BOOK CLUBS
2019 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.
Oct 9 – Noah Hawley, Before the Fall (Edgar Award winner -2017)
Nov 13 – Lori Roy, Let Me Die in His Footsteps (Edgar Award- 2016)
Dec 11 – Robert Rotenberg, The Guilty Plea, 2nd book by this Canadian author.
We’ve read Old City Hall, the first in this Detective Greene Series.
Sept 2020 – Walter Mosley, Down the River, Unto the Sea (Edgar Award -2019)
The Other BOOK CLUB
Meets 4th Wednesday every month at 10 am. All Welcome.
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.
Please note that the November meeting is on the third Wednesday.
2019 NEW BOOKS
2019 NEW BOOKS - FICTION
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:
2017.Roberts Memorial books.
Jane de Hart: Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
David McCullough: The Pioneers
George Packer: Richard Holbrooke
David L. Roll: George Marshall:
NEW BOOKS NON-FICTION
Nonfiction Nov. 2018
David Grann: The White Darkness. Jill Lepore: These Truths: History of the United States Michelle Obama: Becoming. Lynn Vincent: Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in the US Naval History Tara Westover: Educated. Bob Woodward: Fear
Non-Fiction: Aug. 2018
Steven Brill: Tailspin
Neil Degrasse Tyson: Astrophysics for People
Dan Harris: Meditation for Fidgety Sceptics
Sam Kleiner: The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
Jon Meacham: The Soul of America
Richard Russo: The Destiny Thief:
Ellie LeBlond Sosa and Kelly Anne Chase: George & Barbara Bush: A Great American Love Story
Ian W. Toll: The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
Non-Fiction: June 2018
Madeleine Albright : Fascism: A Warning
Vicki Constantine Croke: Elephant Company:
Ivan Doig: This House of Sky:
Barbara Ehrenreich: Natural Causes
Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come
Michael Pollan: How to Change Your Mind:
NEW BOOKS 2018
NEW ADULT BOOKS, November 2018
Jenny Erpenbeck: Go, Went, Gone
Barbara Kingsolver: Unsheltered.
Lianne Moriarty: Nine Perfect Strangers Heather Morris: Tattooist of Auschwitz
Delia Owens: Where the Crawdads Sing Sarah Perry: Melmouth
Jody Picoult: A Spark of Light
Nicholas Sparks: Every Breath.
Danielle Steel: In His Father’s Footsteps
Mark Sullivan: Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Sarah Winman: Tin Man
Book group titles
The Storyteller's Secret, by Sajal Badani
They Came Like Swallows, William Maxwell
Less, by Andrew Greer
The Day the World Came to Town. 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland, By Jim Defede Mystery/Suspense
Kate Atkinson: Transcription
David Baldacci: Long Road to Mercy
Sandra Brown: Tailspin
Lee Child: Past Tense: A Jack Reacher
Ann Cleeves: Wild Fire: A Shetland Island
Bruce Robert Coffin: Beyond the Truth Michael Connelly: Dark Sacred Night
Vince Flynn: Red War
Tana French: The Witch Elm
John Grisham: The Reckoning
Ragnar Jonasson: The Darkness
Stephen King: Elevation
Jason Mathews: Red Sparrow
Jason Mathews: Palace of Treason
Jason Mathews: The Kremlin’s Candidate
Sara Paretsky: Shell Game:
A V.I. Warshawski Novel
James Patterson: Ambush
Louise Penny: Kingdom of the Blind
Anne Rice: Blood Communion
J.D. Robb: Leverage in Death
David Rosenfelt: Deck the Hounds:
Andy Carpenter John Sandford: Holy Ghost Lisa Scottoline: Feared
Yrsa Sigurdardottir: The Legacy
Charles Todd: A Forgotten Place:
Bess Crawford
Stuart Woods: Desperate Measures
Children's Books
NEW - CHILDREN 2019
New CHILDREN/YOUTH Nov. 2018 E
EARLY PICTURE BOOKS
Dreamers / Yuyi Morales
Quiet / Ryan T. Higgins
Hello hello / Brendan Wenzel
Ocean meets sky / Terry Fan, Eric Fan
The wall in the middle of the book / Jon Agee The wonky donkey/ Craig Smith
E EARLY READERS
Hi! Fly Guy / Tedd Arnold
I lost my tooth / Mo Willems
EARLY CHAPTER BOOKS
Piper Green & the fairy tree / Ellen Potter
The Princess in Black - perfect princess party / Shannon Hale
J FICTION
Ending #1, the last / Katherine Applegate
City of ghosts / Victoria Schwab
Louisianna’s way home / Kate DiCamillo Matthew Patterson and the wish defenders / Michael R. Holm
J GRAPHIC
Dog Man : lord of the fleas / Dave Pilkey Ghosts / Raina Telgemeier
J NON-FICTIONHer right foot / Dave Eggers YA FICTION
From Twinkle with love / Sandy Menon
Dry / Neal Shusterman
American Panda / Gloria Chao
Goodbye days / Jeff Zentner
YA GRAPHIC
Speak : the graphic novel / Anderson ; Carroll The graveyard book-graphic /Neil Gaiman
NEW- CHILDREN 2018
NEW CHILDREN/YOUTH - August 2018
E BOARD BOOK
Carol Thompson: Music (Amazing me)
E PICTURE BOOK
Julie Fogliano: A house that once was
Sophie Blackall: Hello lighthouse
E EARLY CHAPTER
Ellen Potter: Piper Green / fairy tree : Pie Girl
J FICTION
Aisha Said: Amal unbound
J GRAPHIC
Dav Pilkey: Dog Man and Cat Kid Ben Hatke: Zita the spacegirl
YA FICTION
Leah Konen: Love and other train wrecks Stacy McNulty: Miscalculation of Lighting Girl
YA GRAPHIC
George O’Connor:Olympian:Zeus King of gods
J NON-FICTION
Seymour Simon: Horses (revised ed. 2017) Juliette Clutton-Brock:Eyewitness Books Horse Michiyo Nelson: Sign language 1st 100 words
Steve Mould: The bacteria book
Charlotte Milner: The bee book.
NEW - CHILDREN 2019
Coming this summer
2018
previous titles
2018 Mystery Book Club
2018 MYSTERY BOOK CLUB
Meets 2nd Wednesday each month at 4pm.
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
2018 The Other Book Club
2018 OTHER BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS
Meets 10 am 4th Wednesday each month
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 the Flower Moon, D.Grann; Nov. 14: Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid. Fiction