2025 Book Club Selections

May 21, 2025 at 6:00pm – Night Owls Book Club

“The House in the Cerulean Sea” by TJ Klune
Summary: Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages.

June 10, 2025 at 2:00pm – Tuesday Teabirds Book Club

“Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers” by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady–ah, lady of a certain age–who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her college-aged son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing–a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched hand, a flash drive.

June 18, 2025 at 6:00pm – Night Owls Book Club

“Intermezzo” by Sally Rooney
Summary: “An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties–successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother.

July 8 at 2:00pm – Tuesday Teabirds Book Club

“Real Americans” by Rachel Khong
An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family, and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?

August 12 at 2:00pm – Tuesday Teabirds Book Club

“Murder by Degrees” by Ritu Mukerji
Summary: Philadelphia, 1875: It is the start of term at Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lydia Weston, professor and anatomist, is immersed in teaching her students in the lecture hall and hospital. When the body of a patient, Anna Ward, is dredged out of the Schuylkill River, the young chambermaid’s death is deemed a suicide. But Lydia is suspicious and she is soon brought into the police investigation. 

September 9 at 2:00pm – Tuesday Teabirds Book Club

“The Friend” by Sigrid Nunez
Summary: When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and literary mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction.