This reading group (or book club) has been in operation since Spring of 2004. The members are primarily friends and acquaintances who attend the Athens II Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. However, this is not a church-affiliated group, and anyone is welcome to join.
We meet every month or two at a member's home and discuss the book we've been reading together. The person hosting the discussion (usually the one who recommended the book) gives a little background information on the author and leads the discussion on the book (this is all extremely low-key, by the way).
The host also provides refreshments, which often somehow go along with the theme of the book. We read a wide variety of books though we probably read classics more often than other types of books.
Past Books
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
Book of Mormon Girl by Joanna Brooks
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
The Arabian Nights
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
The Spectacles, The Black Cat, A Valentine, and Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Bloodroot by Amy Greene
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Mr Edwards Meets Santa Claus by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
Menashe and Rachel by Isaac Bashevis Singer and The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen and Andrew David Relin
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Wednesday Letters by Jason Wright
A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Lake Isle of Innisfree and When You Are Old by W. B. Yeats
injust--Spring and anyone lived in a pretty how town by e e cummings
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Josephine Bonaparte (any biography)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
These Is My Words by Nancy Turner
Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
To Destroy You Is No Loss by Teeda Butt Mam
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Poetry (various authors)
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Emma by Jane Austen
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Time Machine by Orson Wells
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Abraham Lincoln (any biography)
The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath by Sigrid Undset
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe
