Yellow Caribou Readers - http://www.yellowcariboureaders.co.uk/

Welcome to the Yellow Caribou Readers web page. The Yellow Caribou Readers is a spin-off group from the Red Deer Readers - we used to meet in the Red Deer pub too. We read a wide range of books, the only rule being that they are available in paperback.

We're a general reading group that meets on the third Thursday of the month at 8.30pm in the Scarborough Room of the University Arms, 197 Brook Hill, Sheffield. The group discusses a wide range of books and selections include fiction, biography, poetry, etc.

For more information about the Yellow Caribou Readers, please send us an email - info@yellowcariboureaders.co.uk or join our Facebook group.

Forthcoming reads

19 January 2012
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene

16 February 2012
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

22 March 2012
The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte

19 April 2012
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

17 May 2012
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

21 June 2012
Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

Past reads

2011

Thursday 21st January
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Thursday 17 February
Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban

Thursday 17th March
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Thursday 21st April
number9dream by David Mitchell

Thursday 19 May
Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey

Thursday 16th June
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt

18 August 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

15 September 2011
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

20 October 2011
Candide by Voltaire

17 November 2011
The City & the City by China Melville

15 December 2011
The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination by Javier Cercas and Anne McLean

2010

15 July Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5

19 August Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

16 September Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

21 October Death and The Penguin - Andrey Kurkov

18 November Donna Tartt – The Secret History

16 December Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

January - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

February - Charles Bukowski - Ham on Rye

March - The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies

April - Paradise Lost by John Milton

May - Raymond Queneau: Zazie in the Metro

June - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

2009

15th Jan - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

19th Feb - Landor's Tower: Or, the Imaginary Conversations by Iain Sinclair

19th March - Watchmen by Alan Moore

16th April - Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin

21st May - The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher

18th June - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

16th July - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

20th August - The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

17th September - Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander

15th October - The Waves by Virginia Woolf

19th November - 11 Minutes by Paulo Coelho

17th December - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

2008

January 17th - One Good Turn By Kate Atkinson
February 21st - Under The Frog by Tibor Fischer
March 20th - The Cloud-spotters guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
17th April - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Attwood
15th May - On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
19th June - Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland

17th July - The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by GK Chesterton
21st August - Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson
18th Sept - The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
16th October - A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
20th November - Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction by Kate Wheeler
18th December - All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

2007

January 18th - Count Magnus and Other Stories, M.R.James (wintery...dark nights of January and a book of stories mean that we can at least read some of this book during the next three short weeks. This one was MOST popular - the fave)

February 15th - Love in a Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez(Love is always important in February)

March 15th - Stuart a Life Backwards, Alexander Masters (mmmmm cheery stuff for March, which is usually a wintery load of rubbish kind of month in my experience)

April 19th - The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (a long book...so we have some easter bank holiday for catching up on reading)

May 17th - Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (another long one with a May day to help)

June 21st - Oracle Night, Paul Auster (lighter nights and a spot of sun means we can all cope with with some chilling Brooklyn storytelling.)

19th July - Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

16th August - Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis

20th September - Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov

18th October - My Ear at His Heart, Hanif Kureishi

15th November - Vineland, Thomas Pynchon

13th December - Thus Spake Zaruthustra, Friedrich Nietzsche - get the full text of the book, legally and for free from Project Gutenberg

2006

February 16th - The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills

All is not as it seems in this witty sardonic black comedy.

March 16th - The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

New-age existentialist fable where 'Heaven' is more like that of 'The Lovely Bones' than the afterworld of 'Paradise Lost'.

April 20th - Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

From the author of 'The Virgin Suicides'. A dramatic change of style and a BIG book about a rare genetic mutation and several generations of a Greek-American family. A nominated title for the Big Gay Read promotion.

May 18th - Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize, Adichie's novel is the story of family secrets set in Nigeria during a time of political unrest.

June 15th - Three Day Road - Joseph Boyden

Set in the First World War, Three Day Road is told through the eyes of two Canadian Cree Indians: Niska, the last Indian woman living off the land in Canada, and her nephew, Xavier. Race, Culture, and little known 20th century history.

July 20th - A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

17th August - We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver

21st September - Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome

19th October - The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch

16th November - Affinity, Sarah Waters

14th December - Northern Lights, Philip Pullman