2026-27 Book Selections

September:  Historical Fiction

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

a satirical novel about a "tradwife" (a/k/a traditional wife: a married woman who voluntarily adopt tradition gender roles in her marriage and family life) influencer, Natalie Heller Mills, whose curated online life implodes when she finds herself in a harsh, 19th-century reality, forcing her to confront her past and the "tradwife" lifestyle she promoted.

October - Foreign author

The Beekeeper of Aleppo by  Christy Lefteri

The story follows Nuri and Afra as they escape Aleppo, travel through Turkey and Greece, and journey toward their family in Britain, all while dealing with grief and the dangers

of being refugees.

November -Young Adult or Children’s Literature

The Downstairs Girl by Stacey H. Lee

Jo works for a wealthy family and secretly writes an advice column, "Dear Miss Sweetie," which becomes a sensation, but her radical views put her in danger.

December -Christmas

The wonderful crime of the year by Ally Carter

Two rival authors, Maggie and Ethan, are invited to a Christmas party at the estate of a famous mystery writer, Eleanor Ashley, who vanishes from a locked room.

January - Classic book

Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

A gothic philosophical novel about a beautiful young man who sells his soul to keep his youth while his portrait ages and shows his moral corruption. The story is a tale about the pursuit of vanity and pleasure without morality.

February - Spiritual

Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren

In the overlooked moments and routines of our day, we can become aware of God’s presence in surprising ways. How do we embrace the sacred in the ordinary and the ordinary in the sacred? Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices, and habits that form us. Each chapter looks at something?making the bed, brushing her teeth, losing her keys?that the author does every day.

March - Memoir

Open Road: A Mid-life Memoir by Toby Neal

A memoir about a middle-aged couple, traversing US national parks, to find renewal, address health crises and embrace life’s changes.

April - The book or the movie?

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens:

This book tells the “coming of age story” of Kya Clark intermingled with a mystery and a celebration of nature.

May - Nonfiction

The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets and Helped

win World II by Candace Fleming

“You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time.…That is all you need to know.” This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II raged.