All adults are invited to join Larry J. Ringer Library’s Evening Book Club (previously known as the 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) 209-6347 or email handerson@bryantx.gov. Meetings are currently being held in person in Ringer Library’s front meeting room. Registration is not required.
Next Book – Ringer Library, Front Meeting Room
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- October 4, 2022 – The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Upcoming Books (Ringer Library)
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- November 1, 2022 – Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne
- December 6, 2022 – Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Previous Book Selections
2022
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- September 6, 2022 – The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
- August 2, 2022 – 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
- July 5, 2022 – Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
- June 7, 2022 – Open Book Club; discuss any book you are reading
- May 3, 2022 – Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Apr. 5, 2022 – The Wright Brothers by David McCollough
- Mar. 1, 2022 – The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
- Feb. 1, 2022 – Calypso by David Sedaris
- Jan. 4, 2022 – The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
2021
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- Dec. 7, 2021 – The Secret Stealers by Jane Healy
- Nov. 2, 2021 – The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- October 5, 2021 – The Hideaway by Lauren Denton
- September 7, 2021 – From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke
- August 3, 2021 – The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict, hybrid meeting
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
