The Second Tuesday Book Club meets at Schimelpfenig Library, 5024 Custer Road, 7:15 – 8:15 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month with the exception of December. This group is for all adult members of the community, 18 years old and over, who love to read and discuss what they have read to others. Participants are encouraged to have read the featured book of the month, but it is not required for admission to the meeting. No registration is required. For more information, call 972-208-8000, Cathe Spencer, librarian coordinator.
2010 Title Selections from the 2nd Tuesday Book Club
January 12 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
February 9 The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
March 9 Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
April 13 The Help by Kathryn Stockett
May 11 Dewey: A Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicky Myron and Brett Witter
June 8 The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
July 13 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
August 10 America’s Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins
September 14 The Terrorist by John Updike
October 12 The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee
November 9 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
2009 Title Selections from the 2nd Tuesday Book Club
January 13 Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
February 10 Franklin and Lucy by Joseph Perisco
March 10 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper
April 14 People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
May 12 Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos
June 9 Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
July 14 The Irregulars by Jennet Conant
August 11 The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent
September 8 Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
October 13 No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
November 10 Life is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
2008 Title Selections from the 2nd Tuesday Book Club
January The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner
February We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
March The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
April Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields
May The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
June The Doctor’s Daughter by Hilma Wolitzer
July Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
August The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
September A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
October Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
November My Antonia by Willa Cather
2007 Title Selections from the 2nd Tuesday Book Club
January My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
February Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
March Marley & Me by John Grogan
April Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
May To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
June Pretty Birds by Scott Simon
July The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
August Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
September Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg
October The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
November Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nat Philbrick
2006 Titles of the Second Tuesday Book Club
January Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
February The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
March The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossieni
April A Year in the Merde by Stephen Crane
May Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azr Nafisi
June Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
July 1776 by David McCullough
August French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano
September Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
October The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
November The Secret Man by Bob Woodward
2005 Titles of the Second Tuesday Book Club
January The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
February Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy
March Pompeii by Robert Harris
April A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
May Anthing You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You by Laurie Lynn Drummond
June Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
July Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised a Nation by Cokie Roberts
August The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
September The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester
October Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
November Madam Secretary: A Memoir by Madeleine Albright
2004 Titles of the Second Tuesday Book Club
January Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
February The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert
March Drop City by T.C. Boyle
April The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
May Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
June The No. 1 Ladies’s Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
July Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
August The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
September Hamlet’s Dresser: A Memoir by Bob Smith
October Big If by Mark Costello
November The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
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