LBC WHITE SWAN

Both LBC Medusa (in Horsforth) and LBC White Swan (City Centre) 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!

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WHEN WE MEET

We meet on the second Sunday of the month from 6:00pm – 8:00pm at the White Swan pub.This book club meets face to face. 

Dates for 2026

	LBC White Swan 2026
January – 18th (pushed for year start)	Stone Blind – Natalie Haynes	7.8
February – 8th	Death of the author – Nnedi Okorafor	6.6
March – 8th	Time Shelter – Georgi Gospodinov	5
April – 12th	Black Woods Blue Sky – Eowyn Ivey	6.3
May – 10th	Meet the newmans – Jennifer Niven	4
June – 14th	A beast slinks towards Beijing – Alice Evelyn Yang	8
July – 12th	Terror Tome – garth marenglis	3.5
August – 9th	Small things like these – Clare Keegan	7.3
September – 13th	Bluff – Francine Toon	4.3
October – 11th	Yellowface – RF Kuang
November – 15th	The book of guilt – Catherine Chidgey

Dates for 2025

• 12th Jan – Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Suzanna Clarke – 9
• 9th Feb – The Minotaur takes a cigarette break – Steven Sherrill – 5.5
• 9th Mar – Diary – Chuck Palahniuk – 4
• 13th Apr – Private Rites – Julia Armfield – 7
• 11th May – Ink, Blood, Sister, Scribe – Emma Torzs – 7.5
• 8th Jun – Anxious People – Fredrick Backman  – 4.8
• 13th Jul – The Undoing of Violet Claybourne – Emily Critchley – 4.9
• 10th Aug – The Devil and the Dark Water – Stuart Turton – 7.3
• 14th Sep – Instructions for a Heatwave – Maggie O’Farrell – 7.3
• 12th Oct – There’s no such thing as an easy job – Kikuko Tsumura – 5
• 9th Nov – The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova – 6

Dates for 2024

• 21st January – Camp Damascus – Chuck Tingle – 5.5
• 11th February – Once There Were Wolves – Charlotte McConaghy – 4.5
• 24th March – Sand – Hugh Howey – 4.1
• 14th April – Music and Silence – Rose Tremain – 8.4
• 12th May – Lord Valentines Castle – Robert Silverberg – 5.2
• 9th June – Birnam Woods – Eleanor Clayton (SWAPPED WITH JULY) – 7
• 14th July – Storyland – Amy Jeffs (SWAPPED WITH JUNE) – 5
• 11th August – The Gallows Pole – Benjamin Myers – 7
• 8th September – Electra – Jennifer Saint – 3.6
• 13th October – The Heroes – Joe Abercrombie – 9
• 10th November – Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin – 8.3
  
   
  
  

Books for 2023

• 12th November – Memphis – Tara M Stringfellow – 8.2
• 8th October – Piranesi – Suzanne Clarke – 9.6
• 17th September – Four seasons in Japan – Nick Bradley – 7
• 13th August – Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Muraka – 7
• 23rd July – The Satsuma Complex – Bob Mortimer – 5.5
• 25th June – Misery – Stephen King – 7
• 14th May – Plainsong – Kent Haruf – 7
• 16th April – How high we go in the dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu – 5
• 12th March – The ocean at the end of the lane – Neil Gaiman – 7.5
• 12th Feb – Beyond Black – Hilary Mantel – 8.5
• 15th Jan – The ten thousand doors of January – Ali’s E Harrow – 7

Books for 2022

• 13th November – Heartstopper – Alice Oseman –  6.5
• 9th October – A Master of Djinn – P Djeli Clark – 6.5
• 11th September – Exhalation – Ted Chiang – 9.75
• 14th August – The Thief and the Demon – Roderick T Macdonald – 2.4
• 10th July – Long Bright River – Liz Moore – 6.3
• 12th June – The Echo Wife – Sarah Gailey – 7.2
• 8th May – The Once and Future Witches – Alix E Harrow – 7
• 10th April – The Mothers – Brit Bennett – 7
• 13th March – The House in the Cerulean Sea – TJ Klune – 8
• 13th February – Bad Blood – John Carreyfou – 8.5
• 9th January – Small Island – Andrea Levy – 6

Books for 2021

• 14 November – 21st Century Yokel – Tom Cox – 5.5
• 10 October – The Glass Hotel – Emily St John Mantel – 8
• 12 September – Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir – 8
• 8th August – Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart – 9.3
• July – Last One At The Party – Bethany Clift – 5.5
• 13th June – Boy Parts – Eliza Clark – 5
• 9th May – The Wall – Marlen Haushofer – 7.5
• 11th April – Apex Hides the Hurt – Colson Whitehead – 6.5
• 21st Mar – Normal People – Sally Rooney – 8
• 21st Feb – Pine – Francine Toon – 7.5
• 10th Jan – Queenie – Candice Carty-Williams – 6.5

For our most up to date details, view our Calendar Page!

VENUE

City Centre

Swan Street, 
Leeds LS1 6LG
Phone: 0113 242 0187
Tweet: @WhiteSwanLeeds
Web: Here!

LBC White Swan 2020

• 19/01 – The Girl Who Could Move S**t With Her Mind – Jackson Ford – 2.5
• 09-02 – Melmouth – Sarah Perry – 6
• 08-03 – Three Hours – Rosamund Lipton – 7
• 19-04* – The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton – 5
• 17-05* – The invisible life of Euridice Gusmao – Martha Batalha – 7
• 14-06 – Frankiesstein – Jeanette Winterson – 6
• 12-07 – The Crow Road – Iain M Banks – 7.5
• 09-08 – Sing unburied sing – Jesmyn Ward – 8
• 13-09 – We have always lived in the castle – S Jackson – 9
• 11-10 – False Hearts – Laura Lam – 4
• 08-11 – This is how you lose the time war – 9
• 13-12 – The Hogfather – Terry Pratchett – 7.5

WRITE UP’S

DATE	NO	BOOK	SCORE
Jan-20	84	The Girl who could move shit with her mind – Jackson Ford	2.5
November	83	The Dispossed – Ursula leGuin	7
October	82	Annihilation – Jeff Vandermeer	8
September	81	All the Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders	6.2
August	79	The Silence of the Girls – Pat Barker	9
July	78	The Kingdom of Shadows – K. W. Jeter	1
June	77	The Raven Tower – Ann Leckie	8
May	76	The Goddess Chronicle – Natsuo Kirino	5
April	75	Ella Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn	8
March	74	Blackfish City – Sam J Miller	6
February	73	Beloved – Toni Morrison	6
Jan-19	72	The Care of Wooden Floors – Will Wiles	3
November	71	My Grandmother sends her regards and apologies – Fredrik Backman	8
October	70	Azazel	7
September	69	The Secret to Not Drowning – Collete Snowden	7
August	68	The Alchemist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty	?
July	67	The Sellout – Paul Beatty	6
June	66	Seveneves – Neal Stephenson	5
May	65	Circe – Madeline Miller	9
April	64	Nod – Adrian Barnes	3.5
March	63	How to paint a dead man – Sarah Hall	7
February	62	The City and the City – China Mieville	8
January	61	Transition – Luke Kennard	3.5
November	60	The Fishermen – Chigozie Obioma	5
October	59	The Fifth Season – NK Jemisin	8.5
Septmber	58	Pirate Cinema – Cory Doctorow	4
August	57	The last condo board of the apocalypse – Nina Post	1
July	56	The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt	8
June	55	Delirium – Laura Restrepo	2.5
May	54	Uprooted – Naomi Novik	6
April	53	The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula le Guin	6
March	52	The Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu	7
February	51	The long way to a small angry planet	8
January	50	Day Four – Sarah Lotz	6
09/11/2016	49	Viper Wine – Hermione Eyre	7
12/10/2016	48	Fried Green Tomatoes – Fannie Flagg	8.5
14/09/2016	47	A Meal in Winter – Herbert Mingarelli	8
10/08/2016	46	A far cry from kensington	5
13/07/2016	45	A visit from the goon squad – Jennifer Egan	5
08/06/2016	44	All the light we cannot see – Anthony Doerr	8
11/05/2016	43	The Bees – Laline Paull	7
10/04/2016		Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	9
13/04/2016	42	Storm Front (Harry Dresden 01) – Jim Butcher	6
09/03/2016	41	Homer’s Odyssey – Simon Armitage	6.5
10/02/2016	40	A Brief History of 7 Killings – Marlon James	7
06/01/2016	39	The Chaos of Stars – Kierstan White	3.25
11/11/2015	38	Wool – Hugh Howey	7
13/09/2015	37	Ghostwritten – David Mitchell	6
08/09/2015	36	Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel	9
07/12/2015	35	Good Omens – Neil Gaiman & Terry Prachett	7
6/14/2015	34	Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides	?
05/10/2015	33	The Owl Killers – Karen Maitland	7
04/12/2015	32	The Quantum Thief – Hannu Rajaniemi	6
03/08/2015	31	Canada – Richard Ford	5
02/08/2015	30	The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller	7
01/11/2015	29	The Vet’s Daughter – Barbara Comyns	6
11/09/2014	28	The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga	7
10/12/2014	27	The Raw Shark Texts – Steven Hall	7
9/14/2014	26	Augustus – John Williams	8
08/10/2014	25	Enduring Love – Ian McEwan	3
05/11/2014	24	Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon	9
02/09/2014	23	The Perks of being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky	7
11/10/2013	22	Garden of Evening Mists – Tan Twan Eng	9
10/13/2013	21	Regeneration – Pat Barker	8
09/08/2013	20	Consider Phlebas – Iain M Banks	7
08/11/2013	19	Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn	7
7/14/2013	18	The Fictional Man – Al Ewing	8
06/09/2013	17	The Fire Gospel – Michel Faber	?
05/12/2013	16	The Eyre Affair – Jasper FForde	8
4/14/2013	15	The Waterproof Bible – Andrew Kaufman	8
03/10/2013	14	The Book Thief – Marcus Zusak	8
02/10/2013	13	Weight – Jeanette Winterson	7
1/13/2013	12	Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates	7
11/11/2012	11	Lighthousekeeping – Jeanette Winterson	7
10/14/2012	10	Winters Bone – Daniel Woodrell	6
09/09/2012	9	The Wind Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Marakami	6
08/12/2012	8	The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundral Christ – Philip Pullman	7
07/08/2012	7	American Gods – Neil Gaiman	8
06/10/2012	6	The Travelling Hornplayer – Barbara Trapido	7
5/13/2012	5	Atomised – Michel Houellebecq	6
04/08/2012	4	Even the Dogs – Jon McGregor	8
03/11/2012	3	Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut	9
02/12/2012	2	The Swan Thieves – Elizabeth Kostova	5
01/08/2012	1	Suttree – Cormac McCarthy	6

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