LBC Horsforth
LBC Horsforth meet monthly and read general fiction!
We’re also happy to include comics, films, politics and anything else even vaguely applicable into our general discussion!
You can find us on Bluesky – HERE
Or follow the LBC Channel on whatsapp (information only) – HERE
WHEN WE MEET
For the moment, we are meeting via Zoom and in person for 2025 – alternating between months.
2025 Dates
- 8th Jan – IN PERSON – The Little Liar – Mitch Albom – 6.75
- 12th Feb – ZOOM – Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese – 7.6
- 12th Mar – IN PERSON – Warlords of Wyrdwood – RJ Barker – AUTHOR VISIT!!
- 9th Apr – ZOOM – Starling House – Alix E Harrow – 7
- 21st May – IN PERSON – Piglett – Lottie Hazell – DATE CHANGE
- 11th Jun – ZOOM – The book of the new sun – Gene Wolfe
- 8th Jul – IN PERSON – The Woman –
- 13th Aug – ZOOM – The Frayed Atlantic Edge –
- 17th Sep – IN PERSON – Heart of the Wyrdwood – RJ Barker – AUTHOR VISIT!! – DATE CHANGE
- 8th Oct – ZOOM –
- 12th Nov – IN PERSON –
Books for 2024
- 17th January Smoke and Mirrors – Neil Gailman – IN PERSON – 7.1
- 21st February – Life Ceremony – Sayaka Murata – ZOOM – 7.2
- 13th March – To Shape A Dragons Breath – Moniquill Blackgoose – IN PERSON – 8.6
- 10th April – ZOOM – Matrix – Lauren Groff – 5.4
- 8th May – IN PERSON – The List of Suspicious Things – Jennie Godfrey – 5.6
- 12th June – ZOOM – Grass – Sheri Tepper – 7.8
- 10th July – IN PERSON – the murmur of bees – Sofia Segovia – 8.7
- 14th August – ZOOM – Stray Souls – Kate Griffin – 7.2
- 25th September – IN PERSON – The Marriage Portrait – Maggie O’Farrell – DATE CHANGE! – 8.6
- 9th October – ZOOM – Lady Macbeth – Ava Reid – 5
- 13th November – IN PERSON – Gods of the WyrdWood – RJ Barker – 8.5
Books for 2023
- 8th November – Zoom – Artemis – Andy Weir – 6.8
- 11th October – F2F – The Wager – David Grann – 6.75
- 6th September – Shrines of Gaiety – Kate Atkinson – DATE CHANGE! – 1.5
- 9th Aug – A cheesmongers history of the British isles – Ned Palmer – Zoom – 8.8
- 12th July – Small Pleasures – Claire Chambers – In Person – 7
- 14th June – Our Wives Under The Sea – Julia Armfield – Zoom – 6
- 10th May – The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton – In Person – 7.75
- 12th April – Sea of Tranquility – Emily St John Mandel – Zoom – 7.75
- 8th March – No one is talking about this – Patricia Lockwood – In Person – 6.5
- 8th Feb – A fatal thing happened on the way to the forum – Emma Southern – Zoom – 7.5
- 18th Jan – To Paradise – Hanya Yanagihara – In Person – 7.75
Books for 2022
- 9th November – The Women of Troy – Pat Barker – 6.1 – FACE TO FACE
- 12th October – The Magician – Colm Toibin – 7.8
- 14th September – One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night – 7.4
- 10th August – Lagoon – Nnedi Okorafor – 7.8
- 13th July – The Shadow King – Maaza Mengiste – 5.8
- 8th June – The Promise – Damon Galgut – 8
- 11th May – Should we stay or should we go – Lionel Shriver – 4.5
- 13th April – Sal – Mick Kitson – 6.5
- 9th March – Sal – Mick Kitson – 6.5
- 9th February – Fates and Furies – Lauren Groff – 6.7
- 12th January – A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles – 8.6
Books for 2021
- 10 November – A Thousand Ships – Natalie Haynes – 9.4
- 13 October – The Housekeeper and the Professor – Yoko Ogawa – 9
- DATE CHANGE – 22 September – Piranesi – Susanna Clarke – 9
- 11 August – The Girl with the Louding Voice – Abi Dare – 5
- 14 July – The History Thieves – 9
- 9 June – Mindf*ck – Christopher Wylie – 6
- 12 May – The Beekeeper of Aleppo – C Lefteri – 8
- 14 April – The Black Tides of Heaven – JY Yang – 8
- 10 Mar – The Martian – Andy Weir – 9
- 10 Feb – This Census-Taker – China Mieville – 6.5
- 22 Jan – Celestial Bodies – Jokha Alharthi – 8
For our most up to date details, view our Calendar Page!
