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 in the future. Dates noted for book discussions coming up.


Books are listed in reverse date order.


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2026

  • These Tangled Threads by Sarah Loudin Thomas (JCSC discussion date is 9/9/2026)
  • The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
  • Boat Baby: A Memoir by Vicky Nguyen
  • The Time in Between by Maria Duenas
  • Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness by Robert Specht
  • Outrageous Grace: A Story of Tragedy and Forgiveness by Grace L. Fabian

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2025 (7 books)

  • The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy
  • Pack Light: A Journey to Find Myself by Shilletha Curtis
  • Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
  • Horse by Geraldine Brooks
  • The Berry Pickers: A Novel by Amanda Peters
  • The Women by Kristin Hannah
  • The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

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2024 (9 books)

  • Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  • Wishin’ and Hopin’: A Novel by Wally Lamb
  • The Indigo Girl: A Novel by Natasha Boyd
  • The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
  • Victoria & Abdul by Shrabani Basu
  • The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
  • West With Giraffes: A Novel by Lynda Rutledge
  • The Searcher by Tana French

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2023 (9 books)

  • Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan
  • One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May 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: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg
  • The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America 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

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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: A Novel by Thomas Savage
  • Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations by Admiral William H. McRaven
  • The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
  • Fortune and Glory: Tantalizing Twenty-Seven by Janet Evanovich
  • Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir by Tammy Duckworth

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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 Albom
  • The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
  • Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

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2020 (2 books)

  • Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict
  • The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

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2019 (7 books)

  • The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
  • Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
  • The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
  • Wives of War by Soraya M. Lane
  • Small Great Things: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
  • The Heart Mender: A Story of Second Chances by Andy Andrews (originally published as Island of Saints)

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