Dunn Library

Simpson Book Club

The Simpson Book Club meets at 12:00 pm in Dunn Library, on the second Wednesday of every other month unless otherwise specified.

2012

Unbroken : a world war II story of survival, resilience and redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (May 9th selection)

Crooked letter, crooked letter by Tom Franklin (April 11th selection)

Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children by Ransom Riggs(March 14th selection)

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (February 8th selection)

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (January 11th selection)

2011

A Christmas Blizzard by Garrison Keillor  (December 14th selection)

Room by Emma Donoghue.   (November 9th selection)

The Help by Kathryn Stockett.   (October 5th selection)

Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos.   An All Iowa Reads book selection (April 28th selection)

Ape House by Sara Gruen (March 2nd selection)

Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (January 12th selection)

2010

Holiday Pick (December 1st selection)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (October 6th selection)

Mother's Day (May 5th selection)

Driftless by David Rhodes (April 15th selection)

14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy (March 3rd selection)

Romantic Read (February 3rd selection)

The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin (January 6th selection)

2009

Holiday Theme:  Books about the Spirit of the Season (December 2nd selection)

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo (November 4th selection)

The Road by Cormac McCarthy (October 7th selection)

Back To School: Books with a School/College theme (September 2nd selection)

Humorous fiction or nonfiction book (June 10th selection)

The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman (April 8th selection)

Women's History Month--memoir or autobiography by a woman (March 18th selection)

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker by A'lelia Bundles
The Women who raised Me by Victoria Rowell
Audition: A Memoir by Barbara Walters
Searching for Angela Shelton by Angela Shelton
The Late Bloomer's Revolution by Amy Cohen
Rockabye: From Wild to Child by Rebecca Woolf
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke

Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (February 11th selection)

2008

Without a Backward Glance by Kate Veitch (December 3rd selection)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (October 8th selection)

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (April 9th selection)

Same as It Never Was by Claire Scovell LaZebnik (February 6th selection)

2007

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Dec 5th selection)

Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish (Oct 3rd selection)

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (May 2nd selection)

Food and Fiction! (or non-Fiction) (March 7th selection)

The Splendid Solution by Jeffrey Kluger (January 10th selection)


2006

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (November 1st selection)

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (September 6th selection)

Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini (May 3rd selection)

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (All Iowa Reads 2006) (March 1st selection)

Wicked, the Life and Time of the Wicked Witch of the West  by Gregory Maguire (January selection)


2005

Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner

Midnight Assassin by Patricia Bryan and Thomas Wolf

Montana 1948 by Larry Watson


2004

Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon

 

For information or to suggest future book selections, contact: Liz Grimsbo

Last Updated: 1/24/12