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.

Book group votes for best books of 2021

 We read fewer books in 2021, just six all up:

The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams
Rodham, Curtis Sittenfeld
The Dead, James Joyce    
Bruny, Heather Rose        
The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry     
The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard         
 

Here's how we rated them. Our top 3 for best book of 2021:

1. The Secret Scripture. 2. The Transit of Venus. 3. The Dead and Rodham (tied)

Off to a good start, reading for 2021

 We already have our first two books for 2021:

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams to be discussed this January and Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld for March, 2021