Do you love to read, and talk about good books over a cup of tea or coffee and some nibblies? Have you ever wanted to recommend a wonderful novel to a wider audience? Here’s your chance to have a say in a very prestigious book recommendation!

Each September, members of Tansley Reads! nominate seven novels for Tansley's Book of the Year, then we discuss one book on the fourth Monday of each month (except October & December), rating each one after a (sometimes rowdy) discussion. By June we’ll have a winner!

Selections for 2011-2012

November - Cutting  for Stone by Abraham Verghese (54.6%)
January     – Sarah’s Key by Tantianan de Rosnay  (78.25%)
February   – The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim (73.8%)
March        – The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje (46.6%)
April           – Room by Emma Donaghue (76.8%)
May            – Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
June            – Left Neglected by Lisa Genova

2010-2011 Selections (Final score in red):

• The Help, by Kathryn Stockett (70%)
• Through Black Spruce, by Joseph Boyden (63%)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson (71%)
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley (55%)
• The Bishop's Man, by Linden McIntyre (70%)
• The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton (68%)
• Saint Maybe, by Anne Tyler (60%)
• Secret Daughter, by Shilpi Somaya Gowda (78%)