Book clubs can be serious or loose, it's really what your group wants to make of it. Sometimes we talk the whole hour about the books we've read and sometimes we talk for 10 minutes and our conversations spiral from there. It's always fun to which direction our conversations go after talking about a book. When we read The Murder House
by James Patterson, our conversation began to discuss city politics. One of our members is very involved with staying up on the city news, so we spent the time talking about what was happening around the city.
I bring a list of 5 pages of book summaries that have been recommended by friends or online sources like Amazon and Good Reads. We vote on three, and the top one or two are our chosen books for the next month. We tend to pick two books, a primary and optional secondary. We then get our calendars out and choose the next Saturday that works for us. We place the event on Facebook on our page and we are ready for the next month.
Sometimes I bring questions for the group. Each person picks a card and reads the questions. The questions are generic like, what actor/actress would you place as the main character. Sometimes I find questions at the back of the book and choose a few of those to guide our conversations. Other times I do something that matches the story. Like with Girl Waits With Gun by Amy
Stewart, the book was created based on an article the author saw. So I brought in crazy article titles and we had a good laugh for the rest of our meeting. We ended our talk with chosing which titles we would want someone to write a book about.
Here's what we have read so far. The ones in red are the books the majority of us enjoyed.
Book Club 2019
January 2019
The Never List by FE
Greene
February 2019
The Only Woman in the
Room by Marie Benedict
March 2019
Last Call by Libby
Kirsch
April 2019
The Art Forger by
BA Shapiro
May 2019
Redemption by
7 ½ lives of Evelyn Hardcastle
June 2019
The Word is Murder by
The Tour by
The Silent Patient
by
All the Missing Girls
by Megan Miranda
August 2019
The Readers of Broken
Wheel Recommend by
Verity by Colleen
Hoover
September 2019
Curious Mind by
Janet Evanovich
Park Avenue Summer
by Renee Rosen
October 2019
Books of 2018
January 2018
Small Admissions by Amy
Poeppel
February 2018
A Murder in Time By by
Julie McElwain
A Study in Scarlet
Women by Sherry Thomas
March 2018
Girl Waits With Gun by Amy
Stewart
April 2018
How Not to Run a B&B
by Robby Hutchinson
May 2018
Lights, Camera, Gone
by Bella Forrest
Stealing Jason Wilde by Dee Ernst
June 2018
The Weird Sisters
by Eleanor Brown
I, Mona Lisa by Jeanne Kalogridis
July 2018
The Widower’s Wife
by Cate Holahan
August 2018
The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams
September 2018
The Unwanted Guest by Shari
Lapena
October 2018-November 2018
The
woman in the window by AJ Finn
December 2018
Ghosted
by Rosie Walsh
The Girl Who Lived
by Christopher Greyson
Book Club 2017
January 2017
Skip
February 2017
The Book of Speculation by
Erica Swyler
March-April 2017
The Murder House
by James Patterson
His First, His Second
by A. D. Davies
May 2017
The Chemist by
Stephanie Meyer
The Bookstore Corner
by Jenny Colgan
June 2017
Ghostwriters Anonymous
by Noreen Wald
The Unquiet Bones
by Mel Starr
July 2017
The Last Teacher
by Alan Lee
When All the Girls
Have Gone by Jayne Ann Krentz
August 2017
Dead Letters by Caite
Dolan-Leache
Swans of 5th Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
September 2017
The Two Mrs.
Grensvilles by Dominic Dunne
October 2017
Fitness Junkie by
Lucy Sykes
November 2017
Dark Matter by Blake
Crouch
Louisiana Longshot
by Jana Deleon
Book Club 2016
January
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
by gabrielle zevin
The Deep End by Julie Mulhern
February
Skinny Dip by Carl
Hiaasen
A Year of Yes, by
Shonda Rhimes
March
Nine Lives of Adam
Blake by Ryan Gladney
Nun Too Soon by Alice Loweecey
April
Beside Myself by
Ann Morgan
A Man Called Ove,
by Fredrik Backman
May
Trust No One by
Paul Cleeve
The Rosie Project by
Graeme Simison
June
Breakdown by
Jonathan Kellerman
Unbreakable Bond
by Gemma Halliday
July
Jane Steele by
Lyndsay Faye
The Rejected Writer’s
Book club Suzanne Kellman
August-September
Envy the Night by Michael Koryta
The Gilded Hour by Sara
Donati
October
Malevolent by Jana DeLeon
Abraham Lincoln
Vampire Slayer by Seth Grahame-Smith
November
The Rocks by Peter
Nichols
December-January 2017
The Opportunist by
Tarryn Fisher
The Dollhouse by Fiona
Davis
The Kept Woman by
Karin Slaughter
Book Club 2015
October 2015
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by lorna landvik
November 2015
Maybe in Another Life
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
December 2015
(Skipped)
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