Book Club

 

BOOK LIST

The books discussed:

  • EMMA by Jane Austen
  • EATING ANIMALS by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • THE END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB by Will Schwalbe
  • AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH by Neil Postman
  • THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST by Mohsin Hamid
  • TIPPING POINT by Malcolm Gladwell (14th Apr 2015)
  • ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell (12th May 2015)
  • ISLAM IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ABDULLAH QUILLIAM by Ron Geaves (9th June 2015)
  • SIGNS ON THE HORIZONS by Michael Sugich (8th Sept 2015)
  • THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS by Fariduddin Attar (13th Oct 2015)
  • THE FORTY RULES OF LOVE by Elif Shafak (10th Nov 2015)
  • THE LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding (12th Jan 2016)
  • THE RED TENT by Anita Diamant (9th Feb 2016)
  • THE LOVERS OF ALGERIA  by Anour Benmalek (12th April 2016)
  • WOMEN WHO RUN WITH WOLVES by Clarissa Pinkola Estes (17th May 2016)
  • IF THE OCEANS WERE INK by Carla Power(2nd Aug 2016)
  • THE CIRCLE by Dave Eggers (6th Sept 2016)

 

 

Please let us know if you need any help sourcing books. As well as the usual sources to buy new and used copies, there are a number of easy ways to find books for free:

  • Kindle App – useful in particular for classics, which are often free on the Kindle app – simply download the app onto your phone / tablet and download books directly from amazon
  • Healthy Planet “Books for free” – this charity rescues unwanted books otherwise destined for landfills and redistributes these for free. A new centre has newly opened in Luton town centre in the old Yorkshire Bank building https://beta.healthyplanet.org/
  • Library – check the online catalogue and reserve online… http://www.lutonculture.com/luton-libraries/renewals/ 

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USEFUL LINKS / READS

Some general questions and points to consider when reading fiction… http://www.litlovers.com/run-a-book-club/questions-for-fiction

A useful talk by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf on “How to Read a book”, which is based on a book of the same title by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHIiqWqPOng)

A list available of books mentioned by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf in some of his talks, which cover a range of topics and include both fiction and non fiction titles…  http://sheikhhamza.com/recommendations/1. For most of the books on the list, there is mention of the lecture in which the book was mentioned and brief summary of comments from SHY in relation to that book, by clicking on the book title.