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 (Jan - Dec 2010)

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

Past reads

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