Our book club is celebrating 30 years! When we first opened the store, we didn’t have a book club, but requests led to a club being founded the second year, when we started off with Marcia Muller’s Edwin of the Iron Shoes. This is not the complete list (far from it!) but this list contains the books we loved, the books that sparked a great discussion of one kind or another, and many of them are favorites because the author actually attended and were so charming and funny (like Thomas Cook) or adorably brought their mothers (like Denise Swanson), that those events generated an interest by members of the book club wanting to read future installments. We were lucky enough to take Louise Penny and her husband to dinner with the club when A Fatal Grace (book 2) came out. Reading Raymond Chandler attracted perhaps the most men to ever attend a group; the discussion of Dorothy Sayers’ Gaudy Night brought a passionate and feisty bunch of women, some of whom had read the book dozens of times. When the store closed, I knew I wanted to keep the club going, and we started out meeting at a restaurant. Then COVID hit and we moved to zoom – we are now on zoom in the colder months, and we meet twice in the warmer months, once in person and once on zoom. A giant advantage of zoom is that authors are able and willing to join us which has been delightful – we’ve welcomed Mariah Fredericks, Naomi Hirahara and Paige Shelton. I’m looking forward to many more years of discussing what we love to read, and all are welcome to join – just message me at store (at) auntagathas.com if you’d like a zoom link. I keep the website updated with the current book club read, just search on “book club.” I feel lucky to know this group of passionate readers. Thanks guys, for the many, many great discussions!
Jusi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes
A.X. Ahmad, The Caretaker
Sharon Bolton (S.J.), Sacrifice
Jane Casey, The Burning
Sarah Caudwell, Thus Was Adonis Murdered
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
Ann Cleeves, Raven Black
Jeffrey Cohen, As Dog is My Witness
Alyssa Cole, When No One is Watching
Thomas Cook, Red Leaves
Colin Cotterill, The Coroner’s Lunch
S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears
Robert Crais, L.A. Requiem
Robert Crais, Suspect
Jeffrey Deaver, A Maiden’s Grave
Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
Brian Freeman, The Cold Nowhere
Tana French, Broken Harbor
Tana French, In the Woods
Leslie Glass, Stealing Time
Elly Griffiths, The Crossing Places
Elly Griffiths, The Postscript Murders
Michael Gruber, Tropic of Night
Denise Hamilton, Sugar Skull
Sophie Hannah, The Wrong Mother
Charlaine Harris, Shakespeare’s Landlord
Libby Fischer Hellman, An Eye for Murder
Naomi Hirahara, Clark & Division
Naomi Hirahara, Snakeskin Shamesin
Anna Lee Huber, The Anatomist’s Wife
Arnuldur Indridason, Jar City
Julia Keller, A Killing in the Hills
Faye Kellerman, The Ritual Bath
Jonathon King, The Blue Edge of Midnight
William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake
William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace
Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know
Alex Marwood, The Darkest Secret
Sujata Massey, The Widows of Malabar Hill
Derek B. Miller, Norwegian by Night
Allison Montclair, The Right Sort of Man
Robert B. Parker, The Godwulf Manuscript
P.J. Parrish, The Dead of Winter
Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace
Louise Penny, Still Life
Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains
Ruth Rendell, A Dark Adapted Eye
Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone
Peter Robinson, In a Dry Season
Jonathan Santlofer, The Last Mona Lisa
Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Tom Rob Smith, Child 44
Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter
Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder
Michael Stanley, A Carrion Death
Chevy Stevens, Still Missing
Sarah Stewart-Taylor, The Mountains Wild
Vidar Sundstol, Only the Dead
Denise Swanson, Murder of a Small Town Honey
Charles Todd, A Test of Wills
Minette Walters, The Sculptress
Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy
Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs