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2023/2024 -
Upcoming Books
*meetings start at 7:00
pm unless otherwise noted
Tom
Lake by Ann
Patchett
Wed April 3rd 2024 6:30
PM
- Michele
The
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Mon May 13th - Marilyn
Lessons
in Chemistry by
Bonnie Garmus
Mon/Wed June 2024 24th
or 26th - Karen H
2023
- Books Discussed
Demon
Copperhead
by Barbara
Kingsolver
Wed January 2024 17th -
Lunds in Plymouth
The
Thursday
Murder Club (Book
1) by Richard
Osman
Mon/Wed
February 2024
19th or 21st -
Karen J
2023
- Books Discussed
The Secret Wife by
Gill Paul
Wed
January 18th 2023 -- Karen H -
Lunds
The
Cape Doctor by E.J. Levy
Wed
February 2023 22nd --Michele
Planning Meeting
Mon
March 27th 7:00 PM -- Zoom mtg
Verity
by Colleen Hoover
Mon May 1st -- Mary
The
Night Watchman by
Louis Erdrich
Mon June 12th - Patti Sue
The
Personal Librarian
by Marie Benedict &
Victoria Christopher
Murray
Mon/Wed July 24th or 26th - Anne
The
Vibrant Years
by
Sonali Dev
Wed August 30th -
LuAnn
The
Cloisters
by Katy Hays
Mon October 9th
Zoom Meeting -
Eileen
The Keeper of Happy
Endings by Barbara Davis
Mon
November 13th 6:00 PM
- Karen P
2022
- Books Discussed
The
Life We Bury by Allen
Eskens
Wed
March 16th -- Mary
Mr.
Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
by Robin Sloan
Wed
April 13th -- LuAnn
Beautiful Country
by Qian Julie Wang
Wed May
18th -- Marilyn
Invisible
Life of Addie LaRue by
V.E. Schwab
Wednesday June 22nd -- Leslie
Rules of
Civility by Amor Towles
Mon or
Wed July 25th or 27th -- Anne
Book of Lost
Names by Kristin Harmel
Mon
August 29th -- Patti Sue
A Paris
Apartment by Michelle
Gable
Wed
October 5 -- Karen J
The Maid by Nita Prose
Wed
November 9th 5:30 PM -- Karen P
The Push
by
Ashley Audrain
Mon December
12th -- LuAnn
2021 - Books
Discussed
The Mystery of Mrs. Chrisite
by Marie Benedict
Monday January
17th -- Mary
The Marriage of Opposites
by Alice Hoffman
Monday
March 8th -- Leslie (Zoom)
A.D. 30 by Ted Dekker
Monday
April 12th -- Patti Sue (Zoom)
Night Bird Calling by
Cathy Gohlke
Monday
May 17 7:00 pm -- Karen J's house!!!
The Guest List by Lucy
Foley
Monday June 21st
-- LuAnn
The Giver of Stars by
Jojo Moyes
Monday
July 26th -- Anne
The Midnight Library by
Matt Haig
Wednesday
September 1st Scoreboard
Once Upon a River by
Diane Setterfield
Wednesday October 6 -- Michele
The Searcher by Tana
French
November 10th -- Karen P
2020 - Books
Discussed
The Lager Queen of Minnesota
by J. Ryan Stradl
Wednesday February
26th -- Marilyn hosts 6:30 PM
Maybe You Should Talk to
Someone: A Therapist, Her
Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
by Lori Gottlieb
March 30/April 1
>> May 4th -- Karen J hosts
The Magic of Ordinary Days
by Ann Howard Creel
Monday May 4th --
Karen H hosts (Zoom)
Ask Again, Yes by Mary
Beth Keane
Monday June 8th -- Mary
hosts (Zoom)
This Tender Land by
William Kent Krueger
Wednesday July 15 -- Anne
hosts
An Anonymous Girl by
Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
August 17/19 --
Patti Sue hosts
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One
Woman's Search for the Golden
State Killer by Michelle
McNamara
Wednesday September 23rd
-- Elaine hosts (Zoom)
The Last House Guest by
Megan Miranda
Wednesday October 28 --
Karen P. hosts (Zoom)
The Heart's Invisible Furies
by John Boyne
November 30/December 2 --
Michele or LuAnn (Zoom)
2021 Planning meeting
