Book Club
The Johnson City Senior Center Book Club started in March 2019. The group meets every six weeks. All are welcome. Participants provide their own book.
Here's the books we've read or are reading. Discussion dates noted for books coming up; listed in reverse date order.
2024 (9 books)
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross (discussion 12/18/2024)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (discussion 11/13/2024)
Wishin' and Hopin': A Novel by Wally Lamb (discussion 10/2/2024)
The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd (discussion 8/21/2024)
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright (discussion 7/10/2024)
Victoria & Abdul by Shrabani Basu (discussion 5/29/2024)
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (discussion 4/17/2024)
West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge (discussion 3/6/2024)
The Searcher by Tana French
2023 (10 books)
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of Mary Dodd by Jim Fergus
Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas by Spike Walker
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg AND Night of Miracles by Elizabeth Berg
The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
2022 (8 books)
Necessary As Blood by Deborah Crombie
Someone We Know by Shari Lapena
The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage
Sea Stories – My Life in Special Operations by Admiral William H. McRaven
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Fortune and Glory by Janet Evanovich
Every Day Is a Gift by Tammy Duckworth
2021 (9 books)
The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Album
The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
2020 (2 books)
Lady Clementine: A Novel by Marie Benedict
The Red Tent by Anita Diamont
2019 (7 books)
The Day the World Came to Town by Jim Defede
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
Wives of War by Soroya M. Lane
Small Great Things by Jodi Picout
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Island of Saints by Andy Andrews (latest edition titled: The Heart Mender – A Story of Second Chances)