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Thursday Evening Book Club
Recent and Past Selections
Looking to be part of a community of readers? The Thursday Evening Book Club has been meeting at the Irvington Public Library for well over a decade. Their book selections embrace a variety of genres and include fiction and nonfiction. Book club members’ requests are frequently honored. They are a friendly, welcoming group, meeting in the evening of the third Thursday of the month.
We don’t have a Dan like What Dan Read’s list… but we do have an amazing Anna! Here’s everything the Thursday Evening Book Club has read in its decade(+) of existence- in order!
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You may also browse the list below; clicking on a title will lead you to the catalog.
A Fine Balance By Rohinton Misty
Cold Sassy Tree By Olive Ann Burns
Anna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy
Elegance Of The Hedgehog By Muriel Barberry
Brooklyn By Colm Toibin
The Lacuna By Barbara Kingsolver
Half Broke Horses By Jeannette Walls
The Help By Kathryn Stockett
Let The Great World Spin By Colum McCann
The Stone Diaries By Carol Shields
Empire Falls By Richard Russo
Little Bee By Chris Cleve
When Everything Changed By Gail Collins
The Forgotten Garden By Kate Morton
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
The Abstinence Teacher By Tom Perrotta
North River By Pete Hamil
The Widower’s Tale By Julia Glass
Cutting For Stone By Abraham Verghese
The Inheritance Of Loss By Kiran Desai
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand By Helen Simonson
Maine By J.Courtney Sullivan
Titan, The Life Of J.D. Rockefeller Sr. By Ron Chernow *Nonfiction
The Buddha In The Attic By Julie Otsuka
State Of Wonder By Ann Patchett
Swamplandia By Karen Russell
Before I Go To Sleep By S.J. Watson
Ordinary Thunderstorms By William Boyd
Seating Arrangements By Maggie Shipstead
Carry The One By Carol Anshaw
The Light Between Oceans By M.L.Steadman
Tender Is The Night By F.Scott Fitzgerald
Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin *Nonfiction
Like Water For Chocolate By Laura Esquival
Age Of Miracles By Karen Thompson Walker
Defending Jacob By William Landry
Hateship,Friendship,Courtship,Loveship,Marriage By Alice Munro
Beautiful Ruins By Jess Walter
The Circle By Dave Eggers
The Interestings By Meg Wolitzer
The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox By Maggie O’ Farrell
Sleepwalkers How Europe Went To War In 1914 By Christopher Clark *Nonfic
A House In The Sky: A Memoir By Amanda Lindhout *Nonfiction
Schroder By Amity Gaige
The Museum Of Extraordinary Things By Alice Hoffman
Visitation Street By Ivy Pochada
The Art Forger By B.A. Shapiro
July’s People By Nadine Gordimer
Shotgun Lovesongs By Nickolas Butler
Lowland By Jhumpa Lahiri
A Tale For The Time Being By Ruth Ozeki
Unbroken By Laura Hillenbrand *Nonfiction
Station Eleven By Emily St. John Mandel
Orphan Train By Christina Baker Kline
The Accident By Chris Pavone
Mr. Penumbra ‘s 24-Hour Book Store By Robin Sloan
Euphoria By Lily King
The Dinner By Herman Koch
The Submission By Amy Waldman
All The Light We Cannot See By Anthony Doerr
The Children Act By Ian Mcewan
On The Move By Oliver Sacks *Nonfiction
A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena By Anthony Marra
The Perfume Collector By Kathleen Tessaro
My Brilliant Friend By Elena Ferrante
The Round House By Louise Erdrich
Flight Of Dreams By Ariel Lawhon
All The Birds In The Sky By Charlie Jane Anders
Serena By Ron Rash
Imagine Me Gone By Adam Haslett
Persuasion By Jane Austen
The Summer Before The War By Helen Simonson
Commonwealth By Ann Patchett
The Stranger In The Woods By Michael Finkel *Nonfiction
Ill Will By Dan Chaon
Swing Time By Zadie Smith
The Last Painting Of Sara De Vos By Dominic Smith
Little Red Chairs By Edna O’Brien
Never Let Me Go By Kazuo Ishiguro
Exit West By Moshin Hamid
The Nest By Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine By Gail Honeyman
The English Patient By Michael Ondaatje
How To Stop Time By Matt Haig
You Should Have Known By Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Devil In The White City By Erik Larson *Nonfiction
Manhattan Beach By Jennifer Egan
The Descendants By Kaui Hart Hemmings
The Dry By Jane Harper
Beartown By Frederik Bachman
Little Fires Everywhere By Celeste Ng
News Of The World By Paulette Jiles
Legend Of Sleepy Hollow By Washington Irving
Less By Andrew Sean Greer
Storied Life Of A.J.Fikry By Gabrielle Zevin
The Locals By Jonathan Dee
Mrs. Valentine’s Revenge By Allen Ginsberg
Educated By Tara Westover *Nonfiction
Firewall By Henning Mankell
The Woman Upstairs By Claire Messud
Home Fire By Kamila Shamsie
What I Loved By Siri Hustvedt
Severance By Ling Ma
The Dutch House By Ann Patchett
American Spy By Lauren Wilkenson
Killers Of The Flower Moon By David Grann *Nonfiction
This Is How It Always Is By Laurie Frankel
Warlight By Michael Ondaatje
Nothing To See Here By Kevin Wilson
Book Woman Of Troublesome Creek By Kim Michele Richardson
Lions Of Fifth Avenue By Fiona Davis
The Glass Hotel By Emily St. John Mandel
The Paris Architect By Charles Balfour
Ordinary Grace By William Kent Krueger
Lost Children Archive By Valeria Luiselli
We Have Always Lived In The Castle By Shirley Jackson
Anxious People By Frederik Backman
Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan
Magpie Murders By Anthony Horowitz
Róisín Campbell: An Irishwoman in New York by Joseph Garland
Crossing To Safety By Wallace Stegner
Harlem Shuffle By Colson Whitehead
Night Tiger By Yangsze Choo
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup By John Carreyrou *Nonfiction
The Exiles By Christina Baker Kline
Sweet Tooth By Ian McEwan
Sea Of Tranquility By Emily St. John Mandel
Birth Of Venus By Sarah Dunant
Vanessa And Her Sister By Priya Parmar
The Complicities By Stacy D’Erasmo
The Lioness By Chris Bohjalian
Empire Of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty By Patrick Radden Keefe *Nonfiction
The Maid By Nita Prose
Shrines Of Gaiety By Kate Atkinson
Great Circle By Maggie Shipstead
The Sentence By Louise Erdrich
The Paris Library By Janet Skeslien Charles
I Have Some Questions For You By Rebecca Makkai
An Immense World By Ed Yong *Nonfiction
Count The Ways By Joyce Maynard
How Much Of These Hills Is Gold By C. Pam Zhang
All Adults Here By Emma Straub
Trust By Hernan Diaz
Dictionary Of Lost Words By Pip Williams
An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good By Helene Tursten
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed By Helene Tursten
Hello Beautiful By Ann Napolitano
Absolution By Alice McDermott
Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow By Gabrielle Zevin
The Wager By David Grann *Nonfiction
Remarkably Bright Creatures By Shelby Van Pelt
Tom Lake By Ann Patchett
Demon Copperhead By Barbara Kingsolver
Heaven And Earth Grocery Store By James McBride
Our Country Friends By Gary Shteyngart
House Of Doors By Tan Twan Eng
The Measure By Nikki Erlick
The Mighty Red By Louise Erdrich
Hamnet By Maggie O’ Farrell
