October 6, 2021

November 3, 2021

December 1, 2021

January 5, 2022

February 2, 2022

March 9, 2022

The Alchemist

Carnegie's Maid

Family Reunions and a Service Project TBD

New Years Reflection

Travels with Charley

The Screwtape Letters

Paulo Coehlo

Marie Benedict

Nancy Thayer

John Steinbeck

CS Lewis

• The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
• Everything Happens for a Reaon by Kate Bowler
• Barking at the Choir by Gregory Boyle
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Bridge of San Luis Ray by Thornton Wilder
• Tell Tale by Jeffrey Archer
• The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
• Are You There God, It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• The Way of Letting Go by Wilma Derksen
• Survivor Cafe by Elizabeth Rosner
• John Paul the Great by Pegggy Noonan
• Conclave by Robert Harris
• The Wednesday Letters by Jason F Wright
• The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison
• Conversations with a Guardian Angel by Robert J Wicks
• The First Gift by Ruth Logan Herne
• Two from Galilee or Three from Galilee by Majorie Holmes
• The Immortal St. Nicholas by Glenn Beck
• The Someday Jar by Alison Morgan
• The Christmas Jar by Jason F. Wright
• The Faith Club by Ranya Idiby
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• Life is So Good by George Dawson
• A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
• The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Each December our Book Club selects an organization to support.

We are happy to have provided much needed donations to the following community organizations:

2020 Bra Drive for City Mission of Schenectady Family Life Center

2019 Joan Nicole Prince Home

2018 Family Promise of the Capital Region

2017 Eyes Wide Open

2016 Family through City Mission of Schenectady

2020 Reads

1-8 New Years Reflection and Discussion

2-5 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

3-4 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

8-5 'George Washington's Boyhood Rules' from Josephine Pollard's book The Life of George Washington

9-2 'God Sees the Truth, But Waits' by Leo Tolstoy

10-7 'The Student' by Anton Chekhov

11-4 Thomas Merton experience

12-2 'Keep Looking Up' by Laura Phelps

2019 Reads

1-2 New Years Reflection

2-6 Cancelled due to weather

3-6 The Rooster Bar by John Grisham

4-3 Vox by Christina Dalcher

5-1 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

6-5 No book, just discussion on previous topics

7-10 The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat

8-7 Educated by Tara Westover

9-4 Annelies by David Gillham

10-2 The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff

11-7 Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion by Jon Katz

12-4 God Help the Child by Toni Morrison

2018 Reads

1-3 Deb Hadley "My Amazing Life" (video clip)

2-7 Cancelled due to weather

3-7 It snowed again!

4-4 The Light Between Oceans and Preaching in Hitler's Shadow

5-2 The Family Gene by Joselin Linder

6-6 Something Other than God by Jennifer Fulwiler

7-11 TED Talk "What I Learned from 100 days of rejection" by Jia Jiang

8-1 In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White

9-5 Saving Charlotte by Pia de Jong

10-3 Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

11-7 In This Moment by Karen Kingsbury

12-5 Vacuum Like No One is Watching ... and other lessons from my mother by Kim Perone

2017 Reads

1-4 Nicole Johnson “Stretch Out Your Hand” and Julie Garmon blog, December 21, 2016

2-1 Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle

3-8 Eve by W. M. Paul

4-5 The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom

5-3 My Sisters the Saints by Colleen Carroll Campbell

6-7 The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic by Darby Penney and Peter Stastny

7-5 The Dumbest Idea Ever! by Jimmy Gownley

8-2 A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

9-6 Good Sam by Date Meserve

10-4 On Fire by John O'Leary

11-1 Silence by Shusaku Endo

12-6 My Badass Book of Saints by Marie Morera Johnson and Pat Gohn

2016 Reads

1-6 Touched by an Angel The Good Earth

2-3 Faithfully Feminist: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Feminists on Why We Stay by Messina-Dysert, Zobair and Levin

3-3 Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

4-7 Thriftstore Saints - Finding Jesus 25 Cents at a Time by Jane Knuth

5-4 The Prayer Box by Lisa Wingate

6-1 The Saints in Mercy Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization

7-6 Nicole Johnson “When I Was Little” and “Rocks”

8-3 Goodnight Mr Wodehouse by Faith Sullivan

9-7 The Devil in Pew Number Seven by Becky Alonzo and Bob DeMoss

10-5 Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

11-2 The Abbey: A Story of Discovery by James Martin S.J.

12-14 The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck

2015 Reads

4-29 Introductory Meeting

5-27 The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

7-1 The Prayer of Jabez by Bruce Wilkerson

8-11 Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

9-2 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

10-7 Inside the O’Briens by Lisa Genova

11-4 The Second Sister by Marie Bostwick

12-2 The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson