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'''''The Book Club''''' (formerly '''''First Tuesday Book Club''''') was an Australian television show that discussed books, ostensibly in the style of a domestic book club. Hosted by journalist Jennifer Byrne, it used a panel format with two regular members – book reviewer Jason Steger and author/blogger Marieke Hardy – and two guest members. The show first aired on ABC on 1 August 2006 and was scheduled as a monthly program. The show concluded in 2017.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/jennifer-byrne-farewells-abc-the-book-club-axed-20171012-gz05mn.html| title = Jennifer Byrne farewells ABC, The Book Club axed| date = 13 October 2017}}</ref>
==Books reviewed==
=== 2006 === * ''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
=== 2007 === * ''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
=== 2008 === * ''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<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/ First Tuesday–ABC TV<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * ''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
=== 2009 === * ''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
=== 2010 === * ''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
===2011=== ;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
===2012=== ;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 == 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, movie critic Bill Collins, retired Australian General (and author) Peter Cosgrove, and actor/writer/director Richard E Grant.
== See also == * Jennifer Byrne Presents * List of Australian television series * The Book Group – British comedy
== References ==
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== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/}}
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