This Book Club will be on the 4th Friday of each month at 12:30 pm at the Wickliffe Senior Center, 900 Worden Rd. Call the library at 440-944-6010 to register and reserve the title of the month.
November 21 *(3rd Friday): The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel – The story of a Polish graduate student in World War II who uses her forgery talents to help hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis.
December 26: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman – A curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship.
January 23: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides – Theo Faber, a criminal psychotherapist, is determined to get an artist who shot her husband and then never spoke another word to talk, which takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations – a search for the truth that threatens to consume him.
February 27: The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz
March 27: The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
April 24: Devil’s Gulch by William W. Johnstone
May 22: The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
June 26: After Annie by Anna Quindlen
July 24: Death of a Spy by M.C. Beaton
August 28: The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah
September 25: Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
October 23: The Night House by Jo Nesbø
2025 Titles:
April: One by One by Freida McFadden – Forced to hike to their hotel after their minivan breaks down, a group of friends finds themselves hopelessly lost in the woods and soon they are each struck down mysteriously one by one, making them wonder if an animal is hunting them—or if the hunter is one of them.
May: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus – In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo.
June: Along Came a Spiderby James Patterson – A Washington, D.C., police detective, Alex Cross becomes caught up in a kidnapping case that may involve a schizophrenic psychopath.
July: Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano – When struggling suspense novelist and single mom Finlay Donovan is mistaken for a contract killer, she inadvertently accepts the offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet, discovering that crime in real life is a lot harder than fiction.
August: When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain – Retreating to her childhood foster home in the wake of a tragedy, a veteran missing-persons detective becomes entwined in the search for a local teen whose disappearance eerily resembles an unsolved case from the detective’s past.
September: Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict – An impoverished Irish immigrant takes a job as a lady’s maid in the 1860s home of prominent businessman Andrew Carnegie, with whom she falls in love before going missing.
October: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig – Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
