Coming up- CABI party at my house 6 to 8 pm MONDAY September 15, 2025 Join us!
CABI info- great clothes, fun trying on and being with women who support one another as they shop! Thank you to our great CABI rep Roanne Gottshalk! Let me know if you can attend please!!
Monday September 8th was BOOK CLUB selection night...I do love how we gather to select our books for the year. Life on Newark-Granville Road loves hosting this at our table. We love the treats friends bring- cookies, dips, bars, chocolates, fruit, chocolate...yum...we can cook and procure well!
We also reflected on the complete list of past reads...since 2004- when we started documenting this way we have 239 reads! One duplicate- Huckleberry Finn! Twenty one years of selecting, reading/listening, discussing, gathering...most of it at Cherry Valley Hotel in the lobby or on the verenda- thank you CVH!
Lists:
25-26 To Read & Discuss:
| Oct 6 | Grandma Gatewood's Walk | B. Mongomery |
| Nov 3 | The Wealth of the Shadows | G. Moore |
| Dec 1 | Jane Austin's Bookshelf | R. Romney |
| Jan 5 | Secret Agent Man | M. Singer |
| Feb 2 | The Egnima Girls | C. Fleming |
| March 2 | Remains of the Day | K. Ishiguro |
| Aprl 6 | Everthing is Tuberculosis | J Green |
| May 4 | The House of Fragile Things | J. McAuley |
| June 1 | Another Country | James Baldwin |
| July 6 | The Girl with the Louding Voice | Abi Dare |
| Aug 3 | Fighting Words | Kimberly B Bradley |
Have Read & Discussed:
| Title | Author |
| All Over But the Shoutin | Bragg, Rick |
| Bel Canto | Patchett, Ann |
| Bury Me Standing | Fonseca, Isabel |
| Golden Compass | Pullman, Phillip |
| Ishmael | Quinn, Daniel |
| Me Talk Pretty Some Day | Sedaris, Davis |
| One Thousand White Women | Fergus, Jim |
| Persuasion | Austin, Jane |
| The Book of Salt | Tryong, Monique |
| The Way the Crow Flies | MacDonald, Anne Marie |
| A Million Little Pieces | Frey, James |
| Huckleberry Finn | Twain, Mark |
| My Sisters Keeper | Picoult, Jodi |
| Prayer for Owen Meaning | Irving, John |
| Silent to the Bone | Konigsburg, EL |
| Someone Not Really Her Mother | Chessman, Harriet Scott |
| The Bluest Eye | Morrison, Toni |
| The Kite Runner | Hosseini, Khaled |
| The Other Boylen Girl | Gregory, Phillippa |
| The Plot Against America | Roth, Philip |
| Trans-Sister Radio | Bohajalin, Chris |
| Truth and Beauty | Patchett, Ann |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Smith, Betty |
| Consider This, Senora | Doerr, Harriett |
| Fortune Rocks | Shreve, Anita |
| Garlic and Sapphires | Reichl, Ruth |
| Monique and the Mango Rains | Holloway, Kris |
| On Beauty | Smith, Zadie |
| The Eye, The Ear and The Arm | Farmer, Ruth |
| The Glass Castle | Walls, Jeanette |
| The World is Flat | Friedman, Thomas |
| Tipping Point | Gladwell, Malcolm |
| To Kill A Mockingbird | Lee, Harper |
| A Walk Two Moons | Creech, Sharon |
| A Wrinkle in Time | L'Engle, Madeline |
| Ana Karenina | Tolstoy, Leo |
| Echo Maker | Powers, Richard |
| How Reading Changed My Life | Quindlen, Anna |
| If You Lived Here I'd Know Your Name | Lende, Heather |
| Omnivore's Dilemma, A Natural History of Four Meals |
Pollen, Michael |
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | See, Lisa |
| Suite Francaise | Nemirovsky, Irene |
| The Book Thief | Zusak, Markus |
| The Girls | Lansens, Lori |
| Water for Elephants | Gruen, Sara |
| Infidel | Ali, Ayaan Hirsi |
| Loving Frank | Horan, Nancy |
| Mr. Pip | Jones, Lloyd |
| Room with a View | Forster, E.M. |
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Alexie, Sherman |
| The Country of Pointed Firs | Jewett, Sarah Orne |
| The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding | Ranya Idlib,Suzanne Oliver, & Priscilla Warner |
| The Painted Drum | Erdrich, Louise |
| The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel | Setterfield, Diane |
| The Winters Tale | Helprin, Mark |
| Thread of Grace | Russell, Mary Doria |
| Distant Land of My Father | Caldwell, Bo |
| Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Schaffer,
Mary Ann & Barrow, Annie |
| Hunger Games | Collins, Suzanne |
| Last Chinese Chef | Mones, Nicole |
| Last Town on Earth | Mullen, Thomas |
| Mrs. Dalloway | Woolf, Virginia |
| My Life in France | Child, Julia |
| My Stroke of Insight | Bolte Taylor, Jill |
| The Black Book of Secrets | Higggins, FE |
| The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Barberry,
Muriel & Anderson, Alison |
| The Help | Stockett, Kathryn |
| The Maytrees | Dillard, Annie |
| The Middle Place | Corrigan, Kelly |
| The Space Between Us | Umriger, Thirty |
| A Reliable Wife | Goolick, Robert |
| Glenapp Castle | Rosenberg, Tina |
| Great Expectations | Dickens, Charles |
| Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | Ford, Jamie |
| Let the Great World Spin | McCamm, Colum |
| Marcelo in the Real World | Stark, Francisco |
| Olive Kittredge | Strout, Elizabeth |
| Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman's Story of Survivial Inside an Iranian Prison |
Nemat, Marina |
| Telex from Cuba | Kuschner, Rachel |
| The Children's Book | Byatt, A.S. |
| The Magicians | Grossman, Lev |
| Those that Save Us | Blum, Jenna |
| A Dog's Purpose | Cameron, W. Bruce |
| Light in August | Faulkner, William |
| Love and Summer | Trevor, William |
| Murder on The Orient Express | Christie, Agatha |
| Okay for Now | Schmidt, Gary D. |
| People of The Book | Brooks, Geraldine |
| Revolution | Donnelly, Jennifer |
| Room: A Novel | Donoghue, Emma |
| Someone Knows My Name | Hill, Lawrence |
| The Moment I Knew | Nelson, Terri Spar |
| Year in Provence | Mayle, Peter |
| Behind the Beautiful Forevers | Boo, Katherine |
| Everybody Matters: A Memoir | Robinson, Mary |
| Out of Africa | Dinesen, Isak |
| Outliers | Gladwell, Malcolm |
| River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey |
Millard, Candice |
| She Walks in Beauty | Kennedy, Caroline |
| The Fault in Our Stars | Green, John |
| The Master | Tóibín, Colm |
| The Shadow of the Wind | Zafón, Carlos Ruiz |
| The Tempest | Shakespeare, William |
| Vaclav and Lena | Tanner, Haley |
| A Fort of Nine Towers | Omar, Qais Akbar |
| Brothers Karamazov | Dostoevsky, Fydor |
| Code Name Verity | Wein, Elizabeth |
| Empire of the Summer Moon | Gwynne, SC |
| Little Bookstore in Big Stone Gap | Welch, Wendy |
| Me Before You | Moyes, JoJo |
| Moloka'i | Brenert, Alan |
| Orphan Master's Son | Johnson, Adam |
| Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes | Chamberlain, Diane |
| Setting the Table | Meyer, Danny |
| The Snow Child | Ivey, Eowyn |
| My Antonia | Willa Cather |
| The Good Lord Bird | James McBride |
| Landline | Rainbow Rowell |
| Independent People | Halldór Laxness |
| The Homestead | Rosina Lippi |
| Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia | Janet Wallach |
| The Pearl That Broke Its Shell | Nadia Hashimi |
| Outlander | Diana Gabaldon |
| We Were Liars | E. Lockhart |
| Orphan Train: A Novel | Christina Baker Kline |
| The War that Saved My Life | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley |
| Brain Rules | John Medina |
| The Organied Mind | David Levitin |
| Three-Eight Charlie | Jerrie Mock |
| So Long a Letter | Mariama Ba |
| Lila | Marilynne Robinson |
| Americanah | Chimamanda Ngoi Adichie |
| All theLight We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr |
| Half the Sky | Nicholas Kristof |
| Sheryl WuDunn | |
| Longbourn | Jo Baker |
| The Bookman's Tale | Charles C Lovett |
| The Things They Carried | Tom O'Brien |
| Counting by 7s YA | Holly Goldberg Sloan |
| Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance |
| Offshore: A novel | Penlope Fitzgerald |
| Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman |
| The Ghost Map | Steven Berlin Johnson |
| Secret River | Kate Grenville |
| Boys In the Boat | Daniel James Brown |
| Salt of the Sea | Ruta Sepetys |
| Short Stories | Anton Chkfov |
| The One in a Million Boy | Monica Wood |
| Our Souls at Night | Kent Haruf |
| The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| Dreamland | Neil Hellegers |
