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)
Please Note: The Historical Fiction Book Club is on hiatus during the Covid-19 Pandemic period.
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
Please Note: The Historical Fiction Book Club is on hiatus during the Covid-19 Pandemic period.
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
Please Note: The Historical Fiction Book Club is on hiatus during the Covid-19 Pandemic period.
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
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Alexis, Andre Andersen, Kurt Azar, Shokoofeh Banner, Catherine Barnes, Julian Basu, Diksha Benjamin, Chloe Boyagoda, Randy
Brooks, Geraldine Cameron, Claire Campbell, Deborah Charles, Janet Skeslien Christie, Michael 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 Green, John Greer, Andrew Sean Hamilton, Ian Hannah, Kristin 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 Klein, Seth King, Thomas Kishkan, Theresa 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 Penny, Louise Persson Giolito, Malin Pottle, Adam
Redhill, Michael Rijneveld, Marieke Lucan Robinson, Eden
Robson, Jennifer Rowell, Rainbow Saunders, George Sakamoto, Mark SCFWA Singer, Judy Reene Sloan, Robin Smith, Annabel Stuart, Douglas Sullivan, J. Courtney Thammavongsa, Souvankham Thapa, Manjushree Thien, Madeleine Tokarczuk, Olga Trump, Mary L Urquhart, Jane Veletzos, Roxanne
Vermette, Katherena Wagamese, Richard Wagamese, Richard Ware, Ruth Westover, Tara
Ian Williams Wilson, Tom Wingate, Lisa Winter, Kathleen 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 The Paris Library 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 Fault in our Stars Less (2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner) The Couturier of Milan Nightingale The Four Winds Into the Water All things consoled
The Nightingale Won’t let you Sleep The red word
The Theory of Expanded Love The Illegal 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 A Good War The inconvenient Indian : a curious account… Euclid’s orchard & other essays 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 The Discomfort of Evening 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 Suggie Bain (2020 Booker Prize winner) 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 The woo woo : how I survived ice hockey, drug raids… Fear : Trump in the White House
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Starting Your Own Book Club?
Visit the links below for information on how to get your own book club going:
- NoveList
Includes book reviews, read-alikes, author biographies and discussion questions. - GoodReadsIncludes reader reviews, trivia, reading lists, etc. You can choose to sign up and share book lists.
- BookClubs.caFocuses on Canadian titles and includes reading guides, information about author events, and books in the news.
- BookTalk.org
An online book club that anyone can join. - Oprah’s Book Club
Includes recommended book lists, author interviews and more. - BookBrowse.com
Includes reviews, previews, stories behind the books, author interviews, reading guides, and more. - Mostly, we eat!
A long-running book club that includes recommended reads and advice on starting a book club.