We are a casual group that likes to get together to talk about books in addition to our discussion about the book of the month. The books we choose to read are varied in subject matter and emotional depth. We try to choose books that will incite discussion. If this sounds like the group for you grab our book of the month and join us.
MEET: Every 3rd Thursday 10:30ish to 12ish
WHERE: Upstairs in the Annex Classroom at North Shelby Library. If you would like to join via Zoom please sign up through the Events calendar to receive your Zoom invitation.
BOOKS: Books are selected at one year in advance. Books are chosen by group members
RESPONSIBILITIES OF MEMBERS: To have read the book (or at least attempted) and participate in the discussion. Food items are also a nice treat.
Books We’ve Read:
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NSL BOOK CLUB 2024
2024 Book List
JANUARY: A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
FEBRUARY: News of the World by Paulette Jiles
MARCH: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
APRIL: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
MAY: The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
JUNE: The Last Flight by Julie Clark
JULY: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
AUGUST: All the Sinners Bleed by S. A Cosby
SEPTEMBER: Horse by Geraldine Brooks
OCTOBER: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
NOVEMBER: Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone
DECEMBER: Good night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea
2023
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
The Brighter the Light by Mary Ellen Taylor
Behind the Magic Curtain by T.K.Thorne
Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
How to Speak Whale by Tom Mutill
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Project Hail Mary by Andrew Weir
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
2022
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
Matrix by Lauren Groff
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Darktown by Thomas Mullen
Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante by Susan Ella MacNeal
Even as We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
The Voyage of the Morning Light by Marina Endicott
Winter Counts by David Heska by Wambli Weiden
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
The Women in Black by Madeline St. John
2021
Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen
The Soul of America: The Battle for our Better Angels by John Meacham
Anxious People by Frederik Backman
The Lost and Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs
The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
Grant by Ron Chernow
The Legend of Colgan Toomey by Dargan Ware
The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Egenia Kim
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Unmarriageable: a novel by Sonia Kamal
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
2020
Beartown by Frederik Backman
The Moment of Lift by Melina Gates
Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Don’t Go There by Adam Fletcher
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
Circle of Ceridwen by Octavia Rudolph
The Nature of Life and Death by Patricia Wiltshire
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H. Winthrop
The Professor & the Madman by Simon Winchester
2019
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Celine: a novel by Peter Heller
The Trespasser by Tana French
Circe by Madeline Miller
Bellevue: three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America’s most storied hospital by David M. Oshinsky
Educated: a memoir by Tara Westover
There, There by Tommy Orange
Unsheltered: a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
Where the crawdads sing by Delia Owens
The Black Count: glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
The Last Castle: the epic story of love, loss, and American royalty in the nation’s largest home
2018
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Lights Out: a cyberattack, a nation unprepared, the aftermath by Ted Koppel
Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Sweet Music on Moonlight Ridge by Ramey Channell
2017
The Rainbow Comes and Go by Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Dead Wake by Erik Larsen
Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
El Paso by Winston Groom
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer
Victoria the Queen by Julia Baird
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Inheriting Edith by Zoe Fishman
2016
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
A Soft Place to Land by Susan Rebecca White
The Headmaster’s Darling by Katherine Clark
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
Damascus Gate by Robert Stone
Elephant Company: the Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Save Lives in World War II by Vicki Constantine Croke
2015
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Orphan Train by Christina Kline
The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro
A Place at the Table by Susan Rebecca White
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
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