Reading groups

Acton, Greenford, Hanwell, Northfields and Northolt reading groups meet once a month to read a selected book.

Ealing Central Reading Groups - daytime and evening group meet once a month.

All-bar-Fiction Book Club
A book club to read and discuss non-fiction books. (e.g. history, criticism, science, arts, travel, biographies, popular philosophy, psychology).

Acton Reading Group:
The reading group is held on the last Thursday of each month at 6.30pm. If you are interested in joining the group please contact Rob Rosset, Acton Library, 119 High Street, Acton, London, W3 6NA.
Tel: (020) 8752 0999.

Reading list
August: Star of the sea - Joseph O'Connor
September: We need to talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver
October: The road home - Rose Tremain

Greenford Reading Group:
The reading group is held on the last Tuesday of each month at 6.30pm. For further information please contact Sabiha Khanum, Greenford Library, Oldfield Lane South, Greenford UB6 9LG. Tel: (020) 8578 1466.

Reading list
September: Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
October: The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
November: Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
December: Information Officer – Mark Mills
January 2011: Zennor in Darkness – Helen Dunmore
February: Crow Lake – Mary Lawson
March: The Road – Cormac McCarthy
April: My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
May: Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
June: Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
July: Troubles – J G Farrell

Hanwell Reading Group:
The reading group is held on the first Tuesday of each month 10am-11.30am. To join the group please phone the library on (020) 8567 5041

Reading list
August: Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirowsky
September: Deaf Sentence - David Lodge
October: The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
November: Then End of Mr Y - Thomas Scarlett
December: Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantell

Northfields Reading Group:
The reading group is held on the first Tuesday of each month at 6.30pm, at Northfield Avenue, Ealing, London W5 4UA. The group is currently full so we are not encouraging new membership. (Members who would like to join can be added to our waiting list). For further information please Tel: (020) 8567 5041.

Reading list

August: Wolf Hall - Hillary Mantel
September: Brooklyn - Colin Toibin
October: Dreams from my Father - Barack Obama

Northolt Reading Group:
The reading group is held on the second Thursday of each month at 6.30pm. To join the group please phone the library on (020) 8825 7296

Reading list
August: Child 44 - Tom Smith

Ealing Central Reading Groups:
The evening group meets on the third Thursday of each month at 6.30pm.

Reading list
Thursday 16 September: Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller

Titles previously discussed at evening group:
The awaking - Kate Choplin
Hidden Lives - Margaret Forster
Talking to the Dead - Helen Dunmore
Their eyes were watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Miss Garnet Angel - Salley Vickers

The daytime group meets on the first Thursday of each month at 10am-11.30am.

Reading list
August: Hilda Lessways - Arnold Bennett
Sept: Women In Love - D H Lawrence
Oct: Anything - Anita Shreve
Nov: Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
Dec: The Believers - Zoe Heller

Titles previously discussed at daytime group:
April: Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
May: Zennor In Darkness - Helen Dunmore
June: The Island - Aldous Huxley
July: The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery

To join either group phone Ealing Central Library, Tel: (020) 8567 3670 or email reading@ealing.gov.uk
Ealing Central Library is on the first floor of the Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre, W5 5JY

All-bar-Fiction Book Club:
A book club to read and discuss non-fiction books. (e.g. history, criticism, science, arts, travel, biographies, popular philosophy, psychology).

The book club meet on the third Thursday of each month, 6.30pm-7.30pm at Northfields Library,Northfields Avenue, Ealing W5 4UA. (near Northfields tube). For more information please Tel: (020) 8567 5700

Reading list
19 August: Michael Marx: A Very Short Introduction - Peter Singer
16 September: Shooting The Elephant - George Orwell
21 October: Justice – What’s the right thing to do - Michael J Sandel
18 November: Genome: Auto of the Species in 23 Chapters- Matt Ridley

Please note: This is an independent group not run by the library service.

Reader2Reader
A site for readers to share opinions about books they have read - good or bad. Readers can chat live online about their favourite books, join the online reading group, search for book reviews, or find out about good books.