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:
November 3, 2026, Wild Dark Shores by Charlotte McConaghy, Doug Losty, 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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December 1, 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.