| The True Tale of America's Opiod Epidemic | Sam Quinones |
| Bad Feminist: Essays | Roxanne Gay |
| Beneath a Marblerd Sky | John Shors |
| Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
| Underground Fugue | Margot Singer |
| Rent Collector | Cameron Wright |
| Small Great Things | Jodi Picout |
| The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas |
| Dispatches from Pluto | Richard Grant |
| Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta | |
| The Girl in Hyacith Blue | Susan Vreeland |
| Marin Marten | Brian Doyle |
| Killers of the Flower Moon… | David Grann |
| Born a Crime | Trevor Noah |
| Fifth Business | Robertson Davies |
| The Warmth of other Suns | Isabella Wilkerson |
| What is the What | Dave Eggers |
| The Great Alone | Kristin Hannah |
| The Last Days of Night | Graham Moore |
| The Miseducation of Cameron Post | Emily Danforth |
| Southernmost | Silas House |
| A Place for Us | Fatima Mirza |
| An American Marriage | Tayari Jones |
| Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng |
| Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles |
| The Overstory | Richard Story |
| Educated | Tara Westover |
| Beloved | Tori Morrison |
| The Woman Who Smashed Codes | Jason Fagone |
| Shape of Water | Spollen |
| Before We Were Yours | Lisa Wingate |
| Lilac Girls | Martha Hally Kelly |
| The Little Paris Bookshop | Nina George |
| Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier |
| Have you Seen Luis Velez | Catherine Ryan Hyde |
| The Dutch House | Ann Patchett |
| Talking with Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know | Malcom Gladwell |
| The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild | Lawrence Anthony |
| My Beloved World | Sonia Sotomayor |
| I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter | Erika Sanchez |
| The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett |
| The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane | Lisa See |
| The Night Watchman | Louis Erdrich |
| Letters to a Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| Caste | Isabel Wilkerson |
| Broken | Jenny Lawson |
| Such a Fun Age | Kiley Reid |
| Beyond the River | Ann Hagedorn |
| Pregnant Girl | NicoleLynn Lewis |
| The Wife Between Us | Sarah Pekkanen |
| When We Were Still Alive | Keith McWalter |
| The Memory Keepers Daughter | Kim Edwards |
| In Pursuit of Disobediant Women | Dionne Searcey |
| The Four Winds | Kirstin Hannah |
| Mother Trucker | Amy Butcher |
| News of the World | Paulette Jiles |
| How the Word Passed | Clint Smith |
| Fountains of Silence | Ruta Sepetys |
| Human Kind: A Hopeful History | Bregman et al |
| Bit Flip | Mike Trigg |
| Bad Ass Libraians of Timbuktu | Joshua Hammer |
| Crying in Hmart | Michelle Zauner |
| Invisible Life of Addie Larue | VE Schwab |
| A Woman of No Importance | Sonia Purnell |
| Stoner | John Williams |
| Hey, Kiddo | Jarrett J. Krosoczka |
| Destiny of the Republic | Candice Millard |
| Taste | Stanley Tucci |
| Firekeeper's Daughter | Angeline Boulley |
| How to Be Perfect | Michael Schur |
| Personal Librarian | Heather Terrell & |
| Good for a Girl | Lauren Fleshman |
| Horse | Geraldine Brooks |
| Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie |
| The Island of Sea Women | Lisa See |
| Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver |
| The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson |
| Bazooka Charlie, The Unbelievable Story of Major Charles Carpenter and Rosie the Rocketer | James P Busha with Carol Apacki |
| Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| James | Percival Evertt |
| Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew | Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby |
| Dinners with Ruth | Nina Totenberg |
| The Beast of Extraordinary Circumstance: A Novel | Ruth Emmie Lang |
| Independence Day- retirement | Steven Lopes P'25 |
| Tom Lake | Ann Patchett |
| The Shell Seekers | Rosamunde Pilcher |
| The Lost Year | Katherine Marsh |
