Category Archives: Book Lists

2018 Book List

Ann – December 7
***Wonder – R.J. Palacio

Josee – April 12
***The Break – Katherina Vermette

Karen – January 18
***The Hearts of Men – Nicholas Butler
Beautiful Animals – Lawrence Osborne
The Girls – Emma Cline

Jane – March 1
***Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
House without Windows – Nadia Hashimi

Laura – September 27
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
***Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates

Bev – December 6
***Do Not Say We had Nothing – Madeleine Thien
The Last Neanderthal – Claire Cameron
The Lake House – Kate Morton

Jeanne – November 8 (Note: Date Change and book change!)

*** Educated by Tara Westover

***Born a Crime – Trevor Noah

What Happened – Hillary Clinton

Waking the Frog – Tom Rand

Erin – March 7, 2019

***Becoming – Michelle Obama

Jill: January 24 2019

The Childhood Jesus – J. M. Coetzee

Moira: May 2, 2019

A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles

📚📚📚📚📚EVERYONE IS TO BRING THEIR BOOK SELECTIONS FOR THE NEXT YEAR TO MOIRA’s📚📚📚📚📚

Book Club 2016-2017

Jill
My Secret Sister – Helen Edwards and Jenny Lee Smith
The Piano Maker – Kurt Palka
📚 The Heart Goes Last – Margaret Atwood – Chosen – May 25, 2017

Karen
Dodgers – Bill Beverley
All Things cease to Appear – Elizabeth Runage
📚 13 Days in September – Lawrence Wright -chosen – Sept 22, 2016

Josee
📚 The Girl who was Saturday Night – Heather O’Neill – Chosen – Jan 12, 2017
The Little Shadows – Marina Endicott
Bone and Bread – Saleema Nawaz

Erin
A gap in time (winters tale) – Jeanette Winterson
The Noise of Time – Julian Barnes
📚 I know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou – Nov 2, 2017 NOTE: Change in book and date

Bev
📚 The Noise of Time – Julian Barnes – Chosen Feb 23, 2017
The Buried Giant – Kazuo Ishiguro
My Name is Lucy Barton – Elizabeth Strout

Laura
Watership Downs – Richard Adams
📚 Ragged Company – Richard Wagamese – Chosen Oct 20, 2016
Garlic and Sapphire – Ruth Reichl
Notorious RBG – Erin Carmen

Jane
The Blue Guitar – John Banville
📚 Little Red Chairs – Edna O’Brien – Chosen – Dec 1, 2016
The Noise of Times – Julian Barnes

Moira
📚 Copper Mine – Author to be confirmed – Sept 21, 2017 – NOTE: Change in book

Jeanne

📚The Requiem – Frances Itani – April 6, 2017

Anne

📚TBD – Dec 14, 2017

2015-16 Book Club Choices

Laura – June 4th, 2015
Chosen: “H is for Hawk” – Helen McDonald
“5 Days at Memorial” by Sheri Fink
“The Hot Zone” by Richard Presto
“The Most of Nora Ephron” by Nora Ephron

Jeanne – September 17th, 2015
Chosen: “Invention of Wings” by Sue Monk Kidd

Karen – October 29th, 2015
“H is for Hawk” by Helen McDonald
“Before the Rains Come” by Alexander Fuller
Chosen: “Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman – Recommended that we listen to the audio version of the book read by Neil Gaiman

Moira – December 10th, 2015
Unchosen: “Boy, Snow, Bird” by Helen Oyeyemi
“All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr
“Sweetland” by Michael Crummey
NEW CHOICE: “The Buried Giant” by Kazuo Ishiguro

Jane – January 2016
Chosen: “Preparation for the Next Life” by Atticus Lish
“All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr
“American Gods” by Neil Gaiman

Bev – February 2016
“All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr
“Go Se a Watchman” by Harper lee
Chosen: “Bury Your Dead” by Louise Penny

Jill – March 2016
“Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese
“The Girl on a Train” by Paula Hawkins
“Mr Mac and me” by Esther Freud
Chosen: “The Afterlife of Stars” by Joseph Kertes

Josee – April 2016
“The Tao of Pooh” by Benjamin Hoff
All my puny sorrows by Miriam Toews
“Lullabies for Little Criminals” by Heather O’Neill
Chosen:”The Patron Saint of Liars” by Ann Patchett

Erin – May 2016
Chosen: “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr

2014 Burlington Book Club List

GREAT BOOKS – SELECTED:
Jill
Beach Strip by Reynolds, John Lawrence – February 13 th

Moira
Let The Great World Spin by McCann, Colum – April 3rd

Jane
Life After Life by Atkinson, Kate – May 15th

Karen
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt – June 26th

Laura
The Orenda by Boyden, Joseph – Sept 18th

Bev
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bryson, Bill – October 30th

Josee
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Munro, Alice – December 11th

Jeanne
Falling Backwards: A Memoir by Arden, Jann – January 22nd

Erin
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble – March 26th, 2015 ( note change )

Here are the dates we have chosen so far  for 2013 book club.

Feb. 28       Jeanne’s book    “Half Blood blues”
April 11       Josee    ” Mr. Pip”
May 23        Jill    “The Paris Wife”
June 27       Moira     “Wild”
Sept. 12       Bev        “Wolf Hall ”

See you in February.

moira

Here is the list of books and dates for next year (the full list of nominated books follows at end):

Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor – Erin on January 25th
Underpainter by Jane Urquart – Josee on March 1st
TBD – Jeanne on April 2nd (Book still to be chosen)
The Girls by Lori Lanses – Jill on May 17th
The Memory Keeper’s Daughters by Kim Edward – Moira on June 21st
Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham – Bev on September 13th
Wicked by Gregory Maguire – Laura on October 25th
Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson – Karen on December 6th
Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman – Jane on January 17th, 2008
Red Tent by Anita Diamant – Erin on February 28th, 2008

Here is the full list of nominated books (not chosen):

Erin:
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (also recommended by Josee and Laura)

Josee:
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

Moira:
What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin
Three Day Road by Joseph Boydon
Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Jill:
Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Jane:
White Teeth by Sadie Smith
Tipping Point or Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Bev:
Sweet Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky and Sandra Smith
Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Laura:
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Daniel Deronda by George Elliot

Karen:
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Heat by Bill Buford

Burlington Book club 2011-2012

DATE MEMBER AUTHOR TITLE

December 8, 2011 Bev Kate Atkinson Case Histories

January 19, 2012 Jane Agatha Christie An Autobiography

March 1, 2012 Josee Elizabeth Strong Olive Kitteridge

April 19, 2012 Laura Rebecca Skloot The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

May 24, 2012 Jeanne Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X

June 28, 2012 Moira Alexandra Fuller Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness

Sept 13, 2012 Karen Karl Marlantes Matterhorn

October 25, 2012 Jill Michel Tremblay The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant

December 6, 2012 Erin Janette Turner Dislocations

Book club 2011-2012 “Not Chosen but still sound good”

Erin: David Sedaris: When You are Engulfed in Flames

Bev: Diane Setterfield:the thirteenth tale; Louise Penny: Bury your Dead

Jill: Emma Donahue: The Room; Kathleen Winter: Annabel

Karen: Edmund Dewaal: The Hare with the Amber Eyes; Gabrielle Hamilton:Blood, Bones & Butter

Moira: Peter Behrens: The O’Brien’s; Michael Ondaatje: The Cat’s Table

Josee: Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera; Shilipi Somaya Gouda: Secret Daughter; Dianne Warren: The Cool Water

Laura: Colin McCann:Let the Great World Spin; Tea Obreht: The Tigers Wife