Stockton Township Public Library Adult Book Club

Current Read

One Golden Summer

by Carley Fortune

I never anticipated Charlie Florek.

Good things happen at the lake. That’s what Alice’s grandmother says, and it’s true. Alice spent just one summer there at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen—it’s where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life.

Now Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she’s most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. Lately though, she’s been itching for something more, and when Nan falls and breaks her hip, Alice comes up with a plan for them both: another summer in that magical place, Barry’s Bay. But as soon as they settle in, their peace is disrupted by the roar of a familiar yellow boat, and the man driving it.

Charlie Florek was nineteen when Alice took his photo from afar. Now he’s all grown up—a shameless flirt, who manages to make Nan laugh and Alice long to be seventeen again, when life was simpler, when taking pictures was just for fun. Sun-slanted days and warm nights out on the lake with Charlie are a balm for Alice’s soul, but when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on her, she begins to worry for her heart.

Because Alice sees people—that’s why she is so good at what she does—but she’s never met someone who looks and sees her right back.

A spacious community room with tables, chairs, and board games for group activities.

When we meet

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

Upcoming dates:

July 30, 2026
August 27, 2026
September 24, 2026
October 29, 2026
November - TBD
December - TBD

Upcoming Books

July 30, 2026 - One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune (Goodreads Link)
August 27, 2026 - Wayward Girls by Susan Wiggs (Goodreads Link)

Previous Book Club Books

June 2026

Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich

May 2026

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

April 2026

The Compound by Aisling Rawle

March 2026

How to Age Dis-Grace-Fully by Clare Pooley

February 2026

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

January 2025

Bring your own book that you want to discuss

2025 and earlier

2025:

December 2025: No Meeting

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

June 2025: Bring your favorite 2025 read (so far)

May 2025: James by Percival Everett

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)

2024:

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)