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LitCentric Book Club
Regular Meetings
- 7 p.m.
- Last Tuesday of every month
- January - October
- Zoom
Those interested in attending should email us at refdesk@billingsmt.gov. We use a combination of self-purchased copies and library book club kits.
Past Books Read
Following are the books that the LitCentric Book Club has read, in order from earliest to latest.
- Red as Blood by Tanith Lee
- Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota by Renee S. Flood
- The Eyre Affair by Jaspe Fforde
- Daisy Miller and the Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Hellboy by Michael Mignola
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
- The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
- When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
- True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
- Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers by Judy Blume
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner
- The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City by Jennifer Toth
- Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
- The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
- Martha Peake: a Novel of the Revolution by Patrick McGrath
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
- The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island by Linda Greenlaw
- The Etched City by K.J. Bishop
- The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre by Dominic Smith
- The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby
- A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
- The Girls by Lori Lansens
- Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
- The Conjurer's Bird by Martin Davies
- The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
- Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
- Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- Giants in the Earth by O.E. Rolvaag
- Pocketful of Names by Joe Coomer
- Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
- The English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
- Giraffe by J.M. Ledgard
- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
- Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
- Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsley
- A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle
- Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
- Cotton by Christopher Wilson
- The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them by The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
- Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
- The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
- Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
- Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
- Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
- Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- The Mother by Pearl S. Buck
- The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
- Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- The Black Tower by P.D. James
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd by Karsten Heuer
- The Bell by Iris Murdoch
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
- Salt by Earl Lovelace
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
- The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
- Warlock by Oakley Hall
- 1916 by Morgan Llywelyn
- A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
- The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor
- The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
- The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
- Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson
- The Towers of Trebizond: A Novel by Rose Macaulay
- The Once and Future King by T. H. White
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
- The People of Forever are Not Afraid: A Novel by Shani Boianjiu
- We, the Drowned by Carson Jensen
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
- Snapper by Brian Kimberling
- The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
- The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
- Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller
- Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
- Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West by Wallace Stegner
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
- Help for the Haunted by John Searles
- The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
- Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
- This House is Haunted by John Boyne
- The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
- When Broken Glass Floats: Growing up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him
- Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan
- Peony in Love: A Novel by Lisa See
- The Maze Runner by James Dashner
- Cameroon with Egbert by Dervla Murphy
- Strange But True by John Searles
- The Daughters of Mars: A Novel by Thomas Keneally
- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- The Empress Dowager CiXi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
- Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
- Independent People by Halldor Laxness
- The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthieson
- My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad
- Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Memoir by Kim Barker
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
- A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
- Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr
- To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kobert
- The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
- My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry Fredrik Backman
- The Map of Salt and Stars Jennifer Joukhader
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- The Greatest Knight by Thomas Asbridge
- The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen by Hendrik Groen
- Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
- Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
- Family Life by Akhil Sharma
- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
- A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
- Indianapolis:The True Story by Lynn Vincent