2025 Book Club Selections

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?

July 16 at 6:00pm – Night Owls Book Club

“The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig
Summary: Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices… Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?’

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. 

August 20 at 6:00pm – Night Owls Book Club

“Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers” by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Summary: 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. 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 hand, a flash drive. Vera doesn’t know what comes over her, but after calling the cops like any good citizen would, she sort of… swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron.

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.

September 17 at 6:00pm – Night Owls Book Club

“Absolution” by Alice McDermott
Summary: A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War.