Book Club
Douglas Library Book Group
The library book group has been meeting monthly since 2003.
We meet on the LAST Wednesday of every month at 6:30 PM at the library.
Our next meeting is Wednesday, March 31, at 6:30PM.
Our book selection is "My Life in France" by Julia Child.
Contact the library if you need a copy of this book. New members are always welcome!
See our interview on ReadingGroupGuides.com
Below is a listing of books we have read in our group
Smith: I Capture the Castle
Brooks: Nine Parts of Desire
Brooks: Year of Wonders
Russo: Empire Falls
Patchett: Bel Canto
Martel: Life of Pi
Bragg: All Over but the Shoutin'
Fuller: Don't Let's go to the Dogs Tonight
Chevalier: Girl With a Pearl Earring
McCall-Smith: Ladies No. 1 Private Detective Agency
Livesey: Eva Moves the Furniture
McCullers; The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Steinbeck: Cannery Row
Steinbeck: Sweet Thursday
Barker: Hens Dancing
Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Berg: The Pull of The Moon
Kosinsky: Being There
Sijie: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Ali: Brick Lane
Kidd: Secret Life of Bees
Glass: Three Junes
Lawson: Crow Lake
Welty: The Optimist's Daughter
Dorris: Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Hosseini: Kite Runner
Foer: Everything is Illuminated
Carr: A Month in the Country
Rendell: Simisola
Kingsolver; The Bean Trees
Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Austen: Emma
Santiago: When I was Puerto Rican
Haigh: Baker Towers
Swift: Light of Day
Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Cohen:The House on Beartown Road
Haruf: Plain Song
Castellani: The Saint of Lost Things
Niffenegger: Time Traveler's Wife
Morris: The Lost Mother
Gutcheon: Leeway Cottage
Zigman: Piece of Work
Evans: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
McCourt: Teacher Man
Haruf: Ties that Bind
Ruiz-Zafon: Shadow of the Wind
Sparks: Three Weeks with My Brother
Brooks: March
Fisher: A Sudden Country
Pickard: The Virgin of Small Plains
Tan: Saving Fish from Drowning
Cather: My Antonia
Dumas: Funny in Farsi: Growing up Iranian in America
Walls: The Glass Castle
Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love
Patchett: Patron Saint of Liars
Alarcon: Lost City Radio
Hamill: Forever
Lawson: The Other Side of the Bridge
Setterfield: Thirtheenth Tale
Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hamill: North River
Gruen: Water for Elephants
Brooks: People of the Book
Mortensen: Three Cups of Tea
Frederickson: Hanna's Daughters
Reichl: Tender at the Bone
Maguire: Wicked
Kingsolver: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Karr: Liars Club
Kyle: God of Animals
Dallas: Tallgrass
Shaffer: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Rash: Serena
Lahiri: Unaccustomed Earth
Robinson: Cost