Faithful Readers 2024

Faithful Readers 2024

We gather on the 4th Sunday of the month at 2pm at Barnes & Noble Booksellers Cafe on Promenade in Eagan for our book discussion. There is an attempt to read a variety of books and authors. Book title suggestions are welcome. All interested readers are welcome to join in the discussion. Let’s all read together faithfully!

February 25      Anxious People  by Fredrik Bachman

Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety – prone strangers discover their unexpected common traits.

March 24    The Seed Keeper   by Diane Wilson    a book in the bag selection

A haunting novel spanning several generations The Seed Keeper follows a Dakotah family’s struggle to preserve their way of life, and protect what matters most.

April 28    The Paris Library   by Janet Skeslien Charles

This book is based of the true story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris during WWII. It reminds us of the importance of libraries, books and the human connections that can be found in both.

May 19    The Wind Knows My Name    by Isabel Allende

The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing 21st century El Salvador intersect in this novel about war and immigration.

June 23    Leave No Trace    by Mindy Mejia

A man and his son go on a camping trip to the Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota. They fail to return and searchers find their camp site ravaged as by a bear. The pair is presumed dead. Ten years later the son reappears. He is violent and uncommunicative. Can anyone reach him and fill in the previous ten years.

July 28    Deacon King Kong    by James McBride

In September 1969, a cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of a housing project, pulls a gun from his pocket and in front of all shoots the project’s drug dealer at point blank range . The reasons for and the consequences of this act are at the heart of this novel.

August 25    Loyalty     by Lisa Scottoline

This book is an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily.

September 22     Apples Never Fall    by Liane Moriarty    a book in the bag selection

If your mother was missing would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? This is the situation faced by the Delaney children. Two of the children think their father is innocent; while two are not so sure. As the two sides square off against each other, all will begin to reexamine their shared family history.

October 27     The Unsettled   by Ayana Mathis

This is a multigenerational novel set in the 1980’s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and the tiny town of Bonapart, Alabama about a mother fighting for her sanity and her survival.

November 24     The Secret Book of Flora Lea     by Patti Callahan Henry

When a woman stumbles across a mysterious children’s book, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during WWII are revealed.

December      Holiday Break

There is no discussion this month. Share a favorite book with someone