Book Groups

NONFICTION
Cathy Croghan Alzner & Diana Ricks
503-320-6282 c.croghan.alzner@att.net
503-858-7481 dmricks472@gmail.com
2nd Monday at 11:00 am
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9/8/25      Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, & Made Us who We Are by Rebecca Boyle
10/13/25  Patriot by Alexei Navalny
11/10/25  Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
12/8/25    Our Mother’s War: American Women at Home and at the Front During WWII by Emily Yellin
1/12/26    The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
2/9/26      The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder
3/9/26      The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan
4/13/26    Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo
5/11/26    Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King
6/8/26      The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
7/15/26    Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, & the Trial that Riveted a Nation by Brenda Wineapple

 

 

MURDER BY THE BOOK
Jane Taft, Co-Chair: taft.jane@gmail.com 503-709-3185
Stephanie Carter, Co-Chair: secarter1@gmail.com 971-285-5882
2nd Wednesdays, 12:00 pm (noon)
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8/13/2025       Murder in Tuscany by T.A. Williams
9/10/2025       Love in Amsterdam by Nicholas Freeling
10/8/2025       Den of Iniquity by J. A. Jance
11/12/2025     A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
12/10/2025     Summer Guests by Tess Gerritsen
1/14/2026       Murder at Mallowan House by Colleen Cambridge
2/11/2026       Dead Float by Warren Easley
3/11/2026       Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter
4/8/2026         Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow
5/13/2026       Midnight Riot (Rivers of London) by Ben Aronovich
6/10/2026       Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict
7/8/2026         Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge

THE SHARED INQUIRY BOOK GROUP
Diana Gough, Chair
503-734-9965 oldgypsy1169@gmail.com
3rd Thursdays at 9:30 am
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9/18/2025       The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
10/16/2025     How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior
11/20/2025     The Book of Lost Names  by Kristen Harmel
12/18/2025     Slipsworth by Simon Van Booy
1/15/2026       The Silence of the Choir   by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
2/19/2026       The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
3/19/2026       Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen
4/16/2026       Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
5/21/2026       A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
6/25/2026       The Devotion of Suspect X: A Detective Galileo Mystery by Keigo Higashino
7/16/2026  This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

4TH TUESDAY
Lynda Bigler, Chair
503-522-6709 libigler@easystreet.net
4th Tuesdays, 11:15 am – 1:15 pm
Meeting Place: Szechuan Kitchen, 15450 Boones Ferry Rd., Lake Oswego
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9/23/25     Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zander
10/28/25   This is Happiness by Niall Williams
11/25/25   Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
1/27/26     Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburg
2/24/26     Every Day is a Gift by Tammy Duckworth
3/24/26     Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
4/28/26     My Friends by Fredrik Backman
5/26/26     The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
6/23/26     Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
7/28/26     Women in White Coats by Olivia Campbell

 

THURSDAY EVENING
Suzanne Kaveckis, Chair
503-678-1641 smkaveckis@icloud.com
4th Thursdays at 7:00 pm
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9/25/25     The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
10/23/25   The End of Drum Time by Hanna Pylvainen
12/4/25     Hope, Faith and a Corpse by Laura Jenson Walker
1/22/26     Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
2/26/26     Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
3/26/26     The Wedding People by Alison Espach
4/23/26     Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
5/28/26     On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci
6/25/26     The Salt Path by Raynor Winn