The Next Chapter Book Club

These are the books that were nominated but not chosen by the group.

2025

• Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum, translated by Shanna Tan
• The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
• Quantum Radio by A G Riddle
• Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Orbital by Samantha Harvey
• Infinity Gate by M R Carey x 2
• Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• Sea of Tranquillity by Emily St. John Mandel
• Kindred by Octavia E Butler
• The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
• Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
• A Beginner’s Guide To Breaking And Entering by Andrew Hunter Murray
• Death At The White Hart by Chris Chibnall
• The Malevolent Seven by Sebastien de Castell
• Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

2024

• I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume
• The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
• The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi
• The Humans by Matt Haig
• Parasite Planet and The Lotus Eaters by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
• Battleground by Joshua Dalzelle
• Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe
• ​​​​​​​The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan-Doyle
• My Policeman by Bethan Roberts
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• Wool: Wool Trilogy, Book 1 by Hugh Howey
• Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
• Little Secrets by Jennifer Hiller
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides – twice!
• Surface Detail by Iain M Banks
• The Circle by Dave Eggers
• Leviathan Awakes by James S.A. Corey

2023

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• The Very Best of Fesshole by Rob Manuel
• ​​​​​​​The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
• The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi
• Dazzling by Chikodili Emelumadu
• The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings
• One Half Truth by Eva Dolan
• Double Or Nothing by Kim Sherwood
• The Map of Leaves by Yarrow Townsend
• Titus Groan: The Gormenghast Trilogy, Book 1 by Mervyn Peake
• The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
• Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

2022

• The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness by Suzanne O’Sullivan
• Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire Book 1) by Mark Lawrence
• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
• Summerwater by Sarah Moss
• ​​​​​​​Long Way Home (DI Zigic & DS Ferreira Book 1) by Eva Dolan
• The Chain by Ian McKinty
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• ​​​​​​​1984 – George Orwell
• The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
• The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Forde
• Redshirts by John Scalzi
• Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
• Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

2021

• Kill The Father by Sandrone Dazieri
• The Wolves of London: Obsidian Heart by Mark Morris
• Fifty-Fifty by Steve Cavanagh
• The Warehouse by Rob Hart
• Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journey by Michael Collins
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
• Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds
• House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas
• House in the Cerulean Sea by T J Klune
• Killing Floor by Lee Child
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Later by Stephen King
• The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
• The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
• Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
• ​​​​​​​The Sealwoman’s Gift by Sally Magnusson

2020

• 1984 by George Orwell
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
• Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz (read in 2021)
• Kill the Father by Sandrone Dazieri
• Cosmic Banditos by A.C. Weisbecker
• We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E Taylor (later selected and read!)
• Neither Here, Nor There by Bill Bryson
• Aurora Rising by Alastair Reynolds
• Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe #2) by Neal Shusterman
• Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London #2) by Ben Aaronovitch
• Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz (read in 2021)​​​​​​​
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
• The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Ignition! by John Drury Clark
• ​​​​​​​Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D.
• Good Night Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
• The Second Half by Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle

2019

• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• World War Z by Max Brooks (now chosen!)
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• Finding Gobi  – The True story of a little dog and an incredible journey by Dion Leonard
• Hard Road (Jon Reznick Thriller Series Book 1) by J.B. Turner
• The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar (read in our Christmas lucky dip!)
• October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville
• Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist
• To Die In Spring by Ralf Rothmann (translated by Shaun Whiteside)
• Making Money by Terry Pratchett
• The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• The Fault in our Stars by John Green
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Embassytown by China Mieville
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

2018

• ​​​​​​​Life in the West by Brian Aldiss
• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
• Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
• Wool by High Howey
• The Blackhouse by Peter May
• The Painted Man by Peter V Brett
• 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff with the Annex Security Team
• The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Nothing to Lose by Lee Child
• First and Only (Warhammer 40,000: Gaunt’s Ghosts) by Dan Abnett
• Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows by Jason Fox
• City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Rapture by Claire McGlasson
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Dambusters: A Landmark Oral History by Max Arthur