Fiction Addiction ~ Book Club: 1st Tues each month

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Our group is co-ed and has been meeting for nearly 13 years. We enjoy chatting with each other, eating good food and discussing interesting books. Every meeting is fun! Newcomers are always welcome!

Please RSVP on our Meetup website. The next books will be posted every 2 months.

UPCOMING DISCUSSIONS:
September 1, 2026 Rock, Paper, Scissors by Alice Feeney, Marlene Deyo, reviewer.

Goodreads Choice Award
Nominee for Readers' Favorite Mystery & Thriller (2021)
Think you know the person you married? Think again…

Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife.

Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts – paper, cotton, pottery, tin – and each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now. They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after.

Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget.

Rock Paper Scissors is the latest exciting domestic thriller from the queen of the killer twist, New York Times bestselling author Alice Feeney.
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October 6, 2026, Spirit Crossing by William Kent Krueger, Steve Krevisky, reviewer.

William Kent Krueger offers “one of his most puzzling mysteries to date” (Publishers Weekly) as a disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twentieth book in the New York Times bestselling series.

The disappearance of a local politician’s teenage daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O’Connor’s grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman—but nobody seems that interested. Nobody, that is, except Cork and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police.

As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of this mysterious and grim discovery, they uncover a connection to the missing teenager. And soon, it’s clear that Cork’s grandson is in danger of being the killer’s next victim in this white-knuckled mystery from “a master storyteller at the top of his game” (Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
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November 3, 2026, Wild Dark Shores by Charlotte McConaghy, Leslie Davis, reviewer.

Goodreads Choice Award
Nominee for Readers' Favorite Fiction (2025)
Dominic Salt and his three children live on Shearwater, a small island not far from Antarctica. The remote island, home to the world's largest seed bank, was once teeming with scientists, but with rising sea levels, the Salt family are now its last inhabitants. Until a woman is mysteriously washed ashore during the worst storm the island has ever faced.

As the storms on Shearwater intensify, they must all decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds they hold in their custody before it's too late—and put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new together.

Wild Dark Coast is a novel of surprising twists, suspense, and passion. It's about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.
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My Friends by Fredrik Bachman, Goodreads Choice Award
Winner for Readers' Favorite Fiction (2025), Nominee for Readers' Favorite Audiobook (2025)
The beautiful new novel that will make you laugh and cry, from the global bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove. Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life twenty-five years later…

You have to take life for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: sunrises and slow Sunday mornings and water balloons and another person’s breath against your neck. That’s the only courageous thing a person can do.

In the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world three tiny figures sit at the end of a pier. Most people don’t even notice them. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise.

Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers seek refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days together. They tell jokes, they share secrets, and they commit small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love.

Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into 18-year-old Louisa’s care. Determined to learn how it came to be and to decide what to do with it, Louisa embarks on a cross-country journey. But the closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more nervous she becomes.

In this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art, Louisa is proof that happy endings don’t always take the form we expect.