
Read Your Own Darn Book Club
Come join us on Tuesday at 7pm in the Cottage! Join us for discussion and fellowship! Please See Calendar page for Book Club dates.
November 2025 – Read Your Own Darned Book Recommendations
- My Favorite Terrible Thing by Madeline Henry—Judy R.
- The Wedding People by Alison Espach—Monica
- What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan—Janet
- How to Say Babylon, a Memoir by Safiya Sinclair—Marie
- All the Beauty in the World, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley–Becky
Oct 2025 Read Your Own Darned Book Group Recommendation
- Mother Emanuel by Kevin Sack—Becky
- A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende—Marie
- Say You Remember Me by Abby Jimenez—Marie
- The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand—Janet
- The Secret Book Society by Madeline Martin—Ann S.
- A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst—Emelie
- Under Currents by Nora Roberts—Judy R. Count my Lies by Sophie Stava—Judy R.
Sept 2025 Read Your Own Darned Book Group Recommendation
- Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce-Debbie J
- A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende—Marie
- The Wedding People by Alison Espach—Marie
- Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid—Marie
- Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty—Marie
- Dear America, Notes from an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas—Janet
- The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck—Ann S
- A Woman of No Importance, the Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War 2 By Sonia Purnell—Ann S
- The Wedding People by Alison Espach—Becky
- Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming—Becky
- Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins—Debbie W
- One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune—Debbie W
- When I Fell from the Sky, the True Story of One Woman’s Miraculous Survival by Juliane Koepke—Mary
- The Housemaid by Frida McFadden—Judy
- Beyond Summer Land by Jenny LeCoat–Judy
May 2025 Read Your Own Darned Book Group Recommendation
- No Strangers Here by Carlene O’Connor—Judy R.
- Turning to Stone by Marcia Bjornerud—Becky
- Tom Lake, State of Wonder, Bel Canto, The Dutch House by Ann Patchett—Monica
- We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes—Janet
- Change the Recipe by Jose Andres—Janet
- My Husband by Maud Ventura—Mikayla
- The Women by Kristin Hannah—Marie
- The Man who Died Twice by Richard Osman–Marie
April 2025 Read Your Own Darned Book Group Recommendations
- North Woods by Daniel Mason—Becky
- God of the Woods by Liz Moore—Debbie W.
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett—Ann S.
- We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes—Janet
- Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller—Marie
- Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto—Marie
- Healing Wounds by Diane Carlson Evans—Mary
RYODB List – March 2025
- What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan—Debbie J.
- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek—Debbie J.
- The Fury by Alex Michaelides—Judy R.
- The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl—Judy R.
- Nemesis by Philip Roth—Emelie
- James by Percival Everett—Becky
- The Wedding People by Alison Espach—Debbie W.
- Pause by Elizabeth Caldwell—Monica
- Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks—Monica
- Surprise Me by Sophie Kinsella—Ann S.
- The Search by Michelle Huneven—Janet
- Listen for the Lie by Amy Tinterra—Janet
- We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes—Janet
- The Briar Club by Kate Quinn—Marie
- A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson–Marie
RYODB List – May 2024
- Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll—Marie
- The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: the True Story of the Women who Sewed to Survive by Lucy
- Adlington—Marie
- The Lost Girls of Willowbrook: a Heartbreaking Novel of Survival Based on True History by Ellen Marie
- Wiseman—Judy R
- The Quarry Girls by Jess Loury—Judy R
- What She Found by Robert Dugoni—Judy R
- Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susan Cahalan—Mary A
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks—Becky
- The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro—Ann S
- The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell—Janet
- The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell—Janet
- The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels—Emelie
- Absolution by Alice McDermott—Debbie W.