• By Walkertown Branch Library
• Posted Friday, December 20, 2024

Walkertown Well-Read Readers Book Club

Join us as we read a mixture of older and newer fiction titles from all genres. Maybe you didn’t get a chance to discuss an older title the first time you read it. Let’s find out if the new books are worth all the hype. This is a great opportunity to talk about books in a relaxed atmosphere.

We meet the second Thursday of each month, at 6pm.

Contact Walkertown Branch Library at 336-703-2990 for more information.

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2025 titles

• January 9: Remarkably Bright Creatures (2022) By Shelby Van Pelt
  • An exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.
• February 13: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (2009) By Jamie Ford
  • A tale of love and friendship in a Seattle Japanese internment camp during WWII.
• March 13: Yellowface (2023) By R.F. Kuang
  • Darkly humorous, this novel grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as a young author publishes a book she did not write.
• April 10: Art of Racing in the Rain (2008) By Garth Stein
  • A captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life ... as only a dog could tell it.
• May 8: Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (2023) By Lisa See
  • An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China.
• June 12: The Martian (2011) By Andy Weir
  • Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.
• July 10: First Lie Wins (2024) By Ashley Elston
  • Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.
• August 14: Water for Elephants (2006) By Sara Gruen
  • A veterinary student is put in charge of the menagerie for a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression.
• September 11: Heaven and Earth Grocery Store (2023) By James McBride
  • Human remains are found near Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side, sharing ambitions and sorrows.
• October 9: The Secret Life of Bees (2001) By Sue Monk Kidd
  • A remarkable novel about divine female power, a story women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.
• November 13: The River We Remember (2023) By William Kent Kruger
  • In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances.
• December 11: Oona Out of Order (2020) By Magarita Montimore
  • It’s New Year’s Eve and Oona turns 19 tomorrow. Except she wakes up to a random year in her life–which is now out of order.