Sutton Community Book Club

Reserve a Thursday of each month to meet with other people who love books (and love to read!) and discuss interesting literature. We meet in the reading room of the Sutton Public Library at 6 p.m.

Visitors are always welcome – join us and let us know what you have enjoyed reading!

April 24 — If You Lived Here, I ’ d Know Your Name — Heather Lende

A book for all Alaskans about small town life in our state. No one understands our quirkiness as well as Lende as she describes the people of her town Haines , Alaska . She deftly illuminates local color: the sewer plant manager who rides a motorcycle and sports a ZZ Top beard, the high school principal who moonlights as a Roy Orbison impersonator, and the one-legged female gold miner. Lende covers life and death in her community in all its forms — accidental, intentional and inevitable.

May 22 — The Good Earth — Pearl S. Buck

Over 60 years since this novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it remains popular,and has become a great modern classic. This story of the farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan describes the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century.

June 19 — Any Book about Happiness (Adult or Kids Title, you decide!)!

Here are a few suggestions: Against Happiness, by Eric G. Wilson; The Happiest Man in the World, by Alec Wilkinson; The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne; True Happiness, by Pema Chodron, The Feel Good Book, by Todd Parr; The Garden of Happiness, by Erika Tamar; The Tao of Willie, by Willie Nelson; Blue Shoes and Happiness, by Alexander McCall Smith; Death and the Language of Happiness, by John Straley.