Book GROUP

BOOK GROUP
Organized in 1930
Leader: Malou Hurst
Assistant Leader: Carolyn Nikolai
Secretary/Treasurer: Judy Nassmacher
Telephone: Shirley Nash
E-mail: Carolyn Nikolai   ​
Meeting:  4th Monday, 1:00 p.m. at Shroyer Road Baptist Church, 508 Shroyer Road
PLEASE scroll down (below the summer reading lists) for monthly program information for the 2017 - 2018 year.
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SUMMER 2018: Recommended Book List for summer reading:
           (Recommendations from those present at the May 2018 luncheon meeting)
  • BEACH HOUSE FOR RENT by Mary Alice Monroe
  • BEARTOWN by Fredrick Backman
  • HERO OF THE EMPIRE by Candace Millard
  • THE HIGH TIDE CLUB by Mary Kay Andrews
  • Jeanne M. Dams – author to try
  • THE OLD MAN’s WAR series by John  Scalzi
  • THE PASSAGE TRILOGY by Justin Cronin
  • THE PATRIOT THREAT by Steve Berry
  • THE PERFECT STRANGER by Megan Miranda
  • A PIECE OF THE WORLD by Christina Baker Kline
  • MY SISTER’S KEEPER  by Jodi Picoult
  • SMOKE by Dan Vyleta 
  • THE STARS ARE FIRE by Anita Shreve
  • Susan Wiggs – author to try
  • WENCH by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
  • THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn
  • WONDER WOMEN, The quest for Perfection by Debra L. Spar
SUMMER 2017:  Recommended Book List and Authors for summer reading: 
             (Recommendations from those present at the May 2017 luncheon meeting)
​     Authors:  
  • Jeffrey Archer (Bestseller 19 times in fiction, 4 times in short stories,
    and in non-fiction)
  • Susanna Kearsley (Former museum curator, avid amateur genealogist,
    and writer of modern gothic novels that interweave contemporary
    ​suspense and romance with historical adventure)
  • Elmore Leonard (Writer of forty-five novels and nearly as many western and crime short stories across his career that spanned more than six decades)
​     Books and their respective authors:
  • The Couple Next Door: A Novel by Shari Lapena  
  • Einstein: HIs LIfe and Universe by Walter Isaacson
  • Everything You Want Me to Be: A Novel by Mindy Mejia
  • The Ex: A Novel by Alafair Burke
  • The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • The Girl with No Name: The Incredible Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys by Marina Chapman
  • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
  • The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
  • People of the Lakes (The First North Americans series, Book 6) by Kathleen O’Neal Gear
  • Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life by Sally Bedell Smith
  • Room by Emma Donoghue
  • True Colors by Kristin Hannah
  • Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire by Julia Baird
  • The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
 
Specific Book Club program dates, hostesses, and reviewers for 2018 - 2019:​
September 24, 2018 at 1:00 p.m.
     Hostesses:  Ruth Ellen Hoecker, Malou Hurst, and Sandy Mefford
                            Refreshments by Sandy Mefford and Roth Hoecker                
     Reviewer:  Carolyn Nikolai; Victoria the Queen by Julia Baird
     
​October 22, 2018 at 1:00 p.m.
     Hostesses:  Karen Weglage, Diana Kaylor, Sandy Mefford                
     Reviewer:   Malou Hurst           
 
February 25, 2019 at 1:00 p.m.
     Hostesses:  Marsha Tolle, Trudy O'Rourke, Malou Hurst
     Reviewer:   Sharon Rab, Dayton Literary Peace Prize
 
March 25, 2019  at 1:00 p.m.
     Hostesses: Doramae O'Kelley, Myrna Miller, Jean Mahan 
     Reviewer:  Ann Wolf
 
April 22, 2019 at 1:00 p.m.
      Hostesses:  Judy Nassmacher, Pat Mendenhall Smith, Marge Lane​
      Reviewer:  Doramae O'Kelley
           
May 21, 2019 at 11:30 a.m.
     Luncheon at TBA and a sharing of books for the summer!
     Reserve your place by (TBA).
     Please bring along the name of one good book or one author to share with the group.