Our Book Club
Our next books:
| Title | Author | Meeting date and time |
| The House is on Fire | Rachel Beanland | Oct. 22, 2025 7:30 pm |
| The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century | David Laskin | Nov. 17, 2025 7:30 pm |
| Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity and Love | Dani Shapiro | Dec. 17, 2025, 7:30 |
| Lilli de Jong | Janet Benton | Jan. 14, 2026, 7:30 |
| Please note that the dates are either the 3rd or 4th Wednesday of the month. Dates were adjusted to accommodate for holidays. |
Books that we already read:
| Title | Author | Meeting date |
| The Art Forger |
Barbara A. Shapiro | April 26, 2023 |
| All About Me | Mel Brooks | May 24, 2023 |
| We Were the Lucky Ones | Georgia Hunter | June 28, 2023 |
| The Weight of Ink | Rachel Kadish | September 27, 2023 |
| Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin | October 25, 2023 |
| The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville |
Clare Mulley | December 27, 2023 |
| The Matchmakers Gift | Lynda Cohen Loigman | January 24, 2024 |
| The Dressmakers of Auschwitz | Lucy Adlington | February 28, 2024 |
| Madam | Debbie Applegate | May 1 , 2024, 7:30 pm |
| The Storyteller | Jodi Picoult | May 22, 2024, 7:30 pm |
| This Magnificent Dappled Sea | David Biro | June 26, 2024, 7:30 pm |
| Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker | Barry Sonnenfeld | September 25, 2024, 7:30 pm |
| Song Yet Sung | James McBride | October 23, 2024, 7:30 pm |
| Moonflower Murders: A Novel | Anthony Horowitz | December 4, 2024, 7:30 pm |
| The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store | James McBride | January 22, 2025, 7:30 pm |
| Nightingale | Kristin Hannah | February 26, 2025, 7:30 pm |
| Mazel | Rebecca Goldstein | April 23, 2025 7:30 pm |
| The Book Spy | Alan Hlad | May 28, 2025 7:30 pm |
| Florence Adler Swims Forever | Rachel Beanland | June 25, 2025, 7:30 pm |
Book Club Meeting
The House is on Fire
by Rachel Beanland
Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Richmond, Virginia 1811. It’s the height of the winter social season, the General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia’s gentleman planters, along with their wives and children, have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city’s only theater, the Charleston-based Placide & Green Company puts on two plays a night to meet the demand of a populace that’s done looking for enlightenment at the front of a church.
When the theater goes up in flames in the middle of the performance, Sally, Cecily, Jack, and Gilbert make a series of split-second decisions that will not only affect their own lives but those of countless others. And in the days following the fire, as news of the disaster spreads across the United States, the paths of these four people will become forever intertwined. Based on the true story of the Richmond theatre fire.
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