
The Monthly Book Club
All are welcome to attend the St. Thomas Public Library Book Club. We are a friendly group of people with an interest in reading and discussing good books and we'd like you to join us! We acquire additional copies of Book Club books. Please ask at the Service Desk; if copies aren't on hand, you can place a hold to be notified when they become available.
If you have your own book club, we can help too.
We typically meet at 10:00 a.m. on the first Tuesday of the month. All members read the selected title each month, then discuss the book. The host for that day gives a summary of the author's life and/or career to begin the discussion.
No need to sign up - just show up! All are welcome. Coffee and water are provided.
2012-2013 Book Club Schedule
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
2009 (290 pages)
Hosted by: Sharon Little
At her home, 18 Rosebery Place - Because of the location, please call the library at 519-631-6050 if you would like to attend this particular book club meeting.
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
1925 (216 pages)
Hosted by: Susan Andrews
Carnegie Room, lower level
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
2011 (325 pages)
Hosted by: Judie Land
Carnegie Room, lower level
The House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay
2012 (222 pages)
Hosted by: Donna Hanson
Carnegie Room, lower level
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
2011 (320 pages)
Hosted by: Trish Lee
Carnegie Room, lower level
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1934 (320 pages)
Hosted by: Mary Ann Neely
Carnegie Room, lower level
The Ape House by Sara Gruen
2010 (306 pages)
Hosted by: Carole Watson
Carnegie Room, lower level
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
2009 (349 pages)
Hosted by: Eileen Cook
Carnegie Room, lower level
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
2011 (320 pages)
Hosted by: Barb Hoskins
Carnegie Room, lower level
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
2005 (263 pages)
Hosted by: Dana Vanzanten
Carnegie Room, lower level
Previous Adult Book Club Reading Lists
2011-2012 Book Club List
September 2011
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
2006 (215 pages)
Room by Emma Donoghue
2010 (321 pages)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
2010 (396 pages)
The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
1937 (317 pages)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
2005 (258 pages)
Hetty Dorval by Ethel Wilson
1947 (132 pages)
Cool Water by Dianne Warren
2010 (328 pages)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
2008 (325 pages)
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
2010 (346 pages)
Small Island by Andrea Levy
2004 (441 pages)
2010-2011 Adult Book Club List
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
2007 (256 pages)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
2006 (335 pages)
Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
2001 (273 pages)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
1908 (245 pages)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2008 (270 pages)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1920 (394 Pages)
The Wife's Tale by Lori Lansens
2009 (374 pages)
The Light of Evening by Edna O'Brien
2006 (294 pages)
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2009 (451 pages)
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
2004 (664 pages)
2009-2010 Adult Book Club List
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
2006 (334 pages)
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
2008 (261 pages)
November 2009
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
2007 (486 pages)
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
1994 (211 pages)
Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout
2006 (294 pages)
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
2006 (396 pages)
by Mary Ann Shaffer
2008 (278 pages)
The Assassin's Song by M.G. Vassanji
2007 (313 pages)
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
2005 (333 pages)
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
2009 (293 pages)
2008-2009 Adult Book Club List
Atonement by Ian McEwan
2001 (371 pages)
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
2004 (423 pages)
Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama
2004 (457 pages)
December 2008
Smoke by Elizabeth Ruth
2005 (278 pages)
by Michael Ondaatje
2007 (273 pages)
The Turn of the Scew by Henry James
1898 (117 pages)
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
2005 (417 pages)
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2006 (324 pages)
Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hey
2007 (363 pages)
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
2006 (330 pages)











