The book club usually discusses one book per month - sometimes two if they are short texts. Each meeting is informal & every member's opinions & views have equal weight & importance. Naturally there is divergence between members in their response to a particular book, how themes & salient issues were addressed or overlooked, the technical skills of the author, the level of accuracy of historical details, comparison with other writing by the same and other authors who written on the same area etc.

Our approach to book selection is to decide the book for the next month by consensus, based on responses to the selection of new books presented each month to us by the Bookcaffe plus suggestions from members about books they believe may be of interest. The book club is named Mixed Nuts Book Club as it has both male and female members.

List of Books Read or Nominated To Be Read

2010 books

• January: -
• February: The girl with the dragon tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
• March: The leagacy (Kirsten Tranter)
• April: -Solar (Ian McEwan)
• May: To kill a mockingbird (Harper Lee)
• June: Good to a fault (Marina Endicott)
• July: The elegance of the hedgehog (Muriel Burberry)
• August: The help (Kathryn Stockett)
• September: -
• October: -
• November: -
• December: -

2009 books

• February: The road home (Rose Tremain)
• March: The gift of rain (Tan Twan Eng)
• April: The secret scripture (Sebastian Barry)
• May: The winter vault (Anne Michaels)
• June: The slap (Christos Tsiolkas)
• July: The white tiger (Aravind Adiga)
• August: Breath (Tim Winton)
• September: Unaccustomed earth (Jhumpa Lahiri)
• October: Wolf hall (Hilary Mantel)
• November: Ordinary thunderstorms (William Boyd)

2008 books

• January: The memory room (Christopher Koch
• February: Restless (William Boyd)
• March: The Yacoubian building (Alaa Al Aswany)
• April: The road (Cormac McCarthy)
• May: The children (Charlotte Wood)
• June: The spectacle salesman's family (Viola Roggenkamp)
• July: Northern lights (Philip Pullman)
• August: Eat the document (Dana Spiotta)
• September: Evening is the whole day (Preeta Samarasan)
• October: America America (Ethan Canin)
• November: Notes from an exhibition (Patrick Gale)
• December: Deaf sentence (David Lodge)

2007 books

• January: Half a yellow sun (Chimamanda Adichie)
• February: Equinox (Michael White)
• March: The tenderness of wolves (Steff Penney)
• April: Everyman (Philip Roth) & Half brother (Lars S Christensen)
• May: The secret river (Kate Grenville)
• June: The post birthday world (Lionel Shriver)
• July: On Chesil Beach (Ian McEwan)
• August: Sweetness in the belly (Camille Gibb)+ The man on the balcony (Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo)
• September: The witch of Portobello (Paul Coelho)
• October: Theft: A love story (Peter Carey)
• November: The edge of the world (Marcella Polain)

2006 Books

• January: A black Englishman (Caroline Slaughter)
• February: The highest tide (Jim Lynch)
• March: Old filth (Jane Gardam)
• April: Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)
• May: Q & A (Vikas Swarup)
• June: The book thief (Markus Zusak)
• July: Suite Francaise (Irene Nemirovsky)               
• August: Saturday (Ian McEwan) & The dressmaker (Rosalie Ham)
• September: Brick lane (Monica Ali)
• October: Water for elephants (Sara Gruen)
• November: Master Pip (Lloyd Jones)

2005 Books

• January: Coronation talkies (Susan Kurosawa)
• February: The line of beauty (Alan Hollinghurst)
• March: Mao's last dancer (Li Cunxin)
• April: The fall (Simon Mawer)
• May: Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
• June: A short history of tractors in Ukrainian (Marina Lewycka)
• July: Evidence of things unseen (Marianne Wiggins)
• August: We need to talk about Kevin (Lionel Shriver)
• September: The almond picker (Simonetta Agnello Hornby)
• October: Lady's maid (Margaret Forster)
• November: Behind the moon (Hsu-Ming Teo)

2004 Books

• January: Winston's war (Michael Dobbs)
• February: Journey to the stone country (Alex Miller)
• March: Across the nightingale floor (Lian Hearn)
• April: I, the divine (Rabih Alameddine)
• May: The Da Vinci code (Dan Brown)
• June: Middle sex (Jefferey Eugenides)
• July: The great fire (Shirley Hazzard)
• August: Stasi land (Anna Funder)
• September: The known world (Edward P Jones)
• October: Joe Cinque's consolation (Helen Garner)
• November: Sixty lights (Gail Jones)