Book Club Selections 2025-2026

MONTH	LLL HOST	BOOK SELECTION
September 19, 2025	Peggy	Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh Summary
October 2025
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January 2026
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April 2026
May 2026
June 2026

MONTH	LLL HOST	BOOK SELECTION
September 20, 2024	Ann Marie	The Maid by Nita Prose Summary
October 25, 2024	Sue F	The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose Summary
November 22, 2024	LuAnn	Fly Already by Etgar Keret Summary
December 18, 2024	Lorraine	Poems bring a poem to read Summary
January 2025
February 7, 2025	Lisa	Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland Summary
March 2025
April 18, 2025	Barb	The Women by Kristin Hannah Summary
Thursday May 22, 2025	Kim	How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley Summary
June 26, 2025	Sue F	The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride Summary

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MONTH	LLL HOST	BOOK SELECTION
September 8, 2023	Peggy	The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Summary
October 20, 2023	LuAnn	The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall Summary
November 10, 2023	Barb	You Were Always Mine by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza Summary
December 8, 2023	Lorraine	Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano Summary
January 19, 2024	Mary	Recursion by Blake Crouch Summary
February 23, 2024	Kim	The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell Summary
April 26, 2024	Lisa	Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce Summary
June 7, 2024	Sue F	1984 by George Orwell Summary

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MONTH	LLL HOST	BOOK SELECTION
September 22, 2022	Peggy	Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Summary
October 24, 2022	LuAnn	The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave Summary
December 1, 2022	Mary Ellen	Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman Summary
December 2022	HOLIDAYS
January 2023
February 2, 2023	Lorraine	Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez Summary
March 23, 2023	Lorraine	Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Summary
April 2023
May 24, 2023	Mary	Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng Summary
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MONTH	LLL HOST	BOOK SELECTION
September 10, 2021	Peggy	10 minutes 38 seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak Summary
October 29, 2021	Sue F.	The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Summary
December 2, 2021	Lorraine	The Four Winds Kristin Hannah Summary
December 2021	HOLIDAYS -
January 5, 2022	Kim	The Cerulean Sea by TJ Kline
February 2022
March 24,2022	Janet	Circling the Sun by Paula McLain Summary
April 2022
May 19, 2022	LuAnn	Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney Summary
June 23, 2022	Sue F.	Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Summary

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MONTH	LLL HOST	BOOK SELECTION
September 11, 2020	Peggy	Wool by Hugh Howey Summary
October 2020	Sue F.	Educated by Tara Westover Summary
November 2020	Lorraine	The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes Summary
December 2020	HOLIDAYS!	December 11 Holiday Zoom - Lorraine
January 15, 2021	Barb	The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams Summary
February 26, 2021	LuAnn	Still Life by Louise Penny Summary
March 26, 2021	Lisa	The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth Summary
May 17, 2021 Monday	Lorraine	A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Summary
June 28, 2021 Monday	Ann Marie	Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano Summary
June-August 2021	SUMMER!

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MONTH	LLL HOST	BOOK SELECTION
September 13, 2019	Peggy	Conviction by Denise Mina Summary
October 18, 2019	Lorraine	Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate Summary
November 15, 2019	Lisa	The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick Summary
December 2019	HOLIDAYS!
January 10, 2020	Mary	Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris Summary
February 21, 2020	AnnMarie	Designing Dish 6:00 pm bring a snack to pass
April 3, 2020	Sue F	Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Summary
April 2020	LuAnn
May 2020	Barb
June-August 2019	SUMMER!

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MONTH	LLL HOST	BOOK SELECTION
September 21, 2018	Lorraine	Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum Summary
October 26, 2018	Barb	Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh Summary
November 16, 2018	LuAnn	The Rosie Project by Graeme C. Simsion Summary
December 2018	HOLIDAYS!
January 11, 2019	Mary	Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Summary
February 8, 2019	Lisa	The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson Summary
March 15, 2019	Sue D.	Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter Summary
April 26, 2019	Kim	Love Anthony by Lisa Genova Summary
Love Anthony theme: Unconditional Love	Barb's link refreshing talk	Anthony de Mello, S.J. Awareness: Four Steps to Wisdom...
June 21, 2019	Sue F./Lorraine	The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Summary
June-August 2019	SUMMER!

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MONTH	LLL HOST	BOOK SELECTION
September 22, 2017	Peggy	Paradise by Toni Morrison Summary
October 27, 2017	Mary	Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly Summary
December 8, 2017	Janet	The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman Summary
DECEMBER 2017	Holidays
January 19,2018	Sue F.	Small Great Things By Jodi Picoult Summary
March 9, 2018	Barb	The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson Summary
April 20, 2018	LuAnn	Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Summary
June 1, 2018	Kim	Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance Summary
August 24, 2018	Ann Marie	A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Summary

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MONTH	LLL HOST	BOOK SELECTION
September 16, 2016	Peggy	The Children Act by Ian McEwan Summary
October 14, 2016	LuAnn	The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Summary
December 2, 2016	Mary	We Were Liars by E. Lockhart Summary
DECEMBER 2016	Holidays
January 13, 2017	Kim	The Plover by Brian Doyle Summary
February 10,2017 (break=2/18-2/26)	Lisa	We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler Summary
March 17, 2017	Barb	The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien Summary @ Kleinhans March 24...BABEL
April 21, 2017 (break=4/8-4/17)	Mary Ellen	Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Summary
June 16, 2017	Sue F.	The Mothers by Brit Bennett Summary

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MONTH	LLL HOST	BOOK SELECTION
September 11, 2015	Ann Marie	Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline Summary
Friday Ocotber 23, 2015	BABEL Night Babel page	CLAUDIA RANKINE book CITIZEN an American Lyric
November 6, 2015	Mary	All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu Summary
Wednesday November 18, 2015	BABEL Night Babel page	DINAW MENGESTU @Amazon The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
DECEMBER 2015	Holidays
January 29, 2016	Kim	All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Summary
March 4, 2016 (brk:2/13-2/17)	Barb	The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah Summary
Thursday March 10, 2016	BABEL Night Babel page	LOUISE ERDRICH Bio & books The Round House
April 1, 2016	LuAnn	The Dog Stars by Peter Heller Summary
Thursday April 21, 2016	BABEL Night Babel page	KARL OVE KNAUSGÅRD Bio 6-volume autobiographical novels My Struggle
May 13,2016	Janet	The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Summary

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MONTH	LLL HOST	BOOK SELECTION
September 26, 2014	Peggy	Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Summary
Thursday Ocotber 9, 2014	BABEL Night	Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
November 14, 2014	Kim	Ch'inglish by David Henry Hwang Summary
MAKEUP: Tuesday February 10, 2015	BABEL Night	Ch'inglish by David Henry Hwang
DECEMBER 2014	Holidays
January 16, 2015	Mary	Me Before You by Jojo Moyes Summary
March 6, 2015	Lisa	Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Summary
Thursday March 26, 2015	BABEL Night	Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Friday April 17, 2015	BABEL Night	Just Kids by Patti Smith
April 24, 2015	Barb	Just Kids by Patti Smith Summary
June 12, 2015	LuAnn	Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan Summary
SEPTEMBER 2015	Ann Marie	TBA

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MONTH	LLL HOST	BOOK SELECTION
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013	Peggy	The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid Summary
OCTOBER 5, 2013	LuAnn	The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Summary
NOVEMBER 15, 2013	Pat	The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker Summary
DECEMBER 2013	Holidays
JANUARY 17, 2014	Kim	Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Summary
FEBRUARY 28, 2014	Mary	Bossypants by Tina Fey Summary
MARCH 28, 2014	Barb	Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor Summary
May 8, 2014	Ann Marie	Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Summary
JUNE 13, 2014	Mary Ellen	The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty Summary
SEPTEMBER 2014

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MONTH	LLL HOST	BOOK SELECTION
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 The Meeting	Sue D.	One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus Summary
OCTOBER 26, 2012 The Meeting	Mary	A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Summary
NOVEMBER 30, 2012 The Meeting	LuAnn	The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron Summary
DECEMBER 2012	Holidays
JANUARY 25,2013 The Meeting	Kim	Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Summary
MARCH 1,2013	Barb	Loving Frank by Nancy Horan Summary
MARCH 16,2013	Sue F.	The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Summary
APRIL 19,2013	Janet	The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch Summary
JUNE 7,2013	Ann Marie	Room by Emma Donoghue Summary
SEPTEMBER 2013	Peggy

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MONTH	LLL HOST	BOOK SELECTION
SEPTEMBER 9, 2011 The Meeting	Peggy C.	Little Bee by Chris Cleave Summary
OCTOBER 14, 2011 The Meeting	Kim H.	The Red Thread by Ann Hood Summary
NOVEMBER 18 2011 The Meeting	Janet D.	The Postmistress by Sarah Blake Summary
DECEMBER 2011	Holidays
JANUARY 13, 2012 The Meeting	Mary B.	The Good Wife Strikes Back by Elizabeth Buchan Summary
FEBRUARY 17,2012 The Meeting	LuAnn B.	People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks Summary
MARCH 23, 2012	Barbette D.	Movie Night The Help
APRIL 27,2012 The Meeting	Ann Marie S.	Sarah's Key by Tatiana DeRosnay Summary
JUNE 8,2012 The Meeting	Sue F.	The Midwife's Confession by Diane Chamberlain Summary

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September 17, 2010

•  Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns-Goodwin
•  Peggy C.

October 29, 2010

•  Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
•  Mary B.

November 12, 2010

•  Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
•  Sue F.

December 2010

•  Holidays

January 14, 2011

•  The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
•  Pat E.

February 18, 2011

•  A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
•  Lisa M.

April 1, 2011

•  Three Cups of Tea by By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
•  Kim H.

April 29, 2011

•  The Help by Kathryn Stockett
•  LuAnn B.

June 3, 2011

•  The Late, Lamented Molly Marx by Sally Koslow
•  Mary Ellen R.

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September 11, 2009
-- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
-- Peggy C.

October 23, 2009
-- Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish 
-- Mary B.

December 4, 2009
-- Good Grief by Lolly Winston
-- Mary Ellen R.

December 2009
-- Holidays

January 22, 2010
-- Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
-- LuAnn B.

February 26, 2010
-- Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
-- Kim H.

April 2, 2010
-- Still Alice by Lisa Genova
-- Barb D.

May 21,  2010 
-- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
-- Janet D.

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Hosting Date
-- Book Selection
-- Hostess

September 6, 2008
-- Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
-- Peggy C.

October 24, 2008
-- Dear American Airlines by Jonathon Miles
-- Sue F.

November 2008
-- none

December 2008
-- Holidays

January 2009
-- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
-- Janet D.

February 27, 2009
-- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
-- LuAnn B. -- Book & Movie

March 2009
-- none

April 3, 2009
-- The Birth House by Ami McKay
-- Pat E.

May 8, 2009
-- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
-- Lisa M.

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