LBC 3 READS

This book club meets up every three months – ideal for those too busy to join a monthly book club!

From 2021 however, we’ll be meeting up bimonthly (the definition that is every other month, not twice a month*).

We tend to read a lot of American fiction and alternate between male and female authors.

This went out the window in 2020 as all the best crime writers happen to be women (don’t @ me) and again in 2021, but I’m sure once we get back to less freakishly weird times, we’ll find a balance again.

• For 2025, our theme is – REALLY EXTREME COMFORT READS!!
• For 2024, our theme is Siblings
• For 2023, our theme is Delicious Reads, books that feature food!
• For 2022, our theme is Books About Books! (Book propaganda as one of our crew would say)
• For 2021, our theme is EXTREME Comfort Reads
• For 2020, our theme is …Three Crime Greats
• For 2019, we are celebrating the LBC themed book clubs
• For 2018, our theme is Four Seasons
• For 2017, we read an author from each of the countries that make up the UK.

You can find us on Bluesky – HERE

Or follow the LBC Channel on whatsapp (information only) – HERE

WHEN WE MEET

Currently meeting up via Zoom.

Time – 12:30am – 2:00pm or to be decided nearer the time 🙂

Our 2025 Dates

EXTREME COMFORT READS

• 15th Mar – The Moon Spinners – Mary Stewart –
• 17th May – Howls Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones –
• 19th July – Every Heart A Doorway – Seanan McGuire –
• 27th Sept – Death in a White Tie – Nagio Marsh –
• 15th Nov – A psalm for the wild-built – Becky Chambers –

It’s an LBC3Reads tradition that the July book is never in July. You can’t imagine our shock that this year we managed it.

Our 2024 Dates

Theme – Siblings

• 20th Jan – Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen – 9
• 16th Mar – Middlegame – Seanan McGuire – 6
• 18th May – Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffenegger – 4.6
• 21st Sept – Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang – Kate Wilhelm – 7.2
• 16th Nov – The Memory Keepers Daughter – Kim Edwards – 4.8
• 18th Jan – When God was a Rabbit – Sarah Winman – 6.3

• It’s an LBC3Reads tradition that the July book is never in July.

Our 2023 Choices

Theme – Delicious Reads

• 21 Jan – Heartburn – Nora Ephron – 5.5
• 18 March – Recipes for Love & Murder – Sally Andrews – 7
• 03 June – Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto – DATE CHANGE – 8
• 15th July – One Hundred Foot Journey – Richard Morais – 5
• 14th October – Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Stout – DATE CHANGE – 6.2
• 18th Nov – Taste – Stanley Tucci – 8.6

Our 2022 Choices

Theme – Books About Books

I will also be revisiting the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series by Carlos Ruiz Zafon which fits this theme beautifully also 🙂

• 19 November – The Book Thief – Marcus Zuzak – ?
• 17 September – The Diary of a Bookseller – Shaun Bythell – 5
• 16 July – The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco – 8.2
• 21 May – The Reading List – Sara Nisha Adams – DATE CHANGE 18 June! – 8
• 19 March – Less – Andrew Sean Greer – 5.5
• 15 January – Bookworm – Lucy Mangan – 9

Our 2021 Choices

Theme – EXTREME Comfort Reads

• CHANGED PICK – 20-11 – My Family and Other Animals – Gerald Durrell – 7.5
• 18-09 – Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day – Winifred Watson – 8.1
• 17-07 – Gaudy Night – Dorothy L Sayers (Lord Peter Whimsey Series) – 8.8
• 15-05 – Wise Children – Angela Carter – 7
• 20-03 – A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula le Guin – 8.5
• 16-01 – Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy – John le Carre – 8

(*Why does it do that? Have two such different meanings? This vexes me. And I’m not alone apparently)

LBC3READS

DATE	NO	BOOK	SCORE
17/10/2020	33	Strong Poison – Dorothy L Sayers	8.5
18/07/2020	32	And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie	8
18/04/2020	31	The Wheel Spins – Ethel Lina White	8.5
18/01/2020	30	Plainsong – Kent Haruf	6
19/10/2019	29	Hagseed – Margaret Atwood	7
20/07/2019	28	Anne of Green Gables x3	8/5/6
20/04/2019	27	The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Gailbraith	5.5
19/01/2019	26	Winter – Ali Smith	5
20/10/2018	25	The 1000 Autumns of Jacob De Zoot	6
21/07/2018	24	Emma – Jane Austen	7
21/04/2018	23	A Room with a View – EM Forster	7
20/01/2018	22	One by one in the Darkness – Deirdre Madden	6
21/10/2017	21	Matilda – Roald Dahl	8
TBA	20	High Rising – Angela Thirkell	6
22/04/2017	19	Whit – Iain Banks	6
21/01/2017	18	The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty	9
15/10/2016	17	On the Beach – Nevil Shute	6
16/07/2016	16	The Dud Avocado – Elaine Dundy	8
16/04/2016	15	All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque	8
16/01/2016	14	Passing – Nella Larsen	9
21/11/2015	13	The Tin Drum – Gunter Grass	7
15/08/2015	12	I know why the caged bird sings – Maya Angelou	7.5
16/05/2015	11	Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin	8
21/02/2015	10	The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West	8.5
20/09/2014	9	Stoner – John Williams	7
17/05/2014	8	The Awakening – Kate Chopin	8
18/01/2014	7	The Wapshot Chronicles – John Cheever	5
19/10/2013	6	Their eyes were watching God – Zora Neale Hurston	6.5
20/07/2013	5	Mason and Dixon – Thomas Pynchon	4
20/04/2013	4	O Pioneer – Willa Cather	7
19/01/2013	3	The City and the Pillar – Gore Vidal	7
01/09/2012	2	The Paris Wife – Paula Mclain	4
19/05/2012	1	Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conon Doyle	7