The Ascension and St. Edmund Book Club meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month (January 20, 2026) from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM in Murphy Hall of St. Edmund Campus.  You are most welcome to join us, but please read the book so you can participate fully!

For people who want to join, we have a contact at the Oak Park Library for book delivery. We believe a library card is needed, but the service that the library offers is outstanding. If anyone is interested in this service, please contact us for information.

If you are interested in joining us or if you need more information, please contact Mari Hans at [email protected].

The 2026 Books:

• Trade Off by Samantha Greene Woodruff - January 20
• How To Read A Book by Monica Wood - February 17
• Taming of the Screw by Henry James - March 17

Here are the Books we read in 2025:

• A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
• Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
• The Last One At The Wedding by Jason Rekulak
• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
• The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
• James by Percival Everett
• Absolution by Alice McDermot
• Alternate Side by Anna Quindlen
• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
• Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
• The Fraud by Zadie Smith
• The Big Empty by Robert Crais

Here are the Books we read in 2024:

• The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki
• Midnight in Peking by Paul French
• Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
• Solito by Javier Zamora
• Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America by John Fialka
• The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
• Travels With Charley In Search of America by John Steinbeck
• The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar
• Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• MAAME by Jessica George
• The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson