The Happy Valley Library Book Group has been meeting regularly since 2013. Check out this list to see all the books we have read and discussed. Join us for the next one!
2020
- January: New Year’s Party! We’ll talk about our favorite reads of 2019 and more.
- February: The Travelling Cat Chronicles/Arikawa
- March: How to Walk Away/Center
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