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10/22/2024 Weyward by Emilia Hart

11/26/2024 Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros

12/17/2024 Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland by Amanda Berry & Gina DeJesus

1/28/2025 Codename Nemo by Charles Lachman

2/25/2025 The Charm School by Nelson DeMille

3/25/2025 The Wedding People by Alison Espach

4/22/2025 The Bear by the Andrew Krivak

5/27/2025 The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

6/24/2025 Force of Nature : three women tackle the John Muir trail by Joan Griffin

7/22/2025 True North by Andrew Graff

8/26/2025 The Women by Kristin Hannah

9/23/2025 Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

10/24/2023 The Haunting of  House Hill by Shirley Jackson

11/28/2023 Spirits & Secrets by Barbara Perkins

12/19/2023 Horse by Geraldine Brooks

1/23/2024 Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

2/27/2024 Young Men and Fire by Norrman Maclean

3/26/2024 Remembering Laughter by Wallace Stegner

4/23/2024 Having Our Say: The Delany Sister’s First 100 Years

 by the Delany Sisters

5/28/2024 Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land by Sandy Tolan

6/25/2024 The Risk Pool by Richard Russo

7/23/2024 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

8/27/2024 The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater

9/24/2024 The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verhese

10/25/2022 Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

11/22/2022 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

12/20/2022 The River by Peter Heller

1/24/2023 The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

2/28/2023 Winterdance : The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulson

3/28/2023 Aurora by David Koepp

4/25/2023 Stalin’s Daughter : The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan

5/23/2023 From Scratch : A Memoir of Love, Sicily and Finding Home by Tembi Locke

6/27/2023 Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

7/25/2023 Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

8/22/2023 Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

9/26/2023 The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moore

Reading List for October 2021 – September 2022

9/28/21 (Inspiration) One in a Million Boy by Monica Wood

10/26/2021 Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

11/23/2021 American Dirt by Jeanne Cummins

12/21/2021 When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O’Neal

1/25/2022 This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

2/22/2022 The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed Masood

3/22/2022 West With Giraffes by Lynn Rutledge

4/26/2021 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

5/24/2022 The Girl With Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee

6/28/2022 A Bus Will Take You There by Johnny Bock

7/26/2022 Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

8/23/2022 Verity by Colleen Hoover

9/27/2022 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Reading List for October 2020 – September 2021

10/27/20 (Memoir) The Radium Girls by Katie Moore

11/24/20 (Fiction) The Overstory by Richard Powers

12/15/20 (Classic) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

1/26/21 (Youth) Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

2/23/21 (Romance) Summer of 69 by Elin Hilderbrand

3/23/21 (Mystery) The President is Missing by Bill Clinton & James Patterson

5/27/21 (Regional) Run at Destruction by Lynda Drews

5/25/21 (Non-Fiction) So You Want to Talk About Race By Ijeoma Oluo

6/22/21 (Just Because) Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

7/27/21 (Historical Fiction) The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by KM Richardson

8/24/21 (Humor) Lets Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

9/28/21 (Inspiration) One in a Million Boy by Monica Wood

Reading List for October 2019 – September 2020

10/22/19 (Youth)  Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

11/26/19 (Romance) The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan

12/17/19 (Mystery) Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson

01/28/20 (Regional) Virgil Wander by Leif Enger

02/25/20 (Classic) Beloved by Toni Morrison

03/24/20 (Non Fiction) The Spy and the Traitor  by Ben Macintyre

04/28/20 (Historical Fiction) Island of the Sea Woman  by Lisa See

05/26/20 (Just Because) Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

06/23/20 (Humor) Bossy Pants by Tina Fey

07/28/20 (Inspiration) Paddle for a Purpose  by Barb Geiger

08/25/20 (Fiction) We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves  by Karen Joy Fowler

09/22/20 (Memoir/Biography) The Grateful American  by Gary Sinese

Reading List for October 2018 – September 2019

On the dates listed, meetings begins at 6:30 PM and are being held at Fika Bakery, Superior Street until further notice.

