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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9/9/24      The Woman Who Smashed Codes: The True Story of Love, Spies & the Unlikely                                Heroine   Jason Fagone
10/14/24  One Long River of Song      Brian Doyle
11/11/24  The Ride of Her Life Elizabeth Letts
12/9/24    The Art Thief: The True Story of Love, Crime & a Dangerous Obsession   Michael Finkel
1/13/25    The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero                           Timothy  Egan
2/10/25    The Worlds I See    Dr Fei-Fei Li
3/10/25    The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women in the CIA    Lisa Mundy
4/14/25    Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein    Jamie Bernstein
5/12/25    Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury    Drew Gilpin Faust
6/9/25      Vermeer’s Hat    Timothy Brook
7/14/25    Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China   Leslie T Chang

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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8/14/2024    The Engine House    Rhys Dylan
9/11/2024    Secret Lives    Mark de Castrique
10/9/2024    Murder at Westminster    Magda Alexander
11/13/2024  The Spy Coast    Tess Gerritsen
12/11/2024  The Twelve Saints of Christmas    Karen Baugh Menuhin
1/8/2025      Divorce Can Be Deadly    Emma Jameson
2/12/2005    Standing Dead    Margaret Mizushima
3/12/2025    The Murder of Mr. Wickham    Claudia Gray
4/9/2025      Vera Wang’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers    Jesse Sutano
5/14/2025    Murder in the Crypt    Irena Shapiro
6/11/2025    Death by Carpet    PF Ford
7/9/2025     The Unkindness of Ravens    M E Hilliard

INTERPRETIVE BOOK GROUP
Diana Gough, Chair
503-734-9965 oldgypsy1169@gmail.com
3rd Thursdays at 9:30 am
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9/19/2024    Lady Tan’s Circle of Women   Lisa See
10/17/2024   James   Percival Everett
11/21/2024  Solito   Javier Zamora
12/19/2024  Martin Marten   Brian Doyle
1/16/2025   The Henna Artist   Akja Joshi
2/20/2025   The Sun Walks Down   Fiona McFarlane
3/20/2025   Miss Benson’s Beetle   Rachel Joyce
4/17/2025   House of Doors   Tan Twan Eng
5/15/2025    Night Watch   Jayne Anne Phillips
6/19/2025    The Vaster Wilds   Lauren Groff
7/17/2025    Great Books “An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding”   David Hume

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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9/24/2024    The Covenant of Water   Abraham Verghese
10/22/2024  Honor  Trinity Unregar
11/26/2024  2034, A Novel   Elliot Ackerman & Admira James Stavridis
1/28/2025    There There Tommy Orange
2/25/2025    The Berry Pickers   Amanda Peters
3/25/2025    The Women   Kristin Hannah
4/22/2025    James (you may want to read/skim Huck Finn by Mark Twain, too)   Percival Everett
5/27/2025    My Name is Lucy Barton   Elizabeth Strout
6/24/2025    The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store   James McBride
7/22/2025    How to Say Babylon    Safiya Sinclair

THURSDAY EVENING
Suzanne Kaveckis, Chair
503-678-1641 smkaveckis@icloud.com
4th Thursdays at 7:00 pm
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9/26/24      Remarkable Bright Creatures   Shelby Van Pelt
10/24/24    Selective Regrets of Clover   Mikki Brammer
12/5/24      A Table for Two   Amor Towles
1/23/25     A Walk in the Park and Brave the Wild River   Kevin Fedarko
Melissa L. Sevigny
2/24/25      Sipsworth   Simon Van Booy
3/27/25      Pineapple Street   Jenny Jackson
4/24/25     The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store   James McBride
5/22/25     Hello Beautiful   Ann Napolitano
6/23/25     The Kamogawa Food Detectives   Hisashi Kashiwai