Book Club is held on the fourth Friday of each month at 10 AM at the home of one of the group members. The books to be read and discussed each month are chosen by the group members. Members volunteer to take the role of discussion leader.
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June 28 – We will read Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick and the hostess is Fran F.
July 26 – We will be reading Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers by Sara Akerman. The hostess is Kathy S.
Contact information & directions can be found in the Newsletter and the Directory.
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The 10 books that were read for 2017-2018 club year were:
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shelterly
The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Stein House by Myra Hargrove McIlvain
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
A Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
The 10 books that were read for 2016-2017 season were:
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates
Beyond Prison Gate 105 by Charlotte Quiter
Destiny of a Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win WWII by Denise Kiernan
The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
For some more good reading suggestions, some books from past years were:
A Town Like Alice
All the Light We Cannot See
Capital Dames: Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
Infidel
Kitchen House
Me Before You
Same Kind of Different as Me
The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of the Titanic
The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
Walking Between the Raindrops
Above the East China Sea
And the Mountains Echoed
Five Days at the Memorial
Love, Life, & Elephants
My Beloved World
One Thousand White Women
Orphan Train
The Book Thief
The Plain Truth
Into the Wilderness
Oleander Girl
Ivory from Paradise
Roses
The Silver Star
Half Broke Horses
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
Defending Jacob
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937 – 1948
Cane River
