Lakeview Bookworms
Books Discussed in the past:
Hello friends from the shore of Anishinaabewi-gichigami, the great inland sea!
Old Babes in the Wood - Margaret Atwood
Breath Less - Amy McCulloch
The Rose Code - Kate Quinn
Ordinary Grace - William Kent Krueger
We Begin At the End - Chris Whitaker
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Horse - Geraldine Brooks
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (classic)
Mama George's African Adventures - Eleanor Armstrong (guest author/Canadian)
Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
And the Birds Rained Down - Jocelyne Saucier
This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger
Jameela Green Ruins Everything - Zarqa Nawaz
The Scent Keeper - Erica Bauermeister
The Splendid and the Vile - A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz - Erik Larson
Extraordinary People - Peter May
My Life in Middlemarch - Rebecca Mead
The Pack - Connie Larson (guest author/Canadian author each October)
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (classic each September)
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Expuery (classic)
One Italian Summer - Rebecca Serle
The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
The Giver of Stars - Jojo Moyes
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate
American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins
The Sister's Tale - Beth Powning
The Four Winds - Kristin Hannah
The Book of Longings - Sue Monk Kidd
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
Calm the Earth and Escaping the Council - Norman Bates
Doug Richardson - (guest author)
A Journey Home - Gregg Cumberland (guest author)
2020 March-June cancelled due to COVID-19
The Secret Wife - Gill Paul
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
The Other Side of the Bridge - Mary Lawson (Canadian author each October)
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - (classic each September)
Educated - Tara Westover
Becoming - Michelle Obama
Under the Visible Life - Kim Echlin
The Crook Factory - Dan Simmons
Forgiveness - Mark Sakamoto
The Alice Network - Kate Quinn
Winter Garden - Kristin Hannah
The Life We Bury - Allen Eskens
Rockbound - Frank Day (Canadian author each October)
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway - (classic each September)
Finding Gobi - Dion Leonard
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt- Beth Hoffman
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
The Orphan's Tale - Pam Jenoff
About Grace - Anthony Doerr
They Left Us Everything - Plum Johnson (Canadian author each October)
How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn (classic each September)
The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway
A Walk Across the Sun - Corban Addison
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce
The Walk - Paul Evans
Caleb's Crossing - Geraldine Brooks
My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell
The Kitchen House - Kathleen Grissom
Sweetland - Michael Crummey (Canadian author each October)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (classic each September)
The Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
A Measure of Light - Beth Powning
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
The Way the Crow Flies - Ann-Marie MacDonald
Elephant Company - Vicki Croke
What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim - A Midlife Misadventure on
Spain's Camino de Santiago de Compostela - Jane Christmas
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
The Headmaster's Wager - Vincent Lam
The Under the Couch Book - Charlene Coburn (guest author)
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (classic each September)
The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd
any book by Canadian author, Farley Mowat
A Boy Named Matt-Reflections of a Hometown Hero, Matt Stairs - Carlena Munn (guest author)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith (classic)
any book by Canadian author, Louise Penny
The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence
Pope Joan - Donna Woolfolk Cross
Cry No More - Linda Howard
Longbourn - Jo Baker
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (classic each September)
The Book Thief - Marcus Zusack
Unbroken - A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption - Laura Hillenbrand
The Lost Quilter (and others by) - Jennifer Chiaverini
A House in the Sky - Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett
The Light Between Oceans - M. L. Stedman
Wild - Cheryl Strayed
The Paris Wife - Paula McLain
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (classic each September)
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
The Year Mrs. Montague Cried - Susan White (guest author)
Ten Thousand Truths - Susan White
Cutting For Stone - Abraham Verghese
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County - Tiffany Baker
The Postmistress - Sarah Blake
Emma - Jane Austen (classic each September)
The Town That Drowned - Riel Nason (guest author)
The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay
The Book of Negroes - Lawrence Hill
Amphibian - Carla Gunn
The Bishop's Man - Lyndon MacIntyre
The Help - Katherine Stockett
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (classic each September)
March - Geraldine Brooks
Kiss the Joy As It Flies - Sheree Fitch (guest author)
Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
Bride of New France - Suzanne Desrochers
My Stroke of Insight - Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (classic)
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (classic)
The Sea Captain's Wife - Beth Powning
The Hatbox Letters - Beth Powning
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer/Annie Barrows
The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor - Sally Armstrong
The Power of One - Bryce Courtney
The Birth House - Ami McKay
Still Alice - Lisa Genova
House Rules - Jodi Picoult
Something Lovely - Alan Weatherley (guest author)
also:
readers' choice of biography
readers' choice of poetry
readers' choice of self-help book
readers' choice of Christmas writing
readers' choice of a specific author