Book Group

Book Group

The OCUUC Book Group usually meets monthly on the first Monday of each month at 7:00 pm on Zoom for lively discussions. Each time, one of the members leads the discussion.

  • May 1, 2023: Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall

All are welcome to join us.  For further information, feel free to contact the coordinators Marcia Hackett and Eva Goodwin Noriega.

Come join us even if you haven't read the book. You'll enjoy the discussion.

Details of how to join is available on the church calendar.

Past Selections

  • Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
  • Deacon King Kong by James McBride
  • Faust - Part I by Goethe (Dave C)
  • The Wedding: A Novel by Dorothy West
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by E. Schwab
  • The Murmur of Bees (Erin H)
  • The Book of Lost friends (Phyllis D)
  • American Dirt (EvaLu N)
  • American Bloomsbury (Dave C)
  • Storyteller’s Secret (Karen K)
  • The Dutch House (Paula P)
  • Hillbilly Elegy (Mary S)
  • The Book Women of Troublesome Creek (Betsy)
  • Letters from Thistle Hill (Dave C)
  • Exit West (EvaLu N)
  • Flight Behavior (Marcia H)
  • The Circle by Dave Eggers
  • The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
  • In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
  • The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
  • Country Under My Skin by Gioconda Bell
  • Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
  • Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  • Americanh by Chimananda Ngozo Adichie
  • Sky of Red Poppies by Zohreh Ghabremani
  • So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell
  • The Cuckoo's Calling by J.K. Rowling
  • Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
  • The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
  • Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
  • Goldfinch by Bonnie Tartt
  • Island Beneath The Sea by Isabel Allende
  • Prisoner of Belief by John Von Dixhorn
  • All Quiet On the Western Front  by Erich Maria Remarque
  • All That Is by James Salter
  • The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
  • The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
  • All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
  • The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  • The Human Stain by Philip Roth
  • Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  • The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
  • The Fourth of July by Smith Henderson
  • Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham
  • Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
  • The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  • Euphoria by Lilly King
  • The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
  • The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg
  • The Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
  • Emily Alone by Stewart O’Nan