Eclectic Book Club
As the name implies, the Eclectic Book Club reads a variety of books from mystery to science fiction to literature. Regular meetings are on the fourth Wednesday of each month at 6:30 with an optional dinner served.
Future meeting dates and the books to be read are:
2013 Meeting Schedule
Feb. 27 - The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
also available as an eBook
Jan. 30 - Bel Canto by Anne Patchett
also available as an eBook
2012 Meeting Schedule
Dec. 26 - No Meeting
Nov. 28 - People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks,
also available as an eBook
Oct. 24 - Swamlandia by Karen Russell,
also available as an eBook
Sept. 26 - Incantation by Alice Hoffman
Aug. 29 - Child 44 by Tom Robb Smith,
also available as an eBook
July 25 - State of Wonder by Anne Patchett
also available as an eBook
June 27 - Cemetery Girl by David Bell
also available as an eBook
May 30 - Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
also available as an eBook
April 25 - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
also available as an eBook
Mar. 28 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
also available as an eBook
Feb. 29 The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
also available as an eBook
Jan. 26 Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
also available as an eBook
2011 Meeting Schedule
Dec. 7 - The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
also available as an eBook
Nov 30 - No Meeting
Oct 26 - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantell
also availble as an eBook
Sept 28 - Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Aug 31 - Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
July 27 - Meg Gardiner event, The Dirty Secrets Club
June 29 - The Help by Kathryn Stockett
May 25 - Garden Spells by Sarah Addision Allen
April 27 - Charlotte and Emily by Jude Morgan
Mar 30 - Garnethill by Denise Mina
Feb 23 - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Jan 26 - The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen
2010 Meeting Schedule
Dec. 8 - The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar, note meeting date changed due to Christmas
Nov. - No Meeting due to Thanksgiving
Oct. 27 - The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by
Sept 29 - Still Life by Louse Penny (group meets for dinner at Casey's 5:30 followed by Louise Penny event at MLB at 7 pm.
Aug 25 - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
July 28 - One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
June 30 - Dinner with author Karin Slaughter
May 26 - Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
Apr. 28 - Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Mar 31 - Sarah's Key by Tatiana DeRosnay
Feb. 24 - What Is the What by Dave Eggers
Jan. 27 - The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2009 Meeting Schedule
Dec. 2 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (note meeting date change)
Nov. - no meeting
Oct. 28 - Winter in June by Kathryn Miller Haines
Sept. 30 - The Monsters of Templeton
Aug. 26 - I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
July 29 - In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
June 24 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
May. 27 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Apr. 29 - Away by Amy Bloom
Mar. 25 -The Widow's War by Sally Gunning
Feb 25 -The Good German by Joseph Kanon
Jan 28 - meeting cancelled due to weather
2008 Meeting Schedule
Dec. - no meeting
Nov. 19 - The Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
Oct. 29 - The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Sept. 24 - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
August 27 - Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
July 30 - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
June 25 - Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca
May 28 - Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
Apr. 30 - The Water Clock by Jim Kelly
Mar. 26 - Brothers by Da Chen
Feb. 27 - Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Jan. 30 - Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
2007 Meeting Schedule
Dec. - No Meeting
Nov. 28 - River of Darkness by Rennie Airth
Oct. 31 - When the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum
Sept. 26 - Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Aug. 29 - She Got Up Off the Couch by Haven Kimmel
July 25 - Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris
June 27 - One False Move with author Alex Kava more>
May 30 - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Apr. 25 - Shame by Alan Russell
Mar. 28 - River of Doubt by Candice Millard
Feb. 28 - The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Jan. 31 - The Bright Forever by Lee Martin
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