
Laurentian Book Club
Participation is free!

The book club will connect through a private forum where all participants can discuss the current book and network with each other. Joining is completely free, you just have to get a copy of the book to enjoy. The book club will read one book every two months so that you'll have plenty of time for each book.
To sign-up and create an online profile, please visit: https://www.pbc.guru/stlawu/
Current Book:
August 4 - September 30, 2023
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Book Synopsis: This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it’s about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever. (Synopsis Source: goodreads.com)
Next Book:
October - December, 2023
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Questions?
Please contact our book club moderator, Jared, jared@pbc.guru and he will be happy to help!
The Books So Far...

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
April 29, 2019 - June 30, 2019

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
June 27, 2019 - August 15, 2019

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
August 29, 2019 - October 10, 2019

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
October 17, 2019 - December 5, 2019

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
January 6 - March 5, 2020

A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
March 19 - May 14, 2020

Choose Your Own Adventure: Summer 2020 - Read and discuss one, two or all three book options simultaneously!
May 28 - July 30, 202
- Contemporary Fiction - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- Historical Non-Fiction - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
- Personal Development - The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
August 6 - October 8, 2020

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
October 15 - December 17, 2020

Talking to Strangers by Malcomb Gladwell
January 7 - March 11, 2021

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
March 18 - May 20, 2021

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper
May 27th - July 29th

The Leavers: A Novel by Lisa Ko
August 5 - October 4, 2021

The Book of Longing by Sue Monk Kid
October 14 - December 29, 2021

Artcurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History by Jennifer Dasal
January 6 - March 10, 2022

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton
March 18 to May 13, 2022

Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond
May 27 - July 22, 2022

Great Circle: A Novel by Maggie Shipstead
August 5 - September 30, 2022

Honor: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar
October 14 - December 9, 2022

The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
January 6 to February 24, 2023

Trust by Hernan Diaz
March 17 - May 17, 2023

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston
May 26 - July 28, 2023