Read and Chat Book Discussion

Sept. 11 – The Women by Kristin Hannah – Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation.

Oct. 9 – The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger – On Memorial Day, the body of Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River. The investigation falls to Sheriff Brody Dern. 

Nov. 13 – Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland – Loveday Cardew’s beloved bookshop, along with the rest of York, has fallen quiet. At the very time when people most need books, the doors are closed. Then the first letter comes.

Dec. 11 – Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. Turner – It’s the summer of 1907 in the Arizona Territory. Mary Pearl and her sister Esther take their minds off the heat by sneaking banned Jane Austen novels from Aunt Sarah Elliot’s lively bookshelf.

Jan. 8 – Small Mercies: A Detective Mystery by Dennis Lehane – One night in the summer of 1974, Mary Pat’s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn’t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead under mysterious circumstances.

Feb. 12 – The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson – Mabel’s husband loved lists. He’d leave them for her everywhere. But now Arthur is gone. But he’s left her a list with just one item on it: ‘Find D’.

Mar. 12 – Heft by Liz Moore – Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn’t left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, 17-year- old Kel Keller navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising baseball career.

April 9 – The Many Lives of Mama Love by Laura Love Hardin – No one expects the police to knock on the door of the million-dollar two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac housewife. But soccer mom Lara Love Hardin has been hiding a shady secret.

May 14 – Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng – Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn’t know what happened to her—only that her books have been banned—and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him.