FOL Third ThursdayBook Club
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The FOL Third Thursday Book Club has gone virtual!
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Copies of the books are available for a 10-day loan, or book club members may purchase them at a discount from The Corner Shelf Bookstore by calling 540-825-4411 No meetings in December |
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Present and previously discussed books, 1997 to present:
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2021 Current Selections | 2019-2020 |
January 21: When the Ground is Hard by Malla Nunn February 18: The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough March 18: Conspiracy of Decency by Emmy E. Werner April 15: Dark Tide by Stephen Puleo May 20: Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain June 17: The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre July 15: Krakatoa by Simon Winchester August 19: Furious Hours by Casey Cep September 16: In a Verigo of Silence by Miriam Polli October 21: Pleasantville by Atica Locke
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Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kerns Goodwin
The Library Book by Susan Orlean Bellevue by David OshinskyRemainder of year interrupted by pandemic closure. |
2018-2019 |
2017-2018 |
Crimes of the Father by Thomas Keneally Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann Dead Wake by Erik Larson An Odyssey by Daniel Mendelshon A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles The Age of Edison by Ernest Freeberg In Persuit of Memory by Joseph Jebelli Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Worst of Hard Times by Timothy Egan High Noon by Glen Frankel
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A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Love and Summer by William Trevor The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson The Big Burn by Timothy Egan The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen Orphan Train by Christina Kline We Band of Angels by Elizabeth Norman |
2016 - 2017 |
2015 - 2016 |
Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky The Writing Master by Kitty Burns Florey My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Junius & Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy by Peter Carlson Zorro by Isabel Allende Last Bust to Wisdom by Ivan Doig The Women Who Wrote the War by Nancy Caldwell Sorel The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder The Monster of Florence by D. Preston & M. Spezi The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Notorious RBG by I. Carmon & S. Knizhnik |
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See The Boys in the Boat by Daniel J. Brown Being Mortal by Atul Gawande I am Malala by Malala Yousafzair All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Gateway to Freedom by Eric Foner A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque |
2014 - 2015 |
2013 - 2014 |
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman Book of Ages by Jill Lepore The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris The Imposter Bride by Nancy Richler Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas |
Midnight in Peking by Paul French This House of Sky by Ivan Doig Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet by Jamie Ford Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak Still Alice by Lisa Genova The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson Still Life by Louise Penny The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese After Visiting Friends by Michael Hainey |
2012 - 2013 |
2011 - 2012 |
Tinkers by Paul Harding Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden Brunelleschi’s Dome by Ross King Doc by Mary Doria Russell Midnight Rising by Tony Horwitz Random Harvest by James Hilton Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín The Inextinguishable Symphony by Martin Goldsmith Confession by John Grisham |
City of Thieves by David Benioff Garage Sale Stalker by Suzie Weinert The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot The Postmistress by Sarah Blake Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Hello Goodbye by Emily Chenoweth Pearl of China by Anchee Min Private Life by Jane Smiley
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2011 - 2012 |
2010 - 2011 |
City of Thieves by David Benioff Garage Sale Stalker by Suzie Weinert The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot The Postmistress by Sarah Blake Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Hello Goodbye by Emily Chenoweth Pearl of China by Anchee Min Private Life by Jane Smiley
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The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields Ireland by Frank Delaney The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra Embers by Sándor Márai Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson |
2009 - 2010 |
2008 - 2009 |
Indignation by Philip Roth The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede Vienna Blood by Frank Tallis The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule The Book Thief by Markus Zusak North River by Pete Hamill Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies |
The Assault by Harry Mulisch The Maytrees by Annie Dillard The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic Women of Silk by Gail Tsukiyama First Lady of the Confederacy by Joan Cashin Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Midwives by Chris Bohjalian Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig |
2007 - 2008 |
2006 - 2007 |
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Fowler Old Filth by Jane Gardam The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Last Season by Eric Blehm So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell |
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Hearing Birds Fly by Louisa Waugh Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell Grant and Sherman by Charles Bracelen Flood The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad The Stowaway by Robert Hough A Family Trust by Ward Just |
2005 - 2006 |
2004 - 2005 |
Almost French by Sarah Turnbull The Known World by Edward P. Jones Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 by R.A. Scotti Seeking Enlightenment…Hat by Hat by Nevada Barr Explorers House by Robert M. Poole Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Atonement by Ian McEwan Montana 1948 by Larry Watson |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler The Devil in the White City by Eric Larson When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley The Charm School by Nelson DeMille They Marched into Sunlight by David Maraniss The Rosewood Casket by Sharyn McCrumb Foreign Correspondence by Geraldine Brooks The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King |
2003 - 2004 |
2002 - 2003 |
Sleeping at the Starlite Motel by Bailey White Fatal North by Bruce Henderson The Painted House by John Grisham The Alienist by Caleb Carr What Went Wrong? by Bernard Lewis The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd The Horned Man by James Lasdun Crow Lake by Mary Lawson Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Reader by Bernhard Schlink The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier |
West with the Night by Beryl Markham Chatham School Affair by Thomas Cook Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Growing Up by Russell Baker Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks Evensong by Gail Godwin Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich |
2001 - 2002 |
2000 - 2001 |
A Time to Kill by John Grisham The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester A Diary from Dixie by Mary Chesnut The Rector’s Wife by Joanna Trollope The Emperors of Chocolate by Joel Brenner Plain Truth by Jodie Picoult An Hour before Daylight by Jimmy Carter Washington Goes to War by David Brinkley Follow the River by James Alexander Thom In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy |
A Breach of Promise by Anne Perry At All Costs by John Gilstrap Sophie’s Choice by William Styron What’s So Amazing About Grace by Phillip Yancey Personal History by Katherine Graham A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara The Temple Bombing by Melissa Faye Greene The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama Call Me Anna by Patty Duke
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1999 - 2000 |
1998 - 1999 |
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt Kings Row by Henry Bellamann The Color of Water by James McBride A Civil Action by Jonathon Harr Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross Liberty Falling by Nevada Barr Bingo Night at the Fire Hall by Barbara Holland No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin |
Perfect Storm by Sebatian Junger The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Murder Down Under by Arthur W. Upfield The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx Utopia by Sir Saint Thomas More Wait ‘Til Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines |
1997 - 1998 |
1997 |
My Ántonia by Willa Cather All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr True North by Jill Ker Conway The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thorton Wilder Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Burns Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose The Final Judgment by Richard North Patterson The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells Snow in August by Pete Hamill |
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway If I’d Killed Him When I Met Him by Sharyn McCrumb
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