The Gallatin Valley and surrounding areas are blessed with many book clubs.  We’d like to foster communication between all of these thoughtful readers to enhance all of your reading and discussion experiences.

Please email us suggestions for how the Country Bookshelf can be of further service to your club or what kind of information you’d be interested in about other clubs, including:

• how they manage/operate the club;
• who directs meetings (if at all) and how;
• how, when and what kinds of books are chosen;
• what books they liked, didn’t like, sparked great conversation;
• how the club began, how it has changed over time, and whether new members are welcome;
• whether the club has particular goals or themes. 

We are also planning an open forum meeting for book club members and other readers sometime this September. Look for more details in the future and be sure to let us know what would be most helpful or interesting to you.

If your book club is not in our register, please contact us to add it and begin ordering books for your group. If your club has ordered books through us before, we’d love to get the most current contact information.

We already stock many book club selections, and I’ve seen many customers mine the book club shelf for reading ideas (you folks have fabulous taste!), but for those who can’t visit us in person as often, I’d like to begin this conversation with a list of recent book club choices.

If your book club has read one of these, please share with us how people liked it and how the conversation went. With your permission, we’d love to share these thoughts in future posts and perhaps even in a special book club newsletter.

 A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell

The Best American Short Stories 2008 edited by Salman Rushdie

Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl

Buster Midnight’s Cafe by Sandra Dallas

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Ambassadors by Henry James

Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen