The first Saturday of every month, avid readers meet at Lanier Library in Tryon at 9:30 a.m. to talk about books they’ve enjoyed, or not enjoyed. The meeting is open to all book lovers. Following are some current favorites.
Fiction
Canada by Richard Ford.
Amy and Isabel by Elizabeth Strout.
The Red book by Deborah Kogan.
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joison.
Skios by  Michael Frayn.
Follow the River by James Alexander Thoms.
The Professor and the Housekeeper by Yoko Agawa.
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian.
Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead.
Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer.
Tunbleweed by Leila Meacham.
Park Lane by Frances Osborne.
Rose in a Storm by John Katz.
Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan.
Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers
The St. Zita Society by Ruth Rendell.
A Foreign Country by Charles Cumming.
The Fear Artist by Tim Hallinan.
Come Home l by Lisa Scottoline.
Blind Goddess by Anne Holr.
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.
Beastly Things  by Donna Leon.
Creole Belle by James Lee Burke.
Blind Goddess  by Anne Holt.
Kill Shot by Vince Flynn.
Non Fiction
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families  by Jane Ziegelman.
Voyagers of the Titanic by Richard Davenport- Hines.
Social Conquest of the Earth by Edward O. Wilson.
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg.
Alaskan Travels by Edward Hoagland.
Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden.
Panic Virus by Seth Mnookin.
I’m Feeling Lucky: Confessions of Google Employee 59 by Douglas Edwards.
Violinist’s Thumb by Sam Kean.
Biography/ Memoir
The Glitter and the Gold   by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan.
Path to Power by Robert Caro.
Wild by Cheryl Strayed.
American Sniper by Chris Kyle.
History
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre.
Team of Rivals by Doris Goodwin.
War by Sebastian Junger.
For more information, visit www.lanierlib.org.
– article submitted by David Cudlip