First Monday Morning of the Month
Book Club Gathering

February 6, 2012

Fiction Suggestions:

Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks - This year’s Reading Across RI Book - good to read along with the nonfiction title, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon; another suggestion to enjoy with these two books is the documentary film, We Still Live Here

The Inspector and Mrs. Jefferies by Emily Brightwell - First of 26 highly recommended mystery novels by this author

The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen

The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson

Wolf Hall, and, Fludd by Hilary Mantel

The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny - The newest novel in Penny’s popular mystery series; the first in the series is called Still Life

The Morning Show Murders by Al Roker

Nonfiction Suggestions:

306.874 ROS Making Toast: a Family Story, and, 155.937 ROS Kayak Morning: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats by Roger Rosenblatt (In reading order, Making Toast to be followed by Kayak Morning).

940.5322 OLS Citizens of London by Lynne Olson

974.02 CRO Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon

974.71/DOU Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Ann Douglas

B AXELROD In the Long Run: a Father, Son and Unintentional Lessons in Happiness by Jim Axelrod

B DOUGLASS My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

B ELIZABETH Elizabeth the Queen: the Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith

B WEIR The Orchard: a Memoir by Theresa Weir

B WHITAKER My Long Trip Home: a Family Memoir by Mark Whitaker