Do you love to read? Have you always wanted to be part of a book club? Join a great group of COS friends for monthly discussion of assigned books. Book topics include a wide range of topics and there is always lots of interesting conversation. Meetings are held September through May on the second Thursday of each month in the conference room at 6:30pm.
This COS Book Club has been meeting for more than 20 years and is a fellowship group that gathers monthly. The list of upcoming books is posted below:
2024
- September 12 The River We Remember by William Kent Kruegar
- October 10 The Boys by Ron Howard and Clint Howard
- November 14 Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford
- December 12 Christmas Party
2025
- January 9 Summer Skies: A Novel by Jenny Clogan
- February 13 The Glass Ocean by Beatrix Williams
- March 13 Table for Two by Amor Towles
Looking for another good book to read? Past Christ Our Shepherd Book Club selections have included:
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
- My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
- The Waiting by Cathy LaGrow
- The Tour by Jean Grainger
- Amish Christmas Secrets by Debby Guisti
- The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club by Marlena De Blasi
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan
- The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee
- Women in Sunlight by Frances May
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owen
- Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher
- Among the Maasai by Juliet Cutler
- First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill by Sonia Purcell
- The Book Women of Troublesome Creek by Kim Richardson
- Queen Bee by Dorothea Benton Frank
- The Swan House by Elizabeth Musser
- The General’s Woman: A Novel by Susan Wittig Albert
- One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
- Consider the Women – A Provocative Guide to Three Matriarchs of the Bible by Debbie Blue
- The Answer Is…Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek
- The Dutch House: A Novel by Ann Patchett
- The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews
- The Duke of Magic Fingers by Earl Hopkins Williams
- The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
- The Thursday Murder Clubby Richard Osman
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
- The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin
- Rose Code by Kate Quinn
- The Duke of Magic Fingers by Earl Williams – member of COS
- The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
- 510 Candles: The Illuminations of Nora Lorraine by Linda Barbour
- The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride by Joe Siple
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marie Molner
- Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
- The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes: A Novel by William Rawlings
- The Christmas Hummingbird by Davis Bunn
- Things I Wish I Had Told My Mother by Susan Patterson & Susan DiLallo
- Women in White Coats by Olivia Campbell
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- Hang the Moon by Jeanette Walls
- The Book of Names by Kristin Harmel