Library Book Club

The Library run book club meets at 3:00 on the last Friday of the month from September to June.

2024/2025 titles are:

September – The Inheritance – Joanna Goodman

From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve.

To be discussed: September 28th.

 

October – The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club – Helen Simonson

A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about a generation of young women facing the seismic changes brought on by war and dreaming of the boundless possibilities of their future, from the bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand.

To be discussed: October 25th. (Postponed)

 

November – Rednecks – Taylor Brown

A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 coal miners against mine owners, state militia, and the United States government in the largest labor uprising in American history.

To be discussed: November 29th.

 

December – The Fox Wife – Yangsze Choo

*Due to the postal strike we were unable to get enough copies of The Fox Wife.

In place of this we ask that you bring your favourite cook book or recipe to share with the group (Dec 20th).

New York Times bestselling author Yangsze Choo brilliantly explores a world of mortals and spirits, humans and beasts, and their dazzling intersection. The Fox Wife is a stunning novel about a winter full of mysterious deaths, a mother seeking revenge, and old folktales that may very well be true.

To be discussed: Friday December 20th.

 

January – Unbroken – Angela Sterritt

Unbroken is an extraordinary work of memoir and investigative journalism focusing on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, written by an award-winning Gitxsan journalist who survived life on the streets against all odds.

To be discussed: January 24th.

 

February – James – Percival Everett

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.

To be discussed: February 21nd.

March – There are Rivers in the Sky – Elif Shafak

In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives.

To be discussed: March 28th.

 

April – The Lion Women of Tehran – Marjan Kamali

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.

To be discussed: April 25th.

 

May – The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder – David Grann

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on the Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.

To be discussed: May 30st.

 

June – Real Ones – Katherena Vermette

From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Michif sisters who must face their past trauma when their mother is called out for false claims to Indigenous identity.

To be discussed: June 27th.