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.

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Current Category: Literary Fiction

Literary Fiction

Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live

Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend.

Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything.

One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted – while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she’s avoided all her life.

Change can be good. Change can be bad. But surely any change is better than… fine?

~Fantastic Fiction

Upcoming Selections

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Historical

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim’s agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.
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~Fantastic Fiction

Mystery

I’m dreaming of a Serge Christmas . . .
Palm trees with twinkle lights . . .
Santa’s big belly protruding over a neon Speedo . . .

It’s ho, ho, ho time in this hilarious and wacky Florida holiday tale, featuring bighearted psychopath Serge Storms and his sidekick, Coleman. Like Santa, Serge knows who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. Few can give with the generosity and creativity of Serge, and as December 24 rolls around, he is filling up the Serge sleigh with an unforgettable bag of presents.

But before that, it’s all a big free-range Christmas office party, where Serge will be spreading his special cheer. And there’s that last-minute go-for-broke spree at the mall (just beware of those attacking elves – they bite). While you’re there, skip the lame photo on Santa’s lap – Serge will give you a lap ride you’ll never forget. As for that addled elf Coleman, there’s nothing like a white Christmas. Let it snow!

So grab a six-pack, spike the eggnog, and hit the dunes on the beach as Serge and Coleman roast some nuts on an open fire and prove that reindeer really do know how to fly!

~Fantastic Fiction

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
  • Cassandra in Reverse – Holly Smale
  • 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
  • The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store – James McBride
  • 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
  • The Midnight Library – Matt Haig – April 2026
  • 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
  • No Good Deed – Jemi Fraser
  • Open and Shut – David Rosenfelt – November 2022
  • Open Season – by CJ Box – September 2022
  • Pineapple Street: A Novel – by Jenny Jackson
  • Remarkably Bright Creatures – by Shelby Van Pelt – July 2022
  • Sea of Tranquility – Emily St John Mandel
  • Slow Horses – Mick Herron – October 2024
  • Starling House – Alex E Harrow – July 2026
  • 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 Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum – Margalit Fox
  • 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