction book club, which discussed the books below. These could be revived if there is sufficient interest.
Meetings of the non-fiction book club
2022
March
Book: Fifty Sounds, Polly Barton
January
Book: Citizen Clem, John Bew
2021
November
Book: Anthro-Vision, Gillian Tett
October
Book: What We Owe Each Other, Minouche Shafik
August
Book: Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country, John Kampfner
June
Book: Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson
April
Book: Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain, Sathnam Sanghera
February
Book: The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?, Michael Sandel
January
Books: Democracy for Sale, Peter Geoghegan
This is not Propaganda, Peter Pomerantsev
2020
November
Book: The Beautiful Cure, Daniel M Davis
April Meeting – cancelled.
Book: Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, Melanie Mitchell
January
Book: How Democracy Ends by David Runciman
2019
September
Book: The Invention of Russia, Arkady Ostrovsky
July
Book: The Brain, David Eagleman
March
Book: The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy, Anthony Gottlieb
2018
December
Book: Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China, Evan Osnos
September
Book: How did we get into this mess?: Politics, Equality and Nature, George Monbiot
July
Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
May
Book: The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason, Christopher de Bellaigue
March
Book: A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution, Joanna Doudna and Samual Sternbery
January Meeting
Book: Edmund Burke: The Visionary who Invented Modern Politics, Jesse Norman
2017
Autumn Meeting
Book: The Price of Inequality, Joseph Stiglitz,
Summer Meeting
Book: Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century, John Higgs
Inaugural Meeting
Book: Man Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
Our first book club meeting took place on Wednesday 15th March in central Bristol. We discussed Viktor Frankl’s Man Search for Meaning, which led to a lively and wide-ranging discussion.
Previous meetings of the fiction book club
2022
February
Date & time: Tuesday 1st February, 7.30 p.m.
Venue: online (Zoom)
Book: The London Train, Tessa Hadley
2021
December
Book: Everything You Ever Wanted, Luiza Sauma
October
Book: Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell
August
Book: The Liar’s Dictionary, Eley Williams
March
Book: The Shepherd’s Hut, Tim Winton
January
Book: The Falconer, Dana Czapnik
2020
December:
Book: Less, Andrew Sean Greer
November (Inaugural meeting)
Book: Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo
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