Book Club
Book Club is a book discussion club for members who like to read. Members of the group take turns bringing 3 suggestions for a book and those present vote on which book will be our next read. We meet every 4-6 weeks and often in the home of the member who suggested the book. They also get our discussion of the book going; the first question is always, "Did you like the book?"
While everyone has favorite authors, it is fun to 'move out of familiar literary waters' and read books by unknown authors (from different countries) and of different genres. A real plus with an international group! Sometimes books and authors are gems waiting to be discovered!
While we discuss the book just read, of course, we also talk about a lot of other things going on in our lives. A vote on our next book closes out the evening.
Tíc's Book Club reviews
1. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
2. Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
3. My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
4. Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey
5. The Weight of Water – Anita Shreve
6. Water for Elephants – Sarah Gruen
7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
8. Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
9. Burr – Gore Vidal
10. The Worst Journey in the World – Apsley Cherry Garrard
11. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
12. Anansi Boys – Nail Gaiman
13. The Constant Gardner – John Le Carré
14. The Son of the Circus – John Irving
15. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
16. Welcome to the Great Mysterious – Lorna Landvik
17. The Boys in the Boat – Daniel James Brown
18. The Road – Cormac Mc Carthy
19. The Signature of All Things – Elizabeth Gilbert
20. The Husband’s Secret – Laine Moriarty
21. The Forgotten Garden – Kate Morton
22. Juliet – Anne Fortier
23. The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach
24. Before I Go To Sleep – S.J. Watson
25. The Dinner – Herman Koch
26. The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith
27. Cyber Storm – Matthew Mather
28. All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
29. And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
30. The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
31. The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared– Jonas Jonasson
32. Vanishing Acts – Jodi Picoult
33. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
34. Restless – William Boyd
35. The Last Kingdom – Bernard Cornwell
36. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats – Jan-Phillip Sendker
37. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
38. We are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler
39. Reading in the Dark – Seamus Deane
40. The Coffee Trader – David Liss
41. High Tide – Inga Abele
42. Angels – Denis Johnson
43. Little Bee - Chris Cleave
44. A Kind of Intimacy - Jenn Ashworth
45. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne
46. The God of Small Things - Suzanna Arundhati Roy
47. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
48. The Cliff Walk - Don J. Snyder
49. The Leftovers - Tom Perrotta
50. The Night Listener - Armistead Maupin
51. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
52. Mr Pip – Lloyd Jones
53. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
54. Fear and Trembling - Amelie Nothomb
55. The Japanese Lover - Isabel Allende
56. Playing for Pizza – John Grisham
57. The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi – Arthur Japin
58. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
59. Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri (short stories)
60. The Heart Goes Last – Margaret Atwood
2017-2018
61. All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
62. A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Bachman
63. The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
64. Tony & Susan/Nocturnal Animals – Austin Wright
65. I am Malala – Malala Yousafzai
66. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Annie Barrows & Mary Ann Shaffer
67. Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
2018-2019
68. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
69. Alamut – Vladimir Bartol
70. We All Begin As Strangers – Harriet Cummings
71. Gabriela, Cloves and Cinnamon – Jorge Armado
72. Maybe Tomorrow – Boori Monty Pryor & Meme McDonald
73. Educated – Tara Westover
74. Where’d You Go Bernadette – Maria Semple
75. West With The Night – Beryl Markham
2019-2020
76. Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
77. Becoming – Michelle Obama
78. 100 Secret Senses – Amy Tan
79. The Lost Girls of Paris – Pam Jenoff
80. Weather – Jenny Offil
81. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
82. Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
2020-2021
83. Not Before Sundown - Johanna Sinisalo
84. Flight Behavior – Barbara Kingsolver
85. A Long Petal of the Sea - Isabel Allende
86. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
87. Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo
88. Too Loud a Solitude – Bohumil Hrabal
89. The Great Influenza – John M. Barry
90. Parable of The Sower – Octavia E. Butler
91. Travels With My Aunt – Graham Greene
2021-2022
92. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
93. The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri
94. Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
95. Hiddensee - Gregory Maquire
96. The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See
97. Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
98. Fiela’s Child - Dalene Matthee
2022-2023
99. The Liar’s Dictionary - Eley Williams
100. 10,000 Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow
101. The silent companions - Laura Purcell
102. Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
103. The readers room – Antoine Laurain
104. How to stop time - Matt Haig
105. Small Great Things – Jodi Picoult
106. Blackberry Winter – Sarah Jio
107. Nine Parts of Desire – Geraldine Brooks
2023-2024
108. Berlin- Bea Setton
109. Goodbye Sarajevo- Atka Reid
110. The Discomfort of the Evening- Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
111. The Midnight Library- Matt Haig
112. Roseanna- Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö commonly known as Sjöwall-Wahlöö
113. The Wind Knows my Name- Isabel Allende
114. Circe- Madeline Miller
115. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women- Lisa See
2024-2025
116. Orlando: A Biography- Virginia Woolf
117. A Moveable Feast- Ernest Hemingway
118. Euphoria- Lily King
119. Time Shelter- Georgi Gospodinov
120. Born a Crime- Trevor Noah
121. Miss Emily- Nuala O'Conner
122. In the month of the midnight sun- Cecilia Ekbäck
123. Butter- Asako Yuzuki
2025-2026
123. Heart so white- Javier Marias
2. Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
3. My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
4. Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey
5. The Weight of Water – Anita Shreve
6. Water for Elephants – Sarah Gruen
7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
8. Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
9. Burr – Gore Vidal
10. The Worst Journey in the World – Apsley Cherry Garrard
11. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
12. Anansi Boys – Nail Gaiman
13. The Constant Gardner – John Le Carré
14. The Son of the Circus – John Irving
15. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
16. Welcome to the Great Mysterious – Lorna Landvik
17. The Boys in the Boat – Daniel James Brown
18. The Road – Cormac Mc Carthy
19. The Signature of All Things – Elizabeth Gilbert
20. The Husband’s Secret – Laine Moriarty
21. The Forgotten Garden – Kate Morton
22. Juliet – Anne Fortier
23. The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach
24. Before I Go To Sleep – S.J. Watson
25. The Dinner – Herman Koch
26. The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith
27. Cyber Storm – Matthew Mather
28. All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
29. And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
30. The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
31. The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared– Jonas Jonasson
32. Vanishing Acts – Jodi Picoult
33. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
34. Restless – William Boyd
35. The Last Kingdom – Bernard Cornwell
36. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats – Jan-Phillip Sendker
37. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
38. We are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler
39. Reading in the Dark – Seamus Deane
40. The Coffee Trader – David Liss
41. High Tide – Inga Abele
42. Angels – Denis Johnson
43. Little Bee - Chris Cleave
44. A Kind of Intimacy - Jenn Ashworth
45. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne
46. The God of Small Things - Suzanna Arundhati Roy
47. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
48. The Cliff Walk - Don J. Snyder
49. The Leftovers - Tom Perrotta
50. The Night Listener - Armistead Maupin
51. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
52. Mr Pip – Lloyd Jones
53. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
54. Fear and Trembling - Amelie Nothomb
55. The Japanese Lover - Isabel Allende
56. Playing for Pizza – John Grisham
57. The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi – Arthur Japin
58. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
59. Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri (short stories)
60. The Heart Goes Last – Margaret Atwood
2017-2018
61. All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
62. A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Bachman
63. The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
64. Tony & Susan/Nocturnal Animals – Austin Wright
65. I am Malala – Malala Yousafzai
66. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Annie Barrows & Mary Ann Shaffer
67. Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
2018-2019
68. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
69. Alamut – Vladimir Bartol
70. We All Begin As Strangers – Harriet Cummings
