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 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.
Reading List for 2018-2019
October 4
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The Marrow Thieves
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Cherie Dimaline |
November 1
|
The Great Alone
|
Kristin Hannah |
December 6 | The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas |
January 3 | Son of a Trickster | Eden Robinson |
February 7 | Rainbirds | Clarissa Goenawan |
March 7 | Warlight | Michael Ondaatje |
April 4 | Shoe on the Roof | Will Ferguson |
May 2 | Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng |
June 6 | The Last Neanderthal | Claire Cameron |
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 |
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print and e-audio |
A Passage to India | E. M. Forster |
4.33/10 |
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Life After Life | Kate Atkinson |
6.83/10 |
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and Other Lessons from the Crematory | Caitlin Doughty |
6.25/10 |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith |
5.6/10 |
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print and e-book |
The Interestings | Meg Wolitzer |
5.2/10 |
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The Secret History | Donna Tartt |
5.5/10 |
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print and e-book |
Fourth of July Creek | Smith Henderson |
7/10 |
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Only through interlibrary loan |
Motorcycles and Sweetgrass | Drew Hayden Taylor |
6.5/10 |
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e-book |
Inside the O’Briens | Lisa Genova | No rating. Most did not finish (but those who did enjoyed it.) |
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CD audiobook, e-book, hardcover |
Animal Farm | George Orwell |
7.8/10 |
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e-audiobook, paperback |
Boy: Tales of Childhood | Roald Dahl |
7.25/10 |
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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 | ||
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 | ||
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 |