All adults are invited to join Larry J. Ringer Library’s Afternoon Book Club. Members of the book club help select books. This book club usually meets from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. on the first Tuesday of the month at Ringer Library. For more information about this book club, contact Hilary at (979) 764-3416 or email handerson@bryantx.gov. The August 2021 meeting will be hybrid (join by Zoom or come to Ringer Library); contact Hilary if you want a Zoom invite. Registration is not required to attend in person. Starting in September, meetings will be held in person.
Next Book – Hybrid meeting (Ringer/Zoom; email Hilary for invite)
-
- Aug. 3, 2021 – The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict, email Hilary at handerson@bryantx.gov for Zoom invite or come to Ringer Library
Upcoming Books (Ringer Library)
-
- Sept. 7, 2021 – From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke
- Oct. 5, 2021 – The Hideaway by Lauren Denton
- Nov. 2, 2021 – The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- Dec. 7, 2021 – The Secret Stealers by Jane Healy
Previous Book Selections
2021
-
- July 6, 2021 – The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, hybrid meeting
- June 1, 2021 – Open Book Club, discuss any book you are reading, virtual meeting
- May 4, 2021 – The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See, virtual meeting
- April 6, 2021 – Longitude by Dava Sobel, virtual meeting
- March 2, 2021 – The Last Blue by Isla Morley (led by Sharon), virtual meeting
- February 2, 2021 – Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (led by Staci), virtual meeting
- January 5, 2021 – Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, virtual meeting
2020
-
- December 1, 2020 – The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, virtual meeting
- November 3, 2020 – Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan, virtual meeting
- October 19, 2020 – The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow, virtual meeting
- September 1, 2020 – This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger, virtual meeting
- August 4, 2020 – Daring Greatly by Brené Brown, virtual meeting
- July 7, 2020 – People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, virtual meeting
- June 2, 2020 – The Printed Letter Bookshop by Katherine Reay, virtual meeting
- May 5, 2020 – The Library Book by Susan Orlean (rescheduled from April), virtual meeting
- April 2020 – No meeting; book discussion moved to May
- March 3, 2020 – The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
- February 4, 2020 – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
- January 7, 2020 – In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
2019
-
- December 3, 2019 – The Gown by Jennifer Robson
- November 5, 2019 – Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- October 1, 2019 – All the Ever Afters by Danielle Teller
- September 3, 2019 – The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee
- August 6, 2019 – The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton
- July 2, 2019 – Holy Lands by Amanda Sthers
- June 4, 2019 – Open Book Club, discuss any book you are reading
- May 7, 2019 – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- April 2, 2019 – Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson
- March 5, 2019 – The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katrina Bivald
- February 5, 2019 – The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
- January 8, 2019 – Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (2nd Monday due to New Year’s Day)
2018
-
- December 4, 2018 – Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate, at Mounce Library
- November 2018 – Need to Know by Karen Cleveland, at Barnes & Noble
- October 2018 – America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie, at Barnes & Noble
- September 2018 – The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan, at Barnes & Noble
- August 2018 – City of Thieves by David Benioff
- July 2018 – Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan
- June 2018 – Open Book Club, discuss any book you are reading
- May 2018 – The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman
- April 2018 – The Address by Fiona Davis
- March 2018 – Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- February 2018 – The Body in the Clouds by Ashley Hay
- January 2018: The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
2017
-
- January 2017: The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
- February 2017: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- March 2017: Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
- April 2017: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- May 2017 – News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- June 2017 – Open Book Club (discuss what you’ve been reading)
- July 2017 – The True Tails of Baker and Taylor by Jan Louch
- August 2017 – A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- September 2017 – Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
- October 2017 – The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- November 2017 – IQ by Joe Ide
- December 2017 – The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
2016
-
- January 2016: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- February 2016: Dead Wake by Erik Larson
- March 2016: The Look of Love by Sarah Jio
- April 2016: The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
- May 2016: The Orchid House by Lucinda Riley
- June 2016: Open Book Club, talk about any book you are reading
- July 2016: A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
- August 2016: Beyond the Call: the True Story of One World War II Pilot’s Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front by Lee Trimble
- September 2016: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
- October 2016: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
- November 2016: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
- December 2016: The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
2015
-
- January 2015: Peony by Pearl S. Buck
- February 2015: The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott
- March 2015: The Noticer by Andy Andrews
- April 2015: One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
- May 2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- June 2015: When Books Went to War: The stories that helped us win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning
- July 2015: Open Book Club, discuss what you are currently reading
- August 2015: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Sept. 2015: Soulless by Gail Carriger
- Oct. 2015: Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
- Nov. 2015: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- Dec. 2015: The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
2014
-
- Jan 2014: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- Feb 2014: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Mar 2014: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
- Apr 2014: In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (2014 Brazos Valley Reads selection)
- May 2014: The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett
- June 2014: No meeting
- July 2014: Open Book Club – Everyone discussed a book they were reading, and we got great book recommendations from each other.
- August 2014: The Last of the Breed by Louis L’Amour
- September 2014: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
- October 2014: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson and Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
- November 2014: The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
- December 2014: The Mistletoe Promise by Richard Paul Evans
2013
