The Upshur County Public Library’s Book Club began in September, 2017. It generally meets on the first Thursday of each month, barring holidays. They try and read a combination of both fiction and nonfiction titles.
Upcoming Reads
Here is the list of books the book club has tentatively scheduled to read over the next few months. Take a look at our catalog in order to find a copy of these books to read. All books should also be available in eBook or eAudiobook format on WVReads and WVDeli as well. A themed month is a month where members pick books on their own to read on a particular theme (i.e. in February, reading romance fiction), then at the meeting where they discuss about the book, each one gives a little talk about the book they picked.
| Date to be Read | Book Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| October 2021 | American Dirt | Jeanine Cummins |
| November 2021 | Reader's Choice - (Holiday Themed book) | |
| December 2021 | Lilac Girls | Martha Hall Kelly |
| January 2022 | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery |
If you are interested in joining the club, please give the Upshur County Public Library a call at (304)473-4219, ext. 14 or stop and inquire at the circulation desk for more information. Also, please check out the Facebook group we have set up on the library’s Facebook page.
Past Book Club Reads
- Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly
- Reader’s Choice (members picked books they liked and presented on them)
- Spool of Blue Thread, by Ann Tyler
- Orange is the New Black, by Piper Kiernan
- Saints at the River, by Ron Rash
- Blue Cotton Gown, by Patricia Harman
- Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer
- The Zookeeper’s Wife, by Diane Ackerman
- Rocket Boys, by Homer Hickam
- Unbroken, by Lauren Hillenbrand
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
- A Princess Found, by Sarah Culberson
- Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
- As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
- The Kitchen House, by Kathleen Grissom
- Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
- Glory Over Everything, by Kathleen Grissom
- Kingdom of the Blind, by Louise Penny
- Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
- The Only Woman in the Room, by Marie Benedict
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer
- The Bookshop, by Penelope Fitzgerald
- A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson
- 84, Charing Cross Road, by Helen Hanff
- Coffin Quilt: the Feud Between the Hatfields and the McCoys, by Ann Rinaldi
- Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
- Good Grief, by Lolly Winston
- Blue Jacket, the Life of a Shawnee Chieftain, by Allen Eckert
- The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
- Olive Ketteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
- Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins
- The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
- I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai
- Beneath a Scarlet Sky, by Mark T. Sullivan
- Dismal Mountain, by John Bilheimer
- Night of the Hunter, by Davis Grubb
- Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow
- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Michele Richardson
- This Tender Land, by William Kent Krueger
- Educated, by Tara Westover
- Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
- Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys