A New Year!
The UD Book Club begins the 2018/2019 academic year!
- July - Faithful Place by Tana French
- August - Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
- September - Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
- October - One Perfect Lie by Lisa Scottoline
- November - Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
- January - In a Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
- February - The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
- March - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- May - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah.
- June - The Wife Between US by Greer Hendricks
- August - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- September - The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
- November - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- February - The Pink Suit by Nicole Mary Kelby
- March - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
2018/2019 Picks . . .
The Pink Suit by ISBN: 9780316235655Publication Date: 2014On November 22, 1963, the First Lady accompanied her husband to Dallas, Texas, dressed in a pink Chanel-style suit. Much of her wardrobe came from the New York boutique Chez Ninon, where a young seamstress, named Kate, worked behind the scenes to craft the outfits. When the pink suit Kate created becomes iconic for all the wrong reasons, her already fragile world, divided between the excess and artistry of Chez Ninon and the traditional values of her insular neighborhood, threatens to rip apart.
Our February Selection.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Call Number: PS3620.O945 G46 2016ISBN: 9780670026197Publication Date: 2016Amor Towles skillfully transports us to The Metropol, the famed Moscow hotel where movie stars and Russian royalty hobnob, where Bolsheviks plot revolutions and intellectuals discuss the merits of contemporary Russian writers, where spies spy, thieves thieve and the danger of twentieth century Russia lurks outside its marbled walls.
Our November selection.
The Silkworm by Call Number: PR 6068 .O93 S56 2014ISBN: 9780316206877Publication Date: 2014A novelist completes a manuscript that if published will ruin lives. When the novelist, Quine, is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances it becomes a race against time to understand the motivations of a ruthess killer.
Our September selection.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Call Number: PR 6108 .055 E43 2017ISBN: 9780735220683Publication Date: 2017Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance means that Eleanor has become a creature of habit (to say the least) and a bit of a loner. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.
Our August selection.
Lilac Girls by Call Number: PS 3611 .E452 L55 2017ISBN: 9781101883082Publication Date: 2017New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939—and then sets its sights on France.
Our July selection.
The Wife Between Us by Call Number: PS3608 .E5297 W54 2018ISBN: 9781250130921Publication Date: 2018When you read this book, you will make many assumptions.
You will assume you are reading about a jealous ex-wife.
You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement – a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love.
You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle.
Assume nothing.
Our June selection.
Born a Crime by Call Number: PN 2287 .N557 A3 2016ISBN: 9780399588198Publication Date: 2016Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse.
Our May meeting.
The Underground Railroad by Call Number: PS 3573 .H4768 U53 2016ISBN: 9780385542364Publication Date: 2016Cora is a slave. When a new arrival, Caesar, tells her about the Underground Railroad they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned.
Our March selection.
The Lying Game by Call Number: PR 6123 .A745 W66 2016ISBN: 9781501156007Publication Date: 2017Four girls were inseparable at boarding school - each very different but each notorious for playing a lying game which proves to have dire consequences.
Our February selection.
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Call Number: PR 6123 .A745 I5 2015ISBN: 9781501112317Publication Date: 2015Lee is a reclusive writer, unwilling to leave her nest of an apartment. But when a friend she hasn't spoken to in years invites her to a weekend away in an eerie glass house she reluctantly agrees. Forty-eight hours later, she wakes in a hospital bed with the knowledge that someone is dead.
Our January 2019 selection.
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Call Number: PR 6123 .A745 W66 2016ISBN: 9781501132933Publication Date: 2016Lo, a journalist for a travel magazine gets a wonderful assignment -- a week on a luxury cruise. Everything goes beautifully until Lo experiences terrifying nightmares about someone being thrown overboard.
Our November selection.
One Perfect Lie by Call Number: PS 3569 .C725 O54 2017ISBN: 9781250099563Publication Date: 2017On paper, Chris Brennan looks perfect. A high school government teacher and assistant baseball coach, his references are impeccable. He easily befriends the baseball players and their families. But everything about Chris Brennan is a lie.
Our October selection.
The Casual Vacancy by Call Number: PR 6068 .O93 C372012ISBN: 9780316228534Publication Date: 2012A big novel about a small town . . .
Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems.
And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen.
Our September selection.
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Call Number: PS 3608 .O4774 S28 2010ISBN: 9780670021390Publication Date: 2010Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her mother, Camille, the town’s tiara-wearing, lipstick-smeared laughingstock, a woman who is trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen of Georgia. When tragedy strikes, Tootie Caldwell, CeeCee’s long-lost great-aunt, comes to the rescue and whisks her away to Savannah. There, CeeCee is catapulted into a world of prosperity and Southern eccentricity—one that appears to be run entirely by strong, wacky women
Our August selection.
Faithful Place by Call Number: PR 6106 .R457 F35 2010ISBN: 9780670021871Publication Date: 2010Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping hisi family's cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd dumped him-probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie's suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and Frank, now a detective in the Dublin Undercover squad, is going home whether he likes it or not.
Our July selection.
