Book Club

 

DG Book Club Selections 2025 - 2026

 

Thursday September 4 — "All the Colors of the Dark" by Chris Whitaker 

Fiction/Mystery / 608 pages; A missing person mystery and a love story—the daughter of a wealthy family is the target and a local boy takes part in the search.  It’s 1975 in Missouri.

 

Wednesday October 15 — "The Briar Club" by Kate Quinn

Fiction / 432 pages; Briarwood House is a boardinghouse in 1950s Washington DC, the home of female friendships and secrets.

 

Thursday November 13  — "Redhead by the Side the Road" by Anne Tyler

Fiction / 177 pages; Micah is a creature of habit, a tech expert, and superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building.  But one day his routines are blown apart when a friend tells him she's facing eviction and a teenager shows up at his door claiming to be his son. 

 

Wednesday January 14 — "The Frozen River" by Ariel Lawhon  

Historical Fiction / 400 pages;  In 1789 when the Kennebec River in Maine freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard, a midwife and healer, is summoned to examine the body and determine the cause of death.

 

Thursday February 19 — "The Phoenix Crown" — by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang

Historical Fiction / 384 pages; A thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles.

 

Wednesday March 11 — "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction / 153 pages; Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, first-person narrator Nick Carraway tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

 

Thursday April 16 — The Last Stars in the Sky by Kate Hewitt

Fiction / 342 pages; Alex, her husband Daniel, and their children have moved into her parents' cabin on a lake in Ontario.  Tensions are high when a nuclear disaster happens and the world is thrown into chaos.

 

Wednesday May 20 — "First Lie Wins" by Ashley Elston

Fiction / 348 pages; Evie Porter has everything a nice Southern girl could want: a doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence, a tight group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.

 

 

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