Shelf Indulgence Book Club

If you enjoy reading a diverse mix of literary fiction and nonfiction, then this book club is for you! We read one book each month, and meet on the third Thursday at 11 am or the fourth Tuesday at 6 pm to discuss it.

January Book:

Thursday, January 15 at 11 AM

Tuesday, January 20 at 6 PM

Heartwood by Amity Gaige

When an experienced hiker mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail in Maine, a Game Warden and a birdwatcher both attempt to put the clues together to locate her.

February Book:

Thursday, February 19 at 11 AM

Tuesday, February 24 at 6 PM

The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

A World War II story (based on a true story) of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper.

March Book:

Thursday, March 19 at 11 AM

Tuesday, March 24 at 6 PM

A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst

A true story of a young couple in 1972 who quit their jobs, sell their house, buy a bought, and sail away. After a year, a whale knocks a hole in their boat, and they must fight to survive in the wild ocean—and find ways to get along as their marriage is put to the ultimate test.

April Book:

Thursday, April 16 at 11 AM

Tuesday, April 28 at 6 PM

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

Former bank vice president Andy Dufresne is wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and ends up in Shawshank State Penitentiary. Described by King as a prison escape story in the vein of old Warner Bros. films. 

May Book:

Thursday, May 21 at 11 AM

Tuesday, May 26 at 6 PM

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

The saga of twin brothers born of a secret union between an Indian nun and a British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Adaba. They are bound together by a shared fascination with medicine and they come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. 

June Book:

Thursday, June 18 at 11 AM

Tuesday, June 25 at 6 PM

So Far Gone by Jess Walter

A reclusive journalist is suddenly thrown into a wild, suspenseful journey to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren. After escalating family fights about politics, Rhys Kinnick went off the grid in 2016. When his grandchildren show up on his doorstep, on the run from their father who has taken up with a Christian Nationalist militia, Rhys realizes he will do anything for the kids—even re-entering the broken world.

July Book:

Thursday, July 16 at 11 AM

Tuesday, July 28 at 6 PM

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

A young Irish orphan arrives at a tobacco plantation, where she lives and works with the enslaved laborers of the kitchen house. She becomes deeply bonded and finds herself straddling two very different worlds as she grows up.

August Book:

Thursday, August 20 at 11 AM

Tuesday, August 25 at 6 PM

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

In 1975, a summer camp counselor discovers that a thirteen-year-old camper has gone missing. The teen, Barbara, is the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And fourteen years ago, her older brother also vanished and was never found. A literary mystery that reveals the secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow. 

September Book:

Thursday, September 17 at 11 AM

Tuesday, September 22 at 6 PM

My Antonia by Willa Cather

An orphaned boy from Virginia and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska at the end of the 19^th century. 

October Book:

Thursday, October 15 at 11 AM

Tuesday, October 27 at 6 PM

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

A Southern supernatural thriller set in the 90s about a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a vampire. 

November Book:

Thursday, November 19 at 11 AM

Tuesday, November 24 at 6 PM

My Friends by Fredrik Backman

The story of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger’s life twenty-five years later. 

December Book:

Tuesday, December 15 at 6 PM

Thursday, December 17 at 11 AM

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

In 1985 in a small Irish town, during the weeks leading up to Christmas, a local coal merchant makes a discovery while delivering an order to the local convent. This discovery forces him to confront his past and the complicit silences of the church and his country.