10/23/18 (Classic)  Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

11/20/18 (Inspiration) Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

12/18/18 (Adventure) Call of the Wild by Jack London

01/22/19 (Historical Fiction) The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

02/26/19 (Fiction) Lincoln in the Barbo by George Saunders

03/26/19 (Biography) The Long Haul by Finn Murphy

04/23/19 (Non Fiction) Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

05/28/19 (Romance) Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie

06/25/19 (Regional) Our Living Ancestors by John Bates

07/23/19 (Humor) Insomniac Dreams by Mark Gaedtke

08/27/19 (Young Adult) Strong for Potatoes by Cynthia Thayer

09/24/19 (Mystery/Thriller)The Woman in the Window  by A.J. Finn

Reading List for October 2017 – September 2018
On the dates listed, meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. in the lower level of the Demmer Library:

10/24/17 (Adventure) Thousand-Miler Adventures on the Ice Age Trail by Melanie R. McManus

11/28/17 (Historical Fiction) Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

12/19/17 (Regional) Thunder Lake Narrow Gage: The Story of Vada Williams by Harvey Huston & Gary Williams

1/23/18 (Humor) The Inimitable Jeeves by PG Wodehouse

2/27/18 (Fiction) Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

3/27/18 (Inspirational) On Living by Kerry Egan

4/24/18 (Classic) My Antonia by Willa Cather

5/22/18 (Romance) Miss You by Kate Eberlen

6/26/18 (Thriller/Mystery) Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown

7/24/18 (Non-Fiction) Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

8/28/18 (Memoir/Biography) Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance

9/25/18 (Youth) Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry

Reading List for October 2016 – September 2017
On the dates listed, meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. in the lower level of the Demmer Library:

10/25/16 (Classic) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

11/15/16 (Regional) Return to Wake Robin by Marnie Mamminga

12/13/16 (Memoir/Biography) Rosemary:  The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson

1/24/17 (Non-Fiction) The Bridge at Andau: The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People by James Mitchner

2/28/17 (Adventure) Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team Six Operator Adam Brown by Eric Blehm

3/28/17 (Historical Fiction) The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

4/25/17 (Thriller/Mystery) Oxygen by Carol Cassella

5/23/17 (Youth) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

6/27/17 (Fiction) The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

7/25/17 (Inspirational) The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

8/22/17 (Humor) The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

9/26/17 (Romance) Eleanore & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Reading List for Oct. 2014 –  Sept. 2015

On the dates listed, meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. in the lower level of the Demmer Library:

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger – 10/28/14

If I Stay by Gayle Forman – 11/18/14

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline – 12/16/14

The Bohemian Flats by Mary Relindes Ellis – 1/27/15

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov – 2/24/15

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver – 3/24/15

Blood Brothers:  The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel by Elias Chacour, David Hazard & James Baker – 4/28/15

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson – 5/26/15

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough – 6/23/15

The Divide by Matt Taibbi – 7/28/15

Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler – 8/25/15

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin – 9/22/15

Reading List for Oct. 2013 – September 2014

On the dates listed, meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. in the lower level of the Demmer Library:

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker – 10/22/13

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka – 11/19/13

Traveling Mercies:  Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott – 12/17/13

Tales of a Female Nomad:  Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman – 01/28/14

An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff – 02/25/14

Gone Girl:  a novel by Gillian Flynn – 03/25/14

The Fault in our Stars by John Green – 04/22/14

The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman – 05/27/14

Mrs.  Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini – 06/24/14

Harold’s Boys by Mark Gaedke – 07/22/14

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson – 08/26/14

Jewelweed:  a novel by David Rhodes – 09/23/14

Morton Farrier Forensic genealogist genealogical crime mysteries by Nathan Dylan Goodwin:

January – The Wicked Trade by Nathan Dylan Goodwin

February – The Whole Town’s Talking by Fanny Flagg

March – Ladies of the Lights: Michigan Women in the U.S. Lighthouse Service by Patricia Majher

April – The Sterling Affair by Nathan Dylan Goodwin

May – Badger Boneyards: the eternal rest of the story by Dennis McCann

June – In the Blood by Steve Robinson

July — Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

August – It’s All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree by A. J. Jacobs

September – The Foundlings by Nathan Dylan Goodwin

 

Morton Farrier Forensic genealogist genealogical crime mysteries by Nathan Dylan Goodwin:

January – Hiding the Past

February – The Lost Ancestor

March – The Asylum (novella) and Orange Lilies (novella)

April – The America Ground

[Break for May – August)

September – The Spyglass File

October – The Missing Man (a novella)

November – The Suffragette’s Secret (a novella)

The TLGS Book Club won’t meet May 2022 – August 2022.  However, we do recommend the following books as Books of the Month:

May – A Piece of the World by Christina Baker

June – Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

July – Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography of Laura Ingalls Wilder edited by Pamela Smith Hall

August – The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg

 

These books are recommended on Genealogy Book Club lists.