Book Club on The Hill
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January 2022-The Wake-Linden MacIntyre
February 2022- Five Little Indians- Michelle Good and What Strange Paradise-Omar El Akkad
March 2022- All the 2022 Canada Reads books-Five Little Indians- Michelle Good, What Strange Paradise- Omar El Akkad, Life in the City of Dirty Water-Clayton Thomas- Muller, Scarborough- Catharine Hernandez, Washington Black-Esi Edugyan
April 2022 Cry the Beloved Country- Alan Paton
May 2022 Born a Crime- Trevor Noah
June 2022-The Diviners- Margaret Laurence
July 2022- Klara and the Sun-Kazuo Ishiguro
August 2022- Station Eleven- Emily St John Mandel
September 2022- The Pull of the Stars-Emma Donaghue
October 2022- Galore-Michael Crummey
November 2022- Island Beneath the Sea- Isabel Allende
December 2022-The Memory Palace-Mira Bartok
January 2023-The Life we Bury-Allen Eskens
February 2023- Hotline-Dimitri Nasrallah
March 2023- Canada Reads-Ducks-Kate Beaton, Greenwood -Michael Christie, Hotline- Dimitri Nasrallah, Station Eleven -Emily St John Mandel, Mexican Gothic-Silvia Morena-Garcia
April 2023-Baldur’s Song-David Arnason
May 2023- Shuggie Bain- Douglas Stuart
June 2023-The Nickel Boys-Colson Whitehead
July 2023-Fight Night-Miriam Toews
August 2023- The House we Grew Up In-Lisa Jewell
September 2023- Piranesi- Susanna Clarke
October 2023-Cupid’s Song- Ishbel Moore (author in attendance)
November 2023-All Creatures Great and Small- James Herriot
December 2023-White Oleander- Janet Fitch
January 2024 - Five Wives - Joan Thomas
Feb 2024 - All Canada Reads Books - Bad Cree by Jessica Johns, Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes and Christina Wong, Meet me at the Lake by Carley Fortune, Shut Up You're Pretty by Tea Mutonji and the Future by Catherine Leroux
March 2024 - His Whole Life - Elizabeth Hay
April 2024 - They Left Us Everything - Plum Johnson
May 2024 - Reproduction - Ian Williams
June 2024 - Letters Across the Sea - Genevieve Graham
July 2024 - A Man Called Ove - Fredick Backman
Aug 2024 - Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Madeleine Thien
Sept 2024 - Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
Oct 2024 - All the Light we cannot See - Anthony Doerr
Nov 2024 - Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
Dec 2024 - A Redbird Christmas - Fannie Flagg
Jan 2025 - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Feb 2025 - Tales from a Snowbank - John Horner (author in attendance)
March 2025 - Canada Reads - Watch out for Her by Samantha Bailey, A Two Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby, Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper, Jennie's Boy by Wayne Johnston, Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew
April 2025 - The Strangers by Katharine Vermette
May 2025 - Eleanor Oliphant is Complete Fine by Gail Honeyman
June 2025 - Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
July 2025 - The Vanishing Half - Bree Bennett
August 2025 - Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
Sept 2025 - Four Winds - Kristin Hannah
Oct 2025 - The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
Nov 2025 - Feeding my Mother - Jann Arden
Dec 2025 - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce