Lakes Country Library Book Club Books
The Book Club will meet June 2, 11 am, at the library
The June 2 Book Club will be Reader's Choice (report on a book of your choice - recommend upcoming books!) June 2, 2022 -- Reader's Choice May 5, 2022 -- The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah April 7, 2022 -- Beautiful World, Where are You? by Sally Rooney March 3, 2022 -- Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica February 3, 2022 -- Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo January 6, 2022 -- A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler December 2, 2021 -- The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel November 4, 2021 -- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid October 7, 2021 -- Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver September 2, 2021 -- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett August 5, 2021 -- The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman July 8, 2021 -- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn June 3, 2021 -- Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts May 6, 2021 -- The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth March 5, 2020 -- Wunderland by Jennifer Cody Epstein February 6, 2020 -- A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick January 2, 2020 -- The Simplicity of Cider by Amy Reichert December 5, 2019 -- The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict November 7, 2019 -- Playing with Fire by Tess Gerritsen October 3, 2019 -- 1984 by George Orwell September 5, 2019 -- Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory August 1, 2019 -- Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich July 11, 2019 -- After You by Jojo Moyes June 6, 2019 -- Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen May 2, 2019 -- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese April 4, 2019 -- Reader's Choice March 7, 2019 -- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah February 7, 2019 -- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood January 3, 2019 -- News of the World by Paulette Jiles December 6, 2018 -- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah November 1, 2018 -- Family Tree by Susan Wiggs October 4, 2018 -- Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel September 6, 2018 -- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay August 2, 2018 -- The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian July 5, 2018 -- Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline June 7, 2018 -- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman May 3, 2018 -- Me Before You by Jojo Moyes April 5, 2018 -- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne March 1, 2018 -- Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve February 1, 2018 -- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr January 4, 2018 -- Reader's Choice December 7, 2016 -- Chilbury Ladies' Choir by Jennifer Ryan November 2, 2017 -- Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout October 5, 2017 -- Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple September 7, 2017 -- Here's to Us by Elin Hilderbrand August 3, 2017 -- The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald July 6, 2017 -- Reader's Choice June 1, 2017 -- Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty May 4, 2017 -- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett April 6, 2017 -- The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney March 2, 2017 -- The Widow by Fiona Barton February 2, 2017 -- Modern Lovers by Emma Straub January 5, 2017 -- Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler December 1, 2016 -- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson November 3, 2016 -- Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf October 6, 2016 -- The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks September 1, 2016 -- Reader's Choice August 11, 2016 -- The Rocks by Peter Nichols July 7, 2016 -- The Arsonist by Sue Miller June 2, 2016 -- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin May 5, 2016 -- The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe April 7, 2016 -- Loving Frank by Nancy Horan March 3, 2016 -- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green February 4, 2016 -- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein January 7, 2016 -- Favorite cook book & recipe December 3, 2015 -- The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon November 5, 2015 -- The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg October 1, 2015 -- Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman September 3, 2015 -- Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume August 13, 2015 -- The Round House by Louise Erdrich July 2, 2015 -- Reader's Choice June 4, 2015 -- Buried Prey by John Sandford May 7, 2015 -- The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka April 2, 2015 -- Life After Life by Jill McCorkle March 5, 2015 -- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson February 5, 2015 -- Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler January 8, 2015 -- A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy December 4, 2014 -- The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd November 6, 2014 -- The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult October 2, 2014 -- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini September 4, 2014 -- Reader's Choice August 14, 2014 -- Sycamore Row by John Grisham July 3, 2014 -- Wonder by R.J. Palacio June 5, 2014 -- Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel May 1, 2014 - Defending Jacob by William Landay April 3, 2014 - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley March 6, 2014 - Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian February 6, 2014 - Atonement by Ian McEwan January 2, 2014 - The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh December 5, 2013 - Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen November 7, 2013- Flyboys by James Bradley October 3, 2013 - The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott September 5, 2013 -When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead August 1, 2013 - Reader's Choice July 11, 2013 - Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver June 6, 2013 - The Nature Principle by Richard Louv May 2, 2013 - Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah April 4, 2013 - Learning to Swim by Sara Henry March 7, 2013 - Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah February 7, 2013 - Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards January 3, 2013- Reader's Choice December 6, 2012 - The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch November 1, 2012 - Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls October 4, 2012 - A Walk In the Woods by Bill Bryson September 6, 2012 - Star Lake Saloon and Housekeeping Cottages by Sara Rath August 2, 2012 - Coop by Michael Perry (also Christmas Party at Waubee Lodge) July 5, 2012 - Reader's Choice June 7, 2012 - Tender Is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald May 3, 2012 - Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody April 5, 2012 - Bloodroot by Amy Greene March 1, 2012 - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson February 2, 2012 - Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier January 5, 2012 - The Help by Kathryn Stockett December 1, 2011- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford November 3, 2011- Fragile by Lisa Unger October 6, 2011- A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore September 1, 2011- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot August 4, 2011- The Last Time I Saw You by Elizabeth Berg - discussion at Waubee Lodge followed by the Christmas Party July 7, 2011- In A Pickle by Jerry Apps June 2, 2011- Reader's Choice May 5, 2011- Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian April 7, 2011- House Rules by Jodi Picoult March 3, 2011- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins February 3, 2011- One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus| January 6, 2011- Friendship Cake by Lynne Hinton December 2, 2010 - A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg November 4, 2010 - Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts October 7, 2010 - Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier September 2, 2010 - Reader's choice August 4, 2010 - The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry July 1, 2010 - Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen June 3, 2010 - Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace -- One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson May 6, 2010 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer April 1, 2010 - The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold March 2, 2010 - The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb February 4, 2010 - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon January 7, 2010 - Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert November 5, 2009 - So Long At the Fair by Christina Schwarz October 1, 2009 - Reader's Choice September 3 , 2009 - Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield August 6, 2009 - Three Junes by Julia Glass July 9, 2009 - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson June 4, 2009 - The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski May 7, 2009 - Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian April 2, 2009 - any book by John Updike March 5, 2009 - Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall February 5, 2009 - Your Oasis on Flame Lake by Lorna Ladvik January 8, 2009 - Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen December 4, 2008 - any holiday or Christmas book November 6, 2008 - Christy by Catherine Marshall October 2, 2008 Reader's Choice September 4, 2008 - Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich August 7, 2008 - Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy July 10, 2008 - Last Girls by Lee Smith June 5, 2008 - Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman May 1, 2008 - Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult April 3, 2008 - Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan March 6, 2008 - Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane February 7. 2008 - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See January 3, 2008 - A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux December 6, 2007 - Any Holiday or Christmas book November 1, 2007 - Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards October 4, 2007 - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak September 6, 2007 - Rococo by Adriana Trigiani August 2, 2007 Reader's Choice July 12, 2007 - Lost In the Forest by Sue Miller June 7, 2007 - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck May 3, 2007 - Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland April 5, 2007 - The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl March 1, 2007 - A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel February 1, 2007 - Wicked by Gregory Maguire January 4, 2007 - Bee Season by Myla Goldberg December 7, 2006 "The Mermaid Chair" by Sue Monk Kidd November 2, 2006 "Lucia, Lucia" by Adriana Trigiani October 5, 2006 "Ladder of Years" by Anne Tyler September 7, 2006 "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery August 3, 