The Book Club Where Reading Is Not Obligatory

Always wanted to join a book club but were afraid you might have to read? Join a Vancouver reading group where reading is optional.

Looking for a good excuse to meet with a bunch of like-minded louts -- tell lies, drink single malts and other high brow swill -- all under the guise of belonging to a book club? This might be for you.

We understand that you may have misgivings about belonging to any club that would accept you as a member. Let us help you overcome this fear. Join a group of men of various and nefarious backgrounds that has been meeting once a month for the past fifteen years and has been rumoured to occasionally discuss books.

Here is a small sampling of the books: Arctic Dreams Barry Lopez, Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels, All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy, A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson, No Great Mischief by Alistair Macleod. A full list is available upon request.

If you are interested in joining please tell us who you are and why you might want to join. Email.

These are books we have read over the last fifteen years:

• Fall Down on Your Knees MacDonald
• Sports Writer Ford
• Brideshead Revisited Waugh
• Last Orders Swift
• The Englishman's Boy Vanderhague
• About a Boy Hornby
• Into the Wild Krackauer
• 16 Pleasures Hellenger
• Power of One Courtney
• Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels
• Einstein Intersection Samuel Delaney
• Left Hand of Darkness Ursula LeGuin
• Poetry Misc.
• The Lost Continent Bill Bryson
• Blindness Jose Saramago
• Dubliners James Joyce
• The Reader Bernard Schlink
• Underworld Don Delillo
• The Road Home Jim Harrison
• High Fidelity Nick Hornby
• Harry Potter J K Rawling
• Anil's Ghost Micheal Ondaatje
• Disgrace Coetzee
• The Professor and the Madman Simon Winchester
• King of the World David Remnick
• Master and Commander Patrick O'Brian
• Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
• Shadows in the Sun : Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire Wade Davis
• Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur S Golden
• A Scientific Romance Ronald Wright
• The Soloist Marc Salzman
• No Great Mischief Allister Macleod
• All The Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
• Uncle Tungsten Oliver Sacks
• The Ash Garden Dennis Bock
• A Discovery of Strangers Rudy Wiebe Fiction
• The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea Sebastian Junger
• Stormy Weather Carl Hiaasen
• Discovery of Strangers Rudy Wiebe
• How to be Good Nick Hornby
• White Teeth Zadie Smith
• The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
• Atonement Ian McEwan
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon
• In the Skin of a Lion Michael Ondaatje
• Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi David Adams Richards
• The River Why David James Duncan
• Nights Below Stations Street David Adams Richards
• The Green Knight Iris Murdoch
• The Laughing Policeman Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
• The Wars Timothy Findley
• A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
• A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
• Knots and Crosses Ian Rankin
• The Last Crossing Guy Vanderhaeghe
• Barney's Version Mordecai Richler
• Bel Canto Ann Prachett
• The Blind Watchmaker Richard Dawkin
• Couples John Updike
• Crow Lake Mary Lawson
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Lynne Truss
• Deafening Francis Itani
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
• The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
• Dark Age Ahead Jane Jacobs
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal Christopher Moore
• The Kite Runner Khaled
• The Good Body Bill Gaston
• Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
• Saturday Ian McEwan
• Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami
• Adultery Richard Wright
• The Known World Edward Jones
• Three Day Road Joseph Boyden
• Charlotte Gray Sebastian Faulks
• Blink Malcolm Gladwell
• The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly
• Promise at Dawn Romain Gary
• A Dog's Life Peter Mayle
• The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell
• Certainty Madeleine Thien
• After Dark Haruki Murakami
• Lay of the Land Richard Ford
• The Golden Spruce John Vailllant
• Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem
• Collapse Jared Diamond
• Death of a Red Heroine Qiu Xiaolong
• Arctic Dreams Barry Lopez
• Through Black Spruce Joseph Boyden
• Dancing in the No-Fly Zone: A Woman's Journey through Iraq Hadani Ditmars
• Kits Law Donna Morrissey
• Smilla's Sense of Snow Peter Hoeg
• The Red Fox Anthony Hyde