Phone: (225) 926.2291 8470 Goodwood Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806
Group - Open Circle Book Club
The Open Circle Book Club meets the first Sunday of each month at 7PM in the church office. New members are welcome. Contact Susan Beversluis at sbeversluis@gmail.com for questions, future book selections, and/or to be put on the mailing list. All are welcome.
The book selections for 2018:
January - The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides
February - Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee
March - Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin, by Marion Meade
April - Hidden Figures, by Margot Shetterley
May - Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson
June - Purity, by Jonathan Franzen
July - Short Stories, by William Faulkner
August - The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
September - How Jesus Became God, by Bart Ehrman
October - The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
November - Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
December - Save a Fish from Drowning, by Amy Tan
Book selections from 2017:
March -------- The Book That Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution
Ignited a Nation by Randall Fuller
April --------- The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
May ---------- McIlhenny’s Gold by Jeffrey Rothfeder
June ---------- Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
July ----------- Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
August ------- Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum
September--- Rat F**ked by David Dailey
October------ Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
November --- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
December --- Typhoid Mary by Anthony Bourdain
Some of the books the club has read and discussed:
Chronicles, Volume One ---------------- Bob Dylan
The Pelican Brief -------------------------- John Grisham
Drinking in America: Our
Secret History ------------------------- Susan Cheever
The Aviator’s Wife ----------------------- Melanie Benjamin
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ---------- L. Frank Baum
The Earl of Louisiana ------------------- A. J. Liebling
A History of God -------------------------- Karen Armstrong
The Rising Tide ---------------------------- John M. Barry
The Plague --------------------------------- Albert Camus
The Stranger ------------------------------- Albert Camus
The Heart of Darkness ------------------ Joseph Conrad
The God Delusion ------------------------ Richard Dawkins
Notes From the Undergraound ------- Foydor Dostoevsky
Madame Bovary -------------------------- Gustave Flaubert
Independence Day ----------------------- Richard Ford
The Lay of the Land ---------------------- Richard Ford
Passage to India --------------------------- E. M. Forster
Grendel ------------------------------------- John Gardiner
The Clearing ------------------------------- Tim Gautreaux
Jude the Obscure ------------------------- Thomas Hardy
The Old Man and the Sea --------------- Ernest Hemmingway
The Kite Runner --------------------------- Khaled Husseini
Ulysses --------------------------------------- James Joyce
On the Road -------------------------------- Jack Kerouac
If you meet the Bhudda on the
Road, Kill Him -------------------------- Sheldon Kopp
The Unbearable Lightness of Being --- Milan Kundera
Women in Love --------------------------- D. H. Lawrence
Giraffe --------------------------------------- J. M. Ledgard
The Magic Mountain -------------------- Thomas Mann
The Late George Apley ------------------ John Marquand
The Road ----------------------------------- Cormac McCarthy
Moby Dick ---------------------------------- Herman Melville
Three Short Sroies ------------------------ Flannery O'Conner
Fast Food Nation -------------------------- Eric Schlosser
East of Eden -------------------------------- John Steinbeck
Confederacy of Dunces ------------------ John Kennedy Toole
Rabbit, Run --------------------------------- John Updike
All the King's Men ------------------------ Robert Pann Warren
The Island of Doctor Moreau ---------- H. G. Wells
Upcoming Events
Open Circle Book Club - 05/06/2018 - 7:00pm
Open Circle Book Club - 06/03/2018 - 7:00pm
Open Circle Book Club - 07/01/2018 - 7:00pm
Open Circle Book Club - 08/05/2018 - 7:00pm
Open Circle Book Club - 09/02/2018 - 7:00pm
Open Circle Book Club - 10/07/2018 - 7:00pm
Open Circle Book Club - 11/04/2018 - 7:00pm
Open Circle Book Club - 12/02/2018 - 7:00pm