Hopefully our annual tradition will be back to in person by next year, but this year we had to resort to Zoom to make our book selections. Definitely not the same as last year's AGM or the years before that, but when it came to picking our book list for 2020-2021, it was a definite success!
This year each member suggested 2-3 titles via Zoom and we voted to settle on the one for the month. We all hope for a return to face to face meetings in the months to come, however an interesting side effect will be that those members who are away at conferences or on holiday may end up joining meetings virtually. So, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger (kinda, sorta).
Mostly fiction with some memoir:
- Sept (Virginia) Save Me the Plums, Ruth Reichel
- Oct (Liz) Bunny, Mona Awad
- Nov (Sheila) Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
- Dec (Nicolette) Island of Sea Women, Linda See
- Jan ~no meeting ~
- Feb (Debra) The Innocents, Michael Crummey
- Mar (Nicki) Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
- April (Miriam) Moments of Glad Grace, Alison Wearing
- May (Diane) Late Breaking, K.D. Miller
- June (Louise /Nicki) Normal People, Sally Rooney
Honourable Mentions
Five Wives by Joan Thomas
A Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Educated by Tara Westover
A Short History of Indians in Canada by Thomas King
Childhood by Andre Alexis
The Body by Bill Bryson
The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman
Lost Connections By Johan Hari
Endurance -A Year in Space by Scott Kelly
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehshi Coates
From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
Motorcycles and Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor
Invisible Women -Story of Big Data by Caroline Kiato- Perez
The How of Happiness by Sonya Lyubomirsky
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