Best Book Votes for 2025

 Book Group 2025

The books chosen by our book group member during 2025 were:

Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout  
The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese 
Mermaid Singing, Charmian Clift 
Romulus My Father, Raimond Gaita 
Plainsong, Kent Haruf 
Long Island, Colm Toibin 
Wild Dark Shore, Charlotte McConaghy 
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion 


Votes for best book of 2025: 1. Mermaid Singing and Long Island (tied)  2. Plainsong 3. Romulus My Father

First book choices for 2025

 For the first six months of 2025 members of our group have read and good mix of books:

Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout 
The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese 
Mermaid Singing, Charmian Clift
Romulus My Father, Raimond Gaita 
Plainsong, Kent Haruf

Best Books for 2024

 Book Group 2024

The books chosen by our book group member during 2024 were:

Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
Sam Neill, Did I Ever Tell You This
Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
Richard Flanagan, Question 7
Rebecca F Kuang, Yellowface
Lee Cole, Groundskeeping  
Kristin Hannah, The Women  

Votes for best book of 2024: 1. Crossing to Safety, 2. Tom Lake and Groundskeeping, 3. Question 7  

Best books for 2023

Group of 97 book club

 Here's the list of books we read in 2023:

The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See
Still Life, Sarah Winman   
Room With a View E.M. Forster
Where You Come From, Sasa Stanisic
The Glass Pearls, Emeric Pressburger
Horse, Geraldine Brooks
Wifedom, Anna Funder
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan

Votes for best book of 2023:
1. Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan , 2. Still Life, Sarah Winman , 3.  Wifedom, Anna Funder

Books read so far in 2023

 We have already read five books during the first half of 2023:

The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See
Still Life, Sarah Winman  
Room With a View E.M. Forster
Where You Come From, Sasa Stanisic
The Glass Pearls , Emeric Pressburger 

Horse, Geraldine Brooks

Voting for best books of 2022

Our book group members read eight books in 2022. 

Here's the list and the votes for the top three books:

Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
The Salt Path, Raynor Winn
Devotion, Hannah Kent
Labyrinth, Amanda Lohrey
Disappearing Earth, Julia Phillips
A Room Made of Leaves, Kate Grenville
Slowworm’s Song, Andrew Miller
Scary Monsters, Michelle de Kretser

Votes for best book of 2022: 1 Slowworm’s Song, Andrew Miller 2. Disappearing Earth, Julia Phillips 3. Labyrinth, Amanda Lohrey

First books for 2022

 Our first book for 2022 is a classic: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Next we'll be doing The Salt Path by Raynor Winn.