Columbus Public Library Book Discussion  


This book discussion club meets at 7:00 PM on the last Thursday of each month at the Columbus Public Library. 
You do not need to be a member to attend. Everyone is welcome!

Please call Rachelle McPhillips if you have questions. 402-564-7116

*The book club will join the Friends of the Public Library for community book discussions on the last Sunday in February and April 2010. There will not be a Thursday evening meeting for "Mules and Men" by Hurston and "All The King's Men" by Warren.

2010 List  

January
*February
March
*April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder by Stew Magnuson
Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Say You're One of Them by Uwen Akpan
Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls
Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx
Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
No meeting
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd

2009 List  

Jan
Feb
Mar
April
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec

Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
Floor of the Sky by Pamela Carter Joern
Home by Marilynne Robinson
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Joel Hafvernstein
The Home Place by Wright Morris
The Shack by Wm. Paul Young
Finn by Jon Clinch
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
No meeting
Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse

2008 List  

Jan 31
Feb 28
Mar 27
April 24
May 29
June 26
July 21
Aug 28
Sept 25
Oct 30
Nov
Dec 4

The Greatest Generation Speaks by Tom Brokaw
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhupha Lahiri
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters by Timothy Schaffert
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind  by Ivan Doig
Montana by L. Watson
A Thousand Splendid Suns  by Khaled Hosseini
Montana 1948  by Richard Ford
Sundown, Yellow Moon: a Novel  by Larry Watson
Restoring the Burnt Child  by William Kloefkorn 
No Meeting
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar  

2007 List  

Jan 25
Feb 22
Mar 29
April 26
May 31
June 28
July 26
Aug 30
Sept 27
Oct 25
Nov
Dec 13

Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (a video showing)
Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen
Digging to America by Anne Tayler
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin
Blue Horse Dreaming by Melanie Wallace
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
The Worst Hard Times by Timothy Egan
No meeting
Two Old Women by Velma Wallis

2006 List  

Jan 26
Feb 23         
Mar 30         
April 27        
May 25         
June 29        
July 27
Aug 31         
Sept 28        
Oct 26           
Nov               
Dec 7          

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Goodnight Nebraska by Tom McNeal
A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Marley & Me by John Grogan
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
no meeting
In the Land of Second Chances by George Shaffner


2005 List  

Jan 24
Feb 27
Mar 24
April 28
May 26
June 30
July 28
Aug 25
Sept 29
Oct 27
Nov
Dec 1

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
One False Move by Alex Kava
Giants in the Earth by Ole Rolvag
Five Quarter's of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Crazy Horse by Mari Sandox
Cold Sassy Tree by Ann Burns
I Married Adventure by Osa Johnson
No Meeting
Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger

2004 List  

Jan 29          
Feb 26         
Mar 25         
April 29        
May 25         
June 24        
July 29 
Aug 26         
Sept 30        
Oct 28           
Nov               
Dec 9           

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress  by Dai Sijie
T
he Great Gatsby  by F. Scott Fitzgerald
T
he Girl With the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Slogum House by Mari Sandoz
The Kite Runner  by Khaled Hosseini
Black Elk Speaks  by John Neihardt
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Dalva by Jim Harrison
The five People you Meet in Heaven  by Mitch Albom
Fahrenheit 451  by Ray Bradbury
No meeting
Sweet Eyes  by Janis Agee