We always welcome newcomers to book club, which meets on the second Wednesday of each month (except in June, when it coincides with the Strawberry Social!). Please join us for fun, friends, food, and lively discussions!
If you are interested in getting involved with book club and/or if you'd like to get email reminders each month about upcoming meetings you can email our fabulous Book Club Coordinator Liz Scully at liz@erscully.com.
Click here for our master list for 2017
If you are interested in getting involved with book club and/or if you'd like to get email reminders each month about upcoming meetings you can email our fabulous Book Club Coordinator Liz Scully at liz@erscully.com.
Click here for our master list for 2017
Our upcoming meetings:
October 11th, 2017
Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie
Host - Margie Rowland
Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie
Host - Margie Rowland
November 8th, 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by JD Vance
Host - Angela Uherbelau
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by JD Vance
Host - Angela Uherbelau
December 13th, 2017
Holiday Social and Book Selection Party
Host - Liz Scully
Holiday Social and Book Selection Party
Host - Liz Scully
Reading list for 2016
These books were highly recommended by club members but were not selected by the group for Book Club reads. They are listed in no particular order.
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Smithie)
Someone by Alice McDermott
Driftless by David Rhodes
Mink River by Brian Doyle
Martin Marten by Brian Doyle
Every Anxious Wave: A Novel by Mo Daviau (Smithie and member of Oregon Smith Club)
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Birth Matters by Ina May Gaskin
Ornamental Silence: Essays on Women’s Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer by Kennedy Frazer
Old Filth by Jane Garden
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothchild
Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
As Always, Julia by Joan Reardon
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
Children of Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land by Sandy Tolan
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire by Tom Holland
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
Lila by MarIlynne Robinson
Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Road to Character by David Brooks
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Shepard’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Trumbo by Bruce Cook
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Smithie)
Someone by Alice McDermott
Driftless by David Rhodes
Mink River by Brian Doyle
Martin Marten by Brian Doyle
Every Anxious Wave: A Novel by Mo Daviau (Smithie and member of Oregon Smith Club)
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Birth Matters by Ina May Gaskin
Ornamental Silence: Essays on Women’s Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer by Kennedy Frazer
Old Filth by Jane Garden
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothchild
Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
As Always, Julia by Joan Reardon
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
Children of Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land by Sandy Tolan
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire by Tom Holland
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
Lila by MarIlynne Robinson
Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Road to Character by David Brooks
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Shepard’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Trumbo by Bruce Cook
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
