Ladies’ Book Club
2025 Piquant Page Turner Books
January 6 – Happy New Year!
February 3*- The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War, Erik Larson
March 3*- Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive, Russ Ramsey
April 1- A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr
May 7*- Theo of Golden, Allen Levi
June 11*- The Ballad of the White Horse, G.K. Chesterton
July 8th- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
August 4- TBD: Readers’ Choice
September 1- Labor Day! Back To School!
October 7- Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution, Michelle Moran
November 4- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (I’ll use the one with Prior’s guide.)
December 2*- Pollyanna, Eleanor Porter
The Piquant Page-Turners *typically* meet at 6:30 PM on the first Tuesday of the month. Dates and times may change. Please contact Abigail at jabwall@gmail.com for monthly updates via the group email or the Piquant Page-Turner Facebook Group.
2024 Piquant Page Turner Books
Good books are a very great mercy to the world.
-Richard Baxter
January 2 – Happy New Year!
February 6- The Wager, David Grann
March 5- The Spice King, Elizabeth Camden
April 2- The Word in the Wilderness: A Poem a Day for Lent and Easter, Malcolm Guite
May 7- Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, Peter Attia
June 4- The Scent of Water, Elizabeth Goudge
July 2- Mornings on Horseback, David McCullough
August 6- The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
September 3- Happy Back To School!
October 7*- Middlemarch (I’ll use Penguin Classics.), George Eliot
November 5- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
December 9- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (free online)
The Piquant Page-Turners *typically* meet at 6:30 PM on the first Tuesday of the month. Dates and times may change. Please contact Abigail at jabwall@gmail.com to receive monthly updates via the group email or the Piquant Page-Turner Facebook Group.
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
—Irving Stone
2023 Piquant Page Turner Picks
January 3 – Happy New Year!
February 7- The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter, Margareta Magnusson
March 7- When the Hart Speaks– Author Interview (online), Janet Hart Leonard
April 4- The Book of Hours, Davis Bunn
May 9- Evidence Not Seen: A Woman’s Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II, Diane Deibler Rose
June 6- Everything Sad Is Untrue, Daniel Nayeri
July 10- Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry
August 15 – Coolidge, Amity Shlaes
September 6- Happy Back To School!
October 3- Death Comes to the Archbishop, Willa Cather
November 7- Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
December 5- Treasures of the Snow, Patricia St. John
The Piquant Page-Turners typically meet at 6:30 PM on the first Tuesday of the month, but dates and times change.
Please contact Abigail at jabwall@gmail.com to receive monthly updates via the group email or the Piquant Page-Turner Facebook Group.
2022 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
January 3- Happy New Year!
February 1- Travels With George, Nathaniel Philbrick
March 1- Brat Farrar, Josephine Tey
April 5- The Friendly Persuasion, Jessamyn West
May 3- Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting, Lisa Genova
June 7- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
July 5- A Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall
August 8- Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
September 6- Happy Back To School!
October 4- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
November 1- The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Mary Rowlandson (Free PDF)
December 9- The Dead, James Joyce (Dinner, The Dead discussion & the movie)
Just as water, over a long period of time, reshapes the land through which it runs, so too we are formed by the habit of reading good books well.
-Karen Swallow Prior
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
-Irving Stone
2021 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
Good books are a very great mercy to the world.
-Richard Baxter
January 11- Perfectly Human: Nine Months With Cerian, Sarah Williams
February 8- Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High, Melba Pattillo Beal
March 8- The Awakening of Miss Prim: A Novel, Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
April 12- The Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim
May 10- True Grit, Charles Portis
June 15*- The Death of Ivan Illych, Leo Tolstoy
July 20- Live Not By Lies, Rod Dreher
August 9- Health Is Membership, an essay by Wendell Berry
September 13- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
October 11- A Gentleman From Moscow, Amor Towles
November 8- Pilgrim’s Inn, Elizabeth Goudge
December 13- Two From Galilee, Marjorie Holmes
The Piquant Page-Turners typically meet at 7 PM on the second Monday of the month. However, times and dates are subject to the fancy and whim of its members.