Monday February 1st 6:30
pm (Zoom)
2019 - Books
Discussed
Of Mice and Men by
John Steinbeck
Wednesday January 9th at
Leslie's
StrengthsFinder by Tom
Rath
Wednesday February 13th at
Michele's 6:30 PM
Educated by Tara
Westover
Monday March 18th at
Karen H's
Faithful Place >by
Tana French
Wednesday April 24th at Karen
J's
The Immortalists by
Chloe Benjamin
Wednesday May 29th at Patti
Sue's
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
Wednesday June 26th at Anne's
While I was Gone by
Sue Miller
Monday August 5th 6:30 PM at
Nancy's
The Rosie Project by
Graeme Simsion
Wednesday September 11th 6:30
PM at Elaine's
The Great Alone by
Kristin Hannah
Monday October 14th at
LuAnn's
White Fragility by
Robin DiAngelo
Monday or Wednesday November
18th/20th at Mary's
2020 Book Planning Meeting
Wednesday
December 18th 6:30 PM Dinner at
Karen P's
2018 - Books
Discussed
Norwegian by Night by
Derek B Miller
Monday January 29th at
Leslie's
Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
Monday February 26th at
Crave West End 6:30 PM
You Should Have Known by
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Wednesday April
4th at Rock Elm Tavern
Lilac Girls by Martha
Hall Kelly
Wednesday May 9th at Karen P's
The Woman in the Window
by A.J. Finn
Monday June 11th at
Marilyn's
Before We Were Yours by
List Wingate
Wednesday July 16th at
Ann's
Elenor Oliphant Is Completely
Fine by Gail Honeyman
Monday August 20th at
Nancy's
Beartown by Fredrik
Backman
Monday September 24th at
Mary's
The Accidental Empress
by Allison Pataki
Monday October 29 at
Eileen's
2019 Book Planning Meeting
Monday December 3rd
6:30 PM Dinner at Michele's
2017 - Books
Discussed
The Japanese Lover by
Isabel Allende
Wednesday January 11th at
Nancy's 6:30 PM
A Man Called Oveby
Fredrik Backman
Wednesday February 15th at
Karen J's
Mrs. Poeby Lynn Cullen
Wednesday March 22nd at
Leslie's
The Woman in Cabin 10 by
Ruth Ware
Wednesday April 26th at
Marilyn's
Luckiest Girl Alive by
Jessica Knoll
Wednesday May 31st at
Eileen's
The Sympathizer by Viet
Thanh Nguyen
Monday July 10th 6:30 PM
at LuAnn's
The Underground Railroad by
Colson Whitehead
Wednesday August 16th 6:00
PM at Anne's
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Wednesday September 20th
at Mary's
See Me by Nicolas
Sparks
Wednesday October 11th at
Karen P's
When Breath Becomes Air by
Paul Kalanithi & Abraham Verghese
Wednesday November 29th at
Patti Sue's
Planning Meeting
Wednesday December 13th
6:30 PM at Michele's
2016 - Books
Discussed
Girl on the Train by
Paula Hawkins
Wednesday November 30th at
Michele's
The Boston Girl by Anita
Diamant
Wednesday October 19th at
Eileen's
Shadow Fallby Laura
Griffin
Wednesday September 21st
at Karen P's
The Nightingale by
Kristin Hannah
Tuesday August 30th at Anne's --
6:45 PM
The Boys in the Boat by
Daniel James Brown
Wednesday July 13th at
Nancy's
The Whip by Karen
Kondazian
Wednesday June8th at Patti
Sue's
The Love Song of Miss Queenie
Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
Wednesday May 4th at
Marilyn's
Reconstructing Amelia by
Kimberly McCreight
Wednesday March 30th at
Leslie's
The Light Between Oceans
by M.L. Stedman
Wednesday January 20th at
LuAnn's
Big Little Lies by Liane
Moriarty
Wednesday February 24th
at Karen J's
2015 - Books
Discussed
The Invention of Wings
by Sue Monk Kidd
Wednesday
January 14 7:00 PM at Patti Sue's
We Were Liars by E.
