St. Andrew’s Book Club
We’ve now come to the end of our 2024-2025 St. Andrew’s Book Club reading year. It has been a reading season full of surprises and maybe a challenge or two. To those who participated, whether you were able to join in once or attended every month, it is you who made this book club an exciting and interesting place to be. A huge thank you to you all!
While we are taking a rest over the summer months, we don’t want to leave you stranded so here is a St. Andrew’s Summer Beach Reads list from which you can choose. We sincerely hope you hit upon a gem or two.
And don’t forget to come join us again in September. You never know what exciting adventures await you.
Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier
Murder In The Family by Cara Hunter
Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect: A Novel by Benjamin Stevenson
The Sanctuary by Emma Haughton
The Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
A Murder At The Movies by Ellie Alexander
The Body In The Bookstore by Ellie Alexander
I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All The Rules by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
The 24th Hour by James Patterson
The Mapmaker's Daughter by Clare Marchant
A Sampling of Sleuths by Connie Shelton
The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (and Their Muses) by Terri-Lynne DeFino
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and The Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
The Map that Changed the World by Simon Winchester
Looking For Jane: A Novel by Heather Marshall
The Secret Book of Flora Lea: A Novel by Patti Callahan Henry
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
All Systems Red Martha Wells
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan
Tomb of Sand by Gitanjali Sri
Circe by Madeline Miller
Bel Canto by Ann Patcett
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Passage by Connie Willis
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Proof of Heaven by Dr Eben Alexander
Hamnut and Judith by Maggie OFarrell
The Housekeepers by Alex Hay
When The World Fell Silent by Donna Jones Alward
Richard The Second by William Shakespeare
Mayan Shadows: The Crystals of Ahrum by Craig A. Hart & S.J. Varengo
Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
Insensible Loss by Paul Michael Peters
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
The Bomb Girls by Daisy Styles
The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
Finding Scrooge: Or Another Christmas Carol by Jason C. McDonald
Cor Rotto by Adrienne Dillard
The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Murder at the Galliano Club by Carmen Amato
Held: A Novel by Anne Michaels
The Suspect by L.R. Wright
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger
Death Comes To Marlow by Robert Thorogood
At A Loss For Words by Carol Off
Enchantress (Evermen Saga, #1) by James Maxwell
The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray
My Missing Daughter by Ellery Kane
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Tides of War by Genevieve Graham
The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
When The World Fell Silent by Donna Jones Alward
Code Name: Helene by Ariel Lawhon
Fishnets and Fantasies by Jane Doucet
The Keeper of Hidden Books by Madeline Martin
All The Broken Places by John Boyne
The Secret History of Audrey James by Heather Marshall
I Will Ruin You by Linwood Barclay
Stelle, a Servant's Salvation by Michelle Goldstone
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Her Mother's Daughter by Lesley Crewe
The Assignment by Chip Smith
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
The Emergency by Dr. Thomas Fisher
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Last Devil To Die by Richard Osman
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Lore of the Evermen: The Evermen Saga Book 4 by James Maxwell
Trust Me by Hank Phillippi Ryan
On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Barrow Case by Dan Petrosini
The Thirteenth Husband by Greer Macallister
Queen of the Mist by Caroline Cauchi
And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night by Mark Haddon
The Last Letter from Juliet by Melanie Hudson
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Bellwether by Connie Willis
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
James by Percival Everett
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
Dream State by Eric Puchner
Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
The Music of Bees: A Novel by Eileen Garvin
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
A Side Dish of Death by T.C. Lotempio
A Jew In Gaza: Humanitarian Heartbreak, Hubris and Horros by Allan J. “Alonzo” Wind
The Pregnant Pause by Jane Doucet
Lost and Found In Lunenberg by Jane Doucet
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raaybourn
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate
A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
Scrooge & Marley by George Scileppi
The Women by Kristin Hannah
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley
Lucky Loser by Russ Buettner & Susanne Craig
James by Percival Everett
Values: Building a Better World for All by Mark Carney
A Killer In King’s Cove by Iona Whishaw
For The Love of a Son: A Memoir of Addiction, Loss and Hope by Scott Oake
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
No Roast for the Weary by Cleo Coyle
The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich
The Embroidered Book by Kate Heartfield
The Last Life Boat by Hazel Gaynor
Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret by Benjamin Stevenson
March Roars by Maureen Jennings
A Game of Retribution by Scarlett St. Clair
Hades x Persephone series by Scarlett St. Clair
Carson the Magnificent by Bill Zehme & Mike Thomas
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price, PhD.
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
The Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman
Bell, Book and Corpses by T.C. Lotempio
Past Lives (movie on Prime Video)
Left Behind book series by Tim LaHaye
True Biz: A Novel by Sara Novic
The Nowhere places by Susan LeBlanc
The Hitchock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel
The Search by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Death in a Lonely Place by Stig Abell
Allegedly by Tiffany Jackson
The Silent Sisters by Robert Dugoni
Jennie's Boy by Wayne Johnston
Ship of Dreams by Donna Jones Alward
On Isabelle Street by Genevieve Graham
The Night Sparrow by Shelly Sanders
Banyon Moon by Thad Thai
The Love Fix by Jill Shalvis
All of the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge
Murder Takes the Stage by Colleen Cambridge
Patriot by Alexei Navalny
By Invitation Only by Dorothea Benton Frank
The Wharton Plot by Mariah Fredericks
Mr. Mac and Me by Esther Freud