Intrepid Readers Book Club

Intrepid Readers Book Club meets the fourth Monday of each month at 7:00 pm.

This group of intrepid readers has been meeting for over fifteen years now. We were formerly the Avid Reader Book Club but we adopted a new name in January, 2022. Join us for some great reads and lively discussion. We read alternately fiction and non-fiction and are always looking for interesting books on and off the bestseller lists. We currently meet at Logos Books, 513 2nd. St. Davis.

The Book Club ca 2012Note: Book selections subject to change. Be sure to check periodically in case a book gets moved to another month.

Organizer

Jennie Woo

Contact: jenniewoo@hotmail.com

Membership

NO FEE TO JOIN

NO LIST TO SIGN UP

Just email the organizer, We're always happy to welcome new members! 

NEXT MEETING   

Date: September 23, 2024 at  7:00pm    
            

Book Selection: "East West Street" by Phillipe Sands

Location: Logos Books, 513 2nd St. Davis.   

UPCOMING MEETINGS                                                                                                                                    

October 28, 2024 at 7:00pm. Book Selection: "The House of Broken Angels" by Luis Alberto Urrea

November 18, 2024 at 7:00pm. Book Selection: "Two Years Before the Mast" by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.     *Note earlier date.*

December 16, 2024 at 7:00pm. Book Selection: "Remarkably Bright Creatures" by Shelby Van Pelt              *Note Earlier Date.*

Previous Book Selections

• Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
• Destiny of the Republic by Candace Millard
• The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano by Donna Freitas
• The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
• Deacon King Kong by James McBride
• The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
• Finding Me by Viola Davis
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• The Lost City of Z by David Grann
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• Where I Was From by Joan Didion
• The Time in Between by Maria Duenas
• South to America by Imani Perry
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
• On the Plain of Snakes by Paul Theroux
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
• The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Beyond the Sand and Sea by Ty McCormick
• A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
• A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
• The Old Way: A Story of the First People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
• Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
• Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
• Alta California by Nick Neely
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• The Darwin Affair by Tim Mason
• American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee
• In Search of the Canary Tree by Lauren E. Oakes
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
• Belonging by Nora Krug
• The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
• Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
• The Tatooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
• Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
• Where the Crawdad Sings by Delia Owens
• The Dreamt Land by Mark Arax
• The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
• Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After by Heather Harpham
• Home Fire: A Novel by Kamila Shamsie
• In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• 1776 by David McCullough
• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
• Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Hochschild
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• These is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine by Nancy E. Turner
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Life is But a Dream by Jennifer Provenza
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

• The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande

• The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

• Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

• Sapiens by Yuval Harari

• Code Talker by Chester Nez

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

• Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

• Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line by Michael Gibney
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
•  The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion    
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Redeployment by Phil Klay
• Season of the Witch by David Talbot
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
• Abundance by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
• My Organic Life by Nora Pouillon
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

• The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
• River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
• Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
• Red Azalea by Achee Min
• Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
• Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• Color of the Sea by John Hamamura
• Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• The Motive by John Lescroart
• Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
• Astray by Emma Donoghue
• This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure by Julia Flynn Siler
• The Black Count by Tom Reiss
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch by Thomas Thwaites
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• The Tiger's Wife by Tea Ochrent
• El Narco: The Trade Driving Mexico's Drug War by Ioan Grillo
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
• Half a Life by V. S. Naipaul
• The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
• Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
• To the End of the Land by David Grossman
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Vagrants by Yiyun Li
• Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
• The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
• Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
• Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy
• Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism by Ron Suskind
• The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
• Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit