The Happy Valley Library Book Group has been meeting regularly since 2013. Check out this list to see all the books and short stories we have read and discussed. Join us for the next one!
Short Stories
- 4/9/2020: “Anything You Might Want”by Anjali Sachdeva
- 4/16/2020: “The Apologizer” by Milan Kundera
- 4/23/2020: “All Will Be Well” by Yiyun Li
- 4/30/2020: “A Room in Baltimore” by Madeleine L’Engle
- 5/14/2020: “Tenth of December” by George Saunders
- 5/21/2020: “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” by John Chu
- 5/28/2020: “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner
- 6/11/2020: “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison
- 6/18/2020: “202 Checkmates” by Rion Amilcar Scott
- 6/25/2020: “The City Born Great” by N. K. Jemisin
- 7/9/2020: “Aguacero” by Patricia Engel
- 7/16/2020: “Omakase” by Weike Wang
- 7/23/2020: “The Barn at the End of Our Term” by Karen Russell
- 7/30/2020: “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane
- 8/20/2020: “The Line” by Amor Towles
- 8/27/2020: “The Foster Portfolio” by Kurt Vonnegut
- 9/10/2020: “The Night Garden” by Shruti Swamy
- 9/17/2020: “I Sing the Body Electric” by Ray Bradbury
- 9/24/2020: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
- 10/8/2020: “The Antique Ring” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 10/15/2020: “Safe Passage” by Ramona Ausubel
- 10/22/2020: “The Second Bakery Attack” by Haruki Murakami
- 10/29/2020: “The Upstairs People” by Laura van den Berg
2020
- January: New Year’s Party!
- February: The Travelling Cat Chronicles/Arikawa
- March: How to Walk Away/Center
- April: The Bird King/Wilson
- May: An American Marriage/Jones
- June: The Tenth Muse/Chung
- July: Their Eyes Were Watching God/Hurston
- August: My Name is Lucy Barton/Strout
- September: The Turner House/Flournoy
- October: The Water Dancer/Coates
- November: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter/McCullers
- December: Heart Berries/Mailhot
2019
- January: Lost Lake/Allen
- February: Astoria/Stark
- March: Nutshell/McEwan
- April: Station Eleven/Mandel
- May: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry/Backman
- June: A Visit from the Goon Squad/Egan
- July: No meeting (Happy 4th of July!)
- August: The Astronaut Wives Club/Koppel
- September: Asymmetry/Halliday
- October: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine/Honeyman
- November: News of the World/Jiles
- December: In the Midst of Winter/Allende
2018
- January: Wait for Signs/Johnson
- February: The House Girl/Conklin
- March: The Wangs vs. the World/Chang
- April: The Red Garden/Hoffman
- May: Behind the Beautiful Forevers/Boo
- June: Small Blessings/Woodruff
- July: Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone/Patrick
- August: Be Frank with Me/Johnson
- September: The Girl Who Fell from the Sky/Durrow
- October: The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion/Flagg
- November: Euphoria/King
- December: Goodbye, Vitamin/Khong
2017
- January: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry/Joyce
- February: The Round House/Erdrich
- March: Tale for the Time Being/Ozeki
- April: The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty/Vida
- May: The Lost City of Z/Grann
- June: The Dog Stars/Heller
- July: The Little Giant of Aberdeen County/Baker
- August: The Vacationers/Straub
- September: As Husbands Go/Isaacs
- October: Burial Rites/Kent
- November: Tallgrass/Dallas
- December: The Things We Keep/Hepworth
2016
- January: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore/Sloan
- February: My Antonia/Cather
- March: Boy, Snow, Bird/Oyeyemi
- April: Code Name: Verity/Wein
- May: Remarkable Creatures/Chevalier
- June: Pirate Hunters/Kurson
- July: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry/Zevin
- August: The Paris Wife/McLain
- September: Our Souls at Night/Haruf
- October: Lila/Robinson
- November: Where’d You Go Bernadette/Semple
- December: The Rosie Project/Simsion
2015
- January: No meeting
- February: Mudbound/Jordan
- March: Mink River/Doyle
- April: Barbarian Nurseries/Tobar
- May: A More Perfect Heaven/Sobel
- June: The Madonnas of Leningrad/Dean
- July: No meeting
- August: The Bartender’s Tale/Doig
- September: The Chaperone/Moriarty
- October: The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving/Evison
- November: Juliet/Fortier
- December: Holidays on Ice/Sedaris
2014
- January: No meeting
- February: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn/Smith
- March: Nothing Daunted/Wickenden
- April: The Elegance of the Hedgehog/Barbery
- May: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand/Simonson
- June: Cuckoo’s Calling/Galbraith
- July: No meeting
- August: A Partial History of Lost Causes/DuBois
- September: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk/Fountain
- October: We Need New Names/Bulawayo
- November: Sacre Bleu/Moore
- December: No meeting
2013
- January: No meeting
- February: A Moveable Feast/Hemingway
- March: The American Heiress/Goodwin
- April: My Abandonment/Rock
- May: The Imperfectionists/Rachman
- June: The Geography of Bliss/Weiner
- July: No meeting
- August: The Spellman Files/Lutz
- September: The Tiger’s Wife/Obreht
- October: The Postmistress/Blake
- November: The Lonely Polygamist/Udall
- December: The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey/Mosley