BOOK CLUBS
2020 Reading Selections
MYSTERY BOOK CLUB
Meets 2nd Wednesday every month at 4 pm. All welcome.
We often choose an author and read any book in a series.
Feb. 12 John D. MacDonald, Travis McGee series, Florida
Mar 11 Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling), Cormoran Strike series, NYC
Apr 8 Peter Robinson, Inspector Alan Banks series, Yorkshire, England
May 13 Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow series, Portland (Maybe a field trip may be in order)
Jun 10 M.L. Longworth, Stranded in Provence series, south of France
Jul 8 John Sandford, Virgil Flowers series, Minnesota
Aug 12 John Connolly, Charlie Parker series, Ireland
Sep 9 Walter Mosley, Down the River, Unto the Sea, NYC (Edgar Award winner for 2019)
Oct 14 Lawrence Block, recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder series, set in NYC
Nov 11 Elly Griffiths, Dr. Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist series, Norfolk, England
Dec 9 Ruth Myers, Maggie Sullivan series, Dayton, OH, before WWII
Jan 13, 2021 Laura Litman, Baltimore-based series
The OTHER BOOK CLUB
Meets 4th Wednesday every month at 10 am. All Welcome.
Jan. 22. Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson. Fiction. 208 p.
Feb.26. The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Fiction. 402 p.
Mar. 25. On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin. Fiction. 248p
Apr. 22. Call Me American: A Memoir, by Abdi Nor Iftin. Nonfiction. 320 p.
2019 NEW Adult BOOKS
2019 NEW BOOKS - FICTION
NEW ADULT BOOKS, DEC. 2019
Marie Benedict: Only Woman in the Room
Elizabeth Berg: The Confession Club.
Erin Morgenstern: The Starless Sea
Jojo Moyes: The Giver of Stars
Chris Pavone: The Paris Diversion
Lara Prescott: The Secrets We Kept
Danielle Steel: Spy
Elizabeth Strout: Olive, Again.
Book group choices
Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson
On the Black Hill, by Bruce Chatwin
Call Me American: Memoir, by Abdi Nor Iftin.
Mystery/Suspense
David Baldacci: A Minute to Midnight (An Atlee Pine Thriller (2)
Leigh Bardugo: Ninth House
Jack Carr: Terminal List
Lee Child: Blue Moon (A Jack Reacher Novel)
Michael Connelly: The Night Fire (A Renée Ballard /Harry Bosch Novel)
Clive Cussler: Final Option (The Oregon Files)
Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille: The Deserter.
Allen Eskens: Nothing More Dangerous.
Vince Flynn: Lethal Agent (18 Mitch Rapp)
John Grisham: The Guardians
Robert Harris: The Second Sleep
Lisa Jewell: The Family Upstairs
Ragnar Jonasson: Blackout: Ari Thor Thriller (The Dark Iceland Series 3)
Ragnar Jonasson: Rupture: Ari Thor Thriller (The Dark Iceland Series 4)
Joseph Kanon: The Accomplice
John le Carré: Agent Running in the Field.
James Patterson: The 19th Christmas (Women's Murder Club (19)
Anne Perry: Death in Focus
Charles Todd: A Cruel Deception
Non Fiction
Brian Murphy: 81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness
Rachel Slade: Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro.
Michael Smith: An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor
2019 Roberts Memorial
Edmund Morris: Edison
NEW BOOKS 2019
NEW ADULT BOOKS, SEPT. 2019
Margaret Atwood: The testaments
Marie Benedict: Carnegie’s maid
Orson Scott Card: The hive
Jill Ciment: The body in question
Blake Crouch: Recursion
Linda Holmes: Evvie D Starts Over
Nuruddin Farah: North of dawn
Elizabeth Gilbert: City of Girls
Elin Hilderbrand: Summer of ‘69
Stephen King: The Institute. Sept. 10.
Debbie Macomber:Window on thBay.
Leila Meacham: Dragonfly
Téa Obreht: Inland
Kate Quinn: The Alice network
Nora Roberts: Under Currents
Richard Russo: Chances Are . . .
