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Appleton, WI

Book Club

The book club meets on the second Tuesday of the month at St. Mary from 6 pm – 7pm. Upcoming discussions include:

  • April 9: Infinite Country by Patricia Engel (2024 Fox Cities Community Read)
  • May 14: Her Hidden Genius by Marie Benedict
  • June 11: The One in a Million Boy by Monica Woods
  • July 9: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • August 13: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Past Reads:

  • The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
  • The Delight of Being Ordinary, a Road Trip with the Pope and the Dali Lama by Roland Merullo
  • Waking Up White by Debby Irving
  • How to Be a Muslim: An American Story by Haroon Moghul
  • Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope by John Saunders and John U. Bacon
  • The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
  • Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
  • The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs
  • Breakfast With Buddha by Roland Merullo
  • Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
  • Saint John Paul The Great, His Five Loves by Jason Evert
  • Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
  • A Little Love Story by Roland Merullo
  • Defying Gravity by Joe Sikorra
  • Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
  • Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
  • The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew — Three Women Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby
  • The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
  • Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
  • The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe
  • Evicted by Matthew Desmond
  • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  • Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
  • Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
  • The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
  • The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
  • The Friends We Keep by Jane Green
  • Becoming by Michelle Obama
  • Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
  • The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
  • Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
  • Swimming Lessons by Mary Alice Monroe
  • Writers & Lovers by Lily King
  • Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
  • Stamped: racism, antiracism, and you by Jason Reynolds
  • The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
  • Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera
  • The Color of Water by James McBride
  • The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman
  • Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
  • Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
  • Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
  • Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
  • Beach House Memories by Mary Alice Monroe
  • Long Way Round: Through the Heartland by River by John Hildebrand
  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
  • The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kid
  • The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
  • A Winter Dream  by Paul Evans
  • Dorothy Day The World Will Be Saved By Beauty by Kate Hennessy
  • Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sara Smarsh
  • Raft of Stars by Andrew J Graff
  • The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich
  • The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
  • Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life bv Jessica Nutik Zitter
  • The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
  • The Delight of Being Ordinary by Rolland Merullo
  • The Summer of Lost and Found by Mary Alice Monroe
  • Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church by Rachel Held Evans
  • Lost December by Richard Paul Evans
  • The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright
  • Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir by Amy Tan
  • We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  • Finding Chika: A little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family by Mitch Albom
  • The Butterfly’s Daughter by Mary Alice Monroe
  • The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
  • The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni
  • The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
  • Have You Seen Luis Velez by Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
  • Bookshop by the Sea by Denise Hunter
  • Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith