A neighborhood book group meets on the third Thursday of every month at 7 pm. Please email tv2reliefsociety@gmail.com if you have any
questions about the meeting location and books.
Meet to discuss 1776 by David McCullough
Schedule of who is choosing the monthly books is available as a google spreadsheet here.
2025
January - Discussion of books exchanged at Christmas book exchange party
February - The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright
March - The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery
April - Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
May - I Miss You when I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott
June - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
July - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
August - 1776 by David McCullough
2024
January - Discussion of books exchanged at Christmas book exchange party
February - Dewey: the Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
March - As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner
April - The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
May - The Big Finish by Brooke Fossey
June - The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan
July - The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
August - The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
September - Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
October - Drenched in Light by Lisa Wingate
November - The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
December - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
2023
January - Discussion of books exchanged at Christmas book exchange party
February - Victoria by Daisy Goodwin
March - The Shadow Behind the Stars by Rebecca Hahn
April - The River Between Us by Richard Peck
May - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
June - The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
July - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
August - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
September - The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
October - Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
November - The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
December - Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
2022
January - Discussion of books exchanged at Christmas book exchange party
February - The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
March - The Ballad of Frankie Silver by Sharyn McCrumb
April - Until I Say Good-Bye by Susan Spencer-Wendel
May - All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
June - The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick
July - Survival Lessons by Alice Hoffman
August - Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
September - Far From the Tree by Robin Benway
October - The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander
November - The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
December - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
2021
January (via Zoom) - Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
February (via Zoom) - Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza
March (via Zoom): Cranford by Elizabeth Caskell
April (via Zoom): Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
May - Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig
June - The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
July - The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor
August - Restoration: God's Call to the 21st Century World by Patrick Q. Mason
September - The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
October - If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
November - Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
December - Christmas book exchange
2020
January - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
February - Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
March - Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
April - Canceled due to COVID-19
May - Canceled due to COVID-19
June - Canceled due to COVID-19
July - Canceled due to COVID-19
August - Canceled due to COVID-19
September - Canceled due to COVID-19
October - Canceled due to COVID-19
November (via Zoom) - Discussed books we've read and loved (or not) during COVID
December (via Zoom) - Austenland by Shannon Hale
2019
February - The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis
March - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
April - Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
May - Persuasion by Jane Austen
June - Ghost by Jason Reynolds
July - Everyone picked a Jane Austen read-a-like book to share with the group
August - The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
September - Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
October - The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King
November - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
December - Refugee by Alan Gratz
2018
January - A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
February - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
March - Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
April - Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women by Marianne Monson
May - The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
June - The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox by Jennifer Lee Carrell
July - Father Brown: The Essential Tales by G. K. Chesterton
August - I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
September - The Lake House by Kate Morton
October - Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
November - Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
December - Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva
2017
January - Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
February - Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
March - Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
April - Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
May - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
June - The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
July - Good-Bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
August - The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
September - The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
October - Summerlost by Ally Condie
November - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
December - The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry
2016
January - Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
February - In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
March - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
April - Guests of the Sheik: an Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
May - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein
June - Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
July - The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
August - All the Truth That’s In Me by Julie Berry
September - Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
October - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
November - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
December - Survival Lessons by Alice Hoffman
2015
January - Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage
February - Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
March - Boundaries: How the Mason-Dixon Line … by Sally M. Walker
April - Singing School: Learning to Write & Read Poetry by Studying With the Masters by Robert Pinsky
May - The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
June - Confessions of a Molly Mormon by Elona Shelley
July - Bellfield Hall ( also called A Moment of Silence) by Anna Dean
August - Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
September - The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
October - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
November - My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer by Anousheh Ansari
December - The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap by Wendy Welch
2014
January - Secret Journal of Brett Colton by Kay Lynn Mangum
February - Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
March - The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
April - The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
May - Joan: The Mysterious Life of the Heretic Who Became a Saint by Donald Spoto
June - Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
July - Edenbrook by Julianne Donaldson
August - The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
September - The Cardtuner by Louis Sachar
October - For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund
November - The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
December - Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale
2013
January - The Host by Stephenie Meyer
February - Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
March - Willpower by Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney
April - Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
May - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
June - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
July - A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
August - Medicine River by Thomas King
September - Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
October - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
November - Pearl of China by Anchee Min
December - Maphead by Ken Jennings
2012
January - The River Between Us by Richard Peck
February - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
March - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
April - Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons
May - The Magic of Ordinary Days by Ann Howard Creel
June - The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
July - The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
August - Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
September - Austenland by Shannon Hale
October - Holes by Louis Sachar
November - The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
December - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
2011
January - More than Petticoats by Christy Karras
February - Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
March - Sarah by Orson Scott Card
April - The Alchemist by Alan R. Clarke
May - The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
June - A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson
July - The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
August - Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer
September - Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
October - The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel
November - I am Nujood by Nujood Ali & Delphine Minoui
December - The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
2010
January - 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
February - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
March - The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
April - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
May - The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale
June - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
July - Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
August - I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
September - My Antonia by Willa Cather
October - The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
November - Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
December -These is my Words by Nancy E. Turner
2009
January - Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
February - Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
March - The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
April - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
May - The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
June - Beauty by Robin McKinley
July - Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg
August - Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
September - The Chosen by Chaim Potok
October - Amazing Grace by Eric Metaxas
November - Mrs. Mike by Benedict Freedman
December - When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
2008
January - The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
February - Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth
March - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
April - Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
May - A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
June - The Giver by Lois Lowry
July - Mr. Darcy’s Daughters by Elizabeth Aston
August - I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
September - The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
October - Watership Down by Richard Adams
November - After the Dancing Days by Margaret I. Rostkowski
December - The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
2007
April - The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
May - The Trembling Hills by Phyllis Whitney
June - Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
July - Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama
August - Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
September - Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruiett Stewart
October - The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini
November - No Doubt About It by Sheri Dew
December -