Wondering what to give yourself for Christmas? Here is our
book club list for next year—January through December. Have
you read any of them? Check out reviews on the internet and treat
yourself to a couple —or let Santa do the shopping. Continue
reading . . .
January 19 The Orphan Train by Christina Blake Kline
—chosen as “one book, one Philadelphia” for 2015
February 16 David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
—discussion of the ‘rules’ of the weak and the mighty in society
March 15 Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
—woman and her two children move to a cotton farm in Mississippi
April 19 Walden by Henry David Thoreau
—communing with nature in the woods for two years
May 17 The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
—American rowing team in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
June 21 The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
—an emotional, often brutal book about a young woman escaping from her life
July 19 The Wives of Los Alamos by Tara Shea Nesbit
—the wives of the workers on the A-bomb
August 16 A Widow for One Year by John Irving
—the life of a complex, abrasive woman born under dire circumstances
Sept 20 The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
—the friends here are a fifty-four-year old concierge and a twelve-year old
Oct 18 Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
—young woman wrongly accused of enemy collaboration in the Civil War
Nov 15 At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen
—World War II era Scotland
Dec 20 The Sea by John Banville
—a recently widowed man returns to a childhood resort by the sea
We meet the third Tuesday evening of each month at the Doylestown PA
public library at 7 p.m. We’d love to have you visit! Everyone is welcome.
