2024-2025 Book Club Selections

April 8, 2025 at 2:00pm – Tuesday Teabirds Book Club

“Absolution” by Alice McDermott
Summary: A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.

April 16, 2025 at 6:00pm – Night Owls Book Club

“The Collected Regrets of Clover” by Mikki Brammer
Summary: Mikki Brammer’s The Collected Regrets of Clover is a big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own, for readers of The Midnight Library.

May 13, 2025 at 2:00pm – Tuesday Teabirds Book Club

“All Fours” by Miranda July
A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey.

May 21, 2025 at 6:00pm – Night Owls Book Club

“The House in the Cerulean Sea” by TJ Klune
Summary: Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages.

June 10, 2025 at 2:00pm – Tuesday Teabirds Book Club

“Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers” by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady–ah, lady of a certain age–who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her college-aged son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing–a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched hand, a flash drive.

June 18, 2025 at 6:00pm – Night Owls Book Club

“Intermezzo” by Sally Rooney
Summary: “An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties–successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother.