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Welcome to Book Club!

We meet on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 7:00pm.

Here are the dates, locations, and books for upcoming book club meetings. Clicking on the title of the book will take you to a web site with book club discussion questions for that book. Enjoy!

NOTE: scroll down to the bottom of the page for a list of books we've already read

2024 Schedule

• January 16 Christine "Small Things Like These" by Claire Keegan
• February 20 Judy's "I Hope This Finds You Well" by Natalie Sue
• March 20 Dodie/Vanessa "Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide" by Rupert Holmes
• April
• May Margo (On a Friday)
• June Holly/Kelly
• July
• August Julie
• September Jane/Sara Fisher
• October
• November Lisa
• December Holiday Party at Cheryl's

How Our Book Club Works:

Book club meets on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 7:00pm. We take turns hosting book club in our homes, and everyone brings snacks and/or wine so the hostess doesn't have to worry about providing ALL the food and drink. Whoever is hosting is responsible for picking the book, emailing out the title and author to the group at least a month before their meeting, sending out an evite, and leading the discussion questions during their meeting. We're a smart, but chatty group, so as hostess, it's your job to keep us on track! You can find the names and email addresses for all our current members below.

What book to pick? At the bottom of this page is a list of all the books we've read over the past years. Please check the list so you don't pick something we've already read. We try to be sensitive about issues of religion. Once you email out what book you've selected, I'll update this webpage to include your book and a link to discussion questions (just send me a pointer if you have different questions you want to use instead.)

Most important! Bookmark this website!

That's it! Happy Reading!

Book club members:

• Cheryl Krupczak cheryl@krupczak.org
• Amy Nickels amy_nickels@hotmail.com
• Angel Coco coco_angel@msn.com
• Christine Fierro cerf104@gmail.com
• Holly hfirfer@yahoo.com
• Lisa Burnett lisaburnett35@hotmail.com
• Julie Buckley juliebuckley@gmail.com
• Jane Logie jalalo1@yahoo.com
• Kathy Young kathytyoung@hotmail.com
• Vanessa Viviano vee.vrv1@gmail.com
• Dode Snider dode60@bellsouth.net
• Carol Gordon gordoncg@att.net
• Kelly Wills sales@addyscloset.com
• Judy Denlinger jmdesigner3@hotmail.com
• Peggy Ochandarena peggyochandarena@hotmail.com
• Victoria Stilwell vikki.stilwell@gmail.com
• Michelle chelle1643@yahoo.com
• Margo Shahid margomn@yahoo.com
• Sara Fisher sararfisher@msn.com
• Marla Funk marlajfunk@gmail.com
• Maria Nuytemans mtnuytemans@gmail.com
• Sarah Baker sarahbaker1@gmail.com
• Margaret Arnett margaretdarnett@gmail.com
• Liz Freedman ecfreedman@gmail.com
• Rene Flynn Reneflynn@hotmail.com
• Nicole Paladino Nicole.paladino@gmail.com
• Andi Ward ACWard721@gmail.com

Past Books

• "Small Mercies" by Dennis Lehane
• "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• “A Memoir of a Life Interrupted” by Suleika Jaouad
• “The Measure" by Nikki Erlick
• “The Last Dreamwalker” by Rita Woods
• "Listen for the Lie" by Amy Tintera
• "Hello, Beautiful" by Ann Napolitano
• "We Were the Lucky Ones" by Georgia Hunter
• 'My Best Friend's Exorcism' by Grady Hendrix
• 'Frozen River' by Ariel Lowhon*"The Dutch House" by Ann Patchett
• "A House with Good Bones" by T. Kingfisher
• "The Lager Queen of Minnesota" by J. Ryan Stradal
• "Remarkably Bright Creatures" by Shelby Van Pelt
• "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver
• "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny And Murder"
• "Mouth to Mouth" by Antoine Wilson
• "Say You're Sorry" by Melinda Leigh
• "Lessons In Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus
• "The Personal Librarian" by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
• "In Five Years" by Rebecca Serle
• "Chasing the Boogeyman" by Richard Chizmar
• "The Sweetness of Water" by Nathan Harris
• "The Girl with the Louding Voice" by Abi Dare
• "West with Giraffes" by Lynda Rutledge
• "The Christie Affair" by Nina de Gramont
• "The Imposter Syndrome" by Kathy Wang
• "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" by Helen Simonson
• "The Last Thing He Told Me" by Laura Dave
• "The Book of Lost Names" by Kristin Hamel
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig
• "Hamnet" by Maggie O'Farrell
• "Anxious People" by Fredrik Backman
• "Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park" by Conor Knighton
• "Carry: A Memoir of Survival On Stolen Land" by Toni Jensen
• "Leaving Time" by Jodi Picoult
• "The Wife Upstairs" by Rachel Hawkins
• A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
• The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
• "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek"
• "The Southern Book Club's Guide To Slaying Vampires" by Grady Hendrix
• "The Scent Keeper" by Erica Bauermeister
• "Big Summer" by Jennifer Weiner
• "Behold the Dreamers" by Imbolo Mbue
• "The Ghost of Bowdoin College: Money. Murder. And the Mob." by Giuseppe Vincenzo Vumbacco
• The Rosie Project by Graeme C. Simsion
• The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani
• The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
• "The Boy Who Drew Monsters" by Keith Donohue
• "Strange But True" by John Searles
• "Recursion" by Blake Crouch
• "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine" by Gail Honeyman
• Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
• VOX by Christina Dalcher
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Bird Box by Josh Malerman
• Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Garcia Marquez
• "The Man in the Empty Suit" by Sean Ferrell
• The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
• A Chance In The World by Steve Pemberton
• The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
• "The Commonwealth" by Ann Patchett
• Hemingway. "The Sun Also Rises", "The Paris Wife"
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
• The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
• The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
• The Girls by Emma Cline
• Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Barrows & Shaffer
• What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
• Fates & Furies by Lauren Groff
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Yes, Please! by Amy Poehler
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
• Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
• Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
• This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
• "The Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
• The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• Help for the Haunted by John Searles
• Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
• The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
• The Returned by Jason Mott
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
• The Giver by Lois Lowry (check out movie trailers! Looks great! Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges
• The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith aka J.K. Rowling
• The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
• The Dude and the Zen Master by Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman
• Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
• The Secret of the Nightingale Palace by Dana Sachs
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
• "Inferno" by Dan Brown
• Sweet Tooth by Ian McKewan
• "Proof of Heaven" by Dr. Eban Alexander
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• A Gate At The Stairs by Lorrie Moore
• Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
• Defending Jacob by William Landay
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• "The Grift" by Debra Ginsberg
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chau
• Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• "Pirate Lattitudes" by Michael Crichton
• Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
• The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• The Swan House by Elizabeth Musser
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain
• The Shack by William P. Young
• Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
• White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Thursday, August 20th Atonement year read 2009
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
• Body Surfing by Anita Shreve
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald
• The Manny by Holly Peterson
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory