Mayo County Library

The Book Club meets once a month (usually the first Wednesday of the month) in Ballyhaunis Library at 8:00pm. 

** The next meeting of Ballyhaunis Library Book Club  will be on Wednesday, January 8 at 8pm.  The book for discussion will be Persuasion by Jane Austen. **

Books previously discussed in Ballyhaunis Library Book Club:
Star Rating (1-5)

December 2024
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern  3.5 stars

November 2024
Before the Coffee gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi  2 stars

October 2024
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes  4.5 stars

September 2024
The Hunter by Tana French  2.5 stars

May 2024
How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney  3.5 stars

April 2024
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah  3 stars

March 2024
Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson  3 stars

February 2024
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan  3.5 stars

January 2024
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas  3.5 stars

December 2023
Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink  3 stars

November 2023
Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter  3 stars

October 2023
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? by Seamas O'Reilly  4.5 stars

September 2023
The Red Bird Sings by Aoife Fitzpatrick  3.5 stars

July/August 2023
Still Life by Sarah Winman  3.5 stars

June 2023
​The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell  4 stars

May 2023
This is Happiness by Niall Williams  4 stars  

April 2023
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak  3.5 stars

March 2023
Dracula by Bram Stoker  3 stars

February 2023
The Maid by Nita Prose 3 ½ stars

January 2023
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn  4 stars

December 2022
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy 4 stars

November 2022
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus   4 stars

October 2022
Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan   3.5 stars

May 2020
The Guest List  by Lucy Foley. 

April 2020
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.

March 2020
Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner 2.5 stars

February 2020
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson 4 stars

January 2020
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 4 stars 
 
December 2019
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor 3 stars 

November 2019
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn. 4 stars 

October 2019
Fever by Mary Beth Keane. 4 stars 

September 2019
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume 4 stars 

June 2019
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne 3 stars

May 2019
The Dry by Jane Harper. 3 stars  

April 2019
Rain on the Wind by Walter Macken. 4 stars 

March 2019
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout 4 stars 

February 2019
Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds 3 stars

January 2019
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark  2½ stars

December 2018
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. 3 stars

November 2018
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. 4½ stars

October 2018
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult 4 stars 

September 2018
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris 3½ stars

June 2018
Everything I Never told You by Celeste Ng. 4 stars 

May 2018
I Found My Tribe by Ruth Fitzmaurice 3 stars

April 2018
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 3 stars 

March 2018
The Scandal by Fredrik Backman 4 stars 

February 2018
The Coroner's Daughter by Andrew Hughes 3½ stars 

January 2018
Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty 3½ stars 

December 2017
Holding by Graham Norton  4 stars 

November 2017
The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen 4 stars 

October 2017
Sacred Country by Rose Tremain 3½ stars 

September 2017
Anything is Possible  by Elizabeth Strout 4 stars 

June 2017
City of Thieves by David Benioff 3½ stars

May 2017
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 3 stars

April 2017
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack 4 stars 

March 2017
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte  4½ stars

February 2017
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¹/₄ Years Old by Hendirk Groen 4½ stars

January 2017
The Drowned Detective by Neil Jordan 2½ stars

December 2016
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout 4 stars

November 2016
The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton 3½ stars

October 2016
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams 3 stars

September 2016
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon 3 stars

June 2016
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson 3 stars

May 2016
The Children of the Rising by Joe Duffy 4 stars 

April 2016
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler 3½ stars

March 2016
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 4 stars 

February 2016
Without a Trace by Lesley Pearse 2½ stars

January 2016
The Ballroom Café by Ann O'Loughlin 2½ stars

December 2015
Tender by Belinda McKeon 2½ stars

November 2015
All the Light we Cannont See by Anthony Doerr 4 stars

October 2015
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd 4 stars

September 2015
Us by David Nicholls 3 stars

July 2015
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey 3 stars

June 2015
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed by Cheryl Strayed. 3½ stars

May 2015
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 4 stars 

April 2015
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler 3 stars

March 2015
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki 3½ stars

February 2015
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 4 stars 

January 2015
Academy Street by Mary Costello 3½ stars

December 2014
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 3 stars

November 2014
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith 3 stars

October 2014
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler 3 stars

September 2014
Small Island by Andrea Levy 4 stars

August 2014
Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent 3½ stars

July 2014
The Undertaking by Audrey Magee 4 stars

June 2014
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent 3 stars

May 2014
Longbourn : a novel of pride and prejudice below stairs by Jo Baker 3½ stars 

April 2014
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck  4½ stars

March 2014
Last Orders by Graham Swift. 2½ stars.

