A Page in Time Book Club

A Page in Time Book Club A book club for those who enjoy reading historical fiction. We meet at 6:30 p.m. Join us! For more information, call us at 251-340-8561.

on the second Tuesday of each month at the West Regional Branch of the Mobile Public Library. Join us at the West Regional Branch of the Mobile Public Library, 5555 Grelot Rd., on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30.

05/13/2026

Join us on Tuesday, June 2nd, when we meet to discuss "The
Paris Express" by Emma Donoghue. We will meet in the Meeting Room at West Regional Library. Hope to see you there!

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04/13/2026

Join us on Tuesday, May 5, when we meet to discuss "Absolution" by Alice McDermott. We will meet in the Meeting Room at West Regional Library. Hope to see you there!

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03/05/2026

Join us on Tuesday, April 7, when we meet to discuss "The Lost Passenger" by Frances Quinn. We will meet in the Meeting Room of the West Regional Branch Library. Hope to see you there!

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02/05/2026

Join us on Tuesday, March 3, when discuss Patrick Taylor's "An Irish Country Doctor." We will meet at 2:00 p.m. in the Meeting Room at West Regional. Hope to see you there!

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01/07/2026

Join us on Tuesday, February 3, when we will discuss Vanessa Miller's "The Filling Station." We will meet at 2:00 p.m. in the Meeting Room at the West Regional Branch. Hope to see you there!

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12/16/2025

Happy Holidays! Join us in the New Year on Tuesday, January 6 at 2:00 p.m., when we discuss Chris Bohjalian's "The Jackal's Mistress." Hope to see you there!

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11/10/2025

Join us on Tuesday, December 2, when we discuss "Finding Margaret Fuller" by Allison Pataki. We will meet in the Meeting Room at West Regional at 2:00 p.m. Hope to see you there!

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10/10/2025

Join us on Tuesday, November 4, when we discuss Jennifer Ryan's "The Underground Library." We will meet in the Meeting Room at West Regional at 2:00 p.m. Hope to see you there!

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09/18/2025

Our reading list up to this point:

2011
*January – The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
February – Medicus by Ruth Downie
*March – A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
*April – The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent
May – The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia by Mary Helen Stefaniak
*June – The Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
*July – Honolulu by Alan Brennart
*August – Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
September – The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
*October – The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
*November – Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
December – Holy Fools by Joanne Harris

2012
January – Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago
*February – People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
March – Tiger Hills by Sarita Mandanna
*April – The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
May – The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
*June – Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
*July – The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott
August – The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew
*September–22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
October – On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons
*November –The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
December – The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

2013
*January -- The Light Between Oceans by Margot L. Stedman
February – A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg
March – March by Geraldine Brooks
*April – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
*May – The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
*June – When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
*July – The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
August – Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
September – Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
*October – The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay
*November – The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
December –The Healing by Jonathan Odell

2014
*January – Longbourn by Jo Baker
*February – Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
*March – The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
*April – Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole
*May – A Tilted World by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly
June – The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian
July – Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini
August – The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley
September – Fever by Mary Beth Keane
*October – The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
November – The Outcasts by Kathleen Kent
December – The Good Lord Bird by James McBride

2015
January – I Shall Be Near to You by Erin Lindsay McCabe
* February –All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
*March – Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
*April – My Name is Resolute by Nancy E. Turner
*May – Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal
June – The Queen’s Man by Sharon Kay Penman
July – The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott
*August – The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons
September – Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
October – The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore
November – The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh
December – The Queene’s Christmas by Karen Harper

2016
January -- The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent
February -- Succession by Livi Michael
March -- The Hours Count by Jillian Cantor
April -- The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley
May -- Cleopatras’s Shadows by Emily Holleman
June -- The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
*July -- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
August -- Sweet Caress: the Many Lives of Amory Clay by William Boyd
September -- The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows
October -- The Telling by Jo Baker
*November -- The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
*December -- All the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana Trigiani
*Club Favorites
2017
*January – Victoria by Daisy Goodwin
February – Tiffany Girl by Deeanne Gist
*March – And After the Fire by Lauren Belfer
*April – A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
May – The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
June – The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jefferies
July – Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
August – The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
*September -- The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
October – The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
*November – News of the World by Paulette Jiles
December – Belgravia by Julian Fellowes

2018
*January – The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan
February – The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker
*March – The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
April – To Capture What We Cannot Keep by Beatrice Colin
May – The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
June – The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
*July – Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford
*August – I, Eliza Hamilton by Susan Holloway Scott
September – Where the Light Falls by Allison and Owen Pataki
*October – The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman
*November – The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
December – Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor

2019
*January – Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict
February – The Glass Ocean by Karen White, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig
*March – Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
April – I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon
May – Transcription by Kate Atkinson
*June – The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton
July – The Reckoning by John Grisham
August – The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
September – Love and Ruin by Paula McLain
October – Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
November – Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley
December – House of Gold by Natasha Solomon

2020
*January – The Huntress by Kate Quinn
February – The Right Sort of Man by Allison Montclair
*March – As Bright As Heaven by Susan Meissner
April – The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
*May – The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
June – Tidelands by Phillipa Gregory
*July – The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
*August – Stars of Alabama by Sean Dietrich
September – The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
October – The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
*November – The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes
December – Warlight by Michael Ondaatje

2021
January – The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
February -- Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
*March – The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
April – Words I Never Wrote by Jane Thynne
*May – This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
June – The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
*July – The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
August – Remember Me by Mario Escobar
September – The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
*October – The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner
November – Under the Tulip Tree by Michelle Shocklee
December – Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher

2022
January – The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin
*February – The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray
March – The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
April – The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
*May – The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan
June – Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
July – Radar Girls by Sara Ackerman
*August – The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner
*September – The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
*October – Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
November – Codename Helene by Ariel Lawhon
December – The Inheritance by JoAnn Ross

*Club Favorites

2023
*January – Dragonfly by Leila Meacham
February – The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
March – The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich
April – Shrines of Gaeity by Kate Atkinson
*May – The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
June – The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
*July – The German Wife by Kelly Rimmer
August – West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
September – Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
October – The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain
*November – Sisters of Night and Fog by Ericka Roebuck
December – The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

2024
January – Two Wars and a Wedding by Lauren Willig
*February – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
*March – The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michelle Richardson
April – The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
*May – The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor
June – The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
July – The Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny LeCoat
August – The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
*September – The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
*October – The Heaven and Hell Grocery Store by James McBride
November – Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
December – The Italian Ballerina by Kristy Cambron

2025
January – Kinfolk by Sean Dietrich
*February – The Women by Kristin Hannah
*March – The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
April – People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
May – Fight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon
June – The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
*July – The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
*August – The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson by Ellen Baker
*September – Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner
October – James by Percival Everett
November – The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan
December – Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki

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09/18/2025

I just realized this morning that we will soon be concluding our FIFTEENTH year of meeting to discuss great (and sometimes not so great) historical fiction books. So if you would like to take a trip down memory lane with me (or do some serious catching up!), I will be posting a list of everything we have read together. A few were duds (no shame!), but several of them will stick with me forever.

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09/18/2025

Join us on Tuesday, October 7, when we will discuss Percival Everett's "James." We will meet in the Meeting Room at the West Regional Branch at 2:00 p.m. Hope to see you there!

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