Boys' Book Club (BBC) - Staff Book Club

I have been a part of the Boys' Book Club (BBC) since 2000.  It is a small book club of men that teach together at my school.  We range between four and five members.  We each take a turn to pick a book that we will read.  We meet about once a month (over beer and munchies at our favorite hang-out) and talk about the book.  We of course also talk about other stuff, like school gossip!  Yes, men teachers can gossip just as well as the female teachers! 

Here is a list of all the books we have read...

BBC/Boys' Book Club (February 2000 - Fall 2022)

Patchwork Planet

Tuesdays with Morrie

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Angela’s Ashes

Cold Sassy Tree (Summer 2000 - 5 Books this School Year)

Back Roads

Cold Mountain

We Were the Mulvaney’s

Poisonwood Bible

Left Behind

I Know This Much Is True

The Wanderer

Lesson Before Dying

Eddie’s Bastard (Summer 2001 - 9 Books this School Year)

In Harm’s Way

Home at the End of the World

The Corrections

The Invisible Man

Peace Like a River

Light of Falling Stars

Buffalo Soldier

The Haunting of L

Somewhere South of Here (Summer of 2002 - 9 Books this School Year)

Into Thin Air

Pergatory Ridge

Tell No One

Beach Music

The Painted House

The Arraignment

Green Grass Grace (Summer of 2003 - 7 Books this School Year)

The Clearing

Dive from Clausen’s Pier

Lies and the Liars Who Told Them

Miracle Life of Edger Mint

DaVinci Code

Five People You Meet in Heaven

Angels and Demons

Studio Sex (Summer of 2004 - 8 Books this School Year)

Coal Run

The Double

Skinny Dip

Devil in the White City

Kite Runner

Turtle Warrior

Life of Pi

MiddleSex (Summer of 2005 - 8 Books this School Year)

Shoot the Moon

Out of Season

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The Known World

HoneyMoon by James Patterson

The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon

The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer

The Shadow of the Wind (Summer 2006 - 9 Books this School Year)

One Mississippi by Mark Childress

Gods of Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson

Thirteen Moons by Jonathon Fraizer

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Speak Softly She Can Hear

The Long Run

Sister Mine by Tawni O’Dell

Like Trees Walking

The Double Bind by Chris B (Summer 2007 - 9 Books this School Year)

A Thousand Splendid Suns by

Between Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Folliet

The Crazy School by

Three Cups of Tea

The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson

Sorrows of an American

So Young, Brave, and Handsome  by Leif Enger

Bright, Shiny, Morning by James Frey (Summer 2008 - 10 Books this School Year)

Mudbound by Hilary Jordan

The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich

The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb

The Thirteenth Tale

Sweet Smoke

Gone for Good

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Catcher in the Rye (Summer 2009 - 8 Books this School Year)

The Lost Symbol

The Weight of  Silence

The Help

The Lacuna

The Dog Says How by Kevin Kling

The Summer We Fell Apart  

Murderer’s Daughter            

The Invisible Wall (Summer 2010 - 8 Books this School Year)

Outliers          

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

Saving Max

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

The White Tiger                     

Skippy Dies                           

Five Smooth Stones

_______________ (Summer 2011 - 7 Books this School Year) - No Book Picked for Summer

Driftless

Rich Boy

Unbroken

Three Weeks with my Brother

When She Woke

Ladies’ Dectective Agency #1

_______________ (Summer 2012 - 6 Books this School Year) - No Book Picked for Summer


Sharp by David Fitzpatrick (Memoir)
Midnight Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (True Crime)
We the Animals by Justin Torres (Fiction)
A Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling (Fiction)
The Fault in our Stars by John Green (Young Adult Fiction)
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo (Fiction-Mystery)
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom (Historical Fiction)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Fiction)
_______________ (Summer 2013 - 8 Books this School Year) - No Book Picked for Summer 


The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (September 2013)
We are Water by Wally Lamb (October/November 2013) 
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (December 2013)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak  (January/February 2014)
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (March/April 2014)
Divergent by Veronica Roth (May 2014)


Natchez Burning by Greg Iles (September 2014)
Candy Girl by Diablo Cody (October 2014)
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult (November 2014)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (December 2014)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (January 2015)
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (February 2015)
One of Us by Tawni O'Dell (March/April 2015)
Fragile Beasts by Tawni O'Dell (May/Summer 2015)
The Bone Tree by Greg Iles (May/Summer 2015)


A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (September/October 2015)
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (November 2015)
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham (December 2015)
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens (January 2016)
The Opposite of Everyone by Joshilyn Jackson (February 2016)
Lusitania by Erik Larson (March/April 2016)


The Nix by Nathan Hill (September/October 2016)
I'll Take You There by Wally Lamb (October/November 2016)
The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian (December/January 2017)
The Weight of Him by Ethel Rohan (February/March 2017)
Carry Me Home by Sandra Kring (March/April 2017)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (April/May 2017)


The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne (September 2017)
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott (October/November 2017)
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (December 2017)
The Immoralists by Chloe Benjamin  (January 2018)
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (February 2018)
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (March 2018)
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison (April/May 2018)


Origin by Dan Brown (September/October 2018)
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni (October/November 2018)
My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni (November/December 2018)
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (January/February 2019)
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (March 2019)
Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler (April 2019)
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell (April/May 2019)
Lights All Night Long by Lydia Fitzpatrick (May 2019)


The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (September 2019)
All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin (October 2019)
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger (November 2019)
The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes (December 2019)
Normal People by Sally Rooney (January 2020)
From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle (February 2020)
A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler (March 2020)
The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian (April/May 2020)
A Burning by Megha Majumdar (June 2020)

Anxious People by Fredric Backman (September 2020)

Gone One Night by Tara Laskowski (October/November 2020)

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (December 2020)

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (January 2021)

Concerte Rose by Angie Thomas (February 2021)

The Dry by Jane Harper (March 2021)

We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker (April 2021)

The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson (May 2021)

The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni (September/October 2021)

The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean (October/November 2021)

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (November/December 2021)

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (February 2022)

Jury Master by Robert Dugoni (March 2022)
Small World by Jonathan Evison (April 2022)

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers (September/October 2022)

We Are All The Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin (October/November 2022)

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (December 2022)

All the Broken Places by John Boyne (January 2023)

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (February 2023)

We are the Light by Matthew Quick (March 2023)

The Resemblance by Lauren Nossett (April 2023)

The Winners by Fredrik Backman (May 2023)

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Summer 2023)

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham (Summer 2023)

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Story by James McBride (Summer 2023)

The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger (September 2023)

Midnight is the Darkest Hour by Ashely Winstead (October 2023)

The Memory of an Elephant by Alex Lasker (November 2023)

The BBC (Boy's Book Club) transitioned from a small male teacher book club to an all-staff book club

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty (December 2023/January 2024)

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (February/March 2024)

The Teacher by Frieda McFadden (April 2024)

I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger (May 2024)

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Summer 2024) *I've read, but have wanted to reread this masterpiece

Real Americans by Rachel Khong (September 2024)

Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh (October 2024)

James by Percival Everett (November 2024)