Lockhart
Wednesday
February 18th 7:00 PM at Karen J's
What She Left Behind by
Ellen Marie Wiseman
Wednesday
March 25th 7:00 PM at LuAnn's
All the Light We Cannot See
by by Anthony Doerr
Wednesday
April 29th
The Perfect Mother by
Nina Darnton
Wednesday
June 3rd >7:00 PM at Marilyn's
Nerve Damage by Tom
Combs
Discussion
with Author
Wednesday July
8th at Anne's
The Dirty Life: on farming, food
& love by Kristin
Kimball
THURSDAY August 13th 7:00 PM at
Nancy's
The Hiding Placeby
Corrie Ten Boom
will be
discussed at October 14th meeting
The Next Thing on my List
by Jill Smolinski
Wednesday
October 14th 7:00 PM at Karen
P's
The Miniaturist by
Jesse Burton
Wednesday
November 18th 7:00 PM at
Eileen's
2016 Planning Meeting
Wednesday
December 9th 7:00 PM at Michele's
2014 - Books
Discussed
Bad Monkey by Carl
Hiaasen
Wednesday
January 8th at Bar Louie
George Washinton's Secret 6
by Brian Kilmead & Don Yaeger
Wednesday
February 12th at Michele's
Me Before You by Jojo
Moyes
Wednesday
March 19th at Colleen's
The Husband's Secret by
Liam Moriarty
Wednesday
April 23rd at Patti Sue's
Ordinary Grace by
William Kent Krueger
Wednesday May
28th at Jake's
Crazy Rich by Jerry
Oppenheimer
Wednesday July
9th at Carol's
Life After Life by Kate
Atkinson
Wednesday
August
6th at Nancy's
And the Mountains Echoed
by Khaled Hosseini
Wednesday
September 10th at Leslie's
City of Women by David
Gillham
Wednesday
October 15th at Karen Palmer's
Escape from Camp 14 by
Blaine Harden
Wednesday
November 19th at LuAnn's
Planning Meeting
Wednesday
December 10th 6:00 PM at Ann's
2013 - Books
Discussed
The Healing by Jonathan
Odell
Wednesday
January 16th at Leslie's
City of Thieves by
David Benioff
Wednesday
February 13th at Karen's
The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
Wednesday
March 13th at Colleen's
Gone Girl by Gillian
Flynn
Monday May
29th at Michele's
Beneath a Marble Sky by
John Shors
Monday June
3rd 7:00 PM at Eileen's
The End of the Your Life Book
Club by Will Schwalbe
Wednesday June
19th 7:00 PM at Jake's (Marilyn)
Wild:From Lost to Found on the
Pacific Crest Trailby
Cheryl Strayed
Wednesday July
24th 7:00 PM at Nancy's
The Art Forger by B. A.
Shapiro
Wednesday
September 4th 7:00 PM at LuAnn's
Haunted Ground by Erin Hart
Wednesday October 9th 7:00 PM at
Leslie's
Discussion
with author
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of
Harold Fryby Rachel Joyce
Wednesday
November 13th 7:00 PM at Patti Sue's
Planning Meeting
Wednesday
December 11th 7:00 PM at Karen's
2012 - Books
Discussed
Sandcastles by LuAnne Rice
Wednesday January 25th at
Patti Sue's
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Wednesday March 7th at
Leslie's
The Long-Shining Waters by Danielle
Sosin
Tuesday April 24th 7:00 PM
at Jake's Cafe
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
Wednesday May 30th at
Eileen's
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Wednesday July 11th at
LuAnn's
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Wednesday August 22nd at
Nancy's
Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar
Children Ransom Riggs
Wednesday October 3rd at
Karen's
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa
Diffenbaugh
Wednesday November 14th at
Michele's
Planning Meeting - no book to read -
bring two book ideas
Wednesday December 5th at
LuAnn's
2011 - Books
Discussed
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Wednesday January 19th
7:00 PM at Eileen's
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey
Niffeneger
Wednesday March 2nd 7:00
PM at Marilyn's
Rules by Jodi Picoult
Wednesday April 13th at
Patti Sue's
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
Wednesday May 25th at
Jake's Cafe
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and
Sweet by Jamie Ford
Wednesday July 6th at
Leslie's
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Wednesday August 17th at
Nancy's
A Visit from the Goon Squad by
Jennifer Egan
Wednesday September 21st
at LuAnn's
Hotel on the Corner of
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Wednesday November 9th at
Michele's
cabin
Planning Meeting - no book to read -
bring two book ideas and appetizer or
dessert
Tuesday December 13th
7:00 PM at Karen J's
2010 - Books
Discussed
The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline
Novogratz
Wednesday January 6th 7:00
PM at Marilyn's
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Wednesday February 17th
7:00 PM at LuAnn's
Between Here and April by Deborah by
Copaken Kogan
Wednesday April 7th 7:00
PM at Eileen's
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Friday-Sunday May
14th-16th at Michele's Cabin
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
Monday June 28th 7:00 PM
at Patti Sue's
The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo by
Steig Larssen
