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Ballyhaunis Book Club

 

 

The Book Club meets once a month (usually the first Wednesday of the month) in Ballyhaunis Library at 8:00pm. Check events page for next meeting.

Current Book Club Selections:

March 2019
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout.

Forthcoming Book Club selection for April 2019
Rain on the Wind by Walter Macken.
 

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Books previously discussed in Ballyhaunis Library Book Club:
Star Rating (1-5)

February 2019
Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds 3 stars

January 2019
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark  2½ stars

December 2018
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. 3 stars

November 2018
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. 4½ stars

October 2018
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult 4 stars 

September 2018
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris 3½ stars

June 2018
Everything I Never told You by Celeste Ng. 4 stars 

May 2018
I Found My Tribe by Ruth Fitzmaurice 3 stars

April 2018
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 3 stars

March 2018
The Scandal by Fredrik Backman 4 stars 

February 2018
The Coroner's Daughter by Andrew Hughes 3½ stars 

January 2018
Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty 3½ stars 

December 2017
Holding by Graham Norton  4 stars 

November 2017
The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen 4 stars 

October 2017
Sacred Country by Rose Tremain 3½ stars 

September 2017
Anything is Possible  by Elizabeth Strout 4 stars 

June 2017
City of Thieves by David Benioff 3½ stars

May 2017
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 3 stars

April 2017
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack 4 stars 

March 2017
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte  4½ stars

February 2017
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 831/4 Years Old by Hendirk Groen 4½ stars

January 2017
The Drowned Detective by Neil Jordan 2½ stars

December 2016
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout 4 stars

November 2016
The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton 3½ stars

October 2016
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams 3 stars

September 2016
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon 3 stars

June 2016
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson 3 stars

May 2016
The Children of the Rising by Joe Duffy 4 stars 

April 2016
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler 3½ stars

March 2016
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 4 stars 

February 2016
Without a Trace by Lesley Pearse 2½ stars

January 2016
The Ballroom Café by Ann O'Loughlin 2½ stars

December 2015
Tender by Belinda McKeon 2½ stars

November 2015
All the Light we Cannont See by Anthony Doerr 4 stars

October 2015
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd 4 stars

September 2015
Us by David Nicholls 3 stars

July 2015
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey 3 stars

June 2015
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed by Cheryl Strayed. 3½ stars

May 2015
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 4 stars 

April 2015
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler 3 stars

March 2015
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki 3½ stars

February 2015
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 4 stars
 

January 2015
Academy Street by Mary Costello 3½ stars

December 2014
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 3 stars


November 2014
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith 3 stars

October 2014
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler 3 stars

September 2014
Small Island by Andrea Levy 4 stars

August 2014
Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent 3½ stars

July 2014
The Undertaking by Audrey Magee 4 stars

June 2014
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent 3 stars

May 2014
Longbourn : a novel of pride and prejudice below stairs by Jo Baker 3½ stars 

April 2014
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck  4½ stars

March 2014
Last Orders by Graham Swift. 2½ stars.

February 2014
All Quiet on the Western Front  by Erich Maria Remarque.  4 stars

January 2014
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín. 3 stars

December 2013
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright. 2 stars

November 2013
Call of the Lark : a memoir by Maura Mulligan 3 stars

October 2013
Staring at Lakes : a memoir of love, melancholy and magical thinking by Michael Harding 3 stars

September 2013
Strumpet City by James Plunkett 5 stars

August 2013
Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead 2 stars

July 2013
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce 4 stars

June 2013
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo 3 stars

May 2013
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan 3½ stars 

April 2013
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 4 stars

March 2013
Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin 4 stars

February 2013
The Dinner by Herman Koch 3 stars

January 2013
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb 3½ stars 

December 2012
The Glass Castle by Jennnette Walls 4 stars

November 2012
Serena by Ron Rash 4 stars

October 2012
This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann 3 stars

September 2012
Burning Bright by Ron Rash 4 stars 

August 2012
One Day by David Nicholls 3 stars

July 2012
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 3½ stars 

June 2012
Foster by Claire Keegan 3 stars

May 2012
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka 3 stars

April 2012
Incendiary by Chris Cleave 3 stars

March 2012
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin. 4 stars

February 2012
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence. 3½ stars

January 2012
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. 4 stars

December 2011
The Vault by Ruth Rendell  2 stars

November 2011
Mr. Golightly's Holiday by Salley Vickers 3 stars

October 2011
Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
3 stars

Septmeber 2011
When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman 3 stars

August 2011
The Hungry Ghosts by Anne Berry 3 stars

July 2011
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 4 stars

June 2011
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray  2 stars

May 2011
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson 
3 stars

April 2011
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 3 stars

March 2011
Julius Winsome by Gerard Donovan
4 stars

February 2011 
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
 4 stars  

January 2011
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd  3 stars

December 2010
Room by Emma Donoghue   4 stars  

November 2010
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith   4 stars  

October 2010
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake 
3 stars

September 2010
Old School by Tobias Wolff  
3 stars

August 2010
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith   2½ stars

July 2010
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa   3½ stars

June 2010
The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre  
3 stars

May 2010
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo 
3 stars

April 2010
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout  
4 stars
  
March 2010
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann 
3 stars

February 2010
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen  
4 stars

January 2010
Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden   2½ stars

December 2009
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy  4½ stars

November 2009
The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne   3 stars

October 2009
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer  3 stars

September, 2009
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson   3½ stars

August, 2009
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver  4 stars

July, 2009
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga  3 stars

June, 2009
The Road by Cormac McCarthy  4 stars

May, 2009
Stealing Water: A Secret life in a South African City by Tim Ecott  3½ stars

April, 2009
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole  3 stars

March, 2009
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold.   2½ stars

February, 2009
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry.   4 stars

January, 2009
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.  4 stars

 

 

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