Book Clubs - Mostly Social Book Club

The Mostly Social Book Club (MSBC) has been in existence since about 1992. We are a group of five people who at one time all worked on the "Network Performance Team" out at IBM. Though we've all moved on to different jobs in IBM, we continue to try and meet regularly.

Through 2006, we met each week for lunch, and in 2007 changed our meetings to once a month, usually on the second or third Sunday evening of the month. Sometimes at our meetings, we've even discussed books. However, as the title implies, we are mostly social, and don't put too much pressure on ourselves to read books. We started off reading mostly self-improvement kinds of books. We read our first book when we were all on the Network Performance Team together and it was Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

MSBC Books

Year

Book

Author

Chosen By

2014

The Interestings

Meg Wolizer

Mary

2013

Life After Life

Jill McCorkle

Suzanne

2013

The Pillars of the Earth

Ken Follet

Janet

2013

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

John

2013

A Fault in Our Stars

John Green

Sharon

2012

A Whole New Mind

Daniel Pink

Mary

2012

Cutting For Stone

Abraham Verghese

Suzanne

2012

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Garth Stein

Janet

2011

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

John

2011

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

Sharon

2011

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Mary

2011

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

Suzanne

2010

The Help

Kathryn Stockett

Janet

2010

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

John

2010

The Blind Side

Michael Lewis

Sharon

2010

My Stoke of Insight

Jill Bolte Taylor

Mary

2009-2010

Three Cups of Tea

Greg Mortenson &
David Oliver Relin

Suzanne

2009

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Janet

2009

Dewey: The Small-town Library Cat Who Touched the World

Vicki Myron

Sharon

2009

Lost on Planet China

J. Maarten Troost

John

2008

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

James McBride

Suzanne

2008

Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert

Mary

2008

The Shipping News

Annie Proulx

Janet

2007

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

Sharon

2007

Lucky in the Corner

Carol Anshaw

John

2007

My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult

Suzanne

2007

Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting

Lynn Grabhorn

Mary

2006

Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden

Janet

2005

The Power of Full Engagement

Jim Loehr
Tony Schwartz

Sharon

2004

The Nuclear Age

Tim O'Brien

John

2004

Eats, Shoots, & Leaves

Lynne Truss

Suzanne

2004

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom

Mary

2004

Life of Pi: A Novel

Yann Martel

Janet

2003

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Laura Hillenbrand

Sharon

2003

Read My Lips Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender

Riki Wilchins

John

?

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Anne Lamott

Suzanne

?

The Nanny Diaries

Emma McLaughlin,
Nicola Kraus

Mary

?

Rubyfruit Jungle

Rita Mae Brown

Janet

?

Cain River

Lalita Tademy

Sharon

?

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

John

?

Moo

Jane Smiley

Sharon

?

Forged by Fire

Sharon M. Draper

Suzanne

2000

Sweet Savage Love

Rosemary Rogers

Mary

?

Groomed for Death

Carolyn Banks

Janet

?

Jung to Live By (Descoped to the Dream Chapter only.)

Eugene Pascal

Suzanne

?

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

Robert M. Pirsig

John

?

The Wealthy Barber

David Chilton

John

?

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula Le Guin

Johnnie

?

(that war book with the basket)

???

Johnnie

?

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

John

?

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte

Janet

?

Sky O'Malley

Bertrice Small

Mary

?

Midwives

Chris Bohjalian

Suzanne

?

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

J. K. Rowling

All?

?

Principled-Centered Leadership (Abandoned)

Stephen R. Covey

All

?

Friedman's Fables

Edwin Friedman

Janet

?

The Phantom Toolbooth

Nick Beggs

Suzanne

?

Bridges of Madison County

Robert James Waller

John

?

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey

All

This is a great group of people, and we've been through many things together over the years. Click here for the latest poop from our last meeting.

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