71. Gabriela, Cloves and Cinnamon – Jorge Armado
72. Maybe Tomorrow – Boori Monty Pryor & Meme McDonald
73. Educated – Tara Westover
74. Where’d You Go Bernadette – Maria Semple
75. West With The Night – Beryl Markham
2019-2020
76. Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
77. Becoming – Michelle Obama
78. 100 Secret Senses – Amy Tan
79. The Lost Girls of Paris – Pam Jenoff
80. Weather – Jenny Offil
81. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
82. Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
2020-2021
83. Not Before Sundown - Johanna Sinisalo
84. Flight Behavior – Barbara Kingsolver
85. A Long Petal of the Sea - Isabel Allende
86. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
87. Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo
88. Too Loud a Solitude – Bohumil Hrabal
89. The Great Influenza – John M. Barry
90. Parable of The Sower – Octavia E. Butler
91. Travels With My Aunt – Graham Greene
2021-2022
92. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
93. The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri
94. Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
95. Hiddensee - Gregory Maquire
96. The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See
97. Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
98. Fiela’s Child - Dalene Matthee
2022-2023
99. The Liar’s Dictionary - Eley Williams
100. 10,000 Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow
101. The silent companions - Laura Purcell
102. Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
103. The readers room – Antoine Laurain
104. How to stop time - Matt Haig
105. Small Great Things – Jodi Picoult
106. Blackberry Winter – Sarah Jio
107. Nine Parts of Desire – Geraldine Brooks
2023-2024
108. Berlin- Bea Setton
109. Goodbye Sarajevo- Atka Reid
110. The Discomfort of the Evening- Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
111. The Midnight Library- Matt Haig
112. Roseanna- Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö commonly known as Sjöwall-Wahlöö
113. The Wind Knows my Name- Isabel Allende
114. Circe- Madeline Miller
115. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women- Lisa See
2024-2025
116. Orlando: A Biography- Virginia Woolf
117. A Moveable Feast- Ernest Hemingway
118. Euphoria- Lily King
119. Time Shelter- Georgi Gospodinov
120. Born a Crime- Trevor Noah
121. Miss Emily- Nuala O'Conner
122. In the month of the midnight sun- Cecilia Ekbäck
123. Butter- Asako Yuzuki
2025-2026
123. Heart so white- Javier Marias
In the Month of the Midnight Sun
August 29, 2025
Reviewed by: Essi Koskela
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Miss Emily
April 25, 2025
Reviewed by: Anne van Oorschot
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Timeshelter
February 22, 2025
Reviewed by: Vanya Dobrikova
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A Moveable Feast
November 19, 2024
Reviewed by: Hao Xie
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Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
September 19, 2024
Reviewed by: Liliana Gonzalez-Wiltenburg
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The Wind Knows My Name
May 25, 2024
Reviewed by: Katie Schweitzer
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The Midnight Library
February 8, 2024
Reviewed by: Kerry Forrester
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The Discomfort of Evening
January 10, 2024
Reviewed by: Tim Dircken
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Goodbye Sarajevo
November 18, 2023
Reviewed by Sanita van Wijk
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Nine Parts of Desire
October 2, 2023
Reviewed by Katie Schweitzer
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How to Stop Time
October 1, 2023
Reviewed by Natalie Harms
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Small Great Things
October 1, 2023
Reviewed by Wendy Powell
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The Reader’s Room
September 29, 2023
Reviewed by Anne Durand
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Lessons in Chemistry
September 28, 2023
Reviewed by Anne van Oorschot
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The Silent Companions
September 27, 2023
Reviewed by Liliana Gonzalez
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TIC Book Discussion’100th Book!!
September 26, 2023
Reviewed by Katie Schweitzer & Anne van Oorschot
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The Liar’s Dictionary
September 25, 2023
Reviewed by Donna Brown
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Island of Sea Women
September 24, 2023
Reviewed by Katie Schweitzer
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
September 23, 2023
Reviewed by Anne van Oorschot
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Like Water for Chocolate
September 22, 2023
Reviewed by Liliana Gonzalez
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A Gentleman in Moscow
September 22, 2023
Reviewed by Donna Dekker
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