Henderson Libraries Book Club

The Henderson Libraries Book Club meets virtually on the last Tuesday of the month at 6pm.

For questions or to join this book club via Zoom, contact Markita at mdawson@hendersonlibraries.com.

upcoming Selections

January

January 28
6pm

This month we'll be discussing There There by Tommy Orange.

February

February 25
6pm

This month we'll be discussing Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld.

March

March 25
6pm

This month we'll be discussing And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.

April

April 29
6pm

This month we'll be discussing The Art Thief by Michael Finkel.

May

May 27
6pm

This month we'll be discussing The Personal Librarian by Victoria Christopher Murray.

June

June 24
6pm

This month we'll be discussing All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby.

July

July 29
6pm

This month we'll be discussing The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian.

AUgust

August 26
6pm

This month we'll be discussing Yellowface by R.F. Kuang.

September

September 30
6pm

This month's title is still being determined.

October

October 28
6pm

This month we'll be discussing The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden.

November

November 25
6pm

This month we'll be discussing Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell.

December

Not meeting this month

Previous Selections

2024

West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge (January 30, 2024)
Mad Honey by Jodie Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (February 27, 2024)
The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar (March 26, 2024)
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (April 30, 2024)
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl (May 28, 2024)
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi (June 25, 2024)
Happy Place by Emily Henry (July 30, 2024)
August meeting was cancelled
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (September 24, 2024)
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (October 29, 2024)
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki (November 26, 2024)
No meeting in December

2023

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, January 31, 2023
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, February 28, 2023
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, March 28, 2023
The Reading List by Sarah Nisha Adams, April 25, 2023
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver, May 30, 2023
June meeting was cancelled
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, July 25, 2023
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, August 29, 2023
The Princess Bride by William Goldman, September 26, 2023
No meeting in October
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson, November 28, 2023
No meeting in December

2022

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore, January 25, 2022
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, February 22, 2022
Less by Sean Andrew Greer, March 29, 2022
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner, April 26, 2022
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, May 31, 2022
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou, June 28, 2022
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, July 26, 2022
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, August 30, 2022
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, September 27, 2022
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, October 25, 2022
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig, November 29, 2022
No meeting in December

2021

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen, January 26, 2021
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, February 23, 2021
West with the Night by Beryl Markham, March 23, 2021
The Searcher by Tana French, April 27, 2021
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, May 25, 2021
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson, June 29, 2021
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice, July 27, 2021
Stiff by Mary Roach, August 31, 2021
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley, September 28, 2021
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict, October 26, 2021
The Leavers by Lisa Ko, November 30, 2021
No meeting in December

2020

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, Janaury 28, 2020
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, February 25, 2020
Did not meet in March, April, or May
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, June 30, 2020
The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone, July 28, 2020
The Bear by Andrew Krivak, August 25, 2020
Only the River by Anne Raeff, September 29, 2020
The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, October 27, 2020
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, November 24, 2020
No meeting in December

2019

Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates, January 29, 2019
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst, February 26, 2019
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, March 26, 2019
Red Notice by Bill Browder, April 30, 2019
Oil and Marble by Stephanie Storey, May 28, 2019
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, June 25, 2019
The Dry by Jane Harper, July 30, 2019
No meeting in August
The Dark Net by Jamie Barlett, September 24, 2019
The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman, October 29, 2019
Circe by Madeline Miller, November 26, 2019
No meeting in December

2018

Ready, Player, One by Ernest Cline, January 30, 2018
Faithful by Alice Hoffman, February 27, 2018
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini, March 27, 2018
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien, April 24, 2018
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, May 29, 2018
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, June 26, 2018
Great Plains by Ian Frazier, July 31, 2018
No meeting in August
Sun, Sin & Suburbia by Geoff Schumacher, September 25, 2018
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent, October 30, 2018
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, November 27, 2018
No meeting in December

2017

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, January 31, 2017
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy, February 28, 2017
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg. March 28, 2017
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, April 25, 2017
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, May 30, 2017
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave, June 27, 2017
The Master by Colm Toibin, July 25, 2017
No meeting in August
The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude by Howard Axelrod, September 26, 2017
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger, October 24, 2017
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill, November 28, 2017

