The Dangerous Creatures Book Club: May 2021

Here is the Fourth Cycle of books we are reading in our book club, from Oct 2020-Nov 2021.

The Farm, by Joanne Ramos, selected by Jessy, Oct 2020
Less, by Andrew Sean Greer, selected by Maria, Nov 2020
Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward, selected by Sofia, Dec 2020
The Readbreast, by Jo Nesbo, selected by Paige, Jan 2021
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom, by Yeonmi Park, selected by Sarah, Feb 2021
Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno Garcia, selected by Blair, Mar 2021
Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir, selected by Tiffany, Apr 2021
Queen of Kings, by Maria Dahvana Headley, selected by Lauren, May 2021
Afterlife, by Julia Alvarez, selected by Ali, Jun 2021
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers, selected by Miriam, Jul 2021
The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. Harrow, selected by Melissa, Aug 2021
The House in the Cerulean Sea, by T.J. Klune, selected by Kate, Sep 2021
Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke, selected by Emily Y, Oct 2021
Tell Me About Yourself, by Holley M. Murchison, selected by Emily V, Nov 2021

A look back at the Third Cycle of books read in our book club, Sep 2019-Sep 2020.

City of Girls, by Elizabeth Gilbert, selected by Sam, Sep 2019
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, selected by Krista, Oct 2019
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, by Casey Cep, selected by Jessie P, Dec 2019
Recursion, by Blake Crouch, selected by Jessy S, Jan 2020
The Spy, by Paulo Coehlo, selected by Blair, Jan 2020
Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi, selected by Kate, Feb 2020
The Lies of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch, selected by Melissa, Mar 2020
The Poppy War, by R. F. Kuang, selected by Tiffany, Apr 2020
The Gifted School, by Bruce Holsinger, selected by Maria, May 2020
The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, selected by Miriam, Jun 2020
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah, selected by Emily Y, Jul 2020
Binti (The Complete Trilogy), by Nnedi Ororafor, selected by Sarah, Aug 2020
Wilder Girls, by Rory Power, selected by Lauren, Sep 2020

A look back at our Second Cycle of books read in our book club, Oct 2018-Aug 2019.

Before We Visit the Goddess, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, selected by Maria, Oct 2018
Cherry, by Nico Walker, selected by Ali, Nov 2018
Uprooted, by Naomi Novik, selected by Miriam, Dec 2018
The Husband's Secret, by Liane Moriarty, selected by Melissa, Jan 2019
The Power, by Naomi Alderman, selected by Sarah, Feb 2019
The Outsider, by Stephen King, selected by Jessie P, Mar 2019
Noir, by Christopher Moore, selected by Blair, Apr 2019
Bright-Sided:How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, by Barbara Ehrenreich, selected by Lauren, Apr 2019
Unsheltered, by Barbara Kingsolver, selected by Jessy S, Jun 2019
The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden, selected by Miriam Jul 2019 (Unofficial Meeting)
Varina, by Charled Frazier, selected by Sam, Aug 2019

A look back at the first cycle of books read by our book club, Jan-Sep 2018.

Kindred, by Octavia Butler, selected by Miriam, Jan 2018
Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches, by John Hodgman, selected by Ali, Feb 2018
Cake Time, by Siel Ju, selected by Kara, Mar 2018
Artemis, by Andy Weir, selected by Sarah, Apr 2018
Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood, selected by Lauren, May 2018
Clean Sweep, by Ilona Andrews, selected by Blair, Jun 2018
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, selected by Emily V, Jul 2018
The Heist, by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg, selected by Jess, Sep 2018