Book

Book Section appeals to members who enjoy reading a variety of books.  Members vote on the book selection for the coming year and volunteers lead the discussion.

Meetings are on

the First Thursday at 9.30 AM,  and the

Second Tuesday at 1:00 PM at the Clubhouse.

BOOK SECTION PROGRAMS FOR 2023-24     

Summer Read –  Author Visit – open to guests
July 19 10:00  The Clean Daughter by Jill Kandel

August 30

Style Show 6:00 El Zagal Shrine, 1429 3rd St. N.

September  
The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson

September 23

Bling Bling

October
The Daughters of Yalta by Catherine Grace Katz

November
Their Eyes Were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

December 5
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

January 2024
The Maid by Nita Prose

February
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez

March
The The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thorton Wilder

April
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

May
The River of Doubt by Candice Millard

Previous Years Books Read

2022-23

• The Farmer’s Lawyer
• A Light in Hidden Places
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
• Anxious People
• Born a Crime
• So Long, See You Tomorrow
• I’ll Always Have Paris
• The Searcher
• Elephant Company
• This Tender Land

2021-22

• The Woman in the Window
• Bring Out Your Dead
• The Lives of Edie Pritchard
• Big Sister, Little Sister
• My Antonia
• The Vanishing Half
• Hell and Other Destinations
• Good Girl, Bad Girl
• A Woman of No Importance

2020-21

• Five Presidents
• The Girls in the Photograph
• Virgil Wander
• Slaughterhouse Five
• Where the Crawdads Sing
• The Storyteller
• Camille
• The Silent Patient
• LaRose 

2019-20

• The Only Woman in the Room
• Becoming
• The Old Man and the Sea
• Church of Marvels
• A Member of the Wedding
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
• The Hate You Give
• Educated
• Before We were Yours

2018-19

• House of the Seven Gables
• A Gentleman in Moscow
• Endurance: A Year in Space
• The Girl in the Hyacinth Blue
• Hillbilly Elegy
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• The History of Wolves
• We Two: Victoria and Albert
• The Lilac Girls

2017-18
The Girls of Atomic City
Before the Fall
So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian Village
When Breath Becomes Air
Giants in the Earth
Orchestras of Exiles
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
Mrs. Winston Churchill
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk

2016-17

As I Lay Dying; William Faulkner
A Man Called Ove; Fedrick Backman
The Nightingale; Kristen Hannah
Behind the Beautiful Forever; Katherine Boo
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Kruger
Norwegian by Night; Derek B Miller
41 Portrait of My Father ; George W Bush
Fargo Moorhead Lost and Found; Troy Laron
Marie Antoinette: The Journey ; Antonia Frasier

2015-2016
Go Set a Watchman; Harper Lee