Book, Bagel & Brew meets, at the Rochester Branch of the Library, the first Monday of each month (unless it’s a holiday then it’s the second Monday) at 10:00 a.m. to discuss the month’s book. 

 Fulton County Public Library – Rochester Branch 320 West 7th Street – Rochester, IN 46975

 

2023

Jan. 9th	Murder In The Park	Jeanne M. Dams
Feb. 6th	A Dress of Violet Taffeta	Tessa Arlen
Mar. 6th	The Fire And The Ore	Olivia Hawker
Apr. 3rd	Dark Secrets of the Old Oak Tree	Olivia Hawker
May 1st	The Secret Life of Sunflowers	Dolores J. Wilson
June 5th	The Revolutionary Samuel Adams	Marta Molnar
July 10th	A Christmas Memory	Richard Paul Evans
Aug. 7th	God, Faith, and Reason	Michael Savage
Sept. 11th	Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour Of An Icon	Kate Andersen Brower
Oct. 2nd	Foster	Claire Keegan
Nov. 6th	Chicken soup for the soul : attitude of gratitude	Amy Newmark
Dec. 4th	The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas	James Patterson

 

2022

Jan. 3rd	Neighbors	Danielle Steel
Feb. 7th	The Mystery of Mrs. Christie	Marie Benedict
Mar. 7th	Warsaw Orphan	Kelly Rimmer
Apr. 4th	Your choice of a book to share with the group.
May 2nd	It All Comes Back To You	Beth Duke
June 6th	Ordinary Grace	William Kent Krueger
July 11th	The Saints of Swallow Hill	Donna Everhart
Aug. 1st	Garbo	Robert Gottlieb
Sept. 12th	To Rescue The Republic	Bret Baier
Oct. 3rd	Run Rose Run	Dolly Parton & James Patterson
Nov. 7th	The Good Left Undone	Adriana Trigiani
Dec. 5th	Your choice of a book to share with the group.

 

2021

Jan. 4th	The Starlet and the Spy	Min Jin Lee
Feb. 1st	Westering Women	Sandra Dallas
Mar. 1st	The Orphan Collector	Ellen Marie Wiseman
Apr. 5th	The Exiles	Christina Baker Kline
May 3rd	Big Lies in a Small Town	Diane Chamberlin
June 7th	Book of Lost Friends	Lisa Wingate
July 5th	It’s Never Too Late: Make the Next Act of Your Life the Best Act of Your Life	Kathie Lee Gifford
Aug. 2nd	Yellow Wife	Sadeqa Johnson
Sept. 6th	Our Darkest Night	Jennifer Robson
Oct. 4th	The Four Winds	Kristin Hannah
Nov. 1st	The Book of Lost Names	Kristin Harmel
Dec. 6th	The Children’s Blizzard	Melanie Benjamin

2020

Jan. 6th	No Mercy (Ellery Hathaway #2)	Joanna Schaffhausen
Feb. 3rd	The Lost Girls of Paris	Pam Jenoff
Mar. 2nd	American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt	Stephanie Marie Thornton
Apr. 6th	Enemy Women	Paulette Jiles
May 4th	When We Left Cuba	Chanel Cleeton
June 1st	Beautiful Invention: A Novel of Hedy Lamarr	Margaret Porter
July 6th	Where The Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens
Aug. 3rd	The Last Collection: A Novel of Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel	Jeanne Mackin
Sept. 14th	Eagles and Evergreens: A Rural Maine Childhood	Robert B. Charles
Oct. 5th	Strands of Truth	Colleen Coble
Nov. 2nd	The Lager Queen of Minnesota	J. Ryan Stradal
Dec. 7th	The Summer I Met Jack	Michelle Gable

 

