Book Group
June 2 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The St. Peter’s Book Group meets the first Tuesday of each month. The group reads both fiction and nonfiction books, most of which deal with moral or social issues. The list of 2026 books is below.
The St. Peter’s Book Group is set up to encourage readers to come and go as selections attract them. We welcome newcomers, occasional participants, and regular participants alike. To request the meeting location for the St. Peter’s Book Group, sign up to be added to the Book Group email list here.
Book Group Choices 2026
- “North Woods” by Daniel Mason, for discussion in February. Fiction. Set around a house in western Massachusetts and about what happened there over a couple hundred years.
- “The Men Who Stare at Goats” by John Ronson, for discussion March. Nonfiction. A history of the U.S. Military’s dabbling in New Age psychology from the 1970s to the Second Gulf War.
- “One Day in the Life of Abed Salama” by Nick Thrall. Nonfiction. About a fire on a bus carrying Palestinian children in the West Bank. Several children killed. Shows divide between Palestinians and Israel. Author is an Israeli Jewish journalist.
- “Flashlight” by Susan Choi. Novel about the disappearance of a Korean man and the history of his family.
- “Easy Beauty” by Chloe Cooper Jones. Memoir of a woman born without a sacrum, and how it affected, and did not affect, her life.
- “The Signature of All Things” by Elizabeth Gilbert. It’s historical fiction, set partly in Philadelphia about 200 years ago, about a fictional female botanist.
- “James” by Percival Everett. A retelling of the Huckleberry Finn story from the viewpoint of James (called Jim in the Mark Twain book).
- “Educated” by Tara Westover. Memoir of a young woman raised in an isolated Mormon family.
- “The Sewing Girl’s Tale” by John Wood Sweet. Nonfiction. An account of the first published rape trial in the United States, in New York City.
- “Skin” a collection of Roald Dahl short stories. Fiction.
- “The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek” by Kim Michele Richardson. Historical fiction, the fictionalized story of the real Cassie Mary Carter, an Appalachian woman born with blue skin, involved with the Pack Horse Library Project set up by Eleanor Roosevelt during the Depression.