Turning Page Book Club

The Turning Page is a book club, sponsored by Billings Public Library, which meets here usually on the fourth Wednesday of the month. We draw our selections from the book club kits available for checkout at the Library.

List of Previous Selections, 2015 - current



We're reading:

  • August 25th at 7:00 pm, online: Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman

Current Year - 2021: 

  •  Circe by Madeline Miller
  • Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
  • A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
  • Lilian's Last Dance by Christene Meyers
  • The Hunt for Vulcan by Thomas Levenson

2015 - 2020: 

  • The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
  • The Homesman by Gordon Swarthout
  • Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
  • The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
  • Orange is the New Black
  • Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
  • The Orchid House by Lucinda Riley
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  • The Revenant by Michael Punke
  • Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver 
  • The Bartender's Tale by Ivan Doig 
  • The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman 
  • Family Life by Akhil Sharma 
  • Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 
  • Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
  • All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
  • The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
  • This House is Haunted by John Boyne
  • Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
  • A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • The Indian Lawyer by James Welch
  • Britt-Marie Was Here by Frederik Backman
  • Catherine the Great by Robert Massie
  • The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit
  • A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez 
  • People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks 
  • Dead Wake by Erik Larson


  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
  • Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  • Defending Jacob by William Landay
  • A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
  • Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
  • Cowboy Girl:  The Life of Caroline Lockhart by John Clayton
  • Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
  • Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (with Big Read Billings)
  • Room by Emma Donoghue
  • The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
  • Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
  • Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
  • Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean 
  • The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
  • A Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeyn Joukhader
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes
  • Follow Me Down by Sherri Smith
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen
  • The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
  • Twenty Chickens for a Saddle by Robyn Scott
  • Guilty as Cinnamon by Leslie Budewitz
  • The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick