What is a book group ?
Book Groups are small, informal discussion groups that meet monthly to discuss and review a selected book that all group members have read. Asian books or books by Asian authors are the focus. Several authors have accepted invitations to meet with FOM Book Groups; it's always interesting when a guest author accepts!
There are currently several ongoing book groups that meet on specific days of the week: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Each book group has a contact person that can be found below. If you are interested in joining a book group, please e-mail the relevant contact. Joining a group is dependent on space availability.
NEW FOM Book Groups Spring 2010:
A few openings are still available in a new Book Group that is meeting the first Friday of each month, holidays permitting. The Monday afternoon Book Group also has a few openings.
A new non-fiction book group covering a broad range of topics from history and religion to current affairs, economics, art and biography will meet the last Thursday of each month, 1:30-3:30 pm. If interested, email Preeti or call her at 8123-0204.
Another group will meet either evenings or weekends, dependent on interest. Please email Myriam to indicate your interest.
Please feel free to contact Dana Hardesty for any Book Group enquiries: bookgroups@fom.sg.
Some of the titles that Book Groups have read in the past:
Links are to book reviews from FOM's Passage archive
- Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork: A Novel
- Yiyun Li, The Vagrants: A Novel
- Anita Nair, Mistress
- Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain
- Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Ha Jim, A Free Life
- Vikram Seth, An Equal Music
- Suchen Christine Lim, The Lies that Build a Marriage: Stories of the unsung, unsaid and uncelebrated in Singapore
- Natsuo Kirino, Out
- Robert van Gulik, The Chinese Maze Murders (A Judge Lee Mystery)
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
- Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
- Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain
- Nadeem Aslam Khan, The Wasted Vigil
- Hwang Sok-Yong, The Old Garden
- Rex Shelley, The Shrimp People
- Preeta Samarsan, Evening is the Whole Day
- Catherine Lim, Or Else the Lightning God--and Other Short Stories
- Qui Xiaolong, Red Mandarin Dress: An Inspector Chen Novel
- Pascal Khoo Thwe, From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
- Bapsi Sidhwa, Water
- Christopher J. Koch, The Year of Living Dangerously
- Mira Stout, One Thousand Chestnut Trees: A Novel of Korea
- Charles N. Li, The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in a China before Mao
- Ma Jian, Beijing Coma (translated by Flora Drew)
- Sonny Yap, Richard Lim and Leong Weng Kam, Men in White: The Untold Story of Singapore's Ruling Political Party
- Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
- Jiang Rong, Wolf Totem
- Nam Le, The Boat
- Karen Armstrong, Buddha
- Tash Aw, Map of the Invisible World
- David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
- Stella Kon, Emily of Emerald Hill
- Mohammed Hanif, A Case of Exploding Mangoes
- Karen Armstrong, Buddha
- Claire Scobie, Last Seen in Lhasa
- Stella Kon, Emily of Emerald Hill
- Dawn Farnham, The Shallow Seas
- Andrew Marshall, The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire
- Orhan Pamuk, Snow
- Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Nury Vittachi, The Feng Shui Detective's Casebook
- Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies
- Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
- Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine
- Alexandra David-Neel, My Journey to Lhasa
- Geraldine Brooks, Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
- Tiziano Terzani, A Fortune Teller Told Me
- Jonathan D. Spence, Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi
- Andrew X. Pham, Catfish and Mandala: A Two Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
- Anthony Burgess, The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy
- Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
- Paul M. Handley, The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej
- Sun Shuyun, Ten Thousand Miles without a Cloud
- Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace. . . One School at a Time
- J. G. Farrell, The Singapore Grip
- Karen Armstrong, A History of Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
- Bo Caldwell, The Distant Land of My Father
- Murakami, Underground
- Sterling Seagrave, The Soong Dynasty
- Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
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