The Book Club is an Australian television show that discusses books ostensibly in the style of a domestic book club. Hosted by journalist Jennifer Byrne, it uses the panel format made popular in The Glass House with two regular members–book reviewer Jason Steger and author/blogger Marieke Hardy – and two guest members. The show first aired on the ABC on 1 August 2006 and is scheduled as a monthly program.
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis – August 2006
The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald – August 2006
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón – September 2006
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel – September 2006
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson – October 2006
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis – October 2006
The Mission Song by John le Carré – November 2006
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard – November 2006
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan – December 2006
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins – December 2006
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones – March 2007
The Solid Mandala by Patrick White – March 2007
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant – April 2007
The Secret River by Kate Grenville – April 2007
The Road by Cormac McCarthy – May 2007
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut – May 2007
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall – June 2007
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll – June 2007
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver – July 2007
Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier – July 2007
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini – August 2007
The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare – August 2007
The Broken Shore by Peter Temple – September 2007
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty – September 2007
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville – October 2007
East of Time by Jacob G. Rosenberg – October 1997
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan – November 2007
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler – November 2007
Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell – December 2007
The Children by Charlotte Wood – December 2007
The Memory Room by Christopher Koch – March 2008
Naked by David Sedaris – March 2008
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis – April 2008
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks – April 2008
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson – May 2008
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway – May 2008
Breath by Tim Winton – June 2008
Demons at Dusk by Peter Stewart – June 2008
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie – July 2008
Miracles of Life by J. G. Ballard – July 2008
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks – August 2008
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow – August 2008
Disquiet by Julia Leigh – September 2008
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole – September 2008
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore – October 2008
Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sánchez Piñol – October 2008
The Outsider by Albert Camus – November 2008
Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi – November 2008
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer – December 2008
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck – March 2009
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga – March 2009
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates – April 2009
The Private Patient by P. D. James – April 2009
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas – May 2009
Darwin and the Barnacle by Rebecca Stott – May 2009
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – June 2009
Ransom by David Malouf – June 2009
The Housekeeper + the Professor by Yōko Ogawa – July 2009
The Collector by John Fowles – July 2009
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child – August 2009
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides – August 2009
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – September 2009
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer – September 2009
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters – October 2009
Ask the Dust by John Fante – October 2009
This is How by M. J. Hyland – November 2009
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark – November 2009
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd – December 2009
Summer Reads – December 2009
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton – March 2010
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers – March 2010
Solar by Ian McEwan – April 2010
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson – April 2010
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys – May 2010
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk – May 2010
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen – June 2010
Reading by Moonlight by Brenda Walker – June 2010
One Day by David Nichols – July 2010
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth – July 2010
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy – August 2010
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel – August 2010
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – September 2010
Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare – September 2010
Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor – October 2010
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger – October 2010
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand – November 2010
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen – November 2010
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey – December 2010
Dead Man's Chest by Kerry Greenwood – December 2010
March 2011
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Our Kind Of Traitor by John le Carré
April 2011
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
May 2011
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Me and Mr Booker by Corey Taylor
June 2011
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
The Happy Life by David Malouf
July 2011
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
August 2011
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Past The Shallows by Favel Parrett
September 2011
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Kinglake 350 by Adrian Hyland
October 2011
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
November 2011
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
A Visit from the Goon Squad' by Jennifer Egan
December 2011
Summer Special 2012
How I Became A Famous Novelist by Steve Hely
March 2012
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Submission by Amy Waldman
April 2012
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
May 2012
The Light Between Oceans by M.L Stedman
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
June 2012
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
July 2012
The Cook by Wayne Macauley
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
August 2012
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
Guests have included Jesuit priest Frank Brennan, actress Penny Cook, gardener Peter Cundall, Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward, feminist Germaine Greer, author Di Morrissey, enfant-terrible John Safran, musician and broadcaster Lindsay "The Doctor" Mc Dougall, politician Malcolm Turnbull, retired NSW Premier Bob Carr, comedian Judith Lucy, retired Australian General (and author) Peter Cosgrove, and actor/writer/director Richard E Grant.
