June 2024 "Remarkably Bright Creatures" by Shelby Van Pelt
April 2024 "The Book Spy" by Alan Hlad
February 2024 "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarros
January 2024 "Hello Beautiful" by Ann Napolitano
December 2023 "The House in the Cerulean Sea" by TJ Klune
November 2023 "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larsen
September 2023 "The Last Thing He Told Me" by Laura Dave
August 2023 "I'm Glad My Mom Died" by Jennette McCurdy
July 2023 "The Forest of Vanishing Stars" by Kristin Harmel
June 2023 "My Oxford Year" by Julia Whelan
April 2023 "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver
March 2023 "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus
February 2023 "The Terminal List" by Jack Carr
January 2023 Choose Your Own Book
November 2022 "Dream Girl: A Novel" by Laura Lippman
October 2022 "The Flower Boat Girl: A Novel Based on a True Story" by Larry Feign
September 2022 "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed" by Lori Gottlieb
August 2022 "Run Rose Run" by Dolly Parton and James Patterson
June 2022 "A Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah J. Moss
May 2022 "A Court of Thorns and Roses" by Sarah J. Maas
April 2022 "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir
February 2022 "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
January 2022 "Daughter of Moloka'i" by Alan Brennert
November 2021 "Anxious People" by Fredrik Backman
October 2021 "Nine Perfect Strangers" by Liane Moriarty
September 2021 "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig
August 2021 "The Four Winds" by Kristin Hannah
June 2021"The Uncommon Reader" by Alan Bennet
July 2021 "Bridget Jones' Diary" by Helen Fielding
May 2021 Pick Your Own Book
April 2021 "Everything I Never Told You" by Celeste Ng
February 2021 "The Boys in the Boat" by Daniel James Brown
January 2021 "You" by Caroline Kepnes
November 2020 "A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman
October 2020 "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" by Heather Morris
September 2020 "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
August 2020 "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
June 2020 Reader's Choice plus movie made from book
May 2020 Reader's Choice
April 2020 "The Complete Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi
February 2020 "The Museum of Extraordinary Things" by Alice Hoffman
January 2020 "The Silent Patient" by Alex Michaelides
November 2019 "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
October 2019 "The Beautiful and the Damned" by Frances Scott Fitzgerald
September 2019 "The Alice Network" by Kate Quinn
August 2019 "The Woman in Cabin 10" by Ruth Ward
July 2019 "Educated" by Tara Westover
May 2019 "Ubik" by Philip K. Dick
April 2019 "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll
March 2019 "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry" by Fredrik Backman
February 2019 "Before We Were Yours" by Lisa Wingate
January 2019 Great American Read Choice
November 2018 "Dark Matter" by Blake Crouch
October 2018 "The Mist" by Stephen King
September 2018 "Artemis" by Andy Weir
August 2018 "Love and Other Consolation Prizes" by Jamie Ford
June 2018 "The Midnight Watch: A Novel of the Titanic and The Californian" by David Dyer
May 2018 "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
April 2018 "Case Histories" by Kate Atkinson
February 2018 "The Little Paris Bookshop" by Nina George
November 2017 "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
October 2017 "The Life She was Given" by Ellen Marie Wiseman
September 2017 "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
August 2017 "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead
June 2017 "One Second After" by William Forstchen
May 2017 "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline
April 2017 "A Dog's Purpose" by W. Bruce Cameron
February 2017 "City of Thieves" by David Benioff
January 2017 "Outliers The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell
November 2016 "Yes Please" by Amy Poehler
October 2016 "War Dogs" by Guy Lawson
September 2016 "Me Before You" by Jojo Moyes
August 2016 Tenth Anniversary
June 2016 "The Magic Strings of Frankie Pesto" by Mitch Albom
April 2016 "I Am Malala" by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
March 2016 "Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania" by Erik Larson
February 2016 "Leaving Berlin" by Joseph Kanon
January 2016 "North and South" by Elizabeth Gaskell
November 2015 "Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend" by Matthew Dicks
October 2015 "Crazy Rich Asians" by Kevin Kwan
September 2015 "The Royal We" by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
August 2015 "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
June 2015 "Tell the Wolves I'm Home" by Carol Rifka Brunt
May 2015 "I Capture the Castle" by Dodie Smith
April 2015 "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed
March 2015 "Pig's Foot: A Novel" by Carlos Acosta
February 2015 "The Girl Who Fell From the Sky" by Heidi W. Durrow
January 2015 "The Golem and the Jinni" by Helene Wecker
November 2014 "Orange is the New Black" by Piper Kerman
October 2014 "Delicious" by Ruth Reichl
September 2014 "The Winter Sea" by Susanna Kearsley
August 2014 "The Light Between Oceans" by ML Stedman
June 2014 "A House in the Sky" by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett
May 2014 "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
March 2014 "The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss
