Discussion led by Grace Steffens
The OEBC (Other Evening Book Club) has started up again! ​
Below you will find some of the OEBC's reading history. The dynamic of any of The English Center's book groups impacts the selection of the books we read so this would be the perfect time to join us to share your thoughts and ideas.

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December
Book of the Month
Date: Wednesday, December 18th
​Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00PM
Price: €12,00 per meeting
or block of 5 for €50,00
includes discussion and a coffee or tea.
The Christmas Bookshop
 by Jenny Colgan
Laid off from her department store job, Carmen has perilously little cash and few options. The prospect of spending Christmas with her perfect sister Sofia, in Sofia’s perfect house with her perfect children and her perfectly ordered yuppie life does not appeal.
Frankly, Sofia doesn’t exactly want her prickly sister Carmen there either. But Sofia has yet another baby on the way, a mother desperate to see her daughters get along, and a client who needs help revitalizing his shabby old bookshop. So Carmen moves in and takes the job.
Thrown rather suddenly into the inner workings of Mr. McCredie’s ancient bookshop on the picturesque streets of historic Edinburgh, Carmen is intrigued despite herself. The store is dusty and disorganized but undeniably charming. Can she breathe some new life into it in time for Christmas shopping? What will happen when a famous and charismatic author takes a sudden interest in the bookshop—and Carmen? And will the Christmas spirit be enough to help heal her fractured family?
What's Next
December- The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgate
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Books We've Read in 2024
​January - Circe by Madeline Miller
​February - Femina by Jamina Ramirez
March - A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
April -Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
May - Stoner  by John Williams
June -Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
July  - The Giver by Lois Lowry
August  -Lessons in Chemistry  by Bonnie Gamus
September - The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
October -  The Shining by Stephen King
November - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
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Books We Read in 2023
​January - Shades of Gray by Jasper Fforde
February  - Mad Women's Ball by Victoria Mas
March  - Live Range by Jeffrey H. Fischer 
April - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
May - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Qwens
June  -  Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
July - Sandman Vol 1 (Graphic) by Neil Gaiman
August-The Truth about Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker 
September -  Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
​October -  The Road  by Cormac McCarthy
​November - A Line to Kill  by Anthony Horowitz
December  -  Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Louis Carroll

Books We Read in 2022
January-  SpliIshigurog by Tanya Tagaq
February  - Walking into Alchemy by Amelia Marriette
March  - The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
 April -  Altruists by Andrew Ridker
May - On Tyranny (the graphic edition) by Timothy Snyder
June - Becoming by Michelle Obama
August  - Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
September  - The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
October - Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
November -The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 
December - Matilda by Roald Dahl 

Books We Read in 2021

January - Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
February -The Bird in the Bamboo Cage by C. Ryan Howard
March - Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
April - Not Forgetting the Whale by John Ironmonger
May - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
June  - Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
          - The Lost & Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs
August - The Windsor Knot by S. J. Bennett
September 30th - The Man in The Red Coat by Julian Barnes
October 14th - The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
November 25th - Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
December 9th - Ickabog by J.K. Rowling