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Scribner Library Book Club:
Welcome to Scribner library’s non-traditional book club. The book club is more “show and tell” rather than everyone reading the same book for discussion. In this book club, each person brings a book they would like to share with the group. Please browse our Library catalog for anything you'd like to read and share, or come on in and browse our shelves for ideas!
Feel free to attend the book club gathering to learn about new books and authors without presenting a book. Also, please share this message with other interested members of the Skidmore Community.
For questions about the book club, please contact Hannah Matecko-Conti by phone: 518-580-5580 or email: hmatecko@skidmore.edu
We hope to see you there!
Books Previously Discussed:
March 23, 2022
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
I Think I Love You by Auriane Desombre
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Frederica by Georgette Heyer
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
The Deal by Elle Kennedy
Intercepted by Alexa Martin
These Lifeless Things by Premee Mohamed
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
The Maid by Nita Prose
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
Gallant by Victoria Schwab
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata
April 14, 2022
Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Ace by Angela Chen
Mrs. March by Virginia Feito
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
May 12, 2022
Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf
Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Void Ascendant by Premee Mohamed
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Ostertag
The Maid by Nita Prose
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
June 29, 2022
You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce
This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron
Touchstones: A Collection by Stephanie Burgis
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
Border Crossings: A Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway by Emma Fick
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
White Tears Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
The City We Became by N. K. Jemison
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
My Life in Food by Stanley Tucci
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
July 27, 2022
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Stone Fruit by Lee Lai
The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monae
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Sword Stone Table by Krishna Swapna et al.
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
August 31, 2022
Too Much Information by Dave Gorman
The Puzzler by A.J. Jacobs
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Steifvater
Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden
September 29, 2022
Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
What If? by Randall Munroe
A Declaration on the Rights of Magicians by H G Parry
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
October 20, 2022
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Friendship by Lydia Denworth
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
My New Friend is a Cat by Jael Jackson
The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
The Undead Truth of Us by Britney S. Lewis
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
The City & The City by China Miéville
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O'Donoghue
Loveless by Alice Oseman
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
Hotel Magnifique by Emily J. Taylor
November 10, 2022
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us by Danielle J. Lindemann
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno Garcia
Rivers by Michael Farris Smith
The Labyrinth by Simon Stålenhag
Secret History by Donna Tartt
Spinning by Tillie Walden
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
December 8, 2022
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
The Upstairs House by Julia Fine
The Third Person by Emma Grove
The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Rivers by Michael Farris Smith
Books Previously Discussed:
June 23, 2021:
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
July 21, 2021:
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
Yearbook by Seth Rogan
Writing the Other: A Practical Approach by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward
Mujeres en su cuento: Relatos breves y no tan breves sobre situaciones de la vida cotidiana by
August 18, 2021
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
September 16, 2021
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
The Anthropocene Reviewed John Green
The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner
October 14, 2021
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
November 18, 2021
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Sin Eater by Megan Campisi
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time Series) by Robert Jordan
Later by Stephen King
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
December 9, 2021
Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Accidentally Wes Andersen by Wally Koval
The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed
Not All Diamonds and Rosé by Dave Quinn
Beyond Accommodation by Jessica Schomberg and Wendy Highby
Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor
Books Previously Discussed:
January 15, 2020:
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Recursion by Blake Crouch
The Innocents by Michael Crummey
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Shakespeare Requirement by Julie Schumacher
Beauchamp Hall by Danielle Steel
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Books Previously Discussed:
April 4, 2019:
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
The Threat by Andrew McCabe
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
June 26, 2019:
Wunderland by Jennifer Cody Epstein
When All is Said by Anne Griffin
Circe by Madeline Miller
There There by Tommy Orange
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Martian by Andy Weir
July 25, 2019:
Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
August 27, 2019:
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
The Farm by Joanne Ramos
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
Books Previously Presented:
June 12, 2018:
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines and The Magnolia Cookbook by Joanna Gaines
The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Winter Sisters by Robin Oliveira
July 3, 2018:
The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
Fast into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail by Debbie Clarke Moderow
Calypso by David Sedaris
July 30, 2018:
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Burning Girl by Claire Messud
A Shout in the Ruins by Kevin Powers
August 27, 2018:
The Secrets of My Life by Caitlyn Jenner with Buzz Bissinger
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
December 18, 2018:
The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince by Mayte Garcia
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Nix by Nathan Hill
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Slade House by David Mitchell