Third Monday Evening of the Month
This book club meets from 6:30 to 7:30 PM on the third Monday of the month at Ringer Library. The August 2021 meeting will be in-person at Ringer Library; registration is not required. If you have questions, email Kendra at kperkins@bryantx.gov, and she will forward your email to Peggy. This club does not meet in December, and the January meeting will be a week later than normal due to the library being closed on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
Next Meeting: August 16, 2021 (Ringer Library)
- 6:30 – 7:30 PM, Book Discussion, The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin
Upcoming Meetings
- September 20, 2021 – The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History by Joseph M. Marshall, III
- October 18, 2021 – Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
- November 15, 2021 – Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan
- CLUB DOES NOT MEET IN DECEMBER
- January 24, 2022 (4th Monday due to MLK, Jr., Day) – Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Previous Book Selections
2021
- July 2021 – Americanah by Chimamanda Nzodi Adichie
- June 2021 – Good Bones by Maggie Smith
- May 2021 – The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
- April 2021 – Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
- March 2021 – In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- February 2021 – Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
- January 2021 – The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
2020
- December 2020 – No meeting
- November 2020 – Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- October 2020 – The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
- September 2020 – How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- August 2020 – They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
- July 2020 – Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas
- June 2020 – The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
- May 2020 – The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
- April 2020 – The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough
- March 2020 – Life 3.0: Being Human In The Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
- February 2020 – Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- January 2020 – Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by Jim Mattis and Bing West
2019 (Jan. – Aug. 2019 meetings were at The Langford during Ringer Library’s construction-related closure)
- December 2019 – No meeting
- November 2019 – News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- October 2019 – Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
- September 2019 – The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot To Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
- August 2019 – Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- July 2019 – Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves by Art T. Burton
- June 2019 – The Malta Exchange by Steve Berry
- May 2019 – A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- April 2019 – Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- March 2019 – The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2019 Brazos Valley Reads selection; author was at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center on April 9, 2019, to talk about his book, meet with readers, and sign books; event was open to the public)
- February 2019 – The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth
- January 2019 (2nd Monday) – Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
2018
- December 2018 – No meeting
- November 2018 – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (meeting at Lincoln Recreation Center)
- October 2018 – One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
- September 2018 – The Line Becomes A River by Francisco Cantú
- August 2018 – A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- July 2018 – Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- June 2018 – One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
- May 2018 – The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
- April 2018 – The Circle by Dave Eggers (also on DVD)
- March 2018 – Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York by Francis Spufford
- February 2018 – Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
- January 2018 – Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
2017
- December 2017 – No meeting
- November 2017 – Salt To The Sea by Ruta Sepetys
- October 2017 – The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
- September 2017 – Th1rteen R3asons Why by Jay Asher
- August 2017 – The Last Days Of Night by Graham Moore
- July 2017 – Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
- June 2017 – My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams
- May 2017 – A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (also on DVD)
- April 2017 – Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction)
- March 2017 – Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement, 2017 Brazos Valley Reads selection (author was at Texas A&M University for some free public events on April 5 and 6, 2017.)
- February 2017 – The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
- January 2017 – The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman (at movie theatres Fall 2016, on DVD in January 2017)
2016
- December 2016 – No meeting
- November 2016 – Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
- October 2016 – Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral by Mary Doria Russell
- September 2016 – Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero by Timothy Egan
- August 2016 – Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev
- July 2016 – West with the Night by Beryl Markham, and Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
- June 2016 – It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
- May 2016 – Witness to Nuremberg: The Many Lives of the Man Who Translated at the Nazi War Trials by Richard Sonnenfeldt
- April 2016 – A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty (short story collection)
- March 2016 – The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Heidi W. Durrow (2016 Brazos Valley Reads selection)
- February 2016 – Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- January 2016 – Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
2015
- December 2015 – No meeting
- November 2015 – The Glass Menagerie, a play by Tennessee Williams – discussion of the script, stage interpretation, and film
- October 2015 – The Martian by Andy Weir – discussion of the book & movie adaptation
- September 2015 – Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- August 2015 – Bigmama Didn’t Shop at Woolworth’s by Sunny Nash
- July 2015 – All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- June 2015 – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- May 2015 – When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning
- April 2015 – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- March 2015 – March by Geraldine Brooks (Brazos Valley Reads 2015)
- February 2015 – The Bees by Laline Paull
- January 2015 – The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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