Pilgrim House
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Novel Exchange Book Club
The Novel Exchange book club meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month. We meet at 12:30 pm. Check the calendar for the next meeting date. The group is open to all PH members and friends. If you have questions or are interested in joining the group contact Mary Carlson. When the group formed, we adopted a set of guidelines. These guide our group and are open to revision as needed.
The guidelines for this book club are in the pdf file NovelExchangeGuidelines2020.pdf
2024 Novel Exchange books for discussion:
Jan 24: "This is Your Mind on Plants" by Michael Pollan
Feb. 28: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mar. 27: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
April 24: Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
May 22: Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
June 26: A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines
2023 Novel Exchange books for discussion:
June 28 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.
July 26 - The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
August 23 - All the Broken Piece by Ann E Burg
September 27 - The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
October 25 - Wild by Cheryl Strayed
No November meeting
December 6 - Social time, and book to be determined
2022 Novel Exchange books for discussion:
January 26 - Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
February 23 - Vacationland by Sarah Stonich
March 23 - The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict
April 27 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
May 25 - For Love of a River: the Minnesota by Darby Nelson
June 22 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
July 27 - The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
August 24 - Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Gold Gelman
September 28 - All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle
October 26 - Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathon C. Slaght
November 23 - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
2021 Novel Exchange books for discussion:
We are currently meeting outdoors in a park as weather permits. Beginning in October, we will meet at Pilgrim House.
January 27, 2021 - H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
February 24 - The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
March 24 - Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (Mary C said I could choose one of her books)
April 28 - Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
May - The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
June - The Poisoned City by Anna Clark
July - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
August - Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
September - Braiding Sweetgrass y Robin Kimmerer
October 27: Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
November 17 - Virgil Wander by Lief Enger.
December 8 - poetry theme
2020 Novel Exchange books for discussion:
January 22 Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah
February 26 At the Wolf’s Table, by Rosalina Postorino
March 25 The Magic Bullet: a locked room mystery featuring Shadwell Rafferty and Sherlock Holmes, by Larry Millett (local author)
April 22 The Orchardist, by Amanda Coplin
May 27 The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
June 24 Give a Girl a Knife, by Amy Thielen (memoir)
July 22 People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
August 26 Iron Lake, by William Kent Krueger
September 23 TBD
October 28 The Overstory, by Richard Powers
December 2 Poetry theme
Book discussion information for 2019:
The guidelines for this book club are in the pdf file NovelExchangeGuidelines2019.pdf
January 23 - White Trash by Nancy Isenberg. Discussion leader Nancy Olson
February 27 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Discussion leader Mary Carlson
March 27 - Dear Mrs. Bird by A J Pearce. Discussion leader Sharon Borg
April 24 - Becoming by Michelle Obama. Discussion leader Les Rogers
May 22 - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty. Discussion leader Mary Ryan
June 26 - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. Discussion leader Nancy Olson
July 24 - Dead Wake by Eric Larson. Discussion leader Mary Carlson
August 28 - At the Wolf’s Table by Rosella Postorino
September 25 - In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
October 23 - Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind by Yuval Noah Harari
No November meeting
December 4 - Poetry theme