Please contact Abigail at jabwall@gmail.com if you’d like to get monthly updates via the group email.
Good books are a very great mercy to the world.
-Richard Baxter
2020 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
January 13th- Perfectly Human: Nine Months with Cerian, Sarah C. Williams
February 10th-Fire Road, Kim Phuc Phan Thi
March 9th- Hannah Coulter, Wendell Berry
April 13th- The Hawk and the Dove, Penelope Wilcock
May 11th- My Dearest Dietrich, Amanda Barratt (Author interview?)
June 8th- The Faith Of Queen Elizabeth, Dudley Delffs
July 13th- Freckles, Gene Stratton-Porter
August 10th- Persuasion, Jane Austen (Penguin Classics)
September 9th- Back to School! No Book Club.
October 12th- The Autobiography of George Muller, George Muller (Mass Market Paperback)
November 9th- TBD (Possibly: The Pilgrim Chronicles, Rod Gragg)
December 14th- “The Tenth Of December” a short story by George Saunders
2019 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
January 14th- Happy New Year!
February 11th- A Rumored Fortune, Joanna Davidson Politano
March 11th- Hadrian’s Wall, Adrian Goldsworthy
April 8th-The Invention Of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd
May 13th- When I Lay My Isaac Down, Carol Kent
June 10th- The Butterfly and the Violin, Kristy Cambron
July 8th- Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government, Mike Lee
August 12th-Virgil Wander, Leif Enger
September 9th- Back to School!
October 14th- The House On Foster Hill, Jaime Jo Wright
November 11th- The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg
December 9th-The Simple Faith of Mr. Rogers, Amy Hollingsworth
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln
2018 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
January 8th- Happy New Year!
February 12th- Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance
March 12th- Awkward: The Science of Why We’re Socially Awkward and Why That’s Awesome, Ty Tashiro
April 16th- The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis
May 14th- Daring to Hope, Katie Davis Majors
June 11th- Little Women (Unabridged), Louisa May Alcott
July 9th- News of the World, Paulette Jiles
August 13th- Born A Crime, Trevor Noah
September- Back to School! (Time to start QUO VADIS.)
October 8th- Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz
November 12th- TBD: (Strong Poison, The Broken Way, All the Light We Cannot See)
December 10th- Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything, Anne Bogel
The Piquant Page-Turners meet at 6:30 the second Monday of the month.
Soli Deo Gloria!
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
–Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
“There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.”
-Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems
2017 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
January – HAPPY NEW YEAR!
February 13th- An Elegant Solution, Paul Robertson
March 13th- Called for Life, Kent and Amber Brantly
April 10th- Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth
May 8th- The Moves Make The Man, Bruce Brooks
June 12th-Sherlock Holmes and the Needle’s Eye, Len Bailey
July 10th- Vinegar Girl, Anne Tyler
August 14th-The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
September- Back to School! (A great time to start The Three Musketeers)
October 9th-The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas (Lowell Bair translation)
November 13th-The Awakening of HK Derryberry: My Unlikely Friendship with the Boy Who Remembers Everything, Jim Bradford.
December 11th- Snow Angels, Cathe Swanson
Soli Deo Gloria!
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
2016 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
January 11- HAPPY NEW YEAR!
February 8th- Caleb’s Crossing: A Novel, Geraldine Brooks
March 14th- Madman, Tracy Groot
April 11th- The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Condo
May 11th- Our Town, a play in three acts by Thornton Wilder
June 13th- The Ground Beneath Us, Rachel Allord (Author interview)
July 11th- Madison’s Gift: 5 Partnerships That Built America, David O. Steward
August 8th- The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
September 12th- HAPPY BACK TO SCHOOL!
October 10th- Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
November 14th-Seven Women and the Secret of their Greatness, Eric Metaxas
December 12th- Endless Christmas, Cynthia Ruchti
We meet at 6:30 on the second Monday of the month. Invite a friend!
Soli Deo Gloria!
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote