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:
March 2012
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin.
Forthcoming Book Club selection for April 2012
Incendiary by Chris Cleave.
Books previously discussed in Ballyhaunis Library Book Club:
Star Rating (1-5)
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