12 of us met at Lester’s in Ladue for good food, drink and conversation about books in January. Here is an in-exhaustive list in no particular order of books that we enjoyed in 2017:
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
A Column of Fire by Ken Follett
The Midnight Line by Lee Child
The Scarred Woman by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Paradise Valley by C.J. Box
Look Behind You by Iris Johansen
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
House of Spies by Daniel Silva
Upstream by Mary Oliver
The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseki
The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama and Bishop Desmond Tutu
Aging as a Spiritual Practice by Lewis Richmond
The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
Glass Houses by Louise Penny
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Year One by Nora Roberts
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Mister Monkey by Francine Prose