2024-2025 Book Club Selections

January 14, 2025 at 2:00pm – Tuesday Teabirds Book Club

“The Golden Gate” by Amy Chua
The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs.

January 15, 2025 at 6:00pm – Night Owls Book Club

“Real Americans” by Rachel Khong
An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family, and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?

February 11, 2025 at 2:00pm – Tuesday Teabirds Book Club

“Stories from Suffragette City” edited by M.J. Rose and Fiona Davis
“From a chorus of bestselling historical fiction writers, a breathtaking book inspired by the day tens of thousands of women marched for the right to vote on October, 23, 1915. Includes an introduction by Kristin Hannah and stories by Lisa Wingate, M. J. Rose, Steve Berry, Paula McLain, Katherine J. Chen, Christina Baker Kline, Jamie Ford, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Megan Chance, Alyson Richman, Chris Bohjalian, and Fiona Davis.”

February 19, 2025 at 6:00pm – Night Owls Book Club

“Sandwich” by Catherine Newman
While on her family’s yearly escape to Cape Cod, Rocky, sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, relives the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers, coming face-to-face with her family’s history and future and accepting she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.

March 11, 2025 at 2:00pm – Tuesday Teabirds Book Club

“The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club” by Helen Simonson
Constance Haverhill is without prospects. Her mother has just passed away, her brother is newly married, and now that the Great War is over, she has been asked to give up managing the estate she helped to run when the men all joined the army. It is suggested to her that she become a governess. But first, she will act as caretaker to Mrs. Fog, an old family friend who is convalescing at a seaside resort. Constance is soon swept up in the social whirl of the Meredith Hotel and its colorful inhabitants, most notably, Poppy Wirrall. Poppy wears trousers, operates a taxi and delivery service to employ local women, and manages a ladies’ motorcycle club.

March 19, 2025 at 6:00pm – Night Owls Book Club

“The Nature of Disappearing” by Kimi Cunningham Grant
Emlyn doesn’t let herself think about the past. How she and her best friend, Janessa, barely speak anymore. How Tyler, the love of her life, left her half dead on the side of the road three years ago. Her new life is simple and safe. She lives alone in her Airstream trailer and works as a fishing and hunting guide in scenic Idaho. But when Tyler shows up with the news that Janessa is missing, Emlyn is propelled back into the world she worked so hard to forget. Janessa has become a social media star, documenting her #vanlife adventures with her rugged boyfriend. She hasn’t posted lately, though, and when Emlyn realizes the most recent photo doesn’t match up with its caption, she reluctantly teams up with Tyler to find her old friend. But the deeper they press into the wilderness, the more she begins to suspect that a darker truth lies in the woods–and that Janessa isn’t the only one in danger.