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BOOK CLUBS

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MYSTERY BOOK CLUB - ZOOM Meetings

Meets 2nd Wednesday every month at 4 pm.  All welcome.

We often choose an author and read any book in a series.


2021 TITLES

Jan.  Lippman, Laura, Tess Monaghan series, Baltimore-based  

Feb   Jance, J.A., Ali Reynolds series, Phoenix 

Mar  Buchanan, Edna Britt Montera series, Set in Miami 

Apr   Barr, Nevada, Amy Pigeon series set in U.S. National Parks 

May  Bowen, Rhys, Molly Murphy series P.I. in 40's, NYC via Ireland (Sue K has these books) 

June Cleeves, Anne, Two Rivers series, a new series, Scotland 

July  May Peter China series, Firestarter is first in the series (Johnsons have the 6 in series) 

Aug  Quinn, Spencer, Chet & Bernie Mysteries, written from the dog’s perspective.  

Sept Griffiths, Elly, The Stranger Dairies, Edgar Award Winner 2020 Not the Ruth Galloway series 

Oct  Dubois, Brendon Lewis, Cole series mag columnist NH 

Nov  Cruz-Smith, Martin Arkady Renko series, Russian cop, (we’ll read Havana Bay, set in Cuba) 

Dec Kwey Quartey, Male author with female protagonist, Ghana 


2022 TITLES

Jan 2022  Locke, Attica. Jay Porter series, set in the south (Read Bluebird Bluebird)  


The OTHER BOOK CLUB - ZOOM Meetings

Meets 4th Wednesday every month at 10 am.  All Welcome.


Dec. 23. The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman. Non-fiction, 266 p.


2021 TITLES

Jan. 27. The Book That Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation, by Randall Fuller.

Feb. 24. Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan.

Mar. 24. Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner.

Apr. 28. The Reluctant Fundamentalists, by Mohsin Hamid. 

May 26.  Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell. 

2020 and 2019 NEW Adult BOOKS

2020 NEW BOOKS

NEW BOOKS DEC. 2019

NEW BOOKS DEC. 2019

NEW ADULT  BOOKS, FEB. 2020

Isabel Allende: A Long Petal of the Sea.

Marie Benedict: Lady Clementine

Jeanine Cummins: American Dirt

Hilary Mantel: The Mirror of Light 

Ann Napolitano: Dear Edward

Danielle Steel: Moral Compass

Magna Szabo: Abigail

Mystery, Suspense

Jussi Adler-Olsen: Victim 2117: A Department Q Novel 

C.J. Box: Long Range (Joe Pickett) 

Tom Clancy and Marc Cameron: Code of Honor

Joseph Finder: House on Fire

Lisa Gardner: When You See Me.

Donna Leon: Trace Elements: A Comissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Liz Moore: Long Bright River

James Patterson: Lost

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child: Crooked River

Kwei Quartey: The Missing American

Peter Robinson: Many Rivers to Cross

Charles Todd: A Divided Loyalty Backordered

Brad Taylor: Hunter Killer: A Pike Logan Novel

Stuart Woods: Treason

Nonfiction:

Jung Chang: Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister

Roberts funds:

Brian Kilmeade: Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed AmericanHistory

Erik Larson: The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Jean Edward Smith: The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light

E. B White: On Democracy

Fraser funds

Peter Wohlleben: The Hidden Life of Trees


NEW BOOKS DEC. 2019

NEW BOOKS DEC. 2019

NEW BOOKS DEC. 2019

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


Children's Books * Book Clubs

NEW - CHILDREN 2020

Previous BOOK CLUB Selections

CHILDREN/YOUTH  DEC. 2019

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New CHILDREN/YOUTH  FEB. 2020 

  PICTURE BOOKS

Carl & the meaning of life/Deborah Freedman   

Truman / Jean Reidy   


          EARLY READER

Chick and Brain : Smell my foot / Cece Bell   

Charlie & Mouse even better / Laurel Snyder   

Who is the mystery reader? / Mo Willems  


          EARLY CHAPTER

Narwhal's otter friend (Narwhal series, #4) / Ben Clanton   


          J  FICTION

Ra, the Mighty : cat detective / A.B. Greenfield   

Wrecking ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #14) / Jeff Kinney  


          J  GRAPHIC

New kid / Jerry Craft (Newbery winner)  

Dog Man : Fetch 22 (Dog Man series, #8)   

