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: Urban Fantasy
Urban Fantasy
A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can’t stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads of it all.
Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland–and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it’s best to let the uncanny house―and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling―go to rot.
Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she’s never had: a home.
As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares.
If Opal wants a home, she’ll have to fight for it.
Upcoming Selections
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Paranormal Romance
If you had the power to change the past. . . where would you start?
Cassie has never really fitted in. She remembers everything. Understands nothing. And consistently says the wrong thing.
So when she gets dumped, fired AND her local café runs out of banana muffins – all in one day – it feels like the end of the world.
But then Cassie discovers she has the power to go back and change things.
With endless chances to get it right, can she stop it all from going wrong?
As featured on Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 2 Book Club, The Times & Daily Mail
~Fantastic Fiction
Literary Fiction
Meet the Stockton women of Brooklyn Heights: Darley, who was born with money; Sasha, who married into it; and Georgiana, who wants to give it all away.
Among glittering parties, weekend homes and hungover brunches, the three will have to grapple with the burden of parental expectations, the hardships and bewilderment of growing up, and the miles between the haves and have-nots.
Pineapple Street is a witty and wicked novel about New York’s one percenters: their first loves, family feuds and the complexities of being human – even when you have everything.
‘Wise, emotionally honest fun’ HELEN FIELDING
‘Deliciously fun’ KEVIN KWAN
‘Lovely, absorbing, acutely observed’ NICK HORNBY
Instant New York Times bestseller, March 2023
~Fantastic 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
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
- 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
- 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 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
