The Community Book Club meets in-person in Faith’s library on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 7 p.m.
All are welcome to participate. You do not have to be a member of Faith Lutheran.
Questions regarding the book club can be directed to Lori Hilmer.
Upcoming Books
2026
June– The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
July– The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick
August– The Bee Keeper of Allepo by Art Malik
September – Blood To Rubies by Deborah Hufford
October – When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin
November– Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
December – The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Books Previously Read & Discussed
2026
The Lies They Told (Ellen Marie Wiseman)
My Friends (Fredrik Backman)
The Many Lives of Mama Love (Lara Love Hardin)
The Thread Collectors (Shaunna J Edwards)
Where the Rivers Part (Kao Kalia Young)
2025
Dear Edward (Ann Napolitano)
Murder on the Red River (Marcie Rendon)
The Book of Lost Names (Kristin Harmel)
Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother and Me (Whoopi Goldberg)
Horse (Geraldine Brooks)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
Winter Garden (Kristin Hannah)
The Henna Artist (Alka Joshi)
The Violin Conspiracy (Brandon Slocumb)
Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting (Clare Pooley)
2024
The House of Eve (Sadeqa Johnson)
Peace Like A River (Leif Enger)
Take My Hand (Dolen Perkins-Valdez)
The Frozen River (Ariel Lawhon)
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt)
Boys in the Boat (Daniel James Brown)
The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)
The Women (Kristen Hannah)
2023
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Pulitzer Prize 2023)
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult. *Holocaust Resources
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict/Victoria Christopher Murray
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
Roam by CH Armstrong
West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
Hugs Help by Randy Stocker
Honolulu by Alan Brennert
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah
2022
Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson
The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
Defending Jacob by William Landay
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Thunder Dog by Michael Hingson
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
The Paris Library by Janet Charles
Tattoos on the Heart by Father Gregory Boyle
A Most Beautiful Thing by Arshay Cooper
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Love Is the Way by Bishop Michael Curry
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
2021
How Cancer Cured My Broken Soul by Nicole Czarnomski and off our chests by John and Liza Marshall
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
Anxious People by Fredrick Backman
Finding Chika by Mitch Albom
The Daughter of Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Crazy Love by Leslie Morgan Steiner
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
2020
A Good Time for the Truth by Sun Yung Shin
Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza
A Witness by Renee Splichal Larson
When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold Kushner
All But my Life by Gerda Klein
Educated by Tara Westover
*Peter Feigl – Survived the Holocaust as a child. Speaker at Holocaust Educator’s Event at Viterbo University 2023. Presentation begins at 12 minute mark. LINK
*The Soldier and the Dress – WKBT LaCrosse interview Part One LINK and Part Two LINK