Miriam Toews: Women talking
Jennifer Weiner: Mrs. Everything.
Colson Whitehead: Nickel Boys
Mystery/Suspense
Kate Atkinson: Big Sky
David Baldacci: One Good Deed
C.J. Box: The Bitterroots
Jack Carr: True Believer
Ann Cleeves: The long call
Ben Coes: The Russian
Robert Crais: A Dangerous Man
Clive Cussler/Robin Burcell: Oracle
Stephen Hunter: Game of Snipers
Ragnar Jonasson: The Darkness:
Ragnar Jonasson; The Island:
Dean Koontz: The Night Window:
Owen Laukkanen: Deception Cove
Laura Lippman: Lady in the Lake
Attica Locke: Bluebird, Bluebird.
Mike Maden: T.Clancy Enemy Contact
Jo Nesbo: The Knife
Louise Penny: A Better Man
David Rosenfelt: Bark of Night
Robert Rotenberg: The guilty plea
Lori Roy: Let me die in his footsteps
Daniel Silva: The New Girl
Brad Thor: Backlash
Ruth Ware: The Turn of the Key
Non Fiction
Sarah Perry: After the Eclipse:
2019 Roberts Memorial books
Jane de Hart: Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
David McCullough: The Pioneers
George Packer: Richard Holbrooke
David L. Roll: George Marshall:
Children's Books * Book Clubs
NEW - CHILDREN 2019
New CHILDREN/YOUTH DEC. 2019
PICTURE BOOKS
Beaty, Andrea / Sofia Valdez, future prez
Cooper, Susan / The shortest day
Schachner, Judy /Stretchy McHandsome
Schertle, Alice / Good night, little blue truck
Sotomayer, Sonia / Just ask : be different, be brave, be you
Tavares, Matt / Dasher : how a brave little doe changed Christmas forever
Van Dusen, Chris / If I built a school (Maine)
EARLY CHAPTER
Hale,Shannon/Princess Black-bathtime battle
J FICTION
Burgis, Stephanie / The dragon with a chocolate heart
Colfer, Eoin / The dog who lost his bark
Crimi, Carolyn / Weird little robots
Di Camillo, Kate / Beverly, right here
Philbrick, Rodman / Wildfire (Maine)
Ursu, Anne / The lost girl
J GRAPHIC
Blabey, Aaron / Bad Guys in The Big Bad Wolf
Hale, Nathan / Major Impossible : Hazardous
Hale, Shannon / Best friends
White bird / R.J. Palacio
YA FICTION
Black, Holly / The Queen of Nothing
Lippincott, Rachael / Five feet apart
Pullman, Philip / The Secret Commonwealth
Shusterman,Neal / The Toll-Arc of the Scythe#3
Yoon, David / Frankly in love
MYSTERY BOOK CLUB
2019 MYSTERY BOOK CLUB
We often read any book from a series.
Oct 9 – Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
Nov 13–Lori Roy, Let Me Die in His Footsteps
Dec 11 – Robert Rotenberg, The Guilty Plea
2018 MYSTERY BOOK CLUB.
Sept.11:The President is Missing, Bill Clinton & James Patterson
Oct.9: Inspector Huss Series, Helen Tursten
Nov. 14: In a Dark, Dark Wood, Ruth Ware
Dec.12: The Cutting, James Hayman
The OTHER BOOK CLUB
2019 OTHER BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS
June 26: Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover.
July 24: The Girl with 7 Names, Hyeonseo Lee.
Aug. 28: Normal People, by Sally Rooney.
Sept. 25: The Shell Collector, Anthony Doerr.
Oct. 23: The Sympathizer,Viet Thanh Nguyen
Nov. 20: Crossing to Safety,Wallace Stegner.
2018 OTHER BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS
June 27: This House of Sky: Ivan Doig.
July 25: Tangerine, Christine Mangan.
Aug. 22: Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi.
Sept. 26: Elephant Company: Vicki C. Croke.
Oct. 24: Killers of Flower Moon, D.Grann;
Nov. 14: Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid. Fiction