Venue
The Old Kings Arms, The Green Horsforth Leeds LS18 5JB Tel - 0113 345 2430 Website - HERE
LBC Horsforth 2020
- 15-01 – The Overstory – Richard Powers – 6
- 12-02 – My sister, the serial killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite – 7
- 11-03 – Mythos – Stephen Fry – 7.5
- 08-04 – Normal People – Sally Rooney – 9
- 27-05 – WITCHMARK – CL POLK – 4.5
- 24-06 – Rotherweird – Andrew Caldecott – 7
- 29-07 – The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao – Junot Díaz – 4
- 26-08 – Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell – 8.5
- 30-09 – Leonard and hungry Paul – Ronan Hession – 7.5
- 28-10 – Dead Famous – Greg Jenner – 7
- 25-11 – The Stranger – Harlan Coben – 3
- 16-12 – The box of delights – John Masefield – 9
WRITE UP’S
| DATE | NO | BOOK | SCORE |
| November | 88 | Sourdough – Robin Sloan | 6 |
| October | 87 | Educated – Tara Westover | 4 |
| September | 86 | Factfulness – Hans, Ola & Anna Rosling | 8 |
| August | 85 | An Unwanted Guest – Shari Lapena | 5 |
| July | 84 | Becoming – Michelle Obama | 8 |
| June | 83 | Why we Sleep – Matthew Walker | 7 |
| May | 82 | Anatomy of a Scandal – Sarah Vaughan | 4 |
| April | 81 | The Salt Path – Raynor Winn | 6 |
| March | 80 | The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson | 7 |
| February | 79 | Smile – Roddy Doyle | 8 |
| Jan-19 | 78 | Big Little Lies – Liane Moriarty | 7.5 |
| November | 77 | Day of the Doctor – Steven Moffat | 8 |
| October | 76 | Stories of the law and how its broken – The Secret Barrister | 8.5 |
| September | 75 | This is going to hurt – Adam Kay | 9 |
| August | 74 | Call me by your name | 8 |
| July | 73 | Reservoir 13 | 8 |
| June | 72 | Little Fires Everywhere | 7 |
| May | 71 | Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race | 8 |
| April | 70 | A man called Ove – Fredrik Backman | 7 |
| March | 69 | The Girl Before – JP Delaney | 5 |
| February | 68 | The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov | 7 |
| Jan-18 | 67 | The City and the City – China Mieville | 8.5 |
| 11/08/2017 | 66 | Autumn – Ali Smith | 8 |
| 10/11/2017 | 65 | Linoln in the Bardo | 8 |
| 9/13/2017 | 64 | The Lemon Table – Julian Barnes | 4 |
| 08/09/2017 | 63 | The Good Immigrant – Nikesh Shukla | 8 |
| 07/12/2017 | 62 | The Power – Naomi Alderman | 7 |
| 6/14/2017 | 61 | REARRANGED | |
| 05/10/2017 | 60 | Grimm Fairy Tales – Philip Pullman | 6 |
| 04/12/2017 | 59 | Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer | 7 |
| 03/08/2017 | 58 | God help the Child – Toni Morrison | 3 |
| 02/08/2017 | 57 | The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons – Sam Kean | 9 |
| 01/11/2017 | 56 | My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante | 6.5 |
| 11/09/2016 | 55 | Kindred – Octavia Butler | 9 |
| 10/12/2016 | 54 | Year of the Runaways – Sunjeev Sahota | 8 |
| 14/09/2016 | 53 | The Loop – Nicholas Evans | 6 |
| 08/10/2016 | 52 | A Whole Life – Robert Septheler | 8 |
| 13/07/2016 | 51 | The Three – Sarah Lotz | 8 |
| 06/08/2016 | 50 | If on a winter’s night, a travellor – Italo Calvino | 3 |
| 11/05/2016 | 49 | Beside Myself – Ann Morgan | 5 |
| 13/04/2016 | 48 | Dark Eden – Chris Beckett | 6.5 |
