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Books We Read in 2022

These are books we read and discussed in 2022.

• January — Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane (Discussion Leader: Eileen Roberta). Rookie NYPD cops are also neighbors, but what happens behind closed doors sets the stage for explosive events. A portrait of the daily intimacies of marriage and the power of forgiveness.
   
• February — The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Discussion Leader: Donna Dougherty). Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, another for the life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
   
• March — Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown (Discussion Leader: Marcia Shorr). A modern-day woman finds inspiration in hidden notes left by her home’s previous owner, a typical 1950s housewife. As she discovers remarkable parallels between their lives, she begins to question her own relationship with her husband.
   
• April — The Rose Code by Kate Quinn (Discussion Leader: Kathy Morey). A heart-stopping World War II story of three English female code breakers as they deal with a mysterious encrypted letter--the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum.
   
• May — Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (Discussion Leader: Mary Ann Hume). In 1580’s England, during the Black Plague, a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this historical novel and best-selling winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
   
• June — Jazz by Toni Morrison (Discussion Leader: Tary Yurkovich). In 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good ahead, Joe, a middle-aged door-to-door salesman, shoots his teenage love to death. A profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative of emotion, hope, fear and the deep realities of black urban life.
   
• July — Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen (Discussion Leader: Pam Iserloth). A hilarious novel of social and political intrigue, set against the glittering backdrop of Florida’s gold coast.

• October — 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand (Discussion Leader: Renee Simpson). An exploration of the agony and romance of a one-weekend-per-year affair and the dramatic ways this relationship complicates and enriches their lives and the lives of the people they love.
   
• November — The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (Discussion Leader: Charlotte Davis). In 1921 Texas, Elsa marries a man she barely knows but by 1934, drought arrives and everything on the farm is dying, including the marriage. As Elsa sets out for California, we witness the courage, hope, resilience and sacrifice that defined the generation.
   
• December — Our annual Morning with Local Authors, followed by our annual Christmas/Holiday Luncheon and Secret Santa used book exchange. Our Guest authors are:

• Nancy Pflum — Murder on the Menu and The Last Cross
• Laurin Haupt — A Miracle at Dachau
• Cleo Simon and 1 other co-author — Mountains Along Our Path
  (co-authors Betsy Campbell, Cleo Simon, Nancy Humphrey, Nancy Fetzer & Laurie Chandley)