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