Smile / Raina Telemeier  


           J  NON-FICTION

Hey, water / Antoinette Portis   

A ray of light / Walter Wick   


          YA  FICTION

Lovely war / Julie Berry   

The downstairs girl / Lee Stacey   

One of us is next / Karen McManus  

CHILDREN/YOUTH  DEC. 2019

Previous BOOK CLUB Selections

CHILDREN/YOUTH  DEC. 2019

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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/ 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 Scythe#3

Yoon, David / Frankly in love     

Previous BOOK CLUB Selections

Previous BOOK CLUB Selections

Previous BOOK CLUB Selections

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2020 MYSTERY BOOK CLUB

Feb.  John D. MacDonald, Travis McGee FL

Mar.  Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling), Cormoran Strike series, NYC

Apr. Peter Robinson, Inspector Banks UK

May Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow series,OR  

Jun.  M.L. Longworth, Stranded in Provence 

July  John Sandford, Virgil Flowers series, MN 

Aug.  John Connolly, Charlie Parker series, 

Sept.  Walter Mosley, Down the River, Unto the Sea, NYC (Edgar Award winner for 2019)

Oct.  Lawrence Block, P.I. Matthew Scudder series, NYC

Nov  Elly Griffiths, Dr. Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist series, Norfolk, England

Dec.  Ruth Myers, Maggie Sullivan series,  OH, before WWII


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 



  


WATERFORD LIBRARY BOOK GROUP PICKS 1998-2020

Book Club Selections since Jan. 21, 1998

1998

Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt

Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier

A Civil Action – Jonathan Harr

The Perfect Storm – Sebastian Junger

The Color of Water – James McBride

John Irving books

Stones From the River – Ursula Hegi

God of Small Things – Roy Arundhati

Wait ‘till Next Year – Doris Kearns Goodwin

Straight Man – Richard Russo

Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer

Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood


1999

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling

Two Old Women – Velma Wallis

The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

Visions – Michio Kaku

A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro

A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson

The Pilot’s Wife – Anita Shreve

The Long Walk – Slavomir Rawicz

Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells

Undaunted Courage – Stephen Ambrose

One Man’s Meat – E.B. White

December meeting: Group shared favorite poems


2000

Second Nature – Michael Pollan

Moonstone – Wilkie Collins

Birds of America (short stories) – Lorrie Moore

The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

The Golden Spur – Dawn Powell

Mrs. Dalloway, The Hours – M. Cunningham

Professor and the Madman – Simon Winchester

The Red Tent – Anita Diamant

Wit (play) – Margaret Edson

Plainsong – Kent Haruf

Waiting – Ha Jin

December meeting cancelled (snow storm)


2001

Chocolat – Joanne Harris

Wyoming Stories (short stories) – Annie Proulx

A Reason For Hope – Jane Goodall

Galileo’s Daughter – Dava Sobel

Call It Sleep – Henry Roth

Girl with the Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier

Girl in Hyacinth Blue – Susan Vreeland

We Were the Mulvaneys – Joyce Carol Oates

The Vision of Emma Blau – Ursula Hegi

Anil’s Ghost – Michael Ondaatje

Angle of Repose – Wallace Stegner 

A Certain Slant of Light – Laura Whitcomb

River Horse – William Least Heat Moon 


2002

Personal History - Katherine Graham

A Maine Hamlet – Lura Beam

Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather

Driving Mr. Albert – Michael Paterniti

Rebel Angels – Robertson Davies

Empire Falls – Richard Russo

The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch

The Spirit Catches you, and You Fall Down – Ann Fadiman

Women of the Dawn – Bunny McBride

The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen

Sailing Around the Room (poems) – Billy Collins

On Writing – Stephen King


2003

Founding Brothers – Joseph Ellis 

Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks

A Prayer for the Dying – Stewart O’Nan

Nickel and Dimed in America – Barbara Ehrenreich

Atonement – Ian McEwan

The Meaning Of It All – Richard Feynman

Island (short stories) – Alistair MacLeod

Bel Canto – Ann Patchett

The Emperor of Ocean Park – Steven Carter

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter – Sue Monk Kidd

Wild Swans – Jung Chang

Proof (play) – David Auburn

Mary Oliver poems


2004

The Piano Tuner- Daniel Mason

Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Mafisi

Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee 

Abraham – Bruce Feiler

Life of Pi – Yann Martel

Daisy Miller/Washington Square – Henry James

The Master Butcher’s Singing Club – Louise Erdrich

The Known World – Edward P. Jones

We Took to the Woods – Louise Dickinson Rich

The Kite Runner – Khaled Husseini

The Big House – George Colt

Delights and Shadows (poems) – Ted Kooser


2005

The Great Fire – Shirley Hazzard

Mountains Beyond Mountains – Tracy Kidder

Ernie’s Ark – Monica Wood

Dinner With Friends (play) – Donald Margulies

Ex Libris – Anne Fadiman

The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers

The Jane Austen Book Club – Karen Joy Fowler

The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

The Pine Barrens – John McPhee

Hateship, Friendship, Loveship, Marriage (short stories) – Alice Munro


2006

The Birth of Venus – Sarah Dunant

Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides

Suburban Safari – Hannah Holmes

The Price (play) – Arthur Miller

Washington’s Crossing – David Hackett Fischer

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon

The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls

Snowflower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

Cry The Beloved Country – Alan Paton

Tortilla Curtain – T. C. Boyle

I Saw Ramallah – Mourid Baghouti 


2007

Leap of Faith - Queen Noor 

Moon Tiger – Penelope Lively

Yeh Yeh’s House – Evelina Chao

Waiting for Snow in Havana – Carlos Eire

Augusta (Play)

Abide With Me – Elizabeth Strout 

The Solace of Leaving Early – Haven Kimmel

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards

Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky

Widow of the South – Robert Hicks

Forever – Pete Hamill

Ali and Nino – Kurban Said 


2008

On the Road – Jack Kerouac

Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen

Here If You Need Me – Kate Braestrup

Doubt (play) – John Patrick Shanley

Peace Like a River – Leif Enger

Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson

Traveling Mercies – Anne Lamott

Charity Girl – Michael Lowenthal

The Ministry of Special Cases – Nathan Englander

Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin (2 meetings)

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight – Alexandra Fuller


2009

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name – Vendela Vida  

Loving Frank – Nancy Horan 

The Road – Cormac McCarthy  

The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai  

The Drawer Boy (play) – Michael Healey  

Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte  

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer  

An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro   

Mayflower – Nathaniel Philbrick

Olive Kitteridge - by Elizabeth Strout

Run - by Ann Patchett

Too Far To Go - John Updike


2010

The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery.

Push, by Sapphire.

People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks.

Wandering Star, by J.M.G. Le Clézio.

Bach at Leipzig, a play by Itamar Moses.by

Little Giant of Aberdeen County, by TiffanyBaker.

Little Bee, by Chris Cleeve. 

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.

Old Filth, and The Man in the Wooden Hat, by Jane Gardam.

The Power of One, by Bryce Courtenay.

The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien 

Tinkers, by Paul Harding  


2011    

January: The Places In Between, by Rory Stewart  

February: Cutting For Stone, by Abraham Verghese

March: Mockingbird, by Charles J. Shields 

April: Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder

May: The Syringa Tree, by Pamela Gien (play)

June: Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson.

July: Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens

August: Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls. 

September: Winters Bone, by Daniel Woodrell.

October: The Three Weissmans of Westport, by Cathleen Schine 

November: The Immortal life of Henriete Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot.

December: The Tiger's Wife, by Tea Obrecht. 


2012

January: The Bells, by Richard Harvell.

February: The Hare With Amber Eyes, by Edmund de Waal.

March: Sylvia Plath poems.

April: Unbowed: A Memoir, by Wangari Maathai.

May: Marie Antoinette: the Color of Flesh; a play by Joel Gross.

June: Cleopatra, by Stacy Schiff 

July: The Tennis partner, by Abraham Verghese

August, The Tin Ticket, by Deborah Swiss

September: The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, by Heidi Durrow

October: The Johnstown Flood, by David McCullough

November: A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan

December: The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka


2013

January: Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad

February: State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett

March: Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles

April: The Cat's Table, by Michael Ondaatje

May: Wittenberg, a play by David Davalos 

June: The Paris Wife, by Paula Mclain  

July: The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes

August: Show Me Good Land, by Shonna Milliken Humphrey  

September: Freud's Sister, by Goce Smilevski 

October: The Round House, by Louise Erdrich 

November: Heat and Dust, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 

December: When We Were the Kennedys, by Monica Wood


2014

January: The Elephant Whisperer, by Lawrence Anthony

February: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce

March: Quiet, by Susan Cain 

April: The Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline

May: The Savannah Disputation, a play by Evan Smith

June: The Art Forger, by B.A. Shapiro 

July: The Light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman 

August: My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante  

September: Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier 

October: The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri 

November: Etched In Sand, by Regina Calcaterra 

December:  The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway


2015

January: Appointment in Samarra, by John O'Hara

February: Americanah,  by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

March: The Pecan Man, by Cassie D. Selleck

April: The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho

May: Papermaker, a play, by Monica Wood

June: Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway

July: Boys in the Boat, by Daniel Brown 

August: Silas Marner, by George Eliot 

September: Empress Dowager Cixi, by Jung Chiang 

October: The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins 

November: Cinnamon and Gunpowder, by Eli Brown 

December:  A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman


2016

January: Behind the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo

February: Bird Skinner, by Alice Greenway

March: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, by Anthony Marra

April: Sweetland, by Michael Crummy

May: They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay! A play by Dario Fo

June: Elsewhere, by Richard Russo

July: Shotgun Lovesongs, by Nickolas Butler

August: The Boston Girl, by Anita Diamant

September: The Life We Bury, by Allen Eskens

October: Dracula, by Bram Stoker

November: O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather

December: The Prince of Los Cocoyos: a Miami Childhood, by Richard Blanco


2017

January: Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy 

February: A Passage to India, by E.M. Forester 

March: The Fisherman, by Chigozie Obioma

April: The Orchardist, by Amanda Coplin

May: Disgraced, a play by Ayad Akhtar

June 28: The One-in-a-Million Boy, by Monica Wood.  Fiction. 336 pages

July 26: The Rent Collector, by Camron Wright; Fiction. 288 p.

Aug. 23: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, by James McBride. Non-fiction.  296 pages

Sept. 27: Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe. Fiction. 209 p.

Oct. 25: Hillbilly Elegy. by J.P. Vance. Non-fiction. 260 p.

Nov. 15: Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin. Fiction. 176p.

Dec. 13: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie. Fiction. 


2018

Jan. 24: A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles. 480 p. Fiction

Feb. 28: Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. 176 p. Non fiction

Mar. 28: Stay With Me, by Ayobami Adebayo, Fiction, 272 pages

Apr. 25: A Piece of the World,  by Christina Baker Kline...fiction...325 pgs.

May: Sex and Other Disturbances, by Marisa Smith (play)

June 27: This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind, by Ivan Doig. 336 p. Autobiography.

July 25: Tangerine, by Christine Mangan. Fiction. 320 p. 

Aug. 22: Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid.  226 pags.  Fiction

Sept. 26: Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II, by Vicki Constantine Croke.  Non-fiction.  368 pages.

Oct. 24:  Killers of the Flower Moon, The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI: by David Grann;  non-fiction, 352 pp, 

Nov. 14:  Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi. 320 pp. Fiction.  

Dec. 19: The Day the World Came to Town. 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland, By Jim Defede. non-fiction.  256 pages


2019

Jan. 23: Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah. non -fiction. 288 pages

Feb. 27: Less, by Andrew Greer. fiction. 261 pages

March 27: The Storyteller's Secret, by Sajal Badani. Fiction. 370 pages

April 24: They Came Like Swallows, by William Maxwell. Fiction 191 pages 

June 26: Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover. Non fiction.  336 pgs   

July 24: The Girl with Seven Names, by Hyeonseo Lee. Non fiction. 320 pgs. 

Aug. 28: Normal People, by Sally Rooney. Fiction. 288 pages,

Sept. 25: The Shell Collector, by Anthony Doerr.  Short-story collection.  240 p. 

Oct. 23: The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Fiction 384 p. 

Nov. 20: Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner. Fiction. 335 p.

Dec. 18. Our Souls at Night, by Kent Haruf. Fiction. 192 p.


2020

Jan. 22. Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson. Fiction. 208 p.

Feb.26. The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Fiction. 402 p.

March meeting cancelled due to Corona virus, no trip to Portland Stage in May.

Apr. 22. On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin. Fiction. 248p (via Zoom)

May 27: Call Me American: A Memoir, by Abdi Nor Iftin. Nonfiction. 320 p. (via Zoom)

June 24. Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family, by Amy Ellis Nutt. Non-fiction.  281 p. 

July 22. Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo. Fiction. 464 p.

Aug. 26. The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead. Fiction. 224 p.

Sept. 23. This Tender Land, by William Kurt Krueger. Fiction.  465 p.

Oct. 28. Black Like Me, by John Howard Griffin. Non-fiction. 208 p.

Nov. 18. Writers & Lovers, by Lily King. Fiction.  324 p.  


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