What My Texas Book Club Read This Year
Earlier this week, I shared what my children’s lit book club read this past year, and lots of people wanted to know about what my grown-up book club read.
I have to admit that, while I’m on the email list for the grown-up book club in my neighborhood, I rarely attend (I think I’ve been three times in the last year).
The best adult book club I ever belonged to was in Austin. It’s been more than 6 years since we moved away and I’m still mourning the absence of that book club in my life.
I asked one of my friends to send me the list of what they read in 2019 and thought it’d be fun to share it here, if you’re looking for some inspiration for your 2020 book club!
I won’t lie, looking at this list makes me extra sad to have missed reading and discussing these books with so many women that I admire.
What My Texas Book Club Read This Year
- The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness by Joel Ben Izzy
- A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
- The Ordering of Love by Madeline L’Engle
- Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century by Jessica Bruder
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario
I’d love to hear what your book club read this year (and stay tuned for the 2020 Everyday Reading Book Club list coming next week after Christmas!).
And if you’d like a printable copy of this list that you can take to your library or screenshot on your phone for easy access, just pop in your email address below and it’ll come right to your inbox!
I found Nomandland to be absolutely fascinating! If you haven’t read it, you should definitely check it out.
What my book club read in 2019. I liked most of the books, but the ones with stars made the best discussions.
*The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
*Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino
*The Waiting by Cathy LaGrow
*Educated by Tara Westover
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
A Night Divided by Jennifer Nielsen
Slave Stealers by Timothy Ballard
Refugee by Alan Gratz
I love this! I’m totally bookmarking this. I haven’t read for fun it almost a year so I’m way behind on so many good books that have come out in the last while. I’ve been wanting to read Michelle Obama’s book for ages!
Nomadland is a book that I think everyone should be required to read. Maybe we would be a little more compassionate towards our elderly population, a little more giving and more focused on projects to help them live out the years that they should be relaxing instead of shredding themselves to the bone just to survive. It made me so upset, I talked about it for months to anyone I knew and still talk about it. Our consumer driven society is reflected in the not-so-great light that it is and I think people need to realize what is really going on around them. Okay, rant over, lol! I hope you read it!
Our book club list this year
January: The Girl Before by JP Delaney
February: The Lifechanging Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
March: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
April: This is How it Always is by Laurie Frankel
May: Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
June: Educated by Tara Westover
July: A Woman is no Man by Etaf Rum
August: Becoming By Michelle Obama
September: Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
October: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
November: Best Laid Plans by Lauren Blakeley (naughty November)
December: Time After Time by Lisa Grunwald.
My favorite was Daisy Jones. One my favorites of the year!
Ooo I’m famous! I’m in that Texas book club. We had the BEST discussion about Educated, even though it was a hard book to read. My pick was “It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War” by Lynsey Addario and it had a great discussion as well.
Oh yay! Somehow I didn’t realize you were in it!