Book, Bagel & Brew
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 | God, Faith, and Reason | Michael Savage |
June 5th | Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour Of An Icon | Kate Andersen Brower |
July 10th | Foster | Claire Keegan |
Aug. 7th | Chicken soup for the soul : attitude of gratitude | Amy Newmark |
Sept. 11th | The Secret Life of Sunflowers | Dolores J. Wilson |
Oct. 2nd | The Revolutionary Samuel Adams | Marta Molnar |
Nov. 6th | A Christmas Memory | Richard Paul Evans |
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
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 |