Book Discussion Club Previous Selections

• Vanishing Acts —Jodi Picoult (1/2006)
  
• The Garden of Eden —Eve Adam (2/2006)
  
• The Other Boleyn Girl —Phillipa Gregory (3/2006)
  
• In Cold Blood —Truman Capote (9/2006)
  
• The Magdalen —Marita Conlon-McKenna (2/2007)
  
• Waiting for Snow In Havanna —Carolos Eire (5/2007)
  
• Sister Mine —Tawny O'Dell (9/2007)
  
• The Glass Castle —Jeanette Walls (10/2007)
  
• ThirteenthTale —Diane Setterfield (11/2007)
  
• A Thousand Splendid Suns —Khaled Hosseini (12/2007)
  
• Time Traveler's Wife —Audrey Niffenegger (1/2008)
  
• Einstein —Walter Isaacson (2/2008)
  
• Memory Keeper's Daughter —Kim Edwards (3/2008)
  
• The Walmart Effect —Charles Fishman (4/2008)
  
• Water for Elephants —Sara Gruen (5/2008)
  
• Middlesex —Jeffrey Eugenides (6/2008)
  
• Bel canto —Ann Patchett (7/2008)
  
• Unaccustomed Earth —Jhumpa Lahiri (8/2008)
  
• Friday Night Knitting Club —Kate Jacobs (9/2008)
  
• The Appeal —John Grisham (10/2008)
  
• John Adams —David McCullough (11/2008)
  
• The Shack —William P. Young (12/2008)
  
• The Last Lecture —Randy Pausch (1/2009)
  
• A Mercy —Toni Morrison (2/2009)
  
• Why Most Things Fail —Paul Ormerod (3/2009)
  
• Nineteen Minutes —Jodi Picoult (4/2009)
  
• A Brief History of the Dead —Kevin Brockmeier (5/2009)
  
• The Conjurer —Cordelia Frances Biddle (6/2009)
  
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle —David Wroblewski (7/2009)
  
• How to Prosper during the coming bad years in the (21st Century —Howard J Ruff (8/2009)
  
• The Third Angel —Alice Hoffman (9/2009)
  
• Unto the Sons —Gay Talese (10/2009)
  
• Suite Francaise —Irene Nemirovsky (11/2009)
  
• Dreams from My Father —Barack Obama (1/2010)
  
• The Soloist —Steven Lopez (2/2010)
  
• True Compass —Edward Kennedy (3/2010)
  
• The Help —Kathryn Stockett (4/2010)
  
• 1776 —David McCullough (5/2010)
  
• The Associate —John Grisham (6/2010)
  
• Three cups of tea —Greg Mortenson (7/2010)
  
• The Double Comfort Safari Club —Alexander McCall Smith (8/2010)
  
• Chasing Cezanne —Peter Mayle (9/2010)
  
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks —Rebecca Skloot (10/2010)
  
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo —Stieg Larsson (11/2010)
  
• All Other Nights —Dara Horn (12/2010)
  
• Cooking for Harry —Kay-Marie James (1/2011)
  
• Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken —Laura Schenone (2/2011)
  
• Olive Kitteridge —Elizabeth Strout (3/2011)
  
• The Privileges —Jonathan Dee (4/2011)
  
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society —Mary Ann Shaffer (5/2011)
  
• In Hovering Flight —Joyce Hinnefeld (6/2011)
  
• New York —Edward Rutherfurd (7/2011)
  
• Sarah's Key —Tatian de Rosnay (8/2011)
  
• Heaven is for Real —Todd Burpo (9/2011)
  
• The Fires of Spring —James Michener (10/2011)
  
• Cane River —Lalita Tademy (11/2011)
  
• The School of Essential Ingredients —Erica Bauermeister (with author via Skype) (12/2011)
  
• Readers’ choice book talks (1/2012)
  
  • Cutting for Stone —Abraham Verghese
    
  • One for the Money —Janet Evanovich
    
  • 11/22/63 —Stephen King
    
  • Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn —James Donovan
    
  • Thurber Writings and Drawings —James Thurber
    
  • Sister —Rosamund Lupton
    
  • Murderer’s Daughters —Randy Susan Meyers
    
  • How to Be Smart Parents: Now That Your Kids Are Adults —Sylvia Auerbach
    
  • Joy For Beginners —Erica Bauermeister
    
  • Love Goddess’ Cooking School —Melissa Senate
    
  • Aleph —Paulo Coelho
    
  • Queen of Your Own Life —Cindy Ratzlaff and Kathy Kinney
    
  • Gordon’s Way —Stephen Granger
    
• State of Wonder —Ann Patchett (2/2012)
  
• Unbroken —Laura Hillenbrand (3/2012)
  
• The Wednesday Sisters —Meg Waite Clayton (4/2012)
  
• Joy For Beginners —Erica Bauermeister (with author via Skype) (5/2012)
  
• Falling Leaves —Adeline Yen Mah (6/2012)
  
• When We were Strangers —Pamela Schoenewaldt (7/2012)
  
• Sight Hound —Pam Houston (with author via Skype) (8/2012)
  
• Tara Road —Maeve Binchy (9/2012)
  

Some suggested titles for future discussions. (PDF)
Please send any suggestions you may have to director@lansdalelibrary.org.

