What we’re about
You don't need to be a voracious reader or have read the classics to enjoy our book club. We are a light-hearted group who like to socialize as well as find the time for a book a month. Come to laugh, share stories and make new friends!
How do we pick the books?
People who love reading have favorite themes, genres, authors, and books. We want to make sure that members can include their favorites by suggesting books considered for the club’s monthly selections. A monthly poll is used to pick books and the poll offers three books that share a common thread. If you have a favorite book, please suggest it and we can help by finding similar ones to include in the poll. If you can suggest all three, please do.
Suggestions can be made at any time. We’ll work to vary the types of reads. When something you’ve suggested is going to be used, we’ll be in touch to make sure that what you think makes it a good choice is included in the poll’s intro. The poll for the following month’s book comes out the Thursday or Friday after the current month’s meeting on the third Wednesday and closes at 7:00 p.m. on the following Monday. The results are shared with the club once they are available. Details about the next month’s meeting are posted shortly after that.
The Books we have read:
1. Power of One, Bryce Courtenay.
2. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote. Discussion.
3. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry. Discussion
4. Chill Factor, Sandra Brown. Discussion.
5. The Stolen Child, Keith Donahue. Discussion.
6. Manhunt, James. L. Swanson. Discussion.
7. The Know-it-All, AJ Jacobs Discussion.
8. The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson. Discussion.
9. Love and Other Near Death Experiences, Mil Millingtion. Discussion.
10. Reading Lolita in Tehran , Azar Nafisi Discussion.
11. Geek Love Katherine Dunn, Discussion.
12. Feast of Snakes Harry Crews, Discussion.
13. A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson. Discussion.
14. Pompeii: A Novel, Robert Harris. Discussion.
15. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, by Alexandra Fuller
16. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
17. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
18. Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk
19. Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
20. Absolute Friends, John Le Carre
21. Agent Zigzag: a true story of Nazi espionage, love and betrayal, Ben Macintyre
22. The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
23. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
24. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
25. Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals, Wendy Dale
26. The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
27. Naked by David Sedaris
28. The Man in the High Castle by Philip Dick
29. Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara
30. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands Chelsea Handler
31. What the Dead should Know by Laura Lippman
32. March by Geraldine Brooks
33. The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
34. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
35. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
36. Washington Square by Henry James
37. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
38. The Liar by Stephen fry
39. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
40. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
41. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
42. World War Z by Max Brooks
43. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larson
44. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
45. Naked by David Sedaris
46. The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors by Michele Young-Stone
47. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
48. His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1) by Naomi Novik
49. Lady Chatterley's Lover D H Lawrence
50. The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
51. Cataloochee by Wayne Caldwell
52. The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
53. The Room by Emma Donoghue
54. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
55. High Crimes by Joseph Finder
56. The particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
57. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
58. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
59. A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
60. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
61. The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva
62. Blood of Flowers, Anita Amirrezvani
63. 11-22-63, Stephen King
64. Sin in the Second City, Karen Abbott
65. Let the great world spin by Colum McCann
66. The Walk by Richard Paul Evans
67. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
68. They Eat Puppies Don't They? by Christopher Buckley
69. The Giver by Lowis Lowry
70. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
71. Replay by Ken Grimwood
72. Big Driver by Stephen King
73. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
74. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
75. The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
76. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
77. The Passage by Justin Cronin
78. Nefertiti: A Novel by Michelle Moran
79. The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
80. Where did you go Bernadette by Maria Semple
81. In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
82. Snow in August by Pete Hamill
83. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
84. The Drop by Michael Connelly
85. Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
86. Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman
87. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
88. Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
89. Absolute Power by David Baldacci
90. American gods by Neil Gaiman
91. Kill by Numbers by Harvey Tate
92. The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
93. American Rust by Philip Meyer
94. While Beauty Slept by Elizabeth Blackwell
95. Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
96. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
97. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
98. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
99. Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
100. Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
101. The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
102. My Notorious Life by Kate Manning
103. State of Fear by Michael Crichton
104. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
105. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
106. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
107. Above Us Only Sky by Michele Young-Stone
108. Digging to America by Anne Tyler
109. Brain on Fire by Susan Cahalan
110. Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
111. The Little Lion by Nancy Beasley
112. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
113. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
114. Carrie and me: a mother-daughter love story Carol Burnett.
115. Tibetan Peach Pie by Tom Robbins
116. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra.
117. Paper Towns by John Green.
118. Doc by Mary Doria Russell.
119. Charming Billy by Alice McDermott.
120. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
121. A Man called OVE by Fredrik Backman
122. Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald.
123. Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future by John Scalzi
124. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart.
125. I See You by Clare Mackintosh
126. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
127. The Postman by David Brin
128. Gap Creek, by Robert Morgan
129. Run by Ann Patchett
130. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
131. The Pecan Man, by Cassie Dandridge Selleck
132. Dead Wake by Erik Larson
133. The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach
134. Disclosure by Michael Crichton
135. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
136. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
137. Little fires everywhere by Celeste Ng
138. One Amazing Thing by Chitra Divakaruni
139. The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
140. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
141. The Story Teller's Secret by Sejal Badani
142. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
143. Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
144. Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane
145. Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
146. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
147. Dress Your Family In Denim and Corduroy by David Sedaris
148. The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
149. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
150. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
151. American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
152. The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman
153. Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
154. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
155. Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
156. The Adventurer's Son by Roman Dial
157. Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
158. The Midnight Library by Matthew Haig
159. Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
160. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
161. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
162. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
163. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
164. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
165. Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin
166. A Burning by Megha Majumdar
167. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
168. Sisters Behaving Badly by Maddie Please
169. Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
170. The Storied Life of A.J. Firkry by Gabrielle Zevin
171. Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
172. One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow by Olivia Hawker
173. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
174. Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
175. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
176. Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
177. March 2023 - Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson
178. April 2023 – The Power, Naomi Alderman
179. May 2023 – Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
180. June 2023 – The Last Flight, Julie Clark
181. July 2023 – Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr
182. August 2023 – Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions, Mario Giordano
183. September 2023 - The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan
184. October 2023 - The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
185. November 2023 - A Girl Called Samson, Amy Harmon
186. December 2023 - The Maid, Nita Prose
187. January 2024 - The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie, Rachel Linden
188. February 2024 - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
189. March 2024 - One by One, Ruth Ware
190. April 2024 - The Secret Life of Sunflowers, Marta Molnar