| 03/09/2016 | 47 | Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits – David Wong | 5 |
| 02/10/2016 | 46 | A Change of Climate – Hilary Mantel | 5 |
| 1/13/2016 | 45 | Hotel Honolulu – Paul Theroux | 3 |
| 11/11/2015 | 44 | Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood | 9 |
| 07/10/2015 | 43 | The Long Earth – Terry Pratchett | 7 |
| 09/09/2015 | 42 | A tree grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith | 7.5 |
| 08/12/2015 | 41 | Black Diamonds – Catherine Bailey | 7 |
| 07/08/2015 | 40 | The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins | 6 |
| 06/10/2015 | 39 | Look who’s back – Timur Vermes | 5 |
| 5/13/2015 | 38 | Carte Blanche – Jeffrey Deaver | 5 |
| 04/08/2015 | 37 | REARRANGED | |
| 03/11/2015 | 36 | The Wars – Timothy Findley | 7 |
| 02/11/2015 | 35 | Metro 2033 – Dmitry Glukhovsky | 4 |
| 1/14/2015 | 34 | To Ride Pegasus – Anne McCaffery | 7 |
| 11/12/2014 | 33 | We – Yevgeny Yamatin | 6 |
| 10/08/2014 | 32 | Fangirl – Rainbow Rowell | 4 |
| 09/10/2014 | 31 | The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton | 6 |
| 8/16/2014 | 30 | Mapp and Lucia – E.F. Benson | 4 |
| 07/09/2014 | 29 | Burial Rites – Hannah Kent | 8 |
| 06/11/2014 | 28 | The Circle – Dave Eggers | 8 |
| 5/14/2014 | 27 | Inferno – Dan Brown | 7 |
| 04/09/2014 | 26 | The Stench of Honolulu – Jack Handey | 3 |
| 03/12/2014 | 25 | Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes | 7 |
| 02/12/2014 | 24 | Poppy Shakespeare – Clare Allen | 7 |
| 01/08/2014 | 23 | The Human – Matt Haig | 8 |
| 11/13/2013 | 22 | Tenderness of Wolves – Stef Penney | 7 |
| 10/09/2013 | 21 | And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini | 7 |
| 09/11/2013 | 20 | Pilgrim – Timothy Findley | 9 |
| 8/14/2013 | 19 | West Wood – Stella Gibbons | 4 |
| 07/10/2013 | 18 | Battle Royale – K Takami | 8 |
| 06/12/2013 | 17 | The 100 year old man who climbed out… | 8 |
| 05/08/2013 | 16 | The Winter Ghosts – Kate Mosse | 6 |
| 04/10/2013 | 15 | John dies at the end – David Wong | 8 |
| 3/13/2013 | 14 | Started early, took my dog – Kate Atkinson | 7 |
| 2/13/2013 | 13 | The Black House – Peter May | 8 |
| 01/09/2013 | 12 | The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald | 5 |
| 11/14/2012 | 11 | Empire of the Sun – JG Ballard | 9 |
| 10/10/2012 | 10 | Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell (not *that* one) | 8 |
| 09/12/2012 | 9 | Before I go to sleep – S.J. Watson | 7 |
| 08/08/2012 | 8 | 9 Lives – Clive Rusher- | 5 |
| 07/11/2012 | 7 | Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes | 7 |
| 6/13/2012 | 6 | A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving | 5 |
| 05/09/2012 | 5 | The Life of Pi – Yann Martel | 5 |
| 04/11/2012 | 4 | Diary of a Nobody – George Grossmith | 7 |
| 3/14/2012 | 3 | We Need To Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver | 8 |
| 02/08/2012 | 2 | The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch | 7 |
| 01/11/2012 | 1 | Ragnarok – AS Byatt | 5 |
LeedsBookClub 
Hi
I would like to join the horsforth book club. Please could you tell me when your next meet is and which book you will be discussing.
