Art League Book Club
Book club meetings are held on the 4th Wednesday of every month at 11:30am at Tom’s Kitchen: 656 Rt. 93 Sugarloaf, PA 18249.
Art League Book Club List and Date Schedule for 2023
Month & Day
January 24th
February 28th
March 27th
April 24th
May 22nd
June 26th
July
August 28th
September 25th
October 23rd
November 20th
December - TBA
Book Titles
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Michelle Richardson
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford
Camino Winds, by John Grisham
The Air Raid Book Club, by Annie Lyons
The Heistess: A Crime Thriller, By Lex Sloot
The River We Remember, by Kent Krueger
-VACATION-
The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towels
Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
Running with Sherman, by Christopher McDougall
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, by Matthew Perry
—— Christmas Party ——
Recommended by club member:
Joanne Zola
Chris DiJulia
Barbara Knelly
Alice Powell
Lex Sloot
Anne Snyder
Bonnie Whitebread
Kathy Bestwick
Sheila Smith
Mark Boerma
“Dr. Margaret Coté, and assistant professor of English at the Hazleton Campus of Penn State, won the hearts of many with her beauty, her charm and her profound insight with the reading of The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough to a large audience in the gallery. She pointed out that future classics are being written today as the long endurance and supreme writing of this story lay testimony. Moreover, the power of this work captured by Dr. Coté on February 9, 1979, inspired a group, who had often talked about a book club, to ask her to act as a moderator, and the first meeting of the newly formed Hazleton Art League Book Club took place March 7, 1979.
Even when Dr. Coté was transferred to the Allentown Campus, she traveled to Hazleton to meet with the Club, but when she moved away from that area, members, who had become accustomed to the round-table discussion, took turns in suggesting what books should be reviewed, serving as moderators. Books were chosen that were finally in paperback editions to reduce the cost. Mrs. Betty Barrett and Mary E. Ferry were the principals in the formation of this Club.”
— A Brief History of the Hazleton Art League Book Club.