Category: Books Past

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson Fiction suggested by Verna A fun read! As Allan’s colorful and complex history merges with his present-day escapades, readers will be treated to a charmingly funny version of world history and get to know a very youthful old man.

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Fiction suggested by Janet “A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy New York Times Bestseller • Winner […]

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover Non-Fiction suggested by Barbara A young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University. The perspective to see one’s life through new eyes, and the will to change it.

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi Fiction suggested by Shirley In a future Thailand, calories are the greatest commodity. Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen’s Calorie Man. He combs Bangkok’s street markets in search of food thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history’s lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko, the […]

Fear by Bob Woodward; Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff; A Higher Loyalty by James Comey Non-Fiction: a trilogy of books about Trump … Read one or two or three of the following books and we will discuss all three in one evening to be presented by Toni and all of us. Fear: Trump in […]

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See Fiction suggested by Janet Amazon description: … a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters. In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced […]

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell Non-Fiction suggested by Janet Blink is about the first two seconds of looking, snap judgments, choices that seem to be made in an instant that actually aren’t as simple as they seem, and about how we can make better instant judgments by training our mind […]

A History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund Fiction suggested by Barbara Achingly beautiful prose, haunting, lyrical, disturbing, a web of mysteries, a glimmer of dread. Teenage Linda lives on a failed commune in the austere north Minnesota woods. Her life of solitude cracks open when her history teacher is charged with child pornography. The new […]

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker Non-Fiction suggested by Janet “My new favorite book of all time.” –Bill Gates “A terrific book…[Pinker] recounts the progress across a broad array of metrics, from health to wars, the environment to happiness, equal rights to quality of life.” –The New York […]

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Fiction suggested by Anca An Amazon Best Book of October 2016, about racism, choice, fear, and hope. Based on the true story of a labor and delivery nurse who was prohibited from caring for a newborn because the white supremacist father requested that no African-American tend to his baby. […]