Thursday, February 9, 2017

Book Club Picks for 2017-18

For those of you interested in the titles my book club has chosen for the upcoming year, here they are.

March: THE AVIATOR'S WIFE by Melanie Benjamin (Historical Fiction)

April: PERSUASION by Jane Austen (Classic)

May: HERO OF THE EMPIRE: THE BOER WAR, A DARING ESCAPE, AND THE MAKING OF WINSTON CHURCHILL by Candace Millard (Nonfiction)

June: GIRL WAITS WITH GUN by Amy Stewart (Historical Fiction/Humor)

July: HILLBILLY ELEGY: A MEMOIR OF A FAMILY AND CULTURE IN CRISIS by JD Vance (Biography)

August: THE MARTIAN by Andy Weir (Fantasy/Science Fiction)

September: GREAT SMALL THINGS by Jodi Picoult (Social Issues/Fiction)

October: AN AMERICAN PLAGUE: THE TRUE AND TERRIFYING STORY OF THE YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC OF 1793 by Jim Murphy (YA Nonfiction)

November: DEAD WAKE: THE LAST CROSSING OF THE LUSITANIA by Erik Larson (Nonfiction)

December: STILL LIFE (Book #1 in Inspector Gamache series) by Louise Penny (Mystery)

January: A MAN CALLED OVE by Frederik Backman (Fiction)

February: THE QUIET ROOM: A JOURNEY OUT OF THE TORMENT OF MADNESS by Lori Schiller and Amanda Bennett (Biography)

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As always, our book selection meeting is one of my favorite nights of the year.  You come home with a list of great suggestions that didn't get chosen.  A few I've bookmarked are:

GRANDMA GATEWOOD'S WALK by Ben Montgomery (Biography)

SOMETHING'S YOU KEEP by JJ Landis (Biography)


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