All Book Club Updates

The Zion Book Club selection for Monday, August 12 10 is The Round House by Louise Erdrich. One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to [...]

The Zion Book Club selection for Monday, July 8 is The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald. The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds’ third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the “first step” American fiction had taken since Henry [...]

The Zion Book Club selection for Monday, June 10 is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” A lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic novel—a black man charged with the [...]

The Zion Book Club selection for Monday, May 13 is State of Wonder by Ann Patchett. Years ago, Marina Singh traded the hard decisions and intensity of medical practice for the quieter world of research at a pharmaceutical company, a choice that has haunted her life. Enveloping herself in safety, limiting emotional risk, she shares a quiet [...]

The Zion Book Club selection for Monday, April  8, is The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway. In a city ravaged by war, a musician plays his cello for twenty-two days at the site of a mortar attack, in memory of the fallen. Among the strangers drawn into the orbit of his music are a young father in search [...]

The Zion Book Club selection for Monday, March 11, is The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. Merriam Webster defines Lacuna as: “……a blank space or a missing part : gap also deficiency, a small cavity, pit, or discontinuity in an anatomical structure.” Kingsolver uses this word in her new novel as she describes a cavity on the tropical island [...]

The Zion Book Club selection for Monday, February 11, is Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. “On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick Dunne’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. [...]

The Zion Book Club selection for Monday, January 14, is the Tana French Series (In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, and the most recent, Broken Harbor). IN THE WOODS (Winner of the 2007 Edgar Award for Best First Novel) ‘Sharply written and insidiously creepy, this is a mesmerising read that grabs hold of the reader from the very [...]

The Zion Book Club selection for Monday, November 12, is The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani. The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. At the [...]

The Zion Book Club selection for Monday, October 8, is The Law of Dreamsby Peter Behrens (the first book of a series, followed byThe O’Brien’s). The Law of Dreams tells the story of a young man’s epic passage from innocence to experience during The Great Famine in Ireland of 1847. On his odyssey through Ireland and Britain, [...]

The Zion Book Club selection for Monday, September 10, is The Wrong Man by David Ellis. When Jason Kolarich accepts the case of a homeless Iraq War veteran accused of murdering a young paralegal, his course seems clear: to mount an insanity defense for a man suffering so badly from post-traumatic stress disorder that he [...]

The Zion Book Club Selection for August is Anishinaabe Syndicated: A View from the Rez by Jim Northrup. The group will meet on Monday, August 13, at 7pm in the Zion Library. Anishinaabe Syndicated: A View from the Rez,chronicles the years 1989-2001, a time when Indian Country saw enormous changes in treaty rights, casino gambling, language renewal, [...]

The Zion Book Club Selection for July is Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff. The group will meet on Monday, July 9, at 7pm in the Zion Library. On May 13, 1945, twenty-four officers and enlisted men and women stationed on what was then Dutch New Guinea boarded a transport plane named the Gremlin Special [...]

The Zion Book Club Selection for June is Ice Princess by Camilla Lackburg. The group will meet on Monday, June 11, at 7pm in the Zion Library. For the first time in English, the psychological thriller debut of No 1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. Returning to her hometown after the funeral of her [...]

The Zion Book Club Selection for May is The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. The group will meet on Monday, May 14, at 7pm in the Zion Library. Set during a remarkable time, the same period as Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast and The Sun Also Rises, Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife brilliantly captures the [...]