The Mascoutah Library Book Club has been meeting monthly at the library since January of 1994 (almost 30 years!) Unless holidays interfere, meetings are held on the second Monday of the month.  Participants must be at least 18 years of age to join the monthly book club meeting.

Books are chosen through rigorous and painstaking research as well as “intense” deliberation courtesy of our own Ms. Regan Leidholm (who totally didn’t write this.) 

The books selected cover a wide variety of authors, subjects and genres, including fiction and nonfiction; mysteries, biographies, historical, sci-fi, oh my! Books published within a year of the current date are not up for selection due to lack of system availability.  Feel free to reach out to make suggestions! The more the merrier.

 

 

 

2024 Book Club Reads

AprilBook of Night by Holly Black 

MarchIn The Woods by Tana French

FebruaryThe Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore

January – The Comfort Book by Matt Haig

2023 Book Club Reads

January – Dial A For Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

FebruaryWoman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

March – I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys

April – Reminders of Him by Coleen Hoover

May – Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

June – The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

July – Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

August – Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

September – Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

October – Weyward by Emilia Clarke

November – Upgrade by Blake Crouch

December –  Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

2022 Book Club Reads

JanuaryMrs. Lincoln’s Sisters by Jennifer Chiaverini

FebruaryThe House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

MarchHarlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

AprilBeautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

MayDream Girl by Laura Lipmann

JuneBooks Can Be Deceiving by Jenn McKinlay

JulyCloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

AugustFuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

SeptemberBeach Read by Emily Henry

OctoberAnne of Green Gables Graphic Novel + Anne of West Philly

NovemberOf Women and Salt by Gabriella Garcia

DecemberChristmas: A Biography by Judith Flaunders

2021 Book Club Reads

January to October – N/A (No Meetings)

November The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt by Andrea Bobotis

2020 Book Club Reads

January The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

February Where the Crawdad’s Sing by Delia Owens

March The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

April to December – N/A (No Meetings)

2019 Book Club Reads

January Carnegie’s Maid: A Novel by Heather Terrell

February Rin Tin Tin: Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean

March Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

April The Library Book by Susan Orlean

May Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson

June The Cherry Cola Book Club by Ashton Lee

July We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

August The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland

September Murder at the Mansion by Sheila Connolly

October The Witch’s Tree by M.C. Beaton

November One Day in December by Josie Silver

December – N/A (No Meeting)

2018 Book Club Reads

January The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

February The Lincoln League by Doug Peterson

March The Woman in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck

April Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan

May An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor

June The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

July Summer Hours at the Robber’s Library by Sue Halpern

August Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

September The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan

October Collecting the Dead by Spencer Kope

November The Christmas Town by Donna VanLiere

December Carnegie’s Maid: A Novel by Marie Benedict

2017 Book Club Reads

JanuaryIn Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter by Carol Burnett

FebruaryA Full Life: Reflections at Ninty by Jimmy Carter

MarchThe Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan

AprilThe Other Einstein by Marie Benedict

MayThe Secrets of Wishtide by Kate Saunders

JuneA Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline

JulyThe Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick

AugustN/A (No Meeting)

September The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson

October Keepsake Crimes by Laura Childs

November The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers

December – N/A (No Meeting)

2016 Book Club Reads

January God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power At the Vatican by Gerald Posner

February Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia Macneal

March Cookie Encounter: A Chance Encounter Inspirational Romance by Michelle Connell

May – The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella

JuneHow We Got To Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson

July The Ancient Minstrel by Jim Harrison

August Alexander Hamilton: American by Richard Brookhiser

September Reader’s of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katrina Bivald

October – Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

November – The Turkey Day Murder by Leslie Meier

December – The Christmas List by Richard Paul Evans

2015 Book Club Reads

January – Billy Boyle by James R. Benn

February Unsolved Mysteries of American History by Paul Aron

March The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough

April Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

June Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper

July A Circle of Wives by Alice Laplante

August When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning

September The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

October The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

November Emperor’s of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey’s and Mars by Joel Glenn Brenner

December Kissing Christmas Goodbye by M.C. Beaton

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