I’m pretty proud of myself! I just updated our Alpine Book Club reading list to include all the books we have read from 2005 to 2018! We have some super fun books planned for this year. Check it out!
The Comprehensive Alpine Book Club Reading list 2005-20
2005 Book Club Reading List
October: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
November: Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour
December: Mitten Strings for God-Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry by Katrina Kenison
2006 Book Club Reading List
January: The Cay by Theodore Taylor
February: Letters for Emily by Cameron Wright
March: These is My Words by Nancy Turner
April: The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
May: Tarzan: King of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
June: Glimpses Into the Life and Heart of Marjorie Pay Hinckley
July: No Book
August: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
September: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
October: The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
November: The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
December: No book
2007 Book Club Reading List
January: Share a favorite children’s book
February: Persuasion by Jane Austen
March: Candle in the Darkness by Lynn Austin
April: Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
May: Star Girl by Jerry Spinelli
June: Bad Ground by Dale Cramer
July: No book
August: Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
September: Charms for the Easy Live by Kaye Gibbons
October: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
November: Out to Pature: But Not Over the Hill by Effie Leland Wilder
December: The Wednesday Letters by Jason Wright
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2014-15 Book Club List
Our Alpine Book Club has been going on for almost ten years. It has been so enriching – even if no one really reads the books! When we first moved here to Alpine, I was complaining to an old friend who was in my Virginia book club. She moved to Seattle the same time we moved here and we were both trying re-create the wonderful book club we had just left. I was a little frustrated that no one really read the books we were supposed to be discussing, with the exception of two or three ladies. She sent me this refrigerator magnet that I love:
For this group we generally choose books that are recommended by at least one member of the book club or by a trusted source to avoid reading books that are inappropriate. We like to stick with PG rated books! For nine of the twelve months we select books from each of the following categories:
• Biography/Autobiography
• Classics
• American History (for July – can be fiction or non-fiction)
•Human suffering (Cultural Revolution in China, Holocaust, Khmer Rouge in Cambodia etc…)
• Juvenile or Young Adult
• Christmas
• Halloween/Mystery
• Christian book for Easter
• Parenting or self-help book
2014-15 Reading List
We have some really interesting titles this year!
December: A Certain Small Shepherd by Rebecca Caudill
January: To Mormons with Love by Chrisy Ross
February: Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
March: Driven: An Autobiography by Larry H. Miller
April: The Power of Everyday Missionaries: The What and How of Sharing the Gospel by Clayton Christensen
May: Running for my Life: One Lost Boy’s Journey from the killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games by Lopez Lomong
June: Still Alice by Lisa Genova
July: River of Doubt by Candice Millard
August: Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan
September: Cinder by Marissa Myer
October: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
November: The Five Love Languages by Gary D. Chapman. You may choose to read any (or all) of the books. The 5 Love Languages original, The 5 Love Languages of Children, The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition, The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers…There is even a 5 Love Languages Military Edition!