Books Read
Book Group Schedule
2025 - 2026
June 2 - Liza - Can’t we talk about something more pleasant? : a memoir by Roz Chast
July 7 - Lorna - An unfinished love story: a personal history of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin
August 4 - Jenelle The Measure, by Nikki Erlick
September 8 Laurie - Not My Type, by E. Jean Carroll
October 6 - Liz - Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
November 3 Liza
December 1 (?) Holiday dinner
January Lorna?
No meetings Feb - March 2026 ?
April -
May - Jenelle
Suggested books:
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Frozen River
Covenant of Water
From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and daughter
2024-2025 Year
June 12 Lorna, Absolution by Alice McDermott
July 1, Cathy Talcott. Runaway by Alice Munro.
August 5 Kathy Barnhill. A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
September 9. Liza James by Percival Everett.
October 7, Laurie Huckleberry Finn Hosted by Deb
November 4. Jenelle. The Women by Kristin Hannah
December 3, Christmas Dinner - Lorna Wesley Vita Restaurant
January - no meeting
February 3. Laurie. Demon of Unrest by Eric Larson
March Liz - The Seed Keeper, by Diane Wilson
2023-2024 Year
2023
Sept 11, - Jenelle -The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
Oct 2, Lorna - A dangerous business: a novel, Jane Smiley
November - Liza - All Boys Aren’t Blue, by George M. Johnson
December - Dinner
2024
January - - Deb - The Fraud, Zadie Smith cancelled
February Kathy Barnhill My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Past: Sabar, Ariel
March - Laurie - Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
April - Deb - The Feud by Zadie Smith
May - Liz, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
June - Lorna. Absolution: a novel, by Alice McDermott
Next year suggestion: The Women by Kristin Hannah
2022-2023
September 9 - Lorna - A tale for the time being, by Ruth Ozeki
October 3 -Cathy T French Braid, by Anne Tyler
November 7 - Liza American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee
December 13- Dinner - Christophers’
January 2 - Barnhill -The four winds by Kristin Hanna
February 6 - zoom
March 6 - Zoom
April 3 - Deb - Silent Patient
May 1 - Liz Midnight Library
June 5 - Laurie Dinners with Ruth
2021/22
September 13 - Deb, Paris Library, by Janet Skeslien Charles
October 4 - Cathy Talcott, The Bachelor: A novel by Andrew Palmer
November 1 - Jenelle, The book woman of troublesome creek, by Kim Richardson
December 6 - Dinner Liza
January 3 - Zoom meeting Kathy, Come My Beloved, by Pearl Buck
February 7 - Zoom meeting State of Terror, Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny
March 7 - Lorna. Oh William! By Elizabeth Strout
April 4 - Laurie
May 2 - Liz, All In: an autobiography, by Billie Jean King
2020-21 COVID YEAR
September - Jenelle: Olive Again by Elizabeth Stroud, chapter one
October - Deb or Zoom - The Splendid and the Vile, by Erik Larson
November -
December - Hamnet, by Maggie O'Farrell
January - Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - Kathy
February - East of Eden - Steinbeck
March - Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
April - The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
May - Liza, News of the World, by Paulette Jiles
June - Jenelle, Perestroika in Paris, by Jane Smiley
July - no meeting
August 9 - Lorna, This Tender Land, by William Kent Krueger
Other Suggestions
When all is said, by Anne Griffin
Keepers of the House, by Shirley Ann Grau
Sing Unburried Sing, by Jesmyn Ward