Reading list

This is a listing of the books read by the WeRead club since early 2023. We meet once a month, usually in the Pynchon bookstore/café in the centre of Alicante, occasionally in other friendly bars with a quiet space. We take turns selecting the book of the month.

2023-24:

  • Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
  • The burnout society by Byung-Chul Han
  • The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
  • Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
  • Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Time shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
  • The island of missing trees by Elif Shafak
  • Klara and the sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García Marquez
  • Purge by Sofi Oksanen
  • Kornél Esti by Dezső Kosztolányi
  • The Life Before Us by Romain Gary
  • Selected poems by C.P. Cavafy
  • Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
  • Anecdotes of Destiny by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
  • Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Pedro Páramo by Juan Ruffo
  • De aanslag by Harry Mulish
  • Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
  • The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
  • Tschick or Why we took the car by Wolfgang Herrndorf

2025

  • The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
  • The Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes
  • Look who’s back by Timur Vermes