Book Group
The Groveland book discussion group meets monthly on the Third Wednesday evening, year around. We recently changed our format from everyone reading the same book, to everyone talking about whatever books they have been reading. At the end of the evening, a complete list of the books mentioned is emailed to all that participate in the group. Check out our newsletter for a complete list of books our members have been reading.
Even more recently, we’ve gone to zoom meetings. They happen at 6:30 on the Third Wednesday of the month. Meeting information follows:
What have we read as a group in past years?
2018
The Jesus Cow,
The Body Keeps Score
Sisters in Law
Water from Heaven
Sapiens
Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Fliers of Gy
2017
The Art of War, Sun Tzu
Warrior Nation, Anton Treuer
Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh
Ghettoside, Jill Levoy
A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
Secret Knowledge of Water, Craig Childs
Strangers In Their Own Land, Arlie Russell Hoshchild
2016
Language of Flowers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Quiet, Susan Cain
Boys In the Boat, Daniel James Brown
Buddha In the Attic, Julie Otsuka
The Art of Racing In the Rain, Garth Stein
Americanah, Chinomanda Ngozi Adichie
Unbroken, Lara Hillenbrand
2015
A Secret Kept, Tatina de Remay
Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
Vestments, John Reimringer
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doer
I’ll Drink to That, Betty Halbreck
The Road to Character, David Brooks
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Brain On Fire, Susannah Cahalan
2014
Wild, Cheryl Strayed
Knocking on Heaven’s Door, Katy Butler
Exploring With Owls, David Sedaris
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Twelve Years a Slave, Soloman Northrup
Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
An Unfinished Life, Mark Spragg
Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger
2013
Tortilla Curtain, Delaney Mossbacher
F&M Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Reason For Hope, Jane goodall
South of Broad, Pat Conroy
The Absolutely True Story of a Part Time Indian, Sherman Alexi
The Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walters
Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline
Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen
Prague Winter, Madeline Albright
2012
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson
Howard’s End, EM Forrester
The Angel of Death Row, Andrea Lyon
Six of One, Rita Mae Brown
The Tennis Partner, Abraham Verghese
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, Jeanette Winterson
Townie, Andre Dubus III
Left Nelected, Lisa Genova
Crude World, Peter Maass
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
2011
Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof & Serry Wu Dunn
The Known World, Edward P. Jones
M & A Cutting For Stone, Abraham Verghese
The Social Animal, David Brooks
A Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress, Susan Jane Gilman
Blue Shoe, Anne Lamont
A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
An American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld
The Grace of Silence, Michelle Norris
2010
Dancing At the Rascal Fair, Ivan Doig
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer & Ann Barrows
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson
Gracie, A Love Story, George Burns
I Capture the Castle, Dodi Smith
Magnificent Minutiae, Nancy Massman
Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson
A Carrion Death, Michael Stanley
2009
For a Future To Be Possible, Thich Nhãt Hahn
Redemption Song, Bertice Berry
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
Basic Needs, A Year In the Life of Street Kids, Jane Landsman
The Late Homecomer, Kao Kalia Yang
The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
My Stroke of Insight, Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D
Drumming the Soul Awake, Jaime Meyer
When You Are Engulfed In Flames, David Sadaris
The House At Sugar Beach, Helene Cooper
Already Love, movie
2008
Boy, Boald Dahl
Suite Francaise, Iréne Némirovsky
Supreme Conflict, Jan Crawford Greenburg
Attended a play at Central H.S. “Seeds of Change”
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
The Florist’s Daughter, Patricia Hempl
Dreams from my Father, Barak Obama
Here If You Need Me, Kate Braestrup
Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
2007
The Old Testament, commentary and discussion led by Darr Scheurrs
Home Grown Democrat, Garrison Keiller
The Working Poor, Daavid Shipley
The #1 Ladies’ Detective Agency,
Gilead, Marilynn Robinson
Anger, Thich Nhåt Hahn
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
Innes of My Soul, Isabel Allende
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollen
Seldom Disappointed, Tony Hillerman
Hunting Badger, Tony Hillerman
2006
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
A Thread of Grace, Mary Doria Russel
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenneger
The Secrete Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress,
The Satanic Verses, Salmon Rushdie
Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Favorite Children Stories – chosen by individual group members