Book Club

- Adults

Book Club is held on the second Thursday of each month from 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, in the Community Room.

If you are interested in joining this group, read the book scheduled for that month prior to the meeting date. The upcoming books can be found in the list below or in the bulletin the week of the meeting date. New members are always welcome!

For questions, contact the parish office at 763-425-2210.

Current Year Books

MONTH	BOOK & AUTHOR
January 2025	Lessons in Chemistry By: Bonnie Garmus
February 2025	The Last Bookshop in London By: Madeline Martin
March 2025	Neither Wolf Nor Dog By: Kent Nerburn
April 2025	A Fall of Marigolds By: Susan Meissner
May 2025	The Glassmaker By Tracy Chevalier
June 2025	Olive Kitteridge By: Elizabeth Strout
July 2025	Born A Crime By: Trevor Noah
August 2025	Cane River By: Lalita Tademy
September 2025	The Frozen River By: Ariel Lawlon
October 2025	The Heart Mender By: Andy Andrews
November 2025	The Women By: Kristin Hannah
December 2025	Social Gathering (no book discussion)

Previous Books Read

MONTH	BOOK	AUTHOR	RATING
Sept. 2016	The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry	Joyce, Rachel	7.9
October 2016	America's First Daughter	Dray, Stephanie	7.5
November 2016	Everybody Needs to Forgive Somebody	Hunt, Allen	7.5
January 2017	The Nightengale	Hannah, Kristin	7.0
February 2017	The Light Between Oceans	Stedman, M.L.	7.5
March 2017	The Wright Brothers	McCullough	-
April 2017	At the Edge of the Orchard	Chevalier, Tracy	6.8
May 2017	The Underground Railroad	Whitehead, Colson	7.2
June 2017	The Reluctant Saint	Spoto, Donald	7.8
July 2017	The Warmth of Other Suns	Wilkerson, Isabel	9.5
August 2017	The Girl with a Pearl Earring	Chevalier, Tracy	7.8
September 2017	The Worst Hard Time	Egan, Timothy	7.6
October, 2017	Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant	Tyler, Anne	6.1
November 2017	Mornings on Horseback	McCullough, David	5.6
January 2018	Calico Joe	Grisham, John	8.0
February 2018	A Gentleman in Moscow	Towels, Amor	9.0
March 2018	When Breath Becomes Air	Kalanithi, Paul	7.0
April 2018	The Boston Girl	Diamant, Anita	7.3
May 2018	Gray Mountain	Grisham, John	7.25
June 2018	Brideshead Revisited	Waugh, Evelyn	7.0
July 2018	Code Girls	Mundy, Liza	8.2
August 2018	One Summer	Bryson, Bill	7.8
September 2018	The Kelloggs	Markel, Howard	7.0
October 2018	Before We Were Yours	Wingate, Lisa	9.1
November 2018	The Cellist of Sarajevo	Galloway, Steven	8.0
January 2019	Killer Angels	Shaara, Michael	8.0
February 2019	Coyote Waits	Hillerman, Tony	7.0
March 2019	In the Bohemian Flats	Ellis, Mary	7.4
April 2019	Cancelled - Snowstorm		-
May 2019	Britt-Marie was Here	Backman, Fredrik	7.2
June 2019	A Redbird Christmas	Flagg, Fannie	6.7
July 2019	Saint Training	Fixmer, Elizabeth	7.5
August 2019	Brother Cadfael's Penance	Peters, Ellis	7.7
September 2019	Early Candlelight	Lovelace, Maud Hart	7.4
October 2019	Virgil Wander	Enger, Leif	7.0
November 2019	Killers of the Flower Moon The Osage Murders and birth of the FBI	Grann, David	6.0
January 2020	Where the Crawdads Sing	Owens, Delia	8.0
February 2020	All Hell Broke Loose	Hull	7.0
March 2020	Ordinary Heroes	Turow	7.8
April 2020	Out of the Dust	Hesse	-
May 2020	Turn Here Sweet Corn	Diffley	-
June 2020	Dorie LaValle	Desjarlais	-
August 2020	Beloved World	Sotomayor	9.2
September 2020	Single Thread	Chevalier	6.0
October 2020	Locally Laid....Egg Farm	Amundson	7.2
November 2020	The Tender Land	Kruger, William Kent	8.0
January 2021	The Giver of Stars	Moyes	8.0
February 2021	Night Shade	Williams, Pauline	7.6
March 2021	The Last Book of Grail	Lovett	7.0
April 2021	Hope in the Struggle	Johnson	6.0
May 2021	The Walk	Evans	7.0
June 2021	The Family Upstairs	Jewell	6.5
July 2021	THe Florist's Daughter	Hampl	7.0
August 2021	Washington Black	Edagyam	7.0
September 2021	Still Life	Penney, Louise	7.0
October 2021	Just Mercy	Stevenson	8.0
November 2021	Forever Ours	Amatuzio	7.5
January 2022	Someone	McDermott, Alice	7.0
February 2022	Ordinary Grace	Kruger, William Kent	8.3
March 2022	The Mountains Sing	Nguyen, Phan Que Mai	8.9
April 2022	A Woman of No Importance	Purnell, Sonia	7.6
May 2022	Finding Hollis	Williams, Pauline Kneable	7.3
June 2022	The Nightwatchman	Erdrich, Louise	7.3
July 2022	Wise Blood	O'Connor, Flannery	4.0
August 2022	American Dirt	Cummings, Jeanine	8.6
September 2022	The Dutch House	Patchett, Ann	5.8
October 2022	Vesper Flights	McDonald, Helen	7.6
November 2022	The Four Winds	Hannah, Kristin	8.0
January 2023	The Lincoln Highway	Towles, Amor	7.4
February 2023	The Rent Collector	Wright, Cameron	8.8
March 2023	The Book of Lost Names	Harmel, Kristin	8.7
April 2023	The Orphan Collector	Wiseman, Ellen Marie	7.0
May 2023	The Tea Planter's wife	Jefferies, Dinah	7.7
June 2023	The Bonesetter's Daughter	Tan, Amy	7.4
July 2023	The Seed Keeper	Wilson, Diane	8.4
August 2023	Haunted Ground	Hart, Erin	8+
September 2023	Until They Bring the Streetcars Back	West, Stanley Gordon	7.4
October 2023	The Other Einstein	Benedict, Marie	8.2
November 2023	The Master Butchers Singing Club	Erdich, Louise	6.8
January 2024	The Latehomecomer	Yang, Kao Kalia	8.6
February 2024	Agent Sonya	Macintyre, Ben	7.7
March 2024	The Maid	Prose, Nita	7.1
April 2024	Carnegie's Maid	Benedict, Marie	8.0
May 2024	Peace Like a River	Enger, Leif	9.4
June 2024	The Paris Library	Skeslien Charles, Janet	8.0
July 2024	A Land More Kind Than Home	Wiley, Cash	6.1
August 2024	Dovetails in Tall Grass	Specks, Samantha	8.4
September 2024	The Memory Keeper of Kyiv	Litteken, Erin	8.3
October 2024	The Personal Librarian	Benedict, Marie	7.6
November 2024	With God in Russia	Ciszek, Walter J, SJ	8.5
January 2025	Lessons in Chemistry	Garmus, Bonnie	7.7
February 2025	The Last Bookshop in London	Martin, Madeline	8.2
March 2025	Neither Wolf Nor Dog	Nerburn, Kent	6.5
April 2025	A Fall of Marigolds	Meissner, Susan
May 2025	The Glassmaker	Chevalier, Tracy
June 2025	Olive Kitteridge	Strout, Elizabeth
July 2025	Born A Crime	Noah, Trevor
August 2025	Cane River	Tademy, Lalita
September 2025	The Frozen River	Lawlon, Ariel
October 2025	The Heart Mender	Andrews, Andy
November 2025	The Women	Hannah, Kristin