Updates - 2025

January

In January, the Novel Readers will be chatting about The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston. Goodreads describes the novel as "witty and wise," summing up the plot as "An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past."

November

In November the book selection is The Briar Club by Kate Quinn. The novel is set in Washington D.C., during the McCarthy era. Goodreads presents the book as "A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets" and summarizes "Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences."  

October

Our October selection will be Sisters of Belfast by Melanie Maure. This novel tells the story of identical twins separated during World War II, when a bomb hits their family home.

September

The Novel Readers will meet on September 4, to discuss Jojo Moyes' novel, Someone Else's Shoes. Goodreads describes the novel as a "story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances."

June

In June, our book selection is the psychological thriller, The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides. Winner of the Goodreads Best Mystery of 2019, this debut novel tells the story of Alicia Berenson, a famous painter who murders her photographer husband, Gabriel, when he returns late from a fashion shoot. She refuses to speak afterwards, generating even more interest in what would be a notorious case. Kept in a secure forensic unit, she is visited by Theo Faber, a criminal psychotherapist, who is determined to discover Alicia's motive for shooting her husband five times in the face. 

May

At our May meeting we will be discussing the book The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi , the first book in the Jaipur Trilogy. 

The Henna Artist introduces the reader to the details of the lives of women in India and the societal restrictions that they faced.   The book is set in 1950s and introduces us to Lakshmi who creates the elaborate henna drawings on the hands and feet of wealthy Indian women for ceremonial occasions.

Wonderfully told, with the beautiful culture, sights, and smells of India, this story is easy to read and its allure is in telling a story that says that no matter which way life turns, it can bring you to a place where you will find the happiness you have been seeking all along.

April

The Novel Readers will be meeting in April to discuss the book “The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra”

On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries. The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant.

March

In March we will be reading Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls an American author and journalist widely known as a former gossip columnist for MSNBC and author of The Glass Castle.  This is her most recent book and is described as a Wild ride through prohibition-era Virginia with a scrappy heroine at the wheel.  It was a nominee for Best Historical Fiction in 2023. 

February

The Novel Readers Book Club will be meeting in February to discuss the book “This Tender Land”.  It is a coming-of-age novel that has spirituality as one of its main themes.  As historical fiction, the novel follows four central characters on a physical and spiritual journey through the Depression era in the Midwestern United States. 

To start the New Year, on Wednesday, January 10^th. The novel Readers will be discussing the novel Tom Lake by Ann Patchett.

It is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.

Updates - 2023

November

This month the Novel Readers will be meeting on the 1^st of November to discuss Kate Morton’s book Homecoming.  The story takes place in Australia and centers around a perplexing murder case.  The book had been scheduled for our October discussion but was rescheduled for the following month.  It is a good read for anyone who likes Historical Fiction and a good mystery. 

The October meeting of the Novel Readers will be held on Wednesday, October 4, 2023. This months selection is Homecoming by Kate Morton.

September

Following the summer hiatus, Novel Readers is back to meeting on the first Wednesday of the month.

September’s selection is Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.  The book is on the New York Times bestseller list and is being made into an Apple TV Series.

June

In June, the Novel Readers will be reading Crow Lake by Mary Lawson. The story centers on four siblings and is set in Northern Ontario. Crow Lake was Lawson's first novel and was published in 2002.

During our June 7^th meeting, we will also be drafting our reading schedule for the coming year.

May

The Novel Readers will meet on May 3, 2023 to discuss The Maid by Canadian author, Nita Prose. Prose has written a somewhat different take on the murder mystery. Looking ahead to June, we will be reading Becoming by Michelle Obama. During our June 7^th meeting, we will also be drafting our reading schedule for the coming year.

April