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Book Club Books

This book club started in February 2012 and these friends are some of my very favorite people. They have been a dedicated group who have been flexible to all kinds of changes over the years and I am so thankful they have helped keep this going!

AUGUST 2025 - Dry by Neal & Jarrod Shusterman (Mel’s Pick)
JULY 2025 - How To Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley (Andi’s Pick)
JUNE 2025 - West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge (Judy’s Pick)
MAY 2025 - When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill (Angie’s Pick)
APRIL 2025 - Saturday Night At The Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal (Katie’s Pick)
MARCH 2025 - There Is No Ethan by Anna Akbari (Tami’s Pick)
FEBRUARY 2025 - The Small & The Mighty by Sharon McMahon (Kelly’s Pick)

DECEMBER 2024/JANUARY 2025 - The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins AND/OR Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
NOVEMBER 2024 - Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
OCTOBER 2024 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
SEPTEMBER 2024 - No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister (Mel’s Pick)
AUGUST 2024 - No book pick this month.
JULY 2024 - How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (Andi’s Pick)
JUNE 2024 - The Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas (Katie’s Pick)
MAY 2024 - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Kelly’s Pick)
APRIL 2024 - Argylle by Elly Conway (Tami’s Pick)
MARCH 2024 - The Hundred Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais (Angie’s Pick)
FEBRUARY 2024 - No book pick this month.

DECEMBER 2023/JANUARY 2024 - Looking For Alaska by John Green AND/OR The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
NOVEMBER 2023 - Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
OCTOBER 2023 - All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
SEPTEMBER 2023 - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
AUGUST 2023 - All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M Johnson
JULY 2023 - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
JUNE 2023 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
MAY 2023 - The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
APRIL 2023 - The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall
MARCH 2023 - The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
FEBRUARY 2023 - The Sentence by Louise Erdich
JANUARY 2023 - Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin

December 2022 - Twenty-Four Hours In The Life Of A Woman by Stefan Zweig (Austria)
November 2022 - Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina (Russia, Siberia)
October 2022 - The Good Life Elsewhere by Vladimir Lorchenkov (Moldova)
September 2022 - The Girl With Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee (North Korea)
August 2022 - Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
July 2022 - Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua/Barbados)
June 2022 - Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee AND/OR Born A Crime by Trevor Noah (South Africa)
May 2022 - The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind by William Kamkwamba (Malawi)
April 2022 - Murmur Of Bees by Sofia Segovia (Mexico)
March 2022 - Anxious People by Fredrik Bachman (Sweden)
February 2022 - Out Of Africa by Isak Dinesen (Africa, Denmark)
January 2022 - Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (Cambridge, Seattle, India, Thailand)

December 2021 - Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris
November 2021 - This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
October 2021 - Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
September 2021 - The Haunting Of Brynn Wilder by Wendy Webb
August 2021 - The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
July 2021 - The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
June 2021 - Beach Read by Emily Henry
May 2021 - American Dirt by Jeanine Cummings
April 2021 - Group by Christie Tate
March 2021 - Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
February 2021 - Evicted by Matthew Desmond

December 2020/January 2021 - Untamed by Glennon Doyle
November 2020 - The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
October 2020 - Vacationland by Sarah Stonich
September 2020 - Open Book by Jessica Simpson
August 2020 - Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
July 2020 - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
June 2020 - Maid by Stephanie Land
May 2020 - How To Walk Away by Katherine Center
April 2020 - The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
March 2020 - Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
February 2020 - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

December 2019/January 2020 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
November 2019 - The Princess Bride by William Goldman
October 2019 - The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
September 2019 - Educated by Tara Westover
August 2019 - The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
July 2019 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
June 2019 - Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
May 2019 - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
April 2019 - The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
March 2019 - Neither Wolf, Nor Dog by Kent Nerburn
February 2019 - The Witness Tree by Amy Pendino

December 2018/January 2019 - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas AND/OR The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
November 2018 - The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
October 2018 - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
September 2018 - Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
August 2018 - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
July 2018 - The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
June 2018 - The Book that Matters Most by Ann Hood
May 2018 - A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa
April 2018 - The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland by Rebekah Crane
March 2018 - The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
February 2018 - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

December 2017/January 2018 - I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai AND/OR Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
November 2017 - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
October 2017 - The Girls by Emma Cline
September 2017 - The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
August 2017 - Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris
July 2017 - Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan
June 2017 - Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
May 2017 - New York by Edward Rutherford
April 2017 - Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
March 2017 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
February 2017 - Killing Hemmingway by Arthur Byrne

December 2016/January 2017 - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
November 2016 - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
October 2016 - Effortless With You by Lizzy Charles
September 2016 - Defending Jacob by William Landay
August 2016 - All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
July 2016 - The Lake House by Kate Morton
June 2016 - The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
May 2016 - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
April 2016 - Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
March 2016 - Term Limits by Vince Flynn
February 2016 - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

December 2015/January 2016 Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
November 2015 - The One You Love by Paul Pilkington
October 2015 - This Life She’s Chosen by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
September 2015 - Exit Strategy by Kelley Armstrong
August 2015 - Night by Elie Wiesel
July 2015 - Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
June 2015 - The 5th Wave by Rick Yancy
May 2015 - The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
April 2015 - The Silver Star by Jeanette Walls
March 2015 - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
February 2015 - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

December 2014/January 2015 - ?? (moved across the country in December…so I don’t remember what was read)
November 2014 - Althea and Oliver by Cristina Moracho
October 2014 - Where the Mountain Meets The Moon by Grace Lin
September 2014 - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling
August 2014 - Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes by Shauna Niequist
July 2014 - To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek through the Heart of Africa by Nina Sovich
June 2014 - Choose Your Own Book (And report back)
May 2014 - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
April 2014 - The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
March 2014 - Maximum Insecurity: A Doctor in the Supermax by William Wright, M.D.
February 2014 - The Storyteller by Jodi Piccoult

December 2013/January 2014 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
November 2013 - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
October 2013 - The Fault in our Stars by John Green
September 2013 - Murder at Spirit Falls by Barbara Deese and Dorothy Olson
August 2013 - Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: And Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom by Celia Rivenbark
July 2013 - The Maze Runner by James Dashner
June 2013 - Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
May 2013 - The Boy in The Suitcase by Lene Kaaberboel
April 2013 - Wild by Cheryl Strayed
March 2013 - Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill
February 2013 - On The Island by Tracy Garvis Graves

December 2012/January 2013 - The Paris Wife by Paula Mclain
November 2012 - The Red House by Mark Haddon
October 2012 - One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
September 2012 - Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
August 2012 - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
July 2012 - The Kindness of Stranger by Mike McIntyre
June 2012 - The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
May 2012 - Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
April 2012 - Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
March 2012 - My Year With Eleanor by Noelle Hancock
February 2012 - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer