Discussion led by Grace Steffens
The OEBC (Other Evening Book Club) has started up again! ​
Below you will find some of the OEBC's reading history. The dynamic of any of The English Center's book groups impacts the selection of the books we read so this would be the perfect time to join us to share your thoughts and ideas.

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August
Book of the Month
Date: Wednesday, August 27th
​Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00PM
Price: €12,00 per meeting
or block of 5 for €50,00
includes discussion and a coffee or tea.
Demon Copperhead
 by Barbara Kingsolver
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.
What's Next
August 27th: Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver (historical fiction, coming-of-age) September 24th: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin (fiction, romance) October 22nd: Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Prachett (fantasy fiction)
​November 19th: Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë (classic, tragedy)
December 17th: TBD (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue? The Shell Collector? Tom’s Midnight Garden?
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Books We've  Read in 2025
January-Lessons in Diplomacy by Leigh Turner
February- Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
 March - There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
April - The Second Coming by John Niven 
May - The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton (mystery, thriller)
June- The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley (science fiction)
July -Red Rising, by Pierce Brown (science fantasy fiction)

Books We Read in 2024
​January - Circe by Madeline Miller
​February - Femina by Jamina Ramirez
March - A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
April -Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
May - Stoner  by John Williams
June -Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
July  - The Giver by Lois Lowry
August  -Lessons in Chemistry  by Bonnie Gamus
September - The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
October -  The Shining by Stephen King
November - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
December - The Christmas Bookshop - Jenny Colgan
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Books We Read in 2023
​January - Shades of Gray by Jasper Fforde
February  - Mad Women's Ball by Victoria Mas
March  - Live Range by Jeffrey H. Fischer 
April - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
May - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Qwens
June  -  Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
July - Sandman Vol 1 (Graphic) by Neil Gaiman
August-The Truth about Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker 
September -  Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
​October -  The Road  by Cormac McCarthy
​November - A Line to Kill  by Anthony Horowitz
December  -  Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Louis Carroll

Books We Read in 2022
January-  SpliIshigurog by Tanya Tagaq
February  - Walking into Alchemy by Amelia Marriette
March  - The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
 April -  Altruists by Andrew Ridker
May - On Tyranny (the graphic edition) by Timothy Snyder
June - Becoming by Michelle Obama
August  - Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
September  - The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
October - Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
November -The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 
December - Matilda by Roald Dahl 

Books We Read in 2021

January - Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
February -The Bird in the Bamboo Cage by C. Ryan Howard
March - Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
April - Not Forgetting the Whale by John Ironmonger
May - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
June  - Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
          - The Lost & Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs
August - The Windsor Knot by S. J. Bennett
September 30th - The Man in The Red Coat by Julian Barnes
October 14th - The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
November 25th - Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
December 9th - Ickabog by J.K. Rowling