The Book Club was born because many of The Glass Dragons members love books (in written, audio, whatever form suits you) in addition to their love of glass. The selection of available books out there is vast, and member input into what we will read and discuss is encouraged! The category will vary from selection to selection.

We have a Facebook group for the Book Club, where you can give your thoughts and suggestions for future reads and get information on attending the Zoom discussions. At this time, membership in the Glass Dragons is not required to join the bookclub.

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Current Category: Historical

Historical Fiction

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing development, the last thing they expected to uncover was a human skeleton. Who the skeleton was and how it got buried there were just two of the long-held secrets that had been kept for decades by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side, sharing ambitions and sorrows.

Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, which served the neighborhood’s quirky collection of blacks and European immigrants, helped by her husband, Moshe, a Romanian-born theater owner who integrated the town’s first dance hall. When the state came looking for a deaf black child, claiming that the boy needed to be institutionalized, Chicken Hill’s residents—roused by Chona’s kindess and the courage of a local black worker named Nate Timblin—banded together to keep the boy safe.

As the novel unfolds, it becomes clear how much the people of Chicken Hill have to struggle to survive at the margins of white Christian America and how damaging bigotry, hypocrisy, and deceit can be to a community. When the truth is revealed about the skeleton, the boy, and the part the town’s establishment played in both, McBride shows that it is love and community—heaven and earth—that ultimately sustain us.

~ Goodreads

Upcoming Selections

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Science Fiction

Nora’s life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite choices, what is the best way to live?

~ Fantastic Fiction

Romance

When you can’t afford to fail

With a surname like his, Troy Phail has learned to do whatever it takes to succeed, but growing his town is out of his experience. He hires an urban planner for two weeks to help him. The sweet and sexy planner turns out to be brilliant—and has Troy thinking of forever. When she is threatened and attacked, Troy realizes he’ll do anything to save her. This time, he can’t afford to fail.

No Good Deed is the first book in Jemi Fraser’s No Fail Heroes romantic suspense series. Each of these small-town romances can be read as a stand-alone. The book contains some strong language and sexy times.

~Good Reads

Previous Selections

  • All Creatures Great and Small – James Herriot – February 2023
  • The Angle of Repose – by Wallace Stegner – Dec 2021 – Historical Fiction
  • The Art of Hearing Heartbeats – Jan-Philipp Sendker – October 2022
  • Baking Bad – Kim M. Watt – December 2022 (book 1)
  • The Beekeeper’s Apprentice – Laurie B King
  • Big Magic – by Elizabeth Gilbert – Jan 2022 – Creativity
  • The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek – Kim Michele Richardson – May 2024
  • A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons – Kate Khavari
  • Christmas, Criminals & Campers – Tanya Kappes
  • City of the Lost – Kelly Armstrong – Mystery
  • The Cukcoos Calling – Robert Gailbraith (JK Rowling)
  • The Death of Mrs. Westaway – by Ruth Ware – August 2022
  • Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Diamond Age – by Neal Stephenson – February 2022 – Sci Fi
  • The Diamond Eye – by Kate Quinn – June 2022 – Historical Fiction
  • Endurance – Shackleton’s incredible voyage by Alfred Lansing – December 2022 (book 2)
  • Fall on Your Knees – Ann-Marie McDonald – July 2024
  • Garden Spells – Sarah Addison Allen – Sept 2024
  • The Girl Who Could Move *hit with Her Mind – Jackson Ford – April 2022
  • The Girl in in the Eagle’s Talons – Karin Smirnoff
  • The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls – June 2023
  • The Glass Chateau – Stephen P Kiernan- July 2025
  • The Glass Maker – Tracy Chevalier
  • The Glassblower – Petra Durst-Benning Jan 2026
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
  • High Strung – Janice Peacock – Nov 2025
  • The Inn at Rose Harbor – Debbie Macomber July 2023
  • It Always Snows on Mistletoe Square – Ali McNamara – Dec 2025
  • Jackdaws – Ken Follett Sept 2025
  • Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus – Sept 2023
  • The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules – Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
  • The Madness of Crowds – by Louis Penny- March 2022 – Mystery
  • The Maid –  Nita Prose – March 2025
  • The Measure – Nikki Erlik – February 2024
  • Midnight Riot/Rivers of London – Ben Aaronovitch – April 2023
  • Mr. Churchill’s Secretary – by Susan Elia MacNeal – Dec 2021 – Historical Fiction
  • Murther and Walking Spirits – by Robertson Davies – May 2022
  • Open and Shut – David Rosenfelt – November 2022
  • Open Season – by CJ Box – September 2022
  • Remarkably Bright Creatures – by Shelby Van Pelt – July 2022
  • Sea of Tranquility – Emily St John Mandel
  • Slow Horses – Mick Herron – October 2024
  • Statistically Speaking – Debbie Johnson
  • Steal Like an Artist – by Austin Kleon – Jan 2022 –  Creativity
  • The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley – May 2023
  • The Three Body Problem – Liu Cixin – Oct 2025
  • The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman – June 2024
  • The Tiffany Girls – Shelley Noble – December 2023
  • Touchstone – Laurie King – August 2025
  • A Trick of the Light – Louise Penny – March 2023
  • Tear Down and Die – Johanna Slan Campbell June – 2025
  • West with the Night – Beryl Markham – January 2024