February 2014
All Quiet on the Western Front  by Erich Maria Remarque.  4 stars

January 2014
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín. 3 stars

December 2013
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright. 2 stars

November 2013
Call of the Lark : a memoir by Maura Mulligan 3 stars

October 2013
Staring at Lakes : a memoir of love, melancholy and magical thinking by Michael Harding 3 stars

September 2013
Strumpet City by James Plunkett 5 stars

August 2013
Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead 2 stars

July 2013
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce 4 stars

June 2013
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo 3 stars

May 2013
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan 3½ stars 

April 2013
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 4 stars

March 2013
Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin 4 stars

February 2013
The Dinner by Herman Koch 3 stars

January 2013
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb 3½ stars 

December 2012
The Glass Castle by Jennnette Walls 4 stars

November 2012
Serena by Ron Rash 4 stars

October 2012
This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann 3 stars

September 2012
Burning Bright by Ron Rash 4 stars 

August 2012
One Day by David Nicholls 3 stars

July 2012
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 3½ stars 

June 2012
Foster by Claire Keegan 3 stars

May 2012
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka 3 stars

April 2012
Incendiary by Chris Cleave 3 stars

March 2012
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin. 4 stars

February 2012
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence. 3½ stars

January 2012
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. 4 stars

December 2011
The Vault by Ruth Rendell  2 stars

November 2011
Mr. Golightly's Holiday by Salley Vickers 3 stars

October 2011
Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 3 stars

Septmeber 2011
When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman 3 stars

August 2011
The Hungry Ghosts by Anne Berry 3 stars

July 2011
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 4 stars

June 2011
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray  2 stars 

May 2011
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson  3 stars

April 2011
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 3 stars

March 2011
Julius Winsome by Gerard Donovan 4 stars

February 2011 
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese  4 stars  

January 2011
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd  3 stars 

December 2010
Room by Emma Donoghue   4 stars  

November 2010
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith   4 stars  

October 2010
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake  3 stars 

September 2010
Old School by Tobias Wolff   3 stars 

August 2010
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith   2½ stars

July 2010
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa   3½ stars

June 2010
The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre   3 stars 

May 2010
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo  3 stars 

April 2010
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout   4 stars
   
March 2010
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann  3 stars 

February 2010
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen   4 stars

January 2010
Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden   2½ stars

December 2009
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy  4½ stars

November 2009
The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne   3 stars

October 2009
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer  3 stars

September, 2009
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson   3½ stars

August, 2009
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver  4 stars

July, 2009
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga  3 stars

June, 2009
The Road by Cormac McCarthy  4 stars

May, 2009
Stealing Water: A Secret life in a South African City by Tim Ecott  3½ stars

April, 2009
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole  3 stars

March, 2009
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold.   2½ stars

February, 2009
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry.   4 stars

January, 2009
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.  4 stars

The Book Club meets once a month in Belmullet Library at 7:00pm. 

** The next meeting of Belmullet Library Book Club will be on Wednesday, January 15 at 7pm. The book for discussion will be The Goat's Song by Dermot Healy. The group has also recommended two more books for Christmas reading: Horse by Geraldine Brooks and Leonard & Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession**

Books previously discussed in Belmullet Library Book Club:
Star Rating (1-5)

December 2024
Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood 4 stars

November 2024
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa  4.5 stars - the group thought this was "Beautifully written, fantastic, heartbreaking and disturbing ... a book that won’t be forgotten."

October 2024
Less by Andrew Sean Greer  2 stars

August 2024
The Coast Road by Alan Murrin  4 stars

July 2024
Long Island by Colm Tóibín  3 stars

April 2024
Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney  3 stars

May 2024
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray  3.5 stars

June 2024
The Women by Kristin Hannah  3.5 stars

 

Castlebar Library Book Club meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 8pm upstairs in Castlebar Library.  ** The January 2025 meeting of the Book Club will be on Tuesday, January 14 **

Currently Reading: 

A Book of Our Own Choosing by Various Authors (for our January 2025 meeting)

Past reads:

Book Club previous selections (star rating 1 - 5)

November 2024
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney  4 stars

October 2024
Howards End by E.M. Forster  4 stars

September 2024
The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O'Brien  4 stars

August 2024
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes  5 stars

July 2024
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams  3.5 stars

June 2024
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton  3 stars

May 2024
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue  3 stars

April 2024
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane  5 stars

March 2024
This Plague of Souls by Mike McCormack  3 stars

February 2024
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch  5 stars

January 2024
Various books of members own choice, including: Kala by Colin Walsh; Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith; Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry; The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams; The Paris Wife by Paula McLain; A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley; Saturday by Ian McEwan; So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan; Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver; Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry; Haven by Emma Donoghue; A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe; The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows; Bleak House by Charles Dickens; Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane; Open Up by Thomas Morris; The Woman in Black and other Ghost Stories by Susan Hill (specifically “The Small Hand” story); Water by John Boyne; When All is Said by Anne Griffin; The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard; Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield; Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano; Beyond the Sea by Paul Lynch; The Stranger in the Seine by Guillaume Musso; When They See Me by Gill Perdue.

Kiltimagh Library Book Club meets on the third Wednesday of every month at 7pm in the library (this is occasionally subject to change).

 

The September Bookclub was held in Kiltimagh Library on Wednesday, September 18th.  Readers picked their own choice for this month's read, so there was  variety of genres discussed.  The main discussion took place on our Mayo author Colin Barrett's book Wild Houses.  Stars varied from 2.5 stars to 4 stars on this novel! Other books discussed were M J Lee's  Detective D I Ridpath series, which is a great series for anyone who likes whodunnits.   

** The next meeting of Kiltimagh Book Club is on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 7pm and the book for discussion is The Hunter by Tana French. New members welcome. **

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