The Ascension and St. Edmund Book Club meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month (October 21, 2025) in Murphy Hall of St. Edmund Campus. Dinner is served at 6:00 PM with discussion starting at 6:45 PM.

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 2025 Books:

• A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg - January 21
• Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout - February 18
• The Last One At The Wedding by Jason Rekulak - March 18
• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett - April 15
• The Life Impossible by Matt Haig - May 20
• James by Percival Everett - June 17
• Absolution by Alice McDermot - July 15
• Alternate Side by Anna Quindlen - August 19
• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa - September 16
• Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods - October 21
• The Fraud by Zadie Smith - November 18
• The Big Empty by Robert Crais - December 16
  
  

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