Book Clubs

Historical Fiction Book Club

Teresa Eckford, Sechelt Library Staff member and Historical Fiction aficionado, guides the group.

A friendly once-a-month gathering to discuss works of historical fiction.
The Historical Fiction Book Club meets the 3rd Monday of the month (Sept to Nov ; Jan to May) from 1:30 til 3:00pm in the Community Room.
Please register in advance by contacting the library at 604-885-3260 or info@sechelt.bclibrary.ca

NEXT MEETING(S):

Mon Jan 20 2020 – A work of historical fiction new to you – come with brief summary
Mon Feb 24 2020 – The White Angel, John Maclachlan Gray (title / author details)
Mon Apr 20 2020 – House of Thieves, Charles Belfoure (title / author details) (might be postponed due to the COVID-19 closure)
Mon May 25 2020 – TBA (might be postponed due to the COVID-19 closure)

Previous discussions:

City of Women by David Gillham (Oct 2017) ; The Winter Palace: a novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak (Nov 2017)

The Stonhenge Letters by Harry Karlinsky (Jan 2018) ; The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B by Sandra Gulland (Feb 2018) ; The Emperor’s Spy by M.C. Scott (Mar 2018); Sarum – Part I by Edward Rutherfurd (Apr 2018); Sarum – Part II by Edward Rutherfurd ( May 2018); Goodnight from London by Jennifer Robson (Sept 2018); Helena by Evelyn Waugh (Oct 2018); River of Darkness by Rennie Airth (Nov 2018);

Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani (Feb 2019), Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks (Mar 2019), The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (Apr 2019), An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris (May 2019) ; At the edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier ; To defy a King, Elizabeth Chadwick ; The last days of Night, Graham Moore

Mystery Book Club

Gill Smith, Sechelt Library Staff member and avid mystery reader, guides the group.

A friendly once-a-month gathering to discuss mystery fiction.
The Mystery Book Club meets the 3rd Thursday of the month from 1:30 til 3:00pm in the Community Room.
Please register in advance by contacting the library at 604-885-3260 or info@sechelt.bclibrary.ca

NEXT MEETING(S):

Thurs Apr 16 2020 Please note: This meeting might be postponed due to the COVID-19 closure
Thurs May 21 2020 Please note: This meeting might be postponed due to the COVID-19 closure

Men’s Book Club

A friendly once-a-month gathering to discuss your favourite books – fiction…non-fiction…biographies…it’s about ideas!
The Men’s Book Club meets the 2nd Thursday of the month from 1:00 til 3:00pm in the Community Room.
Please register in advance by contacting the library at 604-885-3260 or info@sechelt.bclibrary.ca

Book Club Looking for New Members

Meets 4th Wednesday of each month at 1:15 pm
For more information please contact Barbara at 604-885-5076 or email jmzca@yahoo.com

Book Club Titles @ SPL

Book Club titles are available to everybody, but are especially handy for book clubs as we own multiple copies.

Book Club Titles – more coming soon

AUTHOR

TITLE

Alexis, Andre

Andersen, Kurt

Azar, Shokoofeh

Banner, Catherine

Barnes, Julian

Basu, Diksha

Benjamin, Chloe

Boyagoda, Randy

Brooks, Geraldine

Cameron, Claire

Campbell, Deborah

Christie, Michael

Clark, Krystin

Clegg, Bill

Dimaline, Cherie

Dunmore, Helen

Edugyan, Esi

Egan, Jennifer

Eisen, Max

Endicott, Marina

Freedman, Karyn

Fuller, Alexandra

Giese, Rachel

Goldstein, Jonathan

Gowda, Shilpi Somaya

Gray, Charlotte

Green, John

Greer, Andrew Sean

Hamilton, Ian

Hannah, Kristin

Hawkins, Paula

Hay, Elizabeth

Heighton, Stephen

Henstra, Sarah

Hicks, Caitlin

Hill, Lawrence

Humphreys, Helen

Jackson, Joshilyn

Jemisin, N. K.

Johnson, Harold R.