2006"Population 485" by Michael Perry July 6, 2006 "Orchard" by Larry Watson June 1, 2006 "Cloud Chamber" by Michael Dorris May 4, 2006 "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini April 6, 2006 "A Map of the World" by Jane Hamilton March 2, 2006 "Ellen Foster" by Kaye Gibbons February 2, 2006 "Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson January 5, 2006 Reader's Choice December 2005 Any Holiday or Christmas book November 3, 2005 “Peace Like a River" by Leif Enger October 6, 2005 "Colony" by Anne Rivers Siddons September 1, 2005 "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy August 4, 2005 "The Heart of a Woman" by Maya Angelou July 7, 2005 "The Giver" by Lois Lowry June 2, 2005 "Sunrise Sunset" by Kathleen Marsh- A special book discussion with the author May 5, 2005 "The Blue Shoe" by Anne Lamott April 7, 2005 "Good In Bed" by Jennifer Weiner March 3, 2005 "Our Lady of the Forest" by David Guterson February 3, 2005- "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon January 6, 2005- **Reader's Choice* December 2, 2004 - Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons" by Lorna Landvik November 4, 2004 - "Antelope Wife" by Louise Erdrich October 7, 2004- "Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich September 2, 2004- "The Hot Flash Club" by Nancy Thayer August 5, 2004- "Falling Angels" by Tracy Chevalier July 1, 2004- "The Quilter's Apprentice" by Jennifer Chiaverini June 3, 2004- "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel May 6, 2004- "The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency" by Alexander McCall Smith April 1, 2004- "Under the Tuscan Sun" by Francis Mayes March 4, 2004- "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane February 5, 2004- "A Child Called It" by Dave Pelzer January 8, 2004- "Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd November 6, 2003- "Open House" by Elizabeth Berg October 2, 2003- "To America" by Stephen Ambrose September 4, 2003- "Crow Lake" by Mary Lawson August 7, 2003- Any book by Anita Shreve July 3, 2003- Reader's Choice June 5, 2003- "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett April 3, 2003- "One Thousand White Women" by Jim Fergus March 6, 2003- "Nanny Diaries" by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus February 6, 2003- "Between Friends" by Debbie Macomber November 7, 2002- "Red Tent" by Anita Diamant October 3, 2002- "House of Sand and Fog" by Andre Dubus September 5, 2002- "Stolen Lives" by Malika Oufkir August 2002- Reader's Choice July 11, 2002- "When the Wind Blows" by James Patterson June 6, 2002- "Up Island" by Anne Rivers Siddons May 2, 2002- "Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen April 4, 2002- "Commitments" by Barbara Delinsky March 7, 2002- "Scarlet Feather" by Maeve Binchy February 7, 2002- "Back When We Were Grownups" by Anne Tyler January 10, 2002- "Tomorrow is a River" by Peggy Dopp November 1, 2001- "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K.Rowling October 4, 2001- "Hanna's Daughters" by Marianne Fredriksson September 6, 2001- "Plain Jane" by Fern Michaels August 2, 2001- "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck July 12, 2001- "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink June 7, 2001- "Longings of Women" by Marge Piercy May 3, 2001- "Flags of Ours Fathers" by James Bradley April 5, 2001- "Tall Pines Polka" by Lorna Landvik March 1, 2001- "Ladies of Covington Send Their Love" by Joan Medlicott February 1, 2001- "The Vineyard" by Barbara Delinsky January 4, 2001- "Shell Seekers" by Rosamonde Pilcher November 2, 2000- "I Know Just What You Mean" by Ellen Goodman and Patricia O'Brien October 5, 2000- "The Rocket Boys" by Homer Hickam September 7, 2000 "Where the Heart Is" by Billie Letts August 3, 2000- "Gap Creek" by Robert Morgan July 6, 2000- "Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver June 1, 2000- Amy & Isabelle" by Elizabeth Stout May 4, 2000- "Cider House Rules" by John Irving April 6, 2000- Books by Ursula Hegi "Stones from the River" and "Visions of Emma Blau" March 2, 2000 - "First Ladies" by Betty Caroli February 3, 2000 - "Snow Falling On Cedars" by David Gutterson January 6, 2000- Books by Alice Hoffman November 4, 1999 "Seasons of Sun and Rain" by Marjorie Dorner October 7, 1999- "Pilot's Wife" by Anita Shreve September 1999- "Memoirs of A Geisha" by Arthur Golden August 5, 1999- "Ulysses" by James Joyce July 1999 - "The Novel" by James Michener June 1999 - "Midwives" by Chris Bohjalian May 1999 - "I Know This Much Is True" by Wally Lamb April 1999 ? March 1999 ? February 1999 - "Ultimate Power" by Elizabeth Dole January 1999 - Books by the Bronte sisters December 1998 - books by Mark Twain November 1998 - "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway October 1998 - "Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom October 1998 - "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan September 1998 - "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee August 1998 - "The Notebook" and "Message In A Bottle" by Nicholas Sparks July 1998 - "Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil" by John Berendt June 1998 - "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt May 1998 - "The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx April 1998- canceled March 1998 - ? February 1998 - books about Eleanor Roosevelt January 1998 - books by Rosamunde Pilcher December 1997 - ? November 1997 - ? October 1997 - books by Anne Tyler September 1997 - "Beach Music" by Pat Conroy August 1997 - "Stone Diaries" by Carol Shieds July 1997 - "Book of Ruth" by Jane Hamilton July 1997 - "Absolute Power" by David Baldacci June 1997- organizational meeting |