No Pressure Senior Book Club

The No Pressure Senior Book Club meets at the Heritage Park Senior Facility Library on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 1pm.

For questions, contact Renee at rhudacek@hendersonlibraries.com.

Upcoming Selections

August

August 20
1pm

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

September

September 17
1pm

This month we'll be discussing Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller.

October

October 15
1pm

This month we'll be discussing Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher.

November

November 19
1pm

This month we'll be discussing Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle.

December

Not meeting this month

Previous Selections

2025

The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis (January 15, 2025)
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore (February 19, 2025)
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (March 19, 2025)
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (April 16, 2025)
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (May 21, 2025)
All In by Billie Jean King (June 18, 2025)
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (July 16, 2025)

2024

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (January 17, 2024)
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (February 21, 2024)
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (March 20, 2024)
Force of Nature by Jane Harper (April 17, 2024)
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (May 15, 2024)
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler (June 12, 2024)
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi (July 17, 2024)
August meeting was cancelled
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (September 18, 2024)
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (October 16, 2024)
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (November 20, 2024)
No meeting in December

2023

Circling the Sun by Paula McLain (January 18, 2023)
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (February 15, 2023)
The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult (March 15, 2023)
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (April 19, 2023)
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict (May 17, 2023)
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (June 21, 2023)
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (July 19, 2023)
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey (August 16, 2023)
Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta (September 20, 2023)
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (October 18, 2023)
The Virginian by Owen Wister (November 15, 2023)
No meeting in December

2022

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (January 19, 2022)
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (February 16, 2022)
The Guest List by Lucy Foley (March 16, 2022)
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (April 20, 2022)
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman (May 18, 2022)
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See (June 15, 2022)
The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson (July 20, 2022)
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (August 17, 2022)
There There by Tommy Orange (September 21, 2022)
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (October 19, 2022)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (November 16, 2022)
No meeting in December

2021

Becoming by Michelle Obama (January 20, 2021)
The Last Flight by Julie Clark (February 17, 2021)
Afterlife by Julia Alvarez (March 17, 2021)
The Overstory by Richard Powers (April 21, 2021)
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (May 19, 2021)
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell (June 16, 2021)
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (July 21, 2021)
Girl in Disguise by Greer Macallister (August 18, 2021)
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (September 15, 2021)
The Princess Bride by William Goldman (October 20, 2021)
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald (November 17, 2021)
No meeting in December

2020

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (January 15, 2020)
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (February 19, 2020)
No meetings in March to September
News of the World by Paulette Jiles (October 21, 2020)
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict (November 18, 2020)
Mr. Timothy by Louis Bayard (December 16, 2020)

2019

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (January 16, 2019)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (February 20, 2019)
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (March 20, 2019)
Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson (April 17, 2019)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (May 15, 2019)
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (June 19, 2019)
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris (July 17, 2019)
Oil and Marble by Stephanie Storey (August 21, 2019)
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong (September 18, 2019)
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (October 16, 2019)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (November 20, 2019)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (December 18, 2019)

2018

Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness by Sasha Martin (January 17, 2018)
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (February 21, 2018)
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (March 21, 2018)
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (April 18, 2018)
The Round House by Louise Erdrich (May 16, 2018)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (June 20, 2018)
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus (July 18, 2018)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (August 15, 2018)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (September 19, 2018)
Coconut Cowboy by Tim Dorsey (October 17, 2018)
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (November 21, 2018)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (December 19, 2018)

2017

Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall (January 18, 2017)
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (February 15, 2017)
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman (March 15, 2017)
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure (April 19, 2017)
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb (May 17, 2017)
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by Fiona, Countess of Carnarvon (July 19, 2017)
The Vacationers by Emma Straub (August 16, 2017)
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison (September 20, 2017)
Nickel & Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (October 18, 2017)
True Evil by Greg Iles (November 10, 2017)
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant (December 20, 2017)

2016

January meeting was cancelled
The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930's America by John Kasson (February 17, 2016)
The Silver Star by Jeanette Walls (March 16, 2016)
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum (April 20, 2016)
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (May 18, 2016)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (June 15, 2016)
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman (July 20, 2016)
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson (August 17, 2016)
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (September 21, 2016)
The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan (October 19, 2016)
Still Alice by Lisa Genova (November 16, 2016)
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz (December 21, 2016)

2015

Tenth of December by George Saunders (January 21, 2015)
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Fowler (February 18, 2015)
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (March 18, 2015)
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (April 15, 2015)
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (May 20, 2015)
The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro (June 17, 2015)
August meeting cancelled due to Heritage Park Rec Center renovations
Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink (September 16, 2015)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (October 21, 2015)
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty (November 18, 2015)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (December 16, 2015)

2014

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (January 15, 2014)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (February 19, 2014)
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (March 19, 2014)
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen (April 16, 2014)
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman (May 21, 2014)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (June 18, 2014)
Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger (July 16, 2014)
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (August 20, 2014)
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (September 17, 2014)
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (October 15, 2014)
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (November 19, 2014)
Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo (December 17, 2014)

2013

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (January 16, 2013)
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson (February 20, 2013)
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent (March 20, 2013)
Winter Garden by Kristen Hannah (April 17, 2013)
Little Bee by Chris Cleave (May 15, 2013)
The Grilling Season by Diane Mott Davidson (June 19, 2013)
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King (July 17, 2013)
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls (August 21, 2013)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (September 18, 2013)
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry (October 16, 2013)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (November 20, 2013)
River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (December 18, 2013)

2012

The Children's Hour by Marcia Willett (January 18, 2012)
North River by Pete Hamill (February 15, 2012)
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (March 21, 2012)
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord (April 18, 2012)
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg (May 16, 2012)
Still Alice by Lisa Genova (June 20, 2012)
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck (July 18, 2012)
Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky (August 15, 2012)
The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark (September 19, 2012)
So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger (October 17, 2012)
My Life in France by Julia Child (November 21, 2012)
The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffrey (December 19, 2012)

2011

The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg (January 19, 2011)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (February 16, 2011)
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton (March 23, 2011)
The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein (April 20, 2011)
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik (May 18, 2011)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (June 15, 2011)
My Antonia by Willa Cather (July 20, 2011)
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (August 17, 2011)
Oxygen by Carol Cassella (September 21, 2011)
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig (October 19, 2011)
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (November 16, 2011)
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (December 21, 2011)

2010

There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell by Laurie Notaro (January 20, 2010)
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (February 17, 2010)
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian (March 17, 2010)
The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw (April 21, 2010)
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (May 19, 2010)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (June 16, 2010)
The Secret River by Kate Grenville (July 21, 2010)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (August 18, 2010)
The Traveler's Gift by Andy Andrews (September 15, 2010)
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy (October 20, 2010)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (November 17, 2010)
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (December 15, 2010)

2009

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (February 18, 2009)
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen (March 18, 2009)
Sunk Without a Sound by Brad Dimock (April 15, 2009)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrow (May 20, 2009)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (June 17, 2009)
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (July 15, 2009)
These is My Words by Nancy E. Turner (August 19, 2009)
A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler (September 16, 2009)
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl (October 21, 2009)
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (November 18, 2009)
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns (December 16, 2009)

2008

Gardinias for Breakfast by Robin Jones Gunn (January 16, 2008)
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (February 20, 2008)
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien (March 19, 2008)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (May 21, 2008)
The Bright Forever by Lee Martin (June 18, 2008)
Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff (July 16, 2008)
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (August 20, 2008)
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (September 17, 2008)
Absolutely American by David Lipsky (October 15, 2008)
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (November 19, 2008)