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Books with Friends Book Group

(Ages 18+, new members welcome)

*Please scroll to the bottom for a list of previous book club picks

 

Date: March 26, 2024

Time: 6 PM

Location: Schafer Room (2nd Floor)

 

March pick

 

Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Previous Picks

2015

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows

Above by Isla Morely

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam

House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz

2016

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus

Postmistress by Sarah Blake

Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian

Cherokee Rose by Tiya Miles

Host by Robin Cook

Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Pheaedra Patrick

2017

Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Treachery at Lancaster Gate by Anne Perry

Hundred Lies of Lizzy Lovett by Chelsea Sedotti

Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel

Secret Cord by Geraldine Brooks

Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston

2018

Into the Magic Shop by James R. Doty

The Spy by Paulo Coelho

House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers

Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman

Ashes in the Wind by Kathleen Woodiwiss

Behind Closed Doors by B. H. Paris

Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

2019

Hell Fire Club by Jake Tapper

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

Island of the Sea Women by Lisa See

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

The Library Book by Susan Orlean 

2020

Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict

Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg

Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett

2021

Dark of the Moon by John Sandford

An Appeal to the World by Dalai Lama

Darwin Affair by Tim Mason

Life Intercepted by Charles Martin

One Night Two Souls Went Walking by Ellen Cooney

Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson

2022

Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

2023

Any book from the Choose to Read Ohio Book List for 2023 & 2024

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama

The First Husband by Laura Dave

Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon

Choice of one or all: Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman, Anthem by Deborah Wiles, Kent State by Deborah Wiles, and/or Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf

The Devil May Dance by Jake Tapper

2024

The Spectacular by Fiona Davis

Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon

The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn