Book Club

Generally, the book club  meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month via ZOOM.

Evening Book Club

Meets on the 4th Wed. of the month (except as noted) at 7 p.m. via ZOOM.

September 2022 – February 28, 2024

• September 28, 2022 Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles
• October 26, 2022: Going There, Katie Couric
• November 30, 2022: Winter Garden, Kristin Hannah
• No December meeting
• January 25, 2023: The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel, Kati Marton
• February 22, 2023: American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins
• March 22, 2023:  Volodymyr Zelensky in His Own Words, Lisa Rogat & Daisy Gibbons (editors)
• April 26, 2023: This Other Eden, Paul Harding
• May 24: The Magic Kingdom: A Novel, Russell Banks
• June 28, 2023: Every Life a Story: Natalie Jacobson Reporting, Natalie Jacobson
• July 26, 2023: Horse: A Novel, Geraldine Brooks
• August 23, 2023: The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, Douglas Abrams and Jane Goodall
• September 27, 2023: The Last Chairlift, John Irving
• October 25, 2023: This Tender Land, William Kent Krueger
• November 22, 2023: I Swear: Politics is Messier Than My Minivan, Katie Porter
• December 27, 2023: When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill
• January 24, 2024: All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
• February 28, 2024: Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus

September 2021 – August 2022

• September 22, 2021: Margaret Fuller: a new American life, Megan Marshall
• October 27, 2021: The Atomic City Girls, Janet Beard
• November 24, 2021: Voyage of Mercy: the USS Jamestown, the Irish famine, and the remarkable story of America’s first humanitarian mission, Stephen Puleo
• December 22, 2021: The Red Lotus, Chris Bohjalian
• January 26, 2022: The Doctors Blackwell: how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women – and women to medicine, Janice P. Nimura
• February 23, 2022: The Paris Architect, David Belfoure

December 2020 – August 2021 (Currently, all book club meetings are Virtual at 7 PM on ZOOM)

• Dec. 16, 2020: The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin
• Jan. 27, 2021: The Other Einstein, Marie Benedict
• Feb. 24, 2021: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah
• March 24, 2021: The Splendid and the Vile: a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the Blitz, Erik Larson
• April 28, 2021: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Kim Michelle Richardson
• May 26, 2021: Stolen: five boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home, Richard Bell
• June 23, 2021: The Age of Light, Whitney Sharer
• July 28, 2021:  Other Minds: the octopus, the sea, and the deep levels of consciousness, Peter Godfrey-Smith
• August 25, 2021: Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart

September 2019 – August 2020

• September 25, 2019 (we will meet at Nancy’s house): Eunice, The Kennedy Who Changed the World, Eileen McNamara
• October 23, 2019: There There, Tommy Orange
• November 20, 2019: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: A Novel, Gail Honeyman
• No December meeting
• January 22, 2020: Code Name Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII’s Most Highly Decorated Spy, Larry Loftis
• February 26, 2020: The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel, Heather Morris
• March 25, 2020: The Farm, Joanne Ramos
• April 22, 2020: The Shepard’s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape, James Rebanks
• May 27, 2020:The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin
• June 24, 2020: The Other Einstein, Marie Benedict
• July 22, 2020: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah
• No August meeting

September 2018 – August 2019

• September 19, 2018 (note date & location change): A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles (moved from September 26; we will meet at Nancy’s this month)
• October 24, 2018: Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
• November 28, 2018: Just Mercy, Bryan Stephenson
• No December meeting
• January 23, 2019: Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
• February 27, 2019: Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
• March 27, 2019: Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover
• April 24, 2019: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in A Silicon Valley Startup, John Carreyrou
• May 22, 2019: A Terrible Country, Keith Gessen
• June 26, 2019: The Red Coat – A Novel of Boston, Dolley Carlson
• July 24, 2019: The Woman Next Door: A Novel, Yewande Omotoso
• No August meeting

PAST YEARS

September 2017 – August 2018

• September 27 (2 books):
  • Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout (carried over from July)
  • Americanah, Chimananda Ngoze Adichie
• October 25: The Quartet: Orchestrating the 2nd American Revolution, 1783-1789, Joseph Ellis
• November 29 (moved from November 22): My Only Story, Monica Wood
• No December meeting
• January 24: Beneath A Scarlet Sky, Mark Sullivan
• No February meeting; too many members away
• March 28 (two books this month):
  • Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor & Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World, Linda Hirshman
  • Dodgers, Bill Beverly
• April 25: Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition, Paul Watson
• May 23: Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue
• June 27: Thunderstruck, Eric Larson
• July 25: The All-True Travels & Adventures of Lidie Newton, Jane Smiley
• No August meeting

September 2016 – August 2017

• September 28: The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
• October 26: My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, Book #1), Elena Ferrante (transl. A. Goldstein)
• November 30 (moved from November 23): H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
• No December meeting
• January 25: The Makioka Sisters, Junichiro Tanazaki (transl. E. Seidensticker)
• February 22:  The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home, George Howe Colt
• March 22:  The One-in-a-Million Boy, Monica Wood
• April 26: LaRose, Louise Erdrich
• May 24: Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
• June 28: The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd
• July 26: MEETING CANCELED
• No August meeting

September 2015 – August 2016

• September 23: Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 
• October 28: All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
• December 2 (moved from November 25): Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear
• No December meeting
• January 27: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Erik Larson
• February 24: MEETING CANCELED
• March 22 (2 books):
  • Nothing Daunted, Dorothy Wickenden
  • The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert
• April 27: Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, Gabrielle Hamilton
• May 25: The Boston Girl, Anita Diamant
• June 22: Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Mark Peyser
• July 27: Flight: A Novel, Sherman Alexie
• No August meeting

September 2014 – August 2015

• September 24: Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett 
• October 22: The Widower’s Tale, Julia Glass
• November 19 (3rd Wednesday): Bunker Hill, Nathaniel Philbrick
• No December meeting
• January 28: And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
• February 25: Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline
• March 25: Desert Queen, Janet Wallach
• April 22: Schmidt Steps Back, Louis Begley
• May 27: The Light Between Oceans, M.L. Stedman
• June 24: The Orchardist, Amanda Coplin
• July 22: The Sandcastle Girls, Chris Bohjalian
• No August meeting

September 2013 – August 2014

• September 25: Fall of Giants, Ken Follett
• October 24 (moved to Thursday): Rules of Civility, Amor Towles 
• November 20 (3rd Wednesday): Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks 
• No December meeting
• January 22: Middlemarch, George Elliott 
• February 26: The Poisoner’s Handbook, Deborah Blum (CANCELED)
• March 26: Brick Lane, Monica Ali  (CANCELED)
• April 23: 
  • The Poisoner’s Handbook, Deborah Blum
  • Brick Lane, Monica Ali
• May 28: The Caning, Stephen Puleo
• June 25: Father’s Day, Buzz Bissinger
• July 23: The Burgess Boys, Elizabeth Strout
• No August meeting

September 2012 – August 2013

• September 19: Caleb’s Crossing, Geraldine Brooks
• October 24: Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
• November 28: The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman
• No December meeting
• January 23: The Hare With Amber Eyes, Edmund DeWaal
• February 27: The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka
• March 27: The Paris Wife, Paula McLain
• April 24: Zeitoun, Dave Eggers
• May 22: The Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrich
• June 26: State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
• July 23: Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
• No August meeting

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