This new WICE book group, the Bookers, picks from a treasure trove of international great books, winners in different categories, but each acting as a bridge to connect us to universal threads of humanity, empathy and understanding to celebrate the rich tapestry of global literature.

From this diversity of authors from every corner of the globe, one book will be chosen every month, as a passport to different cultures.

Join us on Fridays (once a month) as we delve into wisdom, imagination and human experience throughout time and place.

The schedule of upcoming novels for discussion is shared below. While this list is curated by the Bookers team, we are always open to hear about and include other/new novels that meet the criteria. 

Note: Our book reading groups are among the most popular activities in WICE, and available seats get taken quickly, so we will reserve two seats each month in this group for anyone new who would like to join.

If you would like more information or if you have questions, please email:

literature@wice-paris.org


UPCOMING EVENTS

  • LJ231 Booker Books: "Atonement," by Ian McKewan

    • 23 Jan 2026
    • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Upstairs at Le Nelson's, 16 Rue Coquillière, 75001
    • 11

    Atonement, by Ian McEwan, is a sweeping, emotionally intricate novel that explores love, guilt, class, and the slippery nature of truth. Set across three eras—an English country estate in 1935, the battlefields and hospitals of World War II, and the late twentieth century—the story begins when thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses fragments of a charged encounter between her sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, the housekeeper’s brilliant son. Misreading what she sees with a child’s limited understanding and a budding writer’s imagination, Briony makes an accusation that shatters all three lives.

    As the novel moves through the brutality of war and into the quiet reckoning of Briony’s adulthood, McEwan probes the long shadows cast by a single, irrevocable mistake. The book becomes both a love story and a meditation on memory, storytelling, and the human need for redemption. Lyrical, unsettling, and formally inventive, Atonement challenges readers to consider whether true forgiveness is possible—and whether art can ever make amends for the harm people do to one another.

    The Booker Book group reads and discusses books that have either received, or been on the short list for, the Booker Prize.

    Two spaces are reserved for new WICE members. If no new WICE members have registered by one week prior to the meeting, those two spaces will become available to the general WICE membership.

    Registration for the January meeting opens on Thursday, 18 December


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  • LF271 Booker Books: TBD

    • 27 Feb 2026
    • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Upstairs at Le Nelson's, 16 Rue Coquillière, 75001
    • 11

    The Booker Book group reads and discusses books that have either received, or been on the short list for, the Booker Prize.

    The book for February has not been chosen yet, but it will by by 24 January.

    Two spaces are reserved for new WICE members. If no new WICE members have registered by one week prior to the meeting, those two spaces will become available to the general WICE membership.

    Registration for the February meeting opens on Saturday, 24 January.


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  • LM271 Booker Books: TBD

    • 27 Mar 2026
    • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Upstairs at Le Nelson's, 16 Rue Coquillière, 75001
    • 11

    The Booker Book group reads and discusses books that have either received, or been on the short list for, the Booker Prize.

    The book for March has not been chosen yet, but it will by by 28 February.

    Two spaces are reserved for new WICE members. If no new WICE members have registered by one week prior to the meeting, those two spaces will become available to the general WICE membership.

    Registration for the February meeting opens on Saturday, 28 February.


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