2019

Jan. 7th	Happiness Is A Choice You Make	John Leland
Feb. 4th	Chicago	David Mamet
Mar. 4th	The Immortal Irishman : the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero	Timothy Egan
Apr. 1st	These is my words : the diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : Arizona Territories : a novel	Nancy E. Turner
May 6th	News of the world : a novel	Paulette Jiles
June 3rd	Manhattan Beach : a novel	Jennifer Egan
July 1st	All the stars in the heavens	Adriana Trigiani
Aug. 5th	The Tattooist of Auschwitz	Heather Morris
Sept. 2nd	Evicted	Matthew Desmond
Oct. 7th	Murder At The Mill	M.B. Shaw
Nov. 4th	The Christmas Heirloom: four holiday novellas of love through the generations	Karen Witemeyer, Kristi Ann Hunter, Sarah Loudin Thomas & Becky Wade
Dec. 2nd	A Town Divided By Christmas	Orson Scott Card

 

2018

Jan. 8th	The Zookeeper’s Wife: a war story	Diane Ackerman
Feb. 5th	The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper	Phaedra Patrick
Mar. 5th	The Confusion of Languages	Siobhan Fallon
Apr. 2nd	Marriage Bureau	Penrose Halson
May 7th	Memory’s Last Breath: Field Notes On My Dementia	Gerda Saunders
June 4th	A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again	David Foster Wall
July 2nd	The Red Bandanna	Tom Rinaldi
Aug. 6th	The Stranger in the Woods	Michael Finkel
Sept. 3rd	Big Little Lies	Liane Moriarty
Oct. 1st	In The Midst Of Winter	Isabelle Allende
Nov. 5th	The Immortalists	Chloe Benjamin
Dec. 3rd	Christmas Jars	Jason Wright

 

2017

Jan. 2	Sum It Up	Pat Summitt
Feb. 6	Boys in the Boat	Daniel James Brown
Mar. 6	The Book Thief	Markus Zusak
Apr. 3	See Me	Nicholas Sparks
May 1	The Girl on the Train	Paula Hawkins
Dec. 4th	Twelve Days of Christmas	Debbie Macomber

 

2016

Jan. 4	Wild	Cheryl Strayed
Feb. 1	Ruth’s Journey	Donald McCaig
Mar. 7	House of Silk	Anthony Horowitz
Apr. 4	Wright Brothers	David McCullough
May 2	All the Light We Cannot See	Anthony Doerr
June 6	The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives	Theresa Brown, R.N.
July 11	Last Bus to Wisdom	Ivan Doig
Aug. 1	Museum of Extraordinary Things	Alice Hoffman
Sept. 5	Go Set A Watchman	Harper Lee
Oct. 3	The Thirteenth Tale	Diane Setterfield
Nov. 7	Steel Wave	Jeff Shaara
Dec. 5	The Nightingale	Kristin Hannah

 

2015

Jan. 5	Blood Feud : The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever	Kathleen Sharp
Feb. 2	The Invention of Wings	Sue Monk Kidd
Mar. 2	The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion	Fannie Flagg
Apr. 6	Cross My Heart	James Patterson
May. 4	In the Sanctuary of Outcasts	Neil White
Jun. 1	About a Boy	Nick Hornby
Jul. 6	The Darling Dahlia’s and the Cucumber Tree	Susan Albert
Aug. 3	The Man He Became	James Tobin
Sep. 7	The Union Quilters	Jennifer Chiaverini
Oct. 5	The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean	Philip Caputo
Nov. 2	The Finisher	David Baldacci
Dec. 7	Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker	Jennifer Chiaverini

 

2014

Jan. 6	The Orchardist	Amanda Coplin
Feb. 3	Learning to Swim	Sara J. Henry
Mar. 3	Navigating Early	Clare Vanderpool
Apr. 7	The Chaperone	Laura Moriarity
May. 5	Reader’s Choice (Read your choice of author or title to share with the group)
Jun. 2	Uprising	Margaret Haddix
Jul. 7	The Longest Road	Philip Caputo
Aug. 4	A Cold and Lonely Place	Sara J. Henry
Sep. 1	Proof of Heaven	Eben Alexander, M.D.
Oct. 6	Letters from Skye	Jessica Brockmole
Nov. 3	Barbara Walters	Barbara Walters
Dec. 1	A Week in Winter	Maeve Binchy