February 2014 "The End of Your Life Book Club" by Will Schwalbe
January 2014 "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant
November 2013 "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" by Barbara Demick
October 2013 "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand
September 2013 "Pure" by Andrew Miller
August 2013 "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" by Sheryl Sandberg
June 2013 "The Forgotten Garden" by Kate Morton
May 2013 "The 19th Wife" by David Ebershoff
April 2013 "1,000 White Women: The Journals of May Dodd" by Jim Fergus
February 2013 "Flight Behavior" by Barbara Kingsolver
January 2013 "Rebecca" by Daphnie Du Mauner
November 2012 "Molokai" by Alan Brennert
September 2012 "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy by E L James and "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
July 2012 "Lucky" by Alice Sebold
June 2012 "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay
April 2012 "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford
March 2012 "The Tiger's Wife" by Tea Obreht
February 2012 "The Professor and the Madman A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary" by Simon Winchester
January 2012 "Night Road" by Kristin Hannah
November 2011 "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
September 2011 "March" by Geraldine Brooks
July 2011 "Room" by Emma Donoghue
April 2011 "The Lotus Eaters" by Tatjana Soli"
March 2011 "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
January 2011 "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese
November 2010 "People of the Book" by Geraldine Brooks
October 2010 "They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky" by Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, and Benjamin Ajak with Judy Bernstein
August 2010 "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
July 2010 "Bee Season" by Myla Goldberg
May 2010 "Chasing Harry Winston" by Laura Weisberger
April 2010 "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers
March 2010 "The Gargoyle" by Andrew Davidson
January 2010 "Mansfield Park" by Jane Austen
November 2009 "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time" by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin
October 2009 "Little Heathens Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression" by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
August 2009 "Roots" by Alex Haley
June 2009 "Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, An International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together" by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent
May 2009 "Marley and Me" by John Grogan
May 2009 "Three Weeks With My Brother" by Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks
March 2009 "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Shors
February 2009 "My Antonia" by Willa Cather
January 2009 "Bewside a Burning Sea" by John Shors
November 2008 "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga
October 2008 "Couldn't Keep it to Myself" by Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution
September 2008 "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Piccoult
August 2008 "Echo Park" by Michael Gonnelly
June 2008 "The Devil in the Junior League" by Linda Francis Lee
May 2008 "The Tender Bar" by J.R. Moehringer
April 2008 "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert
February 2008 "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
January 2008 "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
November 2007 "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides
October 2007 "Snowflower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See
September 2007 "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman
August 2007 "Pride & Prejudice" by Jane Austen
July 2007 "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons" by Lorna Landvik and "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
May 2007 "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
April 2007 "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
February 2007 "The Other Boleyn Girl" by Phillipa Gregory
January 2007 "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D.H. Lawrence
December 2006 "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" by Barbara Robinson
November 2006 "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards
September 2006 "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth
I had been wanting to start a book club for a long time, but didn't know a lot of people who had the passion for reading as I did. I met Amy Myrick through her husband, Justin. I work with Justin at Travelers Insurance. Somehow through our conversation we started talking about books. I mentioned it to her a couple of times that I would love to start a book club and would she want to be part of it.
So I invited a few friends from work (Cynthia) and some of my friends that I had come to know very well through our husbands (Emily and Karen). Our first meeting last August was small--I think there were only five of us: me, Amy, Emily, Karen, and Cynthia. From there, Emily invited her good friend Angela. Nancy, my neighbor,heard through my friend and neighbor Karen that I had started a book club and asked to join. Amy invited her neighbor Rachel and then also her friend Jaci. I invited Sarah from work because she and I were obsessed with Harry Potter.
We have grown to be a group of 10 women from all walks of life: One Canadian, two farmgirls from Iowa, two redheads, one teacher, three native Coloradoans, and one Catholic (that I know of).