If you like talking about literature in pubs, we're the book group for you!
The Yellow Caribou Readers is a book group which meets monthly in Sheffield, England.
We read a wide range of books, usually fiction, but sometimes biography, poetry or uncategorisable. The only rule being that they are available in paperback. See below for our past reads.
We now meet on the third WEDNESDAY of the month at 8.30pm at the University Arms, 197 Brook Hill, Sheffield. Usually we are in the Darts Room, upstairs.
For more information about the Yellow Caribou Readers, please send an email to tom [at] idiolect [dot] org [dot] uk
or join our Facebook group.
2026
21 Jan The Order of the Day by Eric Vuillard
18 Feb East of Eden by John Steinbeck
18 March Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang
15 April Baudolino by Umberto Eco
20 May Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
17 June North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
2025
15 Jan The Thinking About Gladys Machine by Mario Levrero
19 Feb A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
19 March The Years by Annie Ernaux
16 April Blindness by Jose Saramago
21 May Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
18 June Julia by Sandra Newman
16 July Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
20 Aug My Friends by Hisham Matar
17 September The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
15 October Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
19 November The Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle By Stuart Turton
17 December Germinal by Émile Zola
2024
17 Jan Jill by Philip Larkin
21 Feb The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
20 March Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
17 April Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes
15 May My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
19 June Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
17 July Chess Story by Stefan Zwieg
21 August Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
18 Sept Three by Ann Quin
16 October Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima
20 November Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
18 December Hide and Seek by Dennis Potter
2023
18 January The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
15 February A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
15 March People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan’s Shadows by Richard Lloyd Parry
19 April Nothing on Earth by Connor O’Callaghan
17 May Fracture: Adventures of a Broken Body by Ann Oakley
21 June City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis
19 July The Sea by John Banville
16 August The Circle by Dave Eggers
20 Sept The Good Lion by Len Doherty
18 Oct Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
15 Nov No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
20 Dec A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
2022
19 January Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood.
16 February A River Called Time by Courttia Newland
16 March The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
20 April Primeval and other Times by Olga Tokarczuk
18 May Libra by Don Delillo
15 June In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova
20 July Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
17 August Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
21 September Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
19 October The Yield by Tara June Winch.
16 November Municipal Gothic: 13 ghost stories by Ray Newman
21 December Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
2021
20 January Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
17 February Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Woodhouse
17 March The Machine Stops by E M Forster
21 April Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo
19 May The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams
16 June A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
21 July The Doll: Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier
18 August The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Le Carre
15 Sept Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
20 October The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
17 November Just Us by Claudia Rankine
15 December Khirbet Khizeh by S. Yizhar
2020
15 Jan The Vegetarian by Han Kang
19 Feb Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18 Mar My Cousin My Gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner
15 Apr Gossip from the Forest by Sara Maitland
20 May The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
17 June The Bell by Iris Murdoch
15 July Amalgamemnon by Christine Brooke-Rose
19 August Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
16 Sept Go tell it on the mountain by James Baldwin
21 Oct Afropean by Johny Pitts.
18 Nov Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
16 Dec The Ace of Lightning by Stephen-Paul Martin
2019
Jan 16th Brief Interviews With Hideous Men By David Foster Wallace
Feb 20th The Abode of Fancy by Sam Coll
March 20th Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
April 17th A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
May 15th Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
June 19th Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
17 Jul Berg by Ann Quin
21 Aug A Death in the Family: My Struggle, book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard.
18 Sep Philip Larkin Poems: Selected By Martin Amis (Faber Poetry)
16 Oct Autumn by Ali Smith
20 Nov Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
18 Dec Border Districts by Gerald Murnane
2018
JAN 17th - Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future by Svetlana Alexievich
FEB 21st - The Bear and The Nightingale by Katherine Arden
MARCH 21st - Fingers In The Sparkle Jar: A Memoir By Chris Packham
APRIL 18th - Temporary People Paperback by Deepak Unnikrishnan
MAY 23rd - My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
JUNE 20th - To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann (translated by Shaun Whiteside)
July 18th The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
August 15th The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
September 19th War with the Newts by Karel Čapek
October 17th The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin.
November 21st Travellers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd
December 19th Last Stories by William Trevora
2017
18th Jan - Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
15th Feb - The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
15th Mar - The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
19th Apr - Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin
17th May - The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
21st Jun - The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett
July 19th - Doll's Alphabet by Camilla Grudova
August 16th - Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me by Richard Farina
Sept 20th - The Shadow of the Wind: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 1 by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Oct 18th - All Involved by Ryan Gattis
Nov 15th - The Interpreter by Suki Kim
Dec 20th - Highrise by JG Ballard
2016
20th January - The Inheritors by William Golding
17th February - The Complete Grimm's Fairytales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
16th March - The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
20th April - Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake:
18th May - The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold by Jeanette Winterson
15th June - Equus by Peter Shaffer
20th July Sea Lovers by Valerie Martin
17th Aug White Noise by Don Delillo
15th Sept The Poetry Deal by Diane di Prima
19th Oct Purity by Jonathan Franzen
16th Nov Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
21st Dec The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher J Koch
2015
21 January 2015 - Chocky by John Wyndham
18 February 2015 - The Keep by Jennifer Egan
18 March 2015 - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
15 April 2015 - The Getaway by Jim Thompson
20 May 2015 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
17 June 2015 - A Question of Loyalties by Allan Massie
July 15th: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
August 19th: The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
September 16th: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
October 21st: The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai
November 18th: The White Album by Joan Didion
December 16th: The Bees by Laline Paull
2014
15 January 2014 *CHANGE OF DATE, NOW 22 January 2014*
A Change of Climate by Hilary Mantel
19 February 2014
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
19 March 2014
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
16 April 2014
The Sea Room by Adam Nicholson
21 May 2014
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
18 June 2014
Stoner by John Williams
16 July 2014
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
20 August 2014
The Plague by Albert Camus
17 September 2014
Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux
15 October 2014
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
19 November 2014
Men in Space by Tom McCarthy
17 December 2014
The Winter Book by Tove Jannson
2013
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
Brick Lane - Monica Ali
The Butcher's Hands - Catherine Smith
Falling Angels - Tracy Chevalier
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture - Douglas Coupland
Ingenious Pain - Andrew Miller
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
The L-Shaped Room - Lynne Reid-Banks
The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Small Island - Andrea Levy
Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin
The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger
Timolean Vieta Come Home - Dan Rhodes
The White Peacock - DH Lawrence
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