Book Lists

Jan 14 2020

2020 Reading List

Unless otherwise noted, book club starts at 6:30pm on the last Tuesday of the month.

Date	TITLE	AUTHOR	HOST
Jan 28, 2020	Nothing to Do but Stay	Carrie Young	Nancy
Feb 25, 2020	The Testaments	Margaret Atwood	Connie
Mar 31,2020	The Collected Schizophrenias	Esme Wang	Jill
April 28, 2020	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens	Lavonne & Joe
May 26, 2020	The Great Alone	Kristin Hannah	Elsie
June. 30, 2020	What Unites Us	Dan Rather	Jill
Aug 4, 2020	Our Souls at Night	Kent Haruf	Kay & Mike
Sept 1, 2020	Worthy Brown’s Daughter	Phillip Margolin	Lisa
Sept 29, 2020	The Overstory	Richard Powers	Sara
Oct 27, 2020	Empire of the Summer Moon	S. C. Gwynne	Lavonne & Joe
Nov 24, 2020	Just Mercy	Brian Stevenson	Connie

Jan 10 2019

Unless otherwise noted, book club starts at 6:30pm on the last Tuesday of the month.

Date	TITLE	AUTHOR	HOST
Jan 8, 2019	XMAS Gathering	No book, lots of food	Lisa
Jan 29, 2019	Before We Were Yours	Lisa Wingate	Connie
Feb 26,2019	The Fall of WI	Dan Kaufman	Nancy
Mar 26, 2019	Clarinet Polka	Keith Mallard	Jill
April 30, 2019	Canoeing with the Cree	Eric Sevareid	Merv & Sheila
May 28, 2019	Little Hawk & the Lone Wolf	Raymond C Kaguatosh	Lavonne & Joe
June 25, 2019	My Name is Asher Lev	Chaim Potok	Lisa
Aug 6	Eleanor Oliphant	Gail Hoveyman	Lavonne
Aug 27, 2019	Dune	Frank Herbert	Lisa
Sept 24, 2019	The President is Missing	James Patterson, Bill Clinton	Nancy
Oct 29, 2019	Born a Crime	Trevor Noah	Kay & Mike
Nov 26, 2019	Unsheltered	Barbara Kingsolver	Elsie
Dec / Early Jan	No book but definitely food		Lisa

Aug 30 2017

Unless otherwise noted, book club starts at 6:30pm on the last Tuesday of the month.

Date	TITLE	AUTHOR	HOST
Sept 26, 2017	Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart	James R. Doty MD	Lavonne
Oct 31	The Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood	Nancy
Nov 28	Down the Mississippi with Stinky: Two Women, a Canoe, and a Kitten (Wisconsin) available on Amazon.com and from Connie	Dorie Brunner	Connie
Jan 2, 2018	The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven / Smoke Signals movie	Sherman Alexie	Lisa
Jan 30	You Don’t Have to Say I Love You	Sherman Alexie	Elsie
Feb 27	1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus	Charles C. Mann	Jill
Mar 27	The Girl with Seven Names – Escape from North Korea	Hyeonseo Lee	Kay and Mike
April 24	The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women	Kare Moore	Lisa
May 29	The Roundhouse	Louise Erdrich	Sheila And Merv
June 26	All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel	Anthony Doerr	Lavonne
July 31	The Hate U Give	Angie Thomas	Nancy
Aug 28	The Piano Tuner	Daniel Mason	Connie
Sept 25	Into the Water	Pamela Hawkins	Elsie
Oct 30	The Elephant Whisperer	Lawrence Anthony	Jill
Nov 27	Book Selection		Mike and Kay

Aug 10 2016

Unless otherwise noted, book club starts at 6:30pm on the last Tuesday of the month.

Date	TITLE	AUTHOR	HOST
Aug 30 27	Movie – The Wrecking Crew	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(music)	Sheila and Merv
Sept 27	H is for Hawk	Helen Mac Donald	Nancy
Oct 25	The Orphan Train	Christine Baker Klein	Mike & Kay
Nov 29	The Jesus Cow	Michael Perry	Lavonne
Dec 27	Food!	Holiday Gathering	Lisa’s
Jan 31	The Great Influenza	John Barny	Elsie
Feb 21	LaRose	Louisa Erdrich	Jill
March 21	The Book of Night Women	Marlon James	Sheila & Merv
April 25	One Summer: America 1927	Bill Bryson	Nancy
May 30	Quiet	Susan Cain	Lavonne
June 27	My Name is Lucy Barton	Elizabeth Strout	Kay and Mike
July 29	Book Selection	Book Selection on Saturday come for any or all of the weekend.	Port Wing

May 19 2015

Unless otherwise noted, book club starts at 6:30pm on the last Tuesday of the month.

Date	TITLE	AUTHOR	HOST
May 26	Catcher in the Rye	JD Salinger	Rose
June 30	Two Old Women	Velara Wallis	Lisa
July 28	The Heart of Things	John Hildebrand	LaVonne
August 25	Redeployment	Phi Klay	Nancy
September 29	Dead Wake	Erik Larson	Elsie
Mon Oct 27	The Girl on the Train	Paula Hawkins	Kay & Mike
November 24	The Essays of E. B. White	E. B. WHite	Sheila & Merv
Dec.	Holiday Gathering	TBA	Lisa
January 26	The Destiny of the Republic	Candice Millard	Jill
February 23	Being Mortal	Atul Gawande	Nancy
March 29	A Constellation of Vital Phenomena	Anthony Manu	Lisa
April 26	The Harder They Come	TC Boyle	LaVonne
May 31	The Price of Inequality	Joseph Stiglitz	Sheila & Merv
June 28	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	Kay & Mike

Jan 09 2015

MONTH	TITLE	AUTHOR	HOST
June	The Burgess Boys (F)	Elizabeth Stout	Nancy
July	Life After Life (F)	Kate Atkinson	Elsie
August	The Boys in the Boat (NF)	Daniel James Brown	Sheila
September	The Other Typist (F)	Suzanne Rindell	Kay & Mike
Mon Oct 27	Visiting Tom (F?)	Michael Perry	Lavonne
November	The Invisible Ones (F)	Stef Penney	Rose
Dec. 16th	Holiday Gathering		Lisa
January	The Long Shining Waters (F)	Danielle Sosin	Joyce
February	The Invention of Wings (F)	Sue Monk Kidd	Nancy
March	The New Jim Crow (NF)	Michelle Alexander	Donna
April	Book Selection	Bring Two Books	Jill

Mar 28 2013

MONTH	BOOK	HOST
April	Full Moon Over Madeline Island by Jay Gilbertson	Jill
May	Finding Freedom: The Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Runaway Slav, by Walter T. McDonald, Ruby West Jackson	Nancy
June	My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor	Sheila and Merv
July	Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie	Jodie
August	The Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks	Lisa
September	The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gien	Kay and Mike
October	Hotel On The Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford	LaVonne and Joe
November	The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh	Rose
December 17th	Holiday gathering	Lisa
January	“The Way” -by Kristen Wolf	Elsie
February	The Age of Miracles, by Karen Thompson Walker	Joyce
March	“An American Childhood”, Anne Dillard	Jill
April	“The Presidents Club” by Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy.	Rose
May	“The Other Wes Moore, One Name, Two Fates” by Wes Moore.	LaVonne and Joe

Feb 03 2012

Date	Book	Host
February, 28th 2012	Lucy by Laurence Gonzales	Jill
March, 27th 2012	In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson	Jodie
April, 24th 2012	There but for the by Ali Smith	Joyce
May,29th, 2012	A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss , Richard Dawkins	Rose
June, 26th, 2012	T he Little Stranger by Sarah Waters	Elsie
July, 31st, 2012	Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr	Nancy
August, 28th 2012	In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White	Jodie
September, 25th 2012	You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself by David McRaney	Mike & Kay
October, 30th 2012	It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis , Michael Meyer	Sheila & Merv
November 27th, 2012	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz	Jill
January 8	Holiday gathering. Activity (aside from eating) to be announced	Canceled
January, 29th 2013	Night by Elie Wiesel , Marion Wiesel	Lisa
February, 26 2013	State of Wonder by Ann Patchett	Lavonne
March, 26 2013	Thunderstruck by Erik Larson	TBA
April, 30 2013	Full Moon Over Madeline Island by Jay Gilbertson	TBA