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

AUgust

August 26
6pm

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

September

September 30
6pm

This month we'll be discussing The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo.

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

2025

There There by Tommy Orange (January 28, 2025)
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld (February 25, 2025)
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (March 25, 2025)
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (April 29, 2025)
The Personal Librarian by Victoria Christopher Murray (May 27, 2025)
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby (June 24, 2025)
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian (July 29, 2025)

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 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