Book Group books are chosen by various members. Find who’s picking what next. The group generally meets at the Library now on the 4th, Wednesday of the month, with a few exceptions.
How to become a Fishers Island Library Book Club member?
Just come to a meeting, and you will be added to the contact list, or contact Abby McCall or Ann Banks, Easy!
Title: The Listeners
By: Maggie Stiefvater, who will join us in person
Book Club Date: THURSDAY, January 22
Time: 5:30 pm
Pages: 382
This book has received a lot of positive attention because of the #1 bestselling author Stiefvater, known for her extremely popular and well-loved young adult series, but is also getting a lot of attention as her first adult novel. It’s the story of an irresistible protagonist, a romance, and a famous hotel and spa in West Virginia (picture The Greenbrier). During WWII, the Avallon Hotel & Spa makes a secret deal with the government to take in captured Axis diplomats. This agreement changes both staff and owners alike as they try to accommodate the new guests while staying true to themselves.
The most exciting news of all is that the author will be coming to visit us and meet with us in January! Every book club meeting is open all islanders. It is especially nice to have more people when an author is here, so read the book and join us in January to discuss THE LISTENERS and to meet Maggie Stiefvater herself!
Exciting Plans for 2026 include moving this meeting to the 4th Wednesday in each month so more people are free to come, and so as not to conflict with ICB and the FIS BOE meetings.
| Date | Book | Selector | |
| THURSDAY, January 22 | The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater | Jane Ahrens | The author will be visiting with us this evening at the Library! |
| Wednesday, February 25 | Master, Slave, Husband, Wife by Ilyon Woo | Staley Sednaui | |
| Wednesday, March 25 | The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto by Elizabeth Hyman | Rosanna Anderson | |
| April 22 | Diane Baker | ||
| May 27 | Abby McCall | ||
| June 24 | Sarah Malinowski | Sarah is picking a book in tandem with a Lighthouse Works author | |
| July 22 | |||
| August 26 | |||
| September 23 | |||
| October 28 | |||
| November 25 | Date will be changed for Thanksgiving conflict | ||
| December 23 | Date to be confirmed |
Book Club members volunteer to suggest books one to two months ahead to read in these months. If you want to help pick a book for a month, please contact Abby McCall. Find all our book title selections below in the book galleries. Other book recommendations are at the bottom of this page.
2026 Book Club Choices:
Please be sure to bring your calendars so that everybody can pick a month this year to choose a book that inspires them. As always, the library has copies of the books if needed. As we make our monthly choices, the library has or can get copies of all the books. You can also get them via LIBBY with your library card and on tape. Many are on Audible.
2025 Book Club Choices:
Library Book Club selections in the past:
Please invite friends who might also be interested.
There are many book lovers on the island, and bringing the group together is so nice. The more readers, the better, and some people are unable to join on any given month. Please feel free to forward this to anyone else you can think of. All are welcome.
- We convene our Book Club on the 4th Wednesday of each month whenever possible.
- Feel free to BYOBeverage and a snack to share if you like.
- For those of you who prefer e-books, please use the library’s app on its website.
- If you want to buy gently used books—as opposed to borrowing from the library or listening to them on tape—you might try ordering from Thriftbooks.com or AbeBooks.com. The BAM bookstore in Waterford also has reduced-price books, many of which are recycled.
Live-brary Card/Libby App
A Fishers Island Live-brary Card and the Libby App allows one (one may need a NYS address) to become a member of the Suffolk County/New York Library system and borrow digital and audiobooks for free. All our book club books thus far have been available to borrow online or in an audible format.
Fishers Island Library website: http://www.filibrary.org
Contact Librarian Ann Banks with Library questions.
Other recommendations by FI Library Book Club members:
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Bastard Out of Caroline by Dorothy Allison
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
C
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
One Woman Show by Christine Coluson
Eleanor Roosevelt by Lance Wiesen Cook
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
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Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
F
Century Trilogy – historical fiction by Ken Follett
G
All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle
The Pirate’s Wife, The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
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Act of Oblivion, a historical novel by Robert Harris
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Secret Life of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
Verify by Colleen Hoover
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
J
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
K
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
Euphoria by Lily King
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
All But My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Mrs. Queen Takes a Train Ride by William Kuhn
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Eric Larsen
Interpreter of maladies stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Spy that Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
M
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
On the Savage Side by Tiffany McDaniel
Eleanor by David Michaelis
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
God of the Woods by Liz Moore
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Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
P
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Franklin & Lucy by Joseph E. Persico
The Shell Seekers by Rosamond Pilcher
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
R
The Last Night by Luanne Rice
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Love Story by Erich Segal
Endless Love by Scott Spencer
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
V
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
W
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Still Life by Sarah Winman
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
