Genre Book Club
This book club meets the second Wednesday of the month at 6 pm in the Ice Age Trail Room. Each month, readers in this book club will read a book from one of three genres: crime/mystery, horror, or science fiction/fantasy.
September Book (September 20):
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts’ plight. With John, Marjorie’s father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend. Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie’s younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface—and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil.
June:
The Deep Blue Good-By by John D. MacDonald
July:
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
August:
Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby
September:
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
January:
Fatherland by Robert Harris (Mystery/Crime)
February:
Kindred by Octavia Butler (Science Fiction)
March:
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Horror)
April:
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Science Fiction)
May:
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay (Mystery/Crime)
June:
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (Science Fiction)
July:
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix (Horror)
August:
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (Science Fiction)
September:
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley (Mystery/Crime)
October:
The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman (Mystery)
November:
The Green Mile by Stephen King (Thriller)
December:
Hark! The Herald Angels Scream: An Anthology by Christopher Golden (Horror)
August:
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
September:
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
October:
Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay
November:
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
December:
Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie