Book Group
Readers participating in Book Group nominate and select the books they wish to read for the upcoming year. All branch members may attend as few or as many sessions as they desire. The Book Group meets at the home of the hostess. Check the newsletter or Membership Yearbook for hostess name. Reading guides available at Reading Group Guides or Lit Lovers.
Don’t worry, you don’t have to sign up to read all the books! Drop in when a book interests you.
2024 — 2025 Selections
The Demon of Unrest by Eric Larson September 9, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Animal Farm by George Orwell October 7, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawson November 7, 2024, 1:00 p.m.
The Women by Kristin Hannah January 6, 2025, 1:00 p.m.
James by Percival Everett February 3, 2025, 1:00 p.m.
Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg March 3, 2025, 1:00 p.m.
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro April 7, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Within Arm’s Reach by Ann Napolitano May 5, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Dinner to Select 2025 -2026 Books June 9, 6:00 pm
(Check the newsletter for hostess name.)
Past Books
2023-2024
Georgia O’Keefe, A Life, Roxana Robinson
Kindred, Octavia Butler
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Lessons for Our Own, Eddie Gloud, Jr.
Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk
The Paris Bookseller, Kerri Maher
Horse, Geraldine Brooks
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson
2022-2023
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L. M. Montgomery)
Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge & the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing & the Future of the Human Race, Walter Isaacson
State of Terror, Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, Allison Pataki
2021-2022
The Thornbirds, Colleen McCullough
Gifts from the Sea, Ann Morrow Lindbergh
One True Thing, Anna Quindlen
Destiny of the Republic, Candice Millard
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
Susan, Linda, Tina, Cokie, Lisa Napoli
The Searcher, Tana French
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Kim Michele Richardson
2020-2021
The Splendid and The Vile, Erik Larsen
The Dutch House, Ann Patchett
In the Woods, Tana French
Chances Are, Richard Russo
The Moment of Lift, Melinda Gates
Born a Crime, Trevor Noah
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurer
American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins
2019-2020
Clementine, Sonia Parnell
D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths, Ingrid D’Aulaires and Edgar Paria D’Aulaires
Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbundu
The Life of Elizabeth I, Allison Weir
Educated, Tara Westover
The Woman’s Hour, Elaine Weiss
Still Life, Louise Penny
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
2018-2019
Victoria, The Queen, Julia Baird
The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi Adker-Olsen
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
Circling the Sun, Paula McLain
Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
Hissing Cousins, Marc Peyser & Timothy Dwyer
At The Water’s Edge, Sarah Gruen
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Lisa See
2017-2018
Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow
13 Steps Down, Ruth Rendall
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
The Lilac Girls, Martha Hall Kelly
The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley
Mrs. Poe, Lynn Cullen
The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd
River of Doubt, Candice Millard
2016-2017
The Lake House, Kate Morton
Look Again, Lisa Scottoline
Orphan Number Eight, Kim Van Alkemade
The Sacred Chord, Geraldine Brooks
The Turner House, Angela Flournoy
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin