| Status: | Active, full but can join waiting list |
| Convenor: | |
| Group email: | Reading for Pleasure group |
| When: | Monthly on Wednesday mornings 1st Wednesday of the Month at 10.30 |
| Venue: | High Wycombe Library |
We meet in High Wycombe library each month to discuss the book we have read in the previous month. Sometimes we have all loved the book but usually there is a divergence of opinions.
The library has sets of books which we can borrow so there is no cost involved.
Reading for pleasure - November 2026
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
In may 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the Lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He expects to be taken to the Big House but few who are taken there ever return.
Previous reads
Other titles we have read recently include
Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Cold Comfort Farm
Persuasion
Limitless by Tim Peake
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
'The Librarian of Auschwitz' by Antonio Iturbe
The Famished Road" by Ben Okri
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
" I am Malala" by Malala Yousafzai
'Lessons in Chemistry' by Bonnie Garmus
'Lady in Waiting' By Anne Glenconner
' The Salt Path' by Raynor Winn.
"The Narrow Road to the deep North" by Richard Flanagan.
"A Rising man " by Abir Mukherjee
,"The Doll Factory" by Elizabeth MacNeal.
"Leonard and Hungry Paul" by Ronan Hession".
" The Blue Book" by A.L.Kennedy.
"One Good turn" by Kate Atkinson.
,"The Clocks in this house all tell Different Times" by Xan Brooks.
"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck.
"The Old Devils" by Kingsley Amis.
"The Single ladies of Jacuranda Retirement Village " by Joanna Nell.
"The Book of Speculation" by Swyler.
"His Bloody Project" by Graeme Mccrae Burnett.
"Becoming" by Michele Obama.
"Yesterday's Sun" by Amanda Brooke.
"A Change of Circumstance" by Susan Hill.