Book Clubs

Book Clubs

• 50/50 Book Club
• Barnes Book Club
• Birkie Girls #1 Book Club
• Blue Stockings Book Club
• Caribou Book Club
• Hayward Book Club
• Mix It Up
• Newcomers Book Club
• Paws for Pages Book Club
• PEO Book Club
• Read Book Society
• Serendipity Book Club
• SGBC
• Short Form Book Club
• St. Joseph’s Church- Friday Book Club
• Stone Lake Bookers
• Sunday Night Book Club
• United Methodist Church Book Club
• WOWW1 Book Club
• WOWW2 Book Club

50/50 Book Choices

January 22, 2025
When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin

February 26, 2025
The Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig

March 26, 2025
The House of Eve by Sadequa Johnson

April 23, 2025
My Antonia by Willa Cather

May 28, 2025
The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore

June 25, 2025
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

July 23, 2025
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

August 27, 2050
The Life List by Lori Spielman

September 24, 2025
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

October 22, 2025
The Eights by Joanna Miller

November 26, 2025
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

December – No Meeting

January 28, 2026
When Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson

February 25, 2026
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

March 25, 2026
Isola by Allegra Goodman

April 22, 2026
The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb

May 27, 2026
The Book of Charlie by David Von Drehle

June 24, 2026
My Friends by Fredrik Backman

Barnes Book Choices

January 27, 2025
Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley

February 24, 2025
The Runaway Jury by John Grisham

March 24, 2025
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

May 26, 2025
Klara and the Sun by Kauzo Ishiguro

June 23. 2025
Presumed Innocent by Scott Throw

July 28, 2025
Elegant Gathering of White Snows by Kris Radish

August 25, 2025
Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stuart

September 22, 2025
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

October 27, 2025
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

November 24, 2025
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

December – No Meeting

January 26, 2026
Remarkably Bight Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

February 23, 2026
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs’ Court by Mark Twain

March 23, 2026
1984 by George Orwell

April 27, 2026
The Serviceberry by Robin Kimmerer

May 25, 2026
Thornapple Girl by James A. Brakken

June 22, 2026
Time, Beauty & Grief by Betsy Korbinyr

Birkie Girls Book Choices

January 15, 2025
James: A Novel by Percival Everett

February 19, 2025
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

March 19, 2025
Horse by Geraldine Brooks

April 16, 2025
Sisters Under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris

June 4, 2025
Hudson Bay Bound by Natalie Warren

July, August – Off for the Summer

September 17, 2025
West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

October 15, 2025
The Women by Kristin Hannah

November 19, 2025
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

December – No book

January 21, 2026
The Waiting by Michael Connelly

February 18, 2026
Code Name Blue Wren by Jim Popkin

March 18, 2026
Where They Last Saw Her by Marie R. Rendon

April 15, 2026
Paris Express by Emma Donaghue

May 20, 2026
The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis

Off until Fall 2026

Blue Stockings Book Choices

January 13, 2025
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

February 10, 2025
The Women by Kristen Hannah

March 10, 2025
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

April 14, 2025
Beartown by Fredrik Backman

May 12, 2025
Dark of the Moon by John Sandford

June 9, 2025
Summer of my German Soldier by Bette Greene

July 14, 2025
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

August 11, 2025
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

September 8, 2025
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

October 13, 2025
Horse by Geraldine Brooks

November 10, 2025
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

December 8, 2025
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

January 12, 2026
Steve Berry Books

February 9, 2026
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

March 9, 2026
Madame Bovery by Gustave Flaubert

April 14, 2026
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

May 11, 2026
Firekeepers Daughter by Angelina Boulley

June 8, 2026
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare

Caribou Book Choices

January 2, 2025
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen

February 6, 2025
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

March 6, 2025
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

April 3, 2025
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

May 1, 2025
Lady Tans Circle of Women by Lisa See

June 5, 2025
The Prayer Box by Lisa Wingate

July 3, 2025
The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary

August 7, 2025
Horse by Geraldine Brooks

September 4, 2025
We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

October 2, 2025
Good Night Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea

November 6, 2025
The Last Flight by Julie Clark

December 4, 2025
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks

January 1, 2026
The Surgeon’s Daughter by Audrey Blake

February 5, 2026
Don’t Forget to Write by Sara Goodman Confino

March 5, 2026
Varina by Charles Frazier

April 2, 2026
We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grostein

May 7, 2026
Sam by Allegra Goodman

June 4, 2026
The Measure by Nikki Erlick

July 9, 2026
Tony’s Wife by Adrianna Trigiani

Hayward Book Choices

June 5, 2025
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

June 26, 2025
Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict

July 24, 2025
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

August 21, 2025
Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict

September 18, 2025
Code Name Blue Wren by Jim Pipkin

June 4, 2026
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

June 25, 2026
Broken Country by Claire Hall

Paws for Pages Book Choices

January 10, 2025
The Lighthouse by P.D. James

February 14, 2025
Macbeth by Jo Nesbo

March 14, 2025
The Barbizon by Pauling Bren

April 11, 2025
The Women’s March by Jennifer Chiaverini

May 9, 2025
Homefront by Kristin Hannah

June 13, 2025
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

July 11, 2025
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

August 8, 2025
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich

September 13, 2025
The Secret Book & Scone Society by Elley Adams

October 10, 2025
The Quarry Girls by Jess Lourey

November 14, 2025
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong

December 12, 2025
Poetry Books by Naomi Cochran

January 9, 2026
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

February 13, 2026
Book on their own – not at library.

March 13, 2026
Ceremony by Leslie Manon Silko

April 10, 2026
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

May 8, 2026
Greenlights by Matthew Matthew McConaughey

June 12, 2026
The Chippewa by Richard Cornell

July 10, 2026
A guardian and a Thief by Mesha Majumdar

PEO Book Choices

January 30, 2025
A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi

February 27, 2025
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

March 27, 2025
The Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth

April 24, 2025
The Water Dancer by Ta-Hehisi Coates

May 29, 2025
Sting-Ray Afternoon by Steve Rushin

June – July – No meetings
Break for Summer

August 28, 2025
The Women by Kristin Hannah

September 25, 2025
The Light Pirate by Lily Brook-Dalton

October 30, 2025
How To Read a Book by Monica Wood

November 27, 2025
Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams

December 25, 2025
Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck

January 29, 2026
Walden by Henry David Thoreau

February 26, 2026
House Rules by Jodi Piccoult

March 26, 2026
Neither Wolf Nor Dog by Kent Nerborn

April 23, 2026
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon

May 28, 2026
James by Percival Everett

June 2026 – No Meeting

Read Book Choices

January 8, 2025
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

February 6, 2025
Horse by Geraldine Brooks

March 12, 2025
American Marriage by Tanya Jones

April 9, 2025 & May 14, 2025
Beauty of Dusk by Frank Bruni

May 14, 2025
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

June 11, 2025
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

July 2025
Off for July

August 13, 2025
The Singing Wilderness by Sigurd Olson

September 10, 2025
The Adversary by Michael Crummey

October 8, 2025
Bewilderment by Richard Powers

November 12, 2025
Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

December 12, 2025
No Book – Break

January 14, 2026
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

February 11, 2026
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

March 11, 2026
The Wedding People by Alison Espach

April
No book for this month.

May 13, 2026
Dracula by Bram Stoker

June 10, 2026
Book on their own.

Serendipity Book Choices

January 22, 2025
A Winter’s Dream by Richard Paul Evans

February 26, 2025
Hannah’s Hope by Karen Kingsbury

March – No meeting this month.

April 23, 2025
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

May 28, 2025
One Perfect Day by Laura Shelling

June 25, 2025
Summer Island by Kristin Hannah

July 23, 2025
The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom

August 27, 2025
Homestead by Jake Kirkpatrick

September 24, 2025
When Joy Comes to Stay by Karen Kingsbury

October 22, 2025
Every Storm by Lori Wick

December 3, 2025
The Chance by Karen Kingsbury

January 28, 2026
A Simple Gift by Karyn Witmer

February 25, 2026
Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks

March 25, 2026
Her Mother’s Hope by Francine Rivers

April 22, 2026
The Wish by Nicholas Sparks

May 27, 2026
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

June 24, 2026
Becoming Little Shell by Terri Blackstack

SGBC Book Choices

January 27, 2025
Too Late by Colleen Hoover

February 24, 2025
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

March 31, & April 2025
Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score

June 30, 2025
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

August 25, 2025
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

September 29, 2025
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

October 27, 2025
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

November 24, 2025
The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni

December 29, 2025
The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni

January 26, 2026
The Women by Kristen Hannah

February 23, 2026
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Alternates:

March 30. 2026
The Salt by Raynor Winn

April 27, 2026
None of This is True by Lisa Jewell

June 29, 2026
Becoming Little Shell by Chris LaTray

A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Short Form Book Club

May 28, 2026
Old Man & The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

June 25, 2026
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

St. Joseph Book Choices

January 5, 2024
Forty Autumns by Nina Willner

February 2. 2024
The Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

March 1, 2024
Let Us Dream by Pope Francis

November 1, 2024
The Redemption of Bobby Love by Bobby & Cheryl Love

December 6, 2024
Look For Me There by Luke Russert

January 3, 2025
Church office has book.