Feel free to email me on lauraelizabethbuckley@gmail.com
Thanks
Laura
aiming to reply to you via email tonight Laura!
I would be interested in joining. Will you be meeting in the new year?
Hello!
Yes, #LBCHorsforth will be back on Wednesday 10th of January at 7.30pm at the Black Bull to discuss The City and the City – China Melville
Hope to see you then!
Hi,
what is the date of the next meeting. I tried to follow the link on this site to the meetings page but it didn’t work. Also, which book is next after “A Man called Ove”. Thanks, Dave
Hi
Hope to see you next month!
May: “Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race” Reni Eddo-Lodge and
June “Little Fires Everywhere” Celeste Ng
(I’ll be updating calendar and fixing broken page links once I have a chance (-: )
Hi – are you considering a change of venue for Wednesday (11/07) given the football? Thanks
Hi Laura,
Thanks for emailing 🙂
I’ve decided not to face off against the footie and we’ll be meeting the following week on the 18th at the Black Bull in Horsforth at 7pm.
Hope to see you then
Good idea 🙂 Will certainly try to be there. Enjoying the book.
Me too
I haven’t *quite* finished it yet which has NOTHING to do with the date change
(I will finish though. 😛 Oh I will. For tomorrow. For sure.)
Hi I would be interested in joining horsforth book clubs. When is the next meeting and would books will be discussed?
Thanks in advance 🙂
Hello!
Apologies for the delayed response – I keep hoping to update the blog and then running out of time!
LBCHorsforth has concluded for this year but will be back in January! We’d love for you to join us 🙂
We’ll be meeting at 7:30pm at the Old Kings Arms
15th January – The Overstory by Richard Powers
12th February – My sister, the serial killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite
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Hi there, I’m moving to the area soon and would love to join – can anyone come or do you need to register?
Thanks!
Laura
No registration required! Currently it’s all via zoom until safe to meet indoors again.
If you’re on Twitter, send me a wave and I’ll wing you the zoom link for this month. @leedsbookclub
Alternatively, email LeedsBookClub @ gmail.com
Hi I’ve moved to the area and would like to join.
My email is shejuti.i.ahmed@gmail.com
Thanks
Shej
Hello and welcome!
Any idea which book club you’d like to join? You can see details on the join us page!
Alternatively drop me an email (LeedsBookClub @ gmail.com) or tweet @leedsbookclub for more info!
Thanks,
Niamh
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Hi, I’d like to join if the Horsforth group is still active? Not sure how to go about it!
Morning Emma!
Thanks for your query!
Yes LBC Horsforth will be back for 2024!
Thank you for emailing and we’d be delighted to see you at the White Swan.
Regarding the book club, we’ve been meeting up for 13 years and are a very informal group. People attend as they wish – there is no charge or registration (I do invite members into a WhatsApp group to pass on info but that’s voluntary!).
We meet up, usually on the second Wednesday of the month, from 7:30pm – 9pm.
Some have food, others don’t. We discuss the book, meander wildly into any other topic that catches our minds eye (cinema, tv, other books, comics, festivals, poetry, history, politics, cocktail making & cheese!) and then have a general chat.
Usually, most people will get the book read or have started it but we aren’t fussy.
If that sounds like your cup of tea, terrific!
We alternate between meeting up via zoom or at the Old Kings Arms in Horsforth.
Our first two reads for next year are:
17/01 F2F Smoke & Mirrors – Neil Gaiman
21/02 Zoom Life Ceremony – Sayaka Murata
Hi, I’m interested in joining your book club. I’ve read Lost Souls and just wondering about the zoom chat this evening and how I get involved?
Cheers,
Jamie
Hi, we are meeting at 7:30pm to discuss the frayed Atlantic edge by David gange. But you’re welcome whether you’ve read it or not!
If you email me at LeedsBookClub @ gmail.com, I can send you the link!