Novel Bunch Book Club
Love to read? Want to discuss books with other readers?
The Library’s book club, A Novel Bunch, meets on the third Wednesday of the month at 2 pm in meeting room B in the main Library to discuss a variety of fiction, non-fiction and newly released titles. Everyone is welcome to attend.
2026 Reading List
January 21 — Let Us Eat Cake by Sharon Boorstin
February 18 — The Library Book by Susan Orlean
March 18 — The 27 Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders by Nancy Pickard
April 15 — Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
May 20 — Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (with Movie)
June 17 — The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
July 15 — Alice’s Tulips by Sandra Dallas
August 19 — Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
September 16 — The Ghost on Black Mountain by Ann Hite
October 21 — TBA
November 18 — Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (with Movie
December 16 — Holiday favorites
2025 Selections
- The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion by Fanny Flagg
- Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
- First Ladies: an Intimate Group Portrait by Margaret Truman
- The Color of Water: a Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother by James McBride
- Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz (book discussion and movie watch)
- The Women of the Copper County by Mary Doria Russell
- Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
- Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterley (book discussion and movie watch)
- A Favorite Book discussion
2024 Selections
- World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- A Street Cat Named Bob — movie
- Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
- The Ride of Our Lives by Mike Leonard
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Mystic Nights of the Wabash by Dale Glenn
- The Shipping News (book and movie) by Annie Proulx
- The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
- The 7-1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
- Favorite Holiday Books
2023 Selections
- The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
- Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
- Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
2022 Selections
- The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
- Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini
- Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
- The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Myerson
- The Lincoln Highway by Armor Towles
- Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict
- Grandma Gatewood’s Walk by Ben Montgomery
- The King’s Speech by David Seidler
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
2021 Selections
- The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
- The Answer is… Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebeck
- The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
- The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
- The Christmas Pearl by Dorothea Benton Frank