Here is the list of books we plan to read this year:
| Month | Book | Author | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| September | American Dirt | Jeanine Cummins | Online |
| October | The Prison Book Club | Ann Walmsley | Online |
| November | The Color of Water | James McBride | Online |
| December | The Boat Runner | Devin Murphy | Online |
| January | Two Pints | Roddy Doyle | Online? |
| February | From the Ashes | Jesse Thistle | Online? |
| March | The Splendid and the Vile | Erik Larson | Online? |
| April | Sold on a Monday | Kristina McMorris | Online? |
| May | The North-West is Our Mother | Jean Teillet | Online? |
| June | Greenwood | Michael Christie | Online? |
We usually meet on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 PM. Since we are currently in a pandemic, we are meeting online. Perhaps sometime in the new year we will be able to get back to our regular meeting format. For reference, here is the complete list of book suggestions we considered:
| Author | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rachel Kadish | The Weight of Ink |
| 2 | Esi Edugyan | Washington Black |
| 3 | James McBride | The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother |
| 4 | Ian Williams | Reproduction |
| 5 | Erik Larson | The Splendid and The Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz |
| 6 | Glendy Vanderah | Where the Forest Meets the Stars |
| 7 | Devin Murphy | The Boat Runner |
| 8 | Chris Cleave | Little Bee |
| 9 | Michael Christie | Greenwood |
| 10 | Kristina McMorris | Sold on a Monday |
| 11 | Jesse Thistle | From the Ashes |
| 12 | Curtis Sittenfeld | American Wife |
| 13 | Curtis Sittenfeld | Sisterland |
| 14 | Jeanine Cummins | American Dirt |
| 15 | Lisa Wingate | The Book of Lost Friends |
| 16 | Ann Napolitano | Dear Edward |
| 17 | Sama Habib | We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir |
| 18 | Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give |
| 19 | Nic Pissolatto | Galveston |
| 20 | Margaret Atwood | The Testaments |
| 21 | Anand Giridharadas | Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World |
| 22 | Ann Walmsley | The Prison Book Club |
| 23 | Jean Teillet | The North-West is Our Mother - The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Metis Nation |
| 24 | Peter Diamandis & Stephen Kotler | Abundance : The Future is Better Than You Think |
| 25 | Roddy Doyle | Two Pints |
| 26 | Stephen Leacock | Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town |
| 27 | Isseldin Abuelaish | I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity |
| 28 | Kristen Hannah | The Nightingale |