2016

We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride, January 27, 2016
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, February 23, 2016
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton, March 29, 2016
In One Person by John Irving, April 26, 2016
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown, May 31, 2016
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, June 28, 2016
Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness by Sasha Martin, July 26, 2016
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, September 27, 2016
American Ghost by Hannah Nordhaus, October 25, 2016
Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman, November 29, 2016
No meeting in December

2015

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter, January 27, 2015
The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum, February 24, 2015
Dirt Music by Tim Winton, March 31, 2015
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, April 28, 2015
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver, May 26, 2015
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear, June 30, 2015
Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen, July 28, 2015
Dataclysm by Christian Rudder, September 29, 2015
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin, October 27, 2015
Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening by Carol Wall, November 24, 2015
No meeting in December

2014

Wild by Cheryl Strayed, January 28, 2014
Butterfly's Child by Angela Davis-Gardner, February 25, 2014
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flatsby Kristen Iversen, March 25, 2014
The Secret River by Kate Grenville, April 29, 2014
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal, May 27, 2014
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes, June 24, 2014
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, July 29, 2014
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, September 30, 2014
Twenty Miles from a Match: Homesteading in Western Nevada by Sarah Olds, October 21, 2014
Night of Many Dreams by Gail Tsukiyama, November 25, 2014
No meeting in December

2013

The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee, January 29, 2013
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, February 26, 2013
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson, March 26, 2013
River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard, April 30, 2013
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett, May 28, 2013
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle, June 25, 2013
Mao's Last Dancer by Cunxin Li, July 30, 2013
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe, September 24, 2013
The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe by Douglas Rogers, October 29, 2013
So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger, November 26, 2013
No meeting in December

2012

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes, January 31, 2012
When Religion Becomes Evil by Charles Kimball, February 28, 2012
Going Home by Doris Lessing, March 27, 2012
Outcasts United: a Refugee Soccer Team, an American Town by Warren St. John, April 24, 2012
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, May 29, 2012
Shadow Divers: the True Adventures of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson, June 26, 2012
Exodus by Leon Uris, July 31, 2012
Still Alice by Lisa Genova, September 25, 2012
Spice: The History of Temptation by Jack Turner, October 30, 2012
American Shaolin by Matthew Polly, November 27, 2012
No meeting in December

2011

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba, January 25, 2011
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, February 22, 2011
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker, March 29, 2011
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, April 26, 2011
Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach, May 31, 2011
Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan, June 28, 2011
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson, July 26, 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, September 27, 2011
Friendly Fallout 1953 by Ann Ronald, October 25, 2011
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King, November 29, 2011
No meeting in December

2010

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of Mary Dodd by Jim Fergus, January 26, 2010
The Women by T.C. Boyle, February 23, 2010
Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck, March 30, 2010
Wicked Women by Fay Weldon, April 27, 2010
Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent, May 25, 2010
Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama, June 29, 2010
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund, July 27, 2010
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff, September 28, 2010

2009

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, January 27, 2009
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff, February 24, 2009
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, March 31, 2009
In the Woods by Tana French, April 28, 2009
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, May 26, 2009
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King, June 30, 2009
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, July 28, 2009
Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes, September 29, 2009
Here be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman, October 27, 2009
The Liar's Club by Mary Karr, November 24, 2009
No meeting in December

2008

Crashing Through by Robert Kurson, January 29, 2008
Death of an Ordinary Man by Glen Duncan, February 26, 2008
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory, March 25, 2008
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, April 29, 2008
Locust by Jeffrey Lockwood, June 5, 2008
Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride, June 24, 2008
The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs, October 28, 2008

2007

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, January 30, 2007
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien, February 27, 2007
Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell, April 24, 2007
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, July 31, 2007
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, September 25, 2007
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Ablom, October 30, 2007
Death of an Ordinary Man by Glen Duncan, November 27, 2007
No meeting in December