Meetings are held at 1:00 P.M. on the 4th Monday of each month (except December) at the Victoria Public Library - Bronte Room We will meet for lunch @ 11:45 at a downtown restaurant (optional) All members are invited to attend.
2015-16
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Shadow Queen by Rebecca Dean Shining Through by Susan Isaacs The Secret Rescue by Cate Lineberry All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer Stein House by Myra Hargrave House of Spirits by Isabel Allende Girl You Left Behindby JoJo Moyes Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs Wine and War by Don and Petie Kladstrup
2014-2015
Enrique's Journey - Sonia Nazari Silver Star - Jeannette Walls State of Wonder - Ann Patchett Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery A Rainbow in the Night - Dominique Lapierre Empire of the Summer Moon - S. C. Gwynne Jane Long - Neil Skinner Petrick The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown Stoner - John Williams
2011-12
People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness Even Silence Has An End - Ingrid Betancourt Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand Bound - Sally Gunning Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrel Under this Unbroken Sky - Sandi Mitchell A Dogs Purpose - W. Bruce Cameron Forgotten Man -Amity Shlaes This is Where I Leave You - Jonathan Tropper
2016-17 The Misremembered Man by Christina McKenna A Stolen Life by JayCee Dugard Winter Journey by Diane Armstrong The Aviator's Wifeby Melanie Benjamin The Girl With Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah The Promise by Jane Weisgarber One Thousand White Womenby Jim Fergus Early Times in Texasby J. C. Duvall The Strange Career of Willie Ellis by Karl Jacoby
Recommended but not selected: The Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Baby Doll by Holly Overton Being Mortal by Atul Gawande The Road by McCarthy The Scarlet Kingfischer by Robert Henry Benson The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman The Wasp In the Fig Tree by Mary Stafford
2013-2014
End of Your Life Book Club - Will Schwalbe Without Reservations - Alice Steinbach Killing Kennedy - Bill O'Rielly Sugar Blues - William Dufty Descent Into Hell - Kathryn Casey Killer Angels - Michael Shaara Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe Magic Time - Doug Marlette Below Stairs - Margaret Powell Night - Elie Wiesel
2017-2018
King of the Wild Frontier by Davy Crockett The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult The Tortilla Curtain by B. C. Boyle Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Recommended but not selected: In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick The Velvet Hours by Alyson Richman The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose The Time in Between by Maria Duenas When the Killings Done by B. C. Boyle Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Being Mortal by Atul Gawande The Girl of the Sea of Cortez by Peter Benchley
2012-2013
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn Kindred - Octavia Butler The China Study - T. Colin Campbell Defending Jacob - William Landay The Mapmaker's Wife - Robert Whitaker The Twentieth Wife - Indu Sundarsan Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Rilley Fly Away Home - Jennifer Weiner The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger The Orchid House - Lucinda Riley