Book Club Reading Schedule for 2018

[ufcasey]

Here are the dates/titles we will be doing our book club discussions in 2018! Please look out at least three months ahead as some of these books had very long wait lists when I checked my library.

January 31: We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (non-fiction)
February 28: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (classic)
March 28: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore (history)
April 25: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (historical fiction)
May 30: Artemis by Andy Weir (science fiction)
June 27: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (fiction)
July 25: Warcross by Marie Lu (young adult)
August 29: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (historical fiction)
September 26: Now That You Mention It by Kristan Higgins (romance)
October 30: Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine (mystery/thriller)
November 28: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates (non-fiction)
December 27: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (fantasy)

[abs]

Sounds great. Thanks so much for setting this up!!

[CrazyLucky]

The January book just came off hold for me. I'm glad it's a short book!
And yes, thank you for setting this up.

[rainbowchip]

Whoa! I am number 1399 on the hold list for Little Fires Everywhere. That is the highest I've ever been!
My library only owns 66 copies.
I may be getting the paper one for this. 😁

[ufcasey]

Jan 26, 2018 12:03:33 GMT -5 rainbowchip said:

Whoa! I am number 1399 on the hold list for Little Fires Everywhere. That is the highest I've ever been!
My library only owns 66 copies.
I may be getting the paper one for this. 😁

That is impressive! Makes my number 138 for "Before We Were Yours" look easy! lol

[mrspez07]

I’ve been looking forward to this post all week! Thanks for organizing everything.

[aurora]

Thank you! I ended up buying We Should All be Feminists and I've read Little Women several times so it's good to be ready for the first two, then have some time for library holds after that.

[bex]

Jan 26, 2018 12:03:33 GMT -5 rainbowchip said:

Whoa! I am number 1399 on the hold list for Little Fires Everywhere. That is the highest I've ever been!
My library only owns 66 copies.
I may be getting the paper one for this. 😁

I don't know if your library does this, but my library has the latest bestsellers (maybe one copy each of maybe 15 books) on special loans. You CAN do the whole waitlist thing, but they will also let you take the book out for one week (no renewals).  I was able to read LFE in maybe 3 days - it's a pretty fast read.

I don't know if all libraries have that though.

[snshne322]

Those look like excellent choices!

[ally]

Thank you for doing this.  It is great to see the list, be able to get books put on hold (some have a long wait list), and hopefully participate this year. 

[rainbowchip]

Jan 27, 2018 7:45:28 GMT -5 bex said:

Jan 26, 2018 12:03:33 GMT -5 rainbowchip said:

Whoa! I am number 1399 on the hold list for Little Fires Everywhere. That is the highest I've ever been!
My library only owns 66 copies.
I may be getting the paper one for this. 😁

I don't know if your library does this, but my library has the latest bestsellers (maybe one copy each of maybe 15 books) on special loans. You CAN do the whole waitlist thing, but they will also let you take the book out for one week (no renewals).  I was able to read LFE in maybe 3 days - it's a pretty fast read.

I don't know if all libraries have that though.

I've never heard of my library doing that. They use overdrive.

I put a hold on the paper copy and I'm only #19 on that list. I should be able to get it.

[pinotgrig]

Jan 26, 2018 12:16:15 GMT -5 ufcasey said:

Jan 26, 2018 12:03:33 GMT -5 rainbowchip said:

Whoa! I am number 1399 on the hold list for Little Fires Everywhere. That is the highest I've ever been!
My library only owns 66 copies.
I may be getting the paper one for this. 😁

That is impressive! Makes my number 138 for "Before We Were Yours" look easy! lol

I have Before We Were Yours if you’d like me to send it your way. I bought it to read for my IRL book club a few months ago. Totally understand if you don’t want to share your address, though.

[ufcasey]

Jan 31, 2018 20:35:53 GMT -5 pinotgrig said:

Jan 26, 2018 12:16:15 GMT -5 ufcasey said:

That is impressive! Makes my number 138 for "Before We Were Yours" look easy! lol

I have Before We Were Yours if you’d like me to send it your way. I bought it to read for my IRL book club a few months ago. Totally understand if you don’t want to share your address, though.

Thanks for the offer!! I'll wait to see if the library list moves quickly since we have until the end of August before we have that discussion, but if I'm still on hold in July I will totally take you up on that!