2022/2023

Shown below are the book picks for our current 2022/2023 season. The discussion date for each book is noted below its title.

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boo cover - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but v...
[Book Details...]
Author : Muriel Barbery
Published : 2008-09-02
Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN : 9781609450137
Pages : 294
Chosen by : Nancy
Meeting : 2022-09-07 (meeting #68)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
2022-09-07 (meeting #68)
book cover - What Strange Paradise
From the widely acclaimed author of American War: a new novel--beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving--that brings the glo...
[Book Details...]
Author : Omar El Akkad
Published : 2021-07-20
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN : 9780771050312
Pages : 209
Chosen by : Cayce
Meeting : 2022-10-05 (meeting #69)
What Strange Paradise
2022-10-05 (meeting #69)
book cover - The Guide
Formerly India's most corrupt tourist guide, Raju—just released from prison—seeks refuge in an abandoned temple. Mistaken for a holy man, he plays...
[Book Details...]
Author : R. K. Narayan
Published : 2006-08-26
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN : 9781440623110
Pages : 224
Chosen by : Tom
Meeting : 2022-11-02 (meeting #70)
The Guide
2022-11-02 (meeting #70)
book cover - The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
Readers around the world have fallen in love with the Senior League, five residents of the Diamond Retirement Home—Martha, The Genius, The Rake,...
[Book Details...]
Author : Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Published : 2014-03-04
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN : 9781443428286
Pages : 373
Chosen by : Sue
Meeting : 2022-12-07 (meeting #71)
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
2022-12-07 (meeting #71)
book cover - The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith’s widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning a...
[Book Details...]
Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Published : 2003-12-16
Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN : 9781400077656
Pages : 242
Chosen by : Val
Meeting : 2023-01-04 (meeting #72)
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
2023-01-04 (meeting #72)
book cover - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
A moving tale of post-war friendship, love and books, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is a captivating and completely irresistible novel...
[Book Details...]
Author : Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Published : 2009-06-01
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN : 9781741758955
Pages : 275
Chosen by : Cheryl
Meeting : 2023-02-01 (meeting #73)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
2023-02-01 (meeting #73)
book cover - The Dictionary of Lost Words
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and ir...
[Book Details...]
Author : Pip Williams
Published : 2020-03-31
Publisher : Affirm Press
ISBN : 9781922400024
Pages : 443
Chosen by : Tom
Meeting : 2023-03-01 (meeting #74)
The Dictionary of Lost Words
2023-03-01 (meeting #74)
book cover - The Windup Girl
Anderson Lake is AgriGen’s Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkok’s street markets in search ...
[Book Details...]
Author : Paolo Bacigalupi
Published : 2009-09-01
Publisher : Night Shade Books
ISBN : 9781597801577
Pages : 378
Chosen by : Wanda
Meeting : 2023-04-05 (meeting #75)
The Windup Girl
2023-04-05 (meeting #75)
book cover - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter...
[Book Details...]
Author : Lori Gottlieb
Published : 2019-04-02
Publisher : Harper
ISBN : 9781328663047
Pages : 517
Chosen by : Ceri
Meeting : 2023-05-03 (meeting #76)
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
2023-05-03 (meeting #76)
book cover - In the Land of Long Fingernails
Charles Wilkins, then a university student, took a job as a gravedigger in a vast corporate cemetery in the east end of Toronto during the hazy su...
[Book Details...]
Author : Charles Wilkins
Published : 2011-04-15
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN : 9781553658757
Pages : 233
Chosen by : Gwen
Meeting : 2023-06-07 (meeting #77)
In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger’s Memoir
2023-06-07 (meeting #77)
book cover - Pirate Latitudes
Jamaica in 1665 is a rough outpost of the English crown, a minor colony holding out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, Jama...
[Book Details...]
Author : Michael Crichton
Published : 2009-11-03
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN : 9780061938740
Pages : 288
Chosen by : Nancy
Meeting : 2023-07-05 (meeting #78)
Pirate Latitudes
2023-07-05 (meeting #78)
It's our summer break, so there's no book selection for this month's meeting. However, it is time to assemble our reading list for the 2023/2024 sess...
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Published : 2023-08-02
Book Nominations for 2023/2024
2023-08-02 (meeting #79)