Join us at Betty Sue’s Better Brew Cafe for a great book discussion

on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm!

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

Upcoming Reads

2020

• January 8: The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• February 12: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
• March 11: Sourdough by Robin Sloan
• April 8: The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
• May 13: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• June 10: Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
• July 8: Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
• August 12: The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
• September 9: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
• October 14: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• November 11: The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
• December 9: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

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

Past Selections2016

• 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