February 7, 2025
The Watchmaker’s Daughter by Larry Loftis

March 7, 2025
With Open Hands by Henri Nouwen

April 6, 2025
Art of Living (Book is at Church)

October 5, 2025
The Prayer Box by Lisa Wingate

November 2, 2025
Barking to the Choir by Greg Boyle

December 5, 2025
King: A Life by Jonathon Eig

January 4, 2026
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku

February 6, 2026
Church is supplying book.

March 6, 2026
Church is supplying book

April 3, 2026
Church is supplying book

On Hiatus
Resumes in Fall 2026

Stone Lake Bookers

January 20, 2026
Educated by Tara Westover

February 17, 2026
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

March 17, 2026
Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini

April 21, 2026
The Names by Florence Knapp

May 19, 2026
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict

June 16, 2026
Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown

Sunday Night Book Choices

January
Movie – “Barbie”

February 4, 2024
Say Nothing by Patrick R. Keefer

March 3, 2024
How Can I Help You by Laura Sims

April 7, 2024
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

May 5, 2024
Killers of a Certain Age by Danna Raybourn (No Audio)

June 2, 2024
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett

July 7, 2024
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradel

August 4, 2024
Getting Out of Saigon by Ralph White

Sept. 8, 2024
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat

October 6, 2024
Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen

November 3, 2024
The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Martha Molnar

December 1, 2024
Finding Me by Viola Davis

January – No Book (Movie)

February 2, 2025
Ultra Processed People by Chris Van Tulleken

March 2, 2025
God of Small Things by Armundhati Ray

April 6, 2025
Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

May 4, 2025
Fourth Wing y Rebecca Yarros

June 1, 2025
While You Were Out by Med Kissinger

July 6, 2025
Generations: The Real Difference by Jean M. Twenge

August 3, 2025
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

September7, 2025
Where Rivers Part by Kao Kalia Yang

October 5 & November 2, 2025
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

December 7, 2025
All My Knotted Up Life by Beth Moore

January 4, 2026
No Book – Movie Night

February 1, 2026
The Bookclub for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick

March 1, 2026
Trust by Herman Diaz

May 3, 2026
The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles Mann

June 7, 2026
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

July 5, 2026
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

United Methodist Book Choices

January 31, 2025
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See

February 28, 2025
West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

March 28, 2025
5-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand

April 25, 2025
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

May 30, 2025
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

June 27, 2025
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

July 25, 2025
Midnight Library by Matt Haig

August 29, 2025
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

September 26, 2025
When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin

October 31, 2025
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

November 28, 2025
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

December 26, 2025
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer

January 30. 2026
Horse by Geraldine Brooks

February 27, 2026
The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kimm Edwards

March 27, 2026
The Women by Kristin Hannah

April 24, 2026
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

May 29, 2026
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon

June 26, 2026
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks

WOWW1 Book Choices

January 20, 2025
Horse by Geraldine Brooks

February 17, 2025
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

March 17, 2025
The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel

April 21, 2025
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

May 19, 2025
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

June 16, 2025
The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson

July 21, 2025
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult

August 18, 2025
The Litigator by John Grisham

September 15, 2025
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

October 20, 2025
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

November 17, 2025
The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne

December 15, 2025
Before We Were Yours by Lisa WIngate

January 19, 2026
Home Front by Kristin Hannah

February 16, 2026
Beyond That, The Sea by Laura Spence-Ash

March 16, 2026
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

April 20, 2026
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

May 18, 2026
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whittaker

June 15, 2026
The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis

WOWW2 Book Choices

January 15, 2025
The Prayer Box by Lisa Wingate

February 19, 2025
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Brown

March 19, 2025
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

April 16, 2025
Under a Flaming Sky by Daniel James Brown

May 21, 2025
All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley

June 18, 2024
The Return to Wake Robin by Marnie Mamminga

July 16, 2025
Someone Else’s Shoes by Jo Jo Moyes

August 20, 2025
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

September 17, 2025
Graphic Novels – Various Authors

October 15, 2025
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

November 19, 2025
The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond

December 17, 2025
The Women by Kristin Hannah

January 21, 2026
Thunder Dog by Frank Bruni

February 18, 2026
Where Wolves Don’t Die by Antonio Treuer

March 18, 2026
James by Percival Everett

April 15, 2026
The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County by Claire Swinarski

May 20, 2026
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawton

June 17, 2026
Radium Girls by Kate Moore

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