Category: Domestic Fiction

Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata

Posted on May 20, 2023 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Suzy Keiko is a young Japanese convenience store woman who enjoys the repetitive nature of her job, often referring to the store manual to act and respond to requests appropriately. Her simplistic life is ridiculed by friends and family for… Continue Reading “Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata”

Category: Domestic Fiction, Female Experience, Japanese, Translated

Lessons – Ian McEwan

Posted on January 27, 2023 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jodie In a type of anti-memoir, McEwan has created Roland, a character who has lived the same years as him, observed the same global events and pondered the same questions about humanity and society. Roland has even lived in some… Continue Reading “Lessons – Ian McEwan”

Category: Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, UK author

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

Posted on November 2, 2022 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jo The lives of two African-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia in the early to mid 20th Century are detailed in The Color Purple. Celie is raped by her stepfather and bears two children to him who are sent… Continue Reading “The Color Purple – Alice Walker”

Category: Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Feminism, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, Queer, US fiction

Crossroads – Jonathan Franzen

Posted on April 20, 2022 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Suzy The Hilderbrandts are a clery family from New Prospect, Illinois. The minister father heads a youth group named Crossroads, yet this reference also pertains to the members of the Hilderbrandt family, who are all in a quandary of sorts… Continue Reading “Crossroads – Jonathan Franzen”

Category: Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Literary fiction, US fiction

Greta & Valdin – Rebecca K Reilly

Posted on March 26, 2022 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS Greta and Valdin are brother and sister, both gay, with mixed heritages and living together in Auckland attempting to navigate life and all its triumphs and tribulations. Greta is a student/English tutor with a misguided crush on friend and… Continue Reading “Greta & Valdin – Rebecca K Reilly”

Category: Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction

Blue Ticket – Sophie MackIntosh

Posted on September 22, 2021 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jo Set in a dystopian future, all women, on the first day of their menstruation, are allocated a future at random: a white ticket grants marriage and children; a blue ticket grants a career and freedom. Women are told this… Continue Reading “Blue Ticket – Sophie MackIntosh”

Category: Domestic Fiction, Dystopian, Feminism, Literary fiction, Science Fiction, UK author

Netherland – Joseph O’Neill

Posted on November 28, 2009 by

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 READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Suzy In Netherland, we follow immigrant Dutchman Hans van den Broek, a financial analyst and cricket enthusiast, across a period of social turmoil following the 911 terror attacks on New York City. At the same time, Hans’ wife Rachel… Continue Reading “Netherland – Joseph O’Neill”

Category: Booker Prize, Colonisation, Contemporary fiction, Cultural, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Immigrant story, Irish, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Realist, US fictionTags:

The 10pm Question – Kate de Goldi

Posted on November 2, 2009 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Nadine Twelve year old Frankie Parsons worries about many things. His mother, who never leaves the house, is the only person who takes his concerns seriously. He develops the habit of posing a serious question to her at 10pm every… Continue Reading “The 10pm Question – Kate de Goldi”

Category: Children's fiction, Coming of Age, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Humour, Kiwi lit, NZ Book Awards, Psychological, Realist, YATags: ,

The Children’s Book – A S Byatt

Posted on September 15, 2009 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON Loosely based on the life of E Nesbit, The Children’s Book follows the lives of several inter-related families from 1895 through WWI. ❚ “The Wellwood family consists of Olive, Humphrey, Olive’s sister Violet, and many children. They are Fabians, living in… Continue Reading “The Children’s Book – A S Byatt”

Category: Art, Booker Prize, Coming of Age, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Female Experience, Feminism, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, Metafiction, Mthyical/folklore, Political, Psychological, UK author, War storyTags: ,

The Outcast – Sadie Jones

Posted on June 9, 2009 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Rachel Eight year old Lewis Alridge meets his father for the first time in 1945, newly returned from the war. Life awkwardly ekes by until one day there is a tragedy in the family which sets Lewis on a… Continue Reading “The Outcast – Sadie Jones”

Category: Coming of Age, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Female Experience, Historical Fiction, Psychological, Realist, Thriller, UK author, Women's PrizeTags:

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