Jonasson, Jonas

Joyce, Rachel

Karlinsky, Harry

Kay, Guy Gavriel

Kent, Hannah

Khan, Ausuma Zehanat

Klein, Naomi

King, Thomas

Kishkan, Theresa

Kondo, Marie

Lee, Harper

Levy, Deborah

Macintyre, Linden

Macleod, Alistair

Martel, Yann

McLeod, Darrel

McMillan, Amber

Mills, Marja

Moore, Graham

Moore, Lisa

Moyes, Joo

Nawaz, Zarqa

Nelsen, Jane

Obama, Michelle

Off, Carol

Orwell, George

Owens, Delia

Ozeki, Ruth L.

Penny, Louise

Persson Giolito, Malin

Pottle, Adam

Redhill, Michael

Robinson, Eden

Robson, Jennifer

Rowell, Rainbow

Saunders, George

Sakamoto, Mark

SCFWA

Singer, Judy Reene

Sloan, Robin

Smith, Annabel

Sullivan, J. Courtney

Thammavongsa, Souvankham

Thapa, Manjushree

Thien, Madeleine

Tokarczuk, Olga

Trump, Mary L

Urquhart, Jane

Veletzos, Roxanne

Vermette, Katherena

Wagamese, Richard

Ware, Ruth

Westover, Tara

Ian Williams

Wilson, Tom

Wingate, Lisa

Winter, Kathleen

Wolff, Michael

Wong, Lindsay

Woodward, Bob

*SC FoWA 2020

**Canada Reads Winner 2018

Fifteen Dogs

Fantasyland : how America went haywire…

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

The House at the Edge of Night

The Noise of Time

The Windfall

The Immortalists

Original Prin

March

The last neanderthal

A disappearance in Damascus

If I Fall, If I Die*

Greenwood*

Grateful Jar Project

Did you ever have a family : a novel

Empire of wild*

Birdcage walk

Washington Black

Manhattan Beach : a novel

By chance alone

Close to Hugh

One Hour in Paris

Quiet Until the Thaw

Boys : what it means to become a man

I’ll Seize the Day Tomorrow

The Golden Son

The Promise of Canada: 150 years…

The Fault in our Stars

Less (2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner)

The Couturier of Milan

Nightingale

Into the Water

All things consoled

The Nightingale Won’t let you Sleep

The red word

The Theory of Expanded Love

The Illegal

The Evening Chorus

Machine Without Horses

The Opposite of Everyone

The fifth season

Peace and good order*

The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed…

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

The Stonehenge Letters

River of Stars

Burial rites

A dangerous crossing

On fire : the burning case for a Green New Deal

The inconvenient Indian : a curious account…

Euclid’s orchard & other essays

The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Go Set a Watchman

The Travels of Daniel Ascher

The only café

Remembrance

The High Mountains of Portugal

Mamaskatch : a Cree coming of age

The woods: a year on Protection Island

The mockingbird next door

The last days of night

February

The giver of stars

Laughing all the way to the Mosque

Positive discipline

Becoming

All we leave behind : a reporter’s journey into…

1984

Where the Crawdads Sing

A Tale for the Time Being

All the Devils are Here

Glass Houses

Quicksand

Voice

Bellevue Square

Trickster drift

Goodnight from London

Landline: a novel

Lincoln in the Bardo

Forgiveness

Monday was a simpler time : reflections on a pandemic

In the shadow of Alabama : a novel

Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore

Whiskey & Charlie

Saints for all Occasions

How to pronounce knife (2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize)

All of us in our own Lives

Do not say we have nothing

Flights (Man Booker Prize 2018 Winner!)

Too much and never enough

The Night Stages

The Girl they left Behind

The Break

Medicine Walk

Starlight

The woman in Cabin 10

Educated

Reproduction (Scotiabank Giller Prize 2019)

Beautiful scars : Steeltown secrets…

Before we were yours

Annabel

Fire and fury : inside the Trump White House

The woo woo : how I survived ice hockey, drug raids…

Fear : Trump in the White House