Men's Book Discussion Club Selections

• The Hike —by Drew Magary (3/11/2019)
• Orlando: A Biography —by Virginia Woolf (2/11/2019)
• Roseanna —by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo (1/14/2019)
• Catcher in the Rye —by J.D. Salinger (12/10/2018)
• Origin —by Dan Brown (11/12/2018)
• Killing England —by Bill O'Reilly (10/8/2018)
• The Sun Also Rises —by Ernest Hemingway (9/17/2018)
• Fahrenheit 451 —by Ray Bradbury (5/14/2018)
• The Crusades: A History —by Jonathan Riley-Smith (4/9/2018)
• The Pillars of the Earth —by Ken Follett (2/12/2018)
• The Lovely Bones —by Alice Sebold (11/13/2017)
• The Poet —by Michael Connelly (10/9/2017)
• Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's —by Frederick Lewis Allen (9/11/2017)
• Two Days Gone —by Randall Silvis (5/8/2017)
• Road to Valor —by Aili and Andres McConnon (4/10/2017)
• Galway Bay —by Mary Pat Kelly (3/13/2017)
• In the Heart of the Sea —by Nathaniel Philbrick (1/9/2017)
• The Romanov Prophecy —by Steve Berry (12/12/2016)
• Season of Life —by Jeffrey Marx (11/14/2016)
• The Girl on the Train —by Paula Hawkins (10/10/2016)
• The Dinner —by Herman Koch (9/2016)
• The Eternal Wonder —Pearl S. Buck (6/2016)
• The Man in the High Castle —Philip K. Dick (5/2016)
• Go Set a Watchman —Harper Lee (4/2016)
• The Boys in the Boat —Daniel James Brown (3/2016)
• Death of a Spy —Dan Mayland (2/2016)
• Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space —Lynn Sherr (1/2016)
• Rebecca —Daphne du Maurier (12/2015)
• Vicious —V.E. Schwab (11/2015)
• Endurance —Alfred Lansing (10/2015)
• Deliverance —James Dickey (9/2015)
• Killer Angels —Michael Shaara (6/2015)
• Killing Patton —Bill O'Reilly (5/2015)
• Orphan Train —Christina Baker Kline (4/2015)
• The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekateringburg —Helen Rappaport (3/2015)
• Spy for Hire —Dan Mayland (1/2015)
• Goldfinch —Donna Tartt (12/2014)
• A Prayer for Owen Meany —John Iriving) (10/2014)
• The Leveling —Dan Mayland (9/2014)
• Shadows of Men —Kevin Grauke (6/2014) (reprise with author visit)
  
• Great Expectations —Charles Dickens (5/2014)
  
• Shadows of Men —Kevin Grauke (4/2014)
  
• The Hereafter Gang —Neal Barrett Jr. (3/2014)
  
• Profiles in Courage —John F. Kennedy (2/2014)
  
• Cold in July —Joe R. Lansdale (1/2014) (phone call with author)
  
• To Kill a Mockingbird —Harper Lee (12/2013)
  
• Last of the Mohicans —James Fenimore Cooper (11/2013)
  
• The Colonel's Mistake —Dan Mayland (with the author) (10/2013)
  
• Killing Kennedy —Bill O'Reilly (9/2013)
  
• The Good Earth —Pearl S. Buck (at the Pearl S. Buck House) (5/2013)
  Reader's Choice - Most Influential (4/3013)
  
• Short Stories and Poems —Edgar Allan Poe (3/2013)
  Reader's Choice - Childhood favorite (2/2013)
  
• The Hobbit —J.R.R. Tolkien (1/2013)
  
• The Prince —Niccolo Machiavelli (12/2012)
  
• Agincort —Bernard Cornwell (11/2012)
  
• Lusitania —Diana Preston (10/2012)
  
• Riders of the Purple Sage —Zane Grey (9/2012)
  
• Lamb —Christopher Moore (6/2012)
  
• The Lost Majority —Sean Trende (5/2012)
  
• Unbroken —Laura Hillenbrand (4/2012)
  
• Stranger than Fiction —Chuck Palahniuk (3/2012)
  
• Cabin —Lou Urenek (2/2012)
  
• Pine Barrens —John McPhee (1/2012)
  
• Grapes of Wrath —John Steinbeck (12/2011)
  
• Fires of Spring —James Michener (11/2011)
  
• Catch 22 —Joseph Heller (10/2011)
  
• Too Big to Fail —Andrew Ross Sorkin (9/2011)
  
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society —Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (6/2011)
  
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy —Douglas Adams (5/2011)
  
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer —Mark Twain (4/2011)
  
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro and other stories —Ernest Hemingway (3/2011)
  
• Of Mice and Men —John Steinbeck (2/2011)
  
• Predictable Irrationality —Dan Ariely (1/2011)
  
• Tinkers —Paul Harding (12/2010)
  
• Tears in the Darkness —Michael Norman (11/2010)
  
• A Walk in the Wood —Bill Bryson (10/2010)
  
• Three cups of tea —Greg Mortenson (9/2010)
  
• True Compass —Edward Kennedy (5&6/2010)
  
• Worth the wait 2008 Phillies —Jayson Stark (4/2010)
  
• The Next 100 years —George Friedman (3/2010)
  
• Homer and Langley —E.L. Doctorow (2/2010)
  
• Into Thin Air —Jon Krakauer (1/2010)
  
• Ragtime —E.L. Doctorow (12/2009)
  
• The Right Stuff —Tom Wolfe (11/2009)
  
• Dubliners —James Joyce (10/2009)
  
• Riding Toward Everywhere —William Vollmann (9/2009)
  
• Outliers —Malcolm Gladwell (6/2009)
  
• Playing for Pizza —John Grisham (5/2009)
  
• How Football Explains America —Sal Paolantonio (4/2009)
  
• Dreams from my Father —Barack Obama (3/2009)
  

Suggestions for future discussion (PDF)