Beaver Valley Probus Club

Book Club Chapter One - Reading List

2021

• American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummins
• Nutshell (and Hamlet), by Ian McEwan (and Shakespeare)
• Murder in Amsterdam, by AC Baantjer
• Seven Fallen Feathers, by Tanya Talaga
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg - An appreciation of her life and work, Various Sources

2020

• Becoming, by Michelle Obama
• March - November: meetings cancelled due to the Pandemic. Email discussions and recommendation of books, documentaries and films
• December: 1st Zoom Meeting, Discussion of recent reads

2019

• Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
• The Birds and Other Stories, by Daphne Du Maurier
• Swamp Angel, by Ethel Wilson
• Deep South, by Paul Theroux
• Half Blood Blues, by Esi Edugyan
• The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish
• Telex from Cuba, by Rachel Kushner
• Forgiveness, by Mark Sakamoto
• First Snow, by Last Light Wayne Johnson

2018

• The Nightingale, by Kristin Hanna
• LaRose, by Louise Erdich
• The Elephant Whisperer, by Lawrence Anthony
• Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance
• The Massey Murder, by Charlotte Gray
• The Children Act, by Ian McEwan
• The New Farm, by Brent Preston
• Great House, by Nicole Krauss
• The Diary of Hendrik Groen 83 and ¼ years old, by Hendrik Groen

2017

• The Invention Of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd
• Breakfast at the Exit Café, by Wayne Grady and Merilyn Simonds
• Black Berry Sweet Juice, by Lawrence Hill.
• Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Circling the Sun, by Paula McLain
• Road Ends, by Mary Lawson
• What the Dog Saw, by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Little Paris Bookshop, by Nina George
• Fifteen Dogs, by Andre Alexis

2016

• Us Conductors, by Sean Michaels
• Desert Queen, by Janet Wallach
• Orange Is The New Black, by Piper Kerman
• All The Light I Cannot See, by Piper Kerman
• On A Farther Shore: The Life of Rachel Carson, by Willian Souder
• How It All Began, by Penelope Lively
• Gods’ Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital and a Pilgrimage, by Victoria Sweet
• Agent Zigzag, by Ben MacIntyre
• Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline

2015

• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce
• July’s People, by Nadine Gordimer
• The Elegant Gathering of White Snows, by Kris Radish
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
• River Thieves, by Michael Crummey
• February, by LisaMoore
• Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
• Lovely, Dark Deep, by Joyce Carol Oates
• Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

2014

• Dear Life, by Alice Munro
• Girl in a Blue Dress, by Gaynor Arnold
• Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, by Helen Simonson
• Roughing It In the Bush, by Susanna Moodie
• The Journals of Susanna Moodie, by Margaret Atwood
• Indian Horse, by Richard Wagamese
• The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton
• And The Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini.
• Loss of Innocence, by Richard North Paterson

2013

• The Man of Property (and Indian Summer of a Forsyte), by John Galsworthy
• The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain.
• Everybody Was So Young, by Amanda Vaill
• Annabelle, by Kathleen Winter
• Hare With The Amber Eyes, by Edmund Dewaal.
• The End of Growth, by Jeff Rubin
• Must You Go, by Antonia Frazer
• The Sense of Ending, by Julian Barnes
• Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver

2012

• Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
• Flint and Feather, by Charlotte Gray
• The Cat's Table, by Michael Ondaatje
• In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson
• Obasan, by Joyce Kawaga
• Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi
• The Sea, by John Banville
• To End all Wars, by Adam Hochschild
• Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks

2011

• Mao’s Last Dancer, by Li Cunxin
• Secret Daughter, by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
• Baltimore’s Mansion, by Wayne Johnson
• Barney’s Version, by  Mordecai Richler
• Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi
• The Help, by  Kathryn Stockett
• Too Much Happiness, by Alice Munroe
• Arthur and George, by Julian Barnes
• Sarah’s Key, by Tatiana De Rosnay
• Solar, b Ian McEwan

2010

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• The Nine Lives of Charlotte, by Taylor Sally Armstrong
• The Secret River, by Kate Grenville
• City Wolves, by Doris Heffron
• People of The Book, by Geraldine Brooks
• Behind the Scenes at the Museum, by Kate Atkinson
• Still Alice, by Lisa Genova
• The Revenge of Gaia, by James Lovelock
• Three Day Road, by Joseph Boyden
• My Life in France, by Julia Child