Thursday August 12th 6:00
PM at Nancy's
The Man with a Load of Mischief by
Martha Grimes
Wednesday September 22nd
7:00 PM at Leslie's
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth
Stein
Wednesday November 3rd
7:00 PM at LuAnn's
Planning Meeting - no book to read -
bring two book ideas
Wednesday December 8th
7:00 PM at Patti Sue's
2009 - Books
Discussed
Friday Night Knitting Club by Beth
Jacobs
Tuesday February 24th
7:00PM at Martini's
Grille
The Funeral Home Murders by Rob Hahn
Monday May 4th 7:00 PM at
Michele's
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz
Zafron
Thursday June 25th 7:00 PM
Central Middle School
Discussion
with author& dinner at
Sunsets
Look Again by Lisa Scottoline
Wednesday August 12th 6:00
PM at Nancy's
All The King's Men by Robert Penn
Warren
Wednesday September 30th
7:00 PM at Patti Sue's
The Suspect by John Lescroart
Tuesday November 10th 7:00
PM at Leslie's
2008 - Books
Discussed
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Thursday February 7th 7:00
PM at Michele's
March by Geraldine Brooks
Tuesday March 18th 7:00 PM
at Leslie's
The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
Wednesday April 30th 7:00
PM at Patti Sue's
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Monday June 16th 6:30 PM
at Stella's
Fish Cafe
Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling
Funeral by Kris Radish
Monday July 21st 5:30 PM
at Nancy's
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane
Setterfield
Tuesday September 9th 7:00
PM at Dana's
Keeping The House by Ellen Baker
Wednesday October 8th 7:00
PM at Katie's
Inheritance by Natlie Danford
Wednesday November 19th
7:00 PM at Eileen's
2007 - Books
Discussed
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Monday January 8th 7:00 PM
at Don Pablos Mtka
The Color of Water by James McBride
Tuesday February 20th 7:00
PM at Granite City in Maple Grove
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
Monday April 16th 7:00 at
Leslie's
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Tuesday May 29th 7:00 at
Patti Sue's
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara
Kingsolver
Wednesday June 27th Seward
Co-op & Birchwood Cafe
I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle
Monday July 23rd 6:30 PM
at Nancy's
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled
Hosseini
Tuesday August 21st 7:00
PM at Marilyn's
The Devil in the White City by Erik
Larson
Thursday September 27th
7:00 PM at Dana's
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Tuesday October 30th 7:00
PM at Katie's
They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky
by Benson Deng, Alephonnsion Deng and
Benjamin Ajak
Wednesday December 12th
7:00 PM at LuAnn's
2006 - Books
Discussed
Leadership Wipeout by Chuck Bolton Breckenridge,CO
Friday January 20th -
Tuesday February 24th
Until They Bring the Streetcars Back
by Stanley Gordon West
Wednesday March 15th 7:00
PM at Place El Azteka/Dolittle's
Eragon by Chris Paolini
May 10th 7:30 PM at
D'Amico's
Absent Friends by S.J. Rozan
Tuesday July 18th 6:00 PM
at Nancy's
An Inconvenient Wife by Megan Chance
Wednesday Sepetmeber 6th
7:00 PM at Big Buck Roadhouse
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
October 13-14th Weekend at
Michele's cabin
2005 - Books
Discussed
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossieni
Tuesday January 18th 7:00
PM - Northcoast
And Then There Were None by Agatha
Christie
Tuesday March 1st 7:00 PM
- Michele's House
The View from Delphi by Jonathan Odell
Monday April 18th Discussion
with author Jon Odell at Eileen's
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey
Niffenegger
Wednesday May 25th - Cafe
Barbette in Minneapolis
The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie
MacDonald
Tuesday June 28th 6:30 PM
at Nancy's
& Tuesday August 30th 7:00 PM at
Green Mill
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Tuesday October 11th 7:00
PM at Peppercorn Grill
Good Grief, A Novel by Lolly Winston
Tuesday November 29th 7:00
PM at Dolittle's
2004 - Books
Discussed
The 5 People You Meet in Heaven by
Mitch Albom
January 27th, 2004 at
Golden Valley Country Club
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
March 2nd, 2004 at
Grandma's
Orchard: A Novel by Larry Watson
April 5th, 2004 at Jake's
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
May 26th, 2004 for dinner
at Nancy's
Pope Joan by Donna
Woolfolk Cross
July 27th, 2004 Dinner
& discussion with author at Patti
Sue's
Riding the Bus With My Sister by
Rachel Simon
September 15th, 2004 7:00
PM at Grandma's
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
October 25th, 2004 7:00 PM
at Doolittles
Between the Holidays Party at Leslie's
- Men included
Saturday December 4th,
2004 7:00 PM
Shopgirl by Steve Martin (yes, the
comedian!)
Tuesday December 14th,
2004 7:00 PM - Applebees
2003 - Books
Discussed
Party
January 4th, 2003 at
Mary Kay's
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
February 5th, 2003
Seabiscuit An American Legend by Laura
Hillenbrand
April 9th, 2003 at
Dolittles
Bel Canto: A Novel by Ann Patchett
May 14th, 2003 at
Mary Kay's
The Blue Bottle Club by Penelope J.
Stokes
June 25th, 2003 at
Big Bowl
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by
Lorna Landvik
July 21st, 2003 at
Pool Party at Nancy's
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk
Kidd
August 20th, 2003 at
Dolittles
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol
Goodman
October 1st, 2003
Soup Sampler at Eileen's
Door
County
October 10th-12th,
2003
Davinci Code by Dan Brown
November 13th, 2003
at LuAnn's
2002 - Books
Discussed
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
March 5th, 2002 Friendship Soup at
LuAnn's
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
April 12th-14th 2002 at Michele's
Cabin
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Atonement by Ian McEwan
August 27th, 2002 at
Grandma's
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
September 25th, 2002
at Portofino's
Some book with a character named
Patsy? by ??
October 28th, 2002
at Timberlodge Steakhouse
Girl's Poker Niqht by Jill Davis
November 25th, 2002
at Macaroni Grill
2001 - Books
Discussed
Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
January 19th-21st,
2001 at Krolczyk's Cabin
House of Sand & Fog by Andre
Dubuss III
February 29th, 2001
at LuAnn's
Transfer of Power by Vince Flynn
March 29th, 2001
No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns
Goodwin
May 9th, 2001 at
Billy's Lighhouse
Jim the Boy by Tony Early
June 26th, 2001
????? by ???????????
July 2001 at
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
August 29th, 2001 at
Santorinis
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel
Hawthorne
October 11th, 2001
at Maynards
Sister of my Heart by Divakaruni,
Chitra Banerjee
November 13th, 2001
Girl with a Pearl Earring by
Chevalier, Tracy
December 2001
2000 - Books
Discussed
Left Behind by Tim LaHaye
January 28th, 2000
at Krolczyk's Cabin
Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend by Robert
James Waller
February 29th, 2000
at Do Littles Cafe
A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers
March 22nd, 2000 at
Don Pablo's
Snow Falling on Cedars by David
Guterson
April 27th, 2000 at
Macaroni Grille
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
May 25th, 2000 at
Sunsets
Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
June 28th, 2000 at
???????????
Don't Stand Too Close to A Naked Man
by Tim Allen
July 19th, 2000 at
Lisa's hot tub
The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney
August 23rd, 2000 at
Wayzata Bar & Grill
A Suitable Vengence by Elizabeth
George
October 4th, 2000 at
Marilyn's
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
November 15th, 2000
at LuAnn's
Party
December 8th, 2000
at Eileen's
1999 - Books
Discussed
One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
May 4th, 1999 at
Caribou Coffee in Plymouth
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
June 7th, 1999 at
Don Pablo's
At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
June 29th, 1999 at
Wine Bar in Excelsior
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
July 28th, 1999 at
Grandma's
Pilots Wives by Anita Shreve
August 25th, 1999 at
Baker's Square CRd 9
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
September 28th, 1999 at
Champs
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
October 19th, 1999
at Sydney's
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
November23rd, 1999
at Olive Garden
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