Ruby's Book Club

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Ruby’s Book Club meets on the second Tuesday of every month from 2-3 PM. We alternate between fiction and nonfiction titles. Please call the Library at 970-264-2209 or send an email to judy@pagosalibrary.org if you have any questions about Ruby’s monthly book club.

Books for book clubs are available to pick up at the library approximately one month before the discussion date.

2026 Ruby’s Book Club Reading List

Tuesdays- at the Harman Park Transit Center, 83 Harman Park Drive, Pagosa Springs

January 13-The Many Lives of Mama Love by Laura Love Hardin

February 10-East of Eden by John Steinbeck

March 10-Educated by Tara Westover

April 14-The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley

May 12-My Life as a Whore-Biography of Madame Laura Evans by Tracy Beach

June 9-Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

July 14-The Book of Charlie-Wisdom from the remarkable life of a 109 year old manby David Von Drehle

August 11-Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson

September 8-A Marriage at Sea: a True Story of Love, Obsession and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst

October13-My Friends by Fredrick Bachman

November10-A Mystery of Mysteries-The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak

December 8-The Night Traveler’s by Armando Lucas

2025 Ruby’s Book Club Reading List

January 14 - Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

February 11 - The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare

March 11 - PLainsong by Kent Haruf

April 8 - James: a Novel by Percival Everett

May 13 - Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario

June 10 - Go As a River by Shelly Reed

July 8 - The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts

August 12 - The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict

September 9 - Devil in the White City by Eric Larson

October 14 - The Women by Kristin Hannah

November 11 - Astor: the Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper

December 9 - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

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2025 Reading List for the Literary Ladies Book Club

The Literary Ladies Book Club meets offsite, the fourth Friday of every month.

For information about dates and times of meetings, please send an email to Kitty at kitvl@hotmail.com

January 24 - No book

February 28 - Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan

March 28 - Life After Power by Jared Cohen

April 25 - The Last Apothecary by Sarah Penner

May 23 - The Baker's Secret by Stephen P. Kierman

June 27 - They Persisted by Margaret M. Kirk (a Bayfield, CO author)

July 25 - Absolution by Alice McDermont

August 22 - The Wager by David Grann

September 26 - The Five Wounds by Kristin Valdez Quade

October24 - to be determined

November date to be determined -

The November book discussion usually takes place in early December.