Book Club

Broaden your reading horizons and make some book buddies at our Book Club!

1st Thursday of the month at 7:00pm in the Library.

All books will be available for pickup at the previous month’s meeting. If you wish to get a head start, the formats available in our library now are listed below.

If you would like to be reminded via email about upcoming books and dates, and informed when our chosen titles come in, please ask to be added to our Book Club Mailing List.

If you have your own Book Club, you can find Book Club Sets of 5 or 10 books for order here.

Reading List for 2017-18

Book Club is on a break for the summer. If you’d like to help choose next year’s books, please come to our first meeting of the season on September 6 in the Library.

Book Club Recommendations

Here’s what we thought of the books we’ve read…

Book Read Author Average Rating from the Group Recommended for Availability in the Library
The Orenda Joseph Boyden

 

6.75/10
  • CBC listeners
  • fans of Canadiana or historical fiction
  • people with strong stomachs
  • adults only
 print and e-audio
A Passage to India E. M. Forster

 

4.33/10
  • anglophiles
  • my worst enemy
 print
Life After Life Kate Atkinson

 

6.83/10
  • not for people who need happy ending, linear or any ending
  • Kate Atkinson fans
 print
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and Other Lessons from the Crematory Caitlin Doughty

 

6.25/10
  • millenials
  • people who love to read blogs
  • people interested in obscure subjects and science
  • people who enjoy non-fiction gore
 print
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith

 

5.6/10
  • people who like period pieces
  • people who like historical fiction
  • people with lots of time on their hands
  • in general, would only recommend with reservations
 print and e-book
The Interestings Meg Wolitzer

 

5.2/10
  • boring, didn’t live up to potential
  • wouldn’t recommend to anybody
 print
The Secret History Donna Tartt

 

5.5/10
  • people who like books about spoiled kids who get away with everything.
  • fans of American Psycho
 print and e-book
Fourth of July Creek Smith Henderson

 

7/10
  • a wide variety of people
  • people who like real life personal dramas
  • people who enjoy reading about dysfunctional families and how that dysfunction passes down generations
  • people who enjoy an engrossing book that could be easily skimmed if necessary
 Only through interlibrary loan
Motorcycles and Sweetgrass Drew Hayden Taylor

 

6.5/10
  • people who like raccoons
  • fans of Joseph Boyden or Thomas King
  • fans of young adult books
  • anyone who would like a light-hearted introduction to First Nations’ heritage and culture
 e-book
Inside the O’Briens Lisa Genova No rating. Most did not finish (but those who did enjoyed it.)
  • people who want to learn more about Huntington’s Disease
  • people looking for an easy/quick, but informative read
 CD audiobook, e-book, hardcover
Animal Farm George Orwell

 

7.8/10
  • reading with your children or students (especially as a teaching tool)
  • people interested in history who also want a great story
 e-audiobook, paperback
Boy: Tales of Childhood Roald Dahl

 

7.25/10
  • everyone!
  • people who like light, quirky, quick-to-read memoirs, but don’t mind a little Boarding School violence
  • Also read the sequel “Going Solo”
 paperback
Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout  Not rated e-book
H is for Hawk Helen MacDonald  Not rated print and e-book
Best Kept Secret Amy Hatvany  Not rated print
For Today I Am a Boy Kim Fu  Not rated e-book, print
The Lost City of the Monkey God Douglas Preston Not rated print, ebook
The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro Not rated print, ebook
Purity Jonathan Franzen Not rated print, ebook, e-audio
The Secrets of Midwives Sally Hepworth Not rated print
The High Mountains of Portugal Yann Martel Not rated print, ebook, e-audio
All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Not rated print, ebook, e-audio
The Luminaries Eleanor Catton Not rated print, ebook
Circling the Sun Paula McLain Not rated print, ebook, e-audio