Stockton Township Public Library Adult Book Club

February Book Club Read

How to Age Dis-Grace-Fully

by Clare Pooley

A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from New York Times- bestselling author Clare Pooley

When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards.

The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.

When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.

When we meet

Book Club meets on the last Thursday of each month at 1 pm in the Atwood Room.

Upcoming dates:

March 26, 2026
April 30, 2026
May 28, 2026
June 25, 2026

Upcoming Books

March 26, 2026 - How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley (Goodreads Link)
April 30, 2026 - The Compound by Aisling Rawle (Goodreads Link)
May 28, 2026 - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (Goodreads Link)
June 25, 2026 - The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich (Goodreads Link)

Previous Book Club Books

February 2026

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

November 2025

Funny Story by Emily Henry

October 2025

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

September 2025

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

August 2025

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

July 2025

The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

May 2025

James by Percival Everett

Pre-May 2025

April 2025: Blood Memory (Greg Iles)

March 2025: Someone Else's Shoes (Jojo Moyes)

February 2025: The Mother in Law (Sally Hepworth)

January 2025: The Glass Maker (Tracey Chevalier)

December 2024: Hello Beautiful December (Ann Napolitano)

November 2024: Inheritance (Dani Shapiro)

October 2024: One by One (Frieda McFadden)

September 2024: Horse: A Novel (Geraldine Brooks)

August 2024: Finding Me (Viola Davie)

July 2024: The First Ladies (Marie Benedict)

June 2024: Readers Choice

May 2024: The President is Missing (James Patterson)

April 2024: Tobacco Wives (Adele Myers)

March 2024: The Art Thief (Michael Finkel)

February 2024: Romantic Comedy (Curtiss Sittenfeld)

January 2024: Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt)

Pre-2024:

In five years (Rebecca Serle) 2023

Dear Edward (Ann Napolitano) 2023

Unsheltered (Barbara Kingsolver) 2023

Just the Nicest Couple (Mary Kubica) 2023

The Personal Librarian (Marie Bennedict) 2003

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club (J Ryan Stradal) 2023

Under the Southern Sky (Kristy Woodson Harvey) 2023

The Bookshop on the Shore (Jenny Colgan)

White Houses (Amy Bloom)

Shutter Island (Dennis LeHane)

A Redbird Christmas (Fannie Flagg)

Beartown (Fredrik Backman)

Secrets of the Lost Summer (Carla Neggers)

Little Fires Everywhere (Celest Ng)

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Jamie Ford)

The Chance (Karen Kingsbury)

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Gail Honeyman)

Before We Were Yours (Lisa Wingate)

The Beloved Christmas Quilt (Wanda Brunstetter)

Where’d You Go Bernadette (Maria Semple)

The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion)

The Rosie Effect (Graeme Simsion)

The Rosie Result (Graeme Simsion)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid)

The Last Girls (Lee Smith)

Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Mark Sullivan)

While My Sister Sleeps (Barbara Delinsky)

The Language of Flowers (Vanessa Diffenbaugh)

The Little Teashop on Main (Jodi Thomas)

Ask Again, Yes (Mary Beth Keane)

The Rules of Magic (Alice Hoffman)

Carnegie’s Maid (Marie Benedict)

The Christmas Train (David Baldacci)

Blankets (Craig Thompson)

In the Midst of Winter (Isabel Altende)

The Girl in White Gloves (Kerri Maher)

The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared (Jonas Jonasson)

Nine Perfect Strangers (Liane Moriarty)

Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)

Magic Hour (Kristin Hannah)

28 Summers (Elin Hilderbrand)

The Victory Garden (Rhys Bowen)

The Vanishing Half (Britt Bennett)

The Invention of Wings (Sue Monk Kidd)

The Boys (Ron Howard and Clint Howard)

The Santa Suit (Mary Kay Andrews)

Dear Santa (Debbie Macomber)

The Silent Patient (Alex Michaeldies)

Anxious People (Fredrik Backman)

The Lost Girls of Paris (Pam Jenoff)

All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)

Wild (Cheryl Strayed)

Orphan Train (Christina Baker Kline)

The Light Between Oceans (M.L. Stedman)

Delicious (Ruth Reichl)

The Husband’s Secret (Liane Moriarty)

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend (Katarina Birald)

Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie)

Me Before You (Jojo Moyes)

Mrs. Kennedy and Me (Clint Hill)

After You (Jojo Moyes)

The Forgotten Garden (Kate Morton)

Sean’s War & Sean’s Quest (Lee Anderson)

Family Tree (Barbara Delinsky)

Hidden Figures (Margot Lee Shetterly)

The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir (Jennifer Ryan)

Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (Bill Bryson)

Defending Jacob (William Landay)

The Girls of Mischief Bay (Susan Mallery)

I am Malala (Malala Yousafzai)

The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)

Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie)

Reflections (Barbara Bush)

The Kitchen House (Kathleen Grissom)

What Alice Forgot (Liane Moriarty)

The Almost Sisters (Joshilyn Jackson)

Glory Over Everything (Kathleen Grissom)

Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil (John Berendt)

Save Me (Lisa Scottoline)

Devil in the White City (Erik Larson)

All We Ever Wanted (Emily Giffin)

The Alice Network (Kate Quinn)

A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towels)

The Bookshop on the Corner (Jenny Colgan)

The Wedding Date (Jasmine Guillory)

An American Marriage (Tayari Jones)

Lilac Girls (Martha Hall Kelly)