Book Club

 books

Join us upstairs at the library for a great book discussion on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm!

Feel free to bring food or drinks.

 Copies of the books will be available for checkout at the Library.

Upcoming Reads

2023

Past Selections

2022

2021

2020

2019

      • January: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
      • February: The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
      • March: Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee
      • April:  Seven Husbands for Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
      • May: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
      • June: Austenland by Shannon Hale
      • July: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
      • August: America for Beginners by Leah Franqui
      • September: Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
      • October: From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty
      • November: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
      • December: Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

2018 –

      • January: O Pioneers by Willa Cather
      • February: Girl from the Savoy by Hazel Gaynor
      • March: Sum it Up: 1098 victories, a couple of irrelevant losses, and a life in perspective by  Pat Head Smith
      • April: Voices in the Stones by Kent Nerburn
      • May: Mata Hari’s Last Dance by Michelle Moran
      • June: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
      • July: Vacationland by Sarah Stonich
      • August: Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
      • September: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkle
      • October: The Heavens May Fall by Allen Eskens
      • November: The Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
      • December: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bival

2017 – Get a synopsis of each month’s book here.

      • January: The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
      • February: The Barn by Avi
      • March: The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
      • April: Opening Goliath by Cary J. Griffith
      • May: The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
      • June: We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee
      • July: The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
      • August: Devil in the White City by Eric Larson
      • September: The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
      • October: Big Wheat by Richard A Thompson
      • November: The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb
      • December: West of the Moon by Margi Preus

2016

      • January: The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
      • February: The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
      • March: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
      • April: The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
      • May: Gateway to Freedom by Eric Foner
      • June: Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
      • July: A Year in the World by Frances Mayes
      • August: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
      • September: Book of Ages by Jill Lepore
      • October 12: Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
      • November 9: Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
      • December 14: The Passenger by Lisa Lutz

2015

      • January: Suspect by Michael Robotham
      • February: My Antonia by Willa Cather
      • March: Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
      • April: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
      • May: Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin
      • June: The Prize Winner of Defiance, OH by Terry Ryan
      • July: The Storied Life of A J Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
      • August: My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business by Dick Van Dyke
      • September: The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman
      • October: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katharine Boo
      • November: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
      • December: The Mockingbird Next Door by Marja Mills

2014

      • January: Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
      • February: Patty’s Journey: From Orphanage to Adoption and Reunion by Donna Scott Norling
      • March: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
      • April: Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
      • May: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
      • September: Someone by Alice McDermott
      • October: The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo by Kent Nerburn
      • November: Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
      • December: Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts

2013

      • September: Life on Ice by Lonnie Dupre
      • October: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
      • November: Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
      • December: Round House by Louise Erdrich

2012

      • January: The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
      • February: Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
      • March: Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
      • April: In the Heart of the Sea by Philbrick
      • May: Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
      • June: The Good Good Pig: the Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery
      • July: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
      • August: Mama Makes up her Mind: and Other Dangers of Southern Living by Bailey White
      • September: Silencing Sam by Julie Kramer
      • October: In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
      • November: School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
      • December: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: an African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller

2011

      • January:  I go to America: Swedish American Women and the life of Mina Anderson by Joy Lintelman
      • February: Jelly’s Gold by David Housewright
      • March: Turtle Catcher by Nicole Helget
      • April: Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
      • September:  Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer
      • October: Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
      • November: Latehomecomer: Hmong family memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
      • December: Silent Governess by Julie Klassen