Book Club

One of best things about going to Oxford was the chance to discuss interesting topics with like minded people. To recreate this we have a non-fiction book club which currently meets online (previously in central Bristol). If you're interested in attending this please email bookclub@oxford-bristolbath.org and we'll provide more details.  Our fiction book club could be revived if there were sufficient interest.

 

Meetings of the non-fiction book club

2022

March

Date and time: Thursday 24th March, 7 p.m.
Venue: online (Zoom)

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 Meeting

Book: The Beautiful Cure, Daniel M Davis

April Meeting - cancelled.

Book: Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, Melanie Mitchell

January Meeting

Book: How Democracy Ends by David Runciman

2019

September Meeting

Book: The Invention of Russia, Arkady Ostrovsky

July Meeting

Book: The Brain, David Eagleman 

March Meeting

Book: The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy, Anthony Gottlieb

2018

December Meeting

Book: Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China, Evan Osnos

September Meeting

Book: How did we get into this mess?: Politics, Equality and Nature, George Monbiot

July Meeting

Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

May Meeting

Book: The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason, Christopher de Bellaigue

March Meeting

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

 

Background: Duke Humfrey's Library, University of Oxford (Photo by David Iliff. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0)

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