Ballyhaunis Book club
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:
June 2019
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne.
Forthcoming Book Club selection for September 2019
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume.
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Books previously discussed in Ballyhaunis Library Book Club:
Star Rating (1-5)
May 2019
The Dry by Jane Harper. 3 stars
April 2019
Rain on the Wind by Walter Macken. 4 stars
March 2019
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout 4 stars
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