Cancelation Update
Due to coronavirus concerns, the library system has cancelled all programming and meeting room use for March 14-23, 2020, so the March 16 meeting has been cancelled.The book that was originally going to be discussed on March 16 has been moved to April 20. All books have been shifted one month.
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. For more information, call the Reference Desk at (979) 764-3416.
Next Meeting: April 20, 2020 at Ringer Library
- 6:30 – 7:30 PM: Book Discussion, Life 3.0: Being Human In The Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
Upcoming Meetings at Ringer Library (revised book list)
- May 18, 2020 – The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough
- June 15, 2020 – The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
- July 20, 2020 – The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
- August 17, 2020 – Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas
- September 21, 2020 – They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
Previous Book Selections
2020
- March 2020 – Cancelled (library programs cancelled due to coronavirus concerns), book discussion moved to April
- 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 will be at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center at 7 p.m. on April 9, 2019, to talk about his book, meet with readers, and sign books; event is 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 will be 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
Previous Years
For questions about the Reading Group, contact Kate at (979) 209-5600.
