Roycroft Campus Book Club

1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another. A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession and the blinding light of hope.

Marjorie’s journey began gluing cereal boxes in her father’s barn as a young girl. No one could have predicted that C. W. Post’s Cereal Company would grow into the General Foods empire and reshape the American way of life, with Marjorie as its heiress and leading lady. Not content to stay in her prescribed roles of high-society wife, mother, and hostess, Marjorie dared to demand more, making history in the process. Before turning thirty she amassed millions, becoming the wealthiest woman in the United States. But it was her life-force, advocacy, passion, and adventurous spirit that led to her stunning legacy.

2026
The Frozen River – By Ariel Lawhon
Homegoing – By Yaa Gyasi
Mansfield Park – By Jane Austen
A Walk in the Park – By Kevin Fedarko
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2025
Go As A River – By Shelley Read
James: A Novel – By Percival Everett
Remarkably Bright Creatures – By Van Pelt Shelby
Better Living Through Birding – By Christian Cooper
Babbitt – By Sinclair Lewis
There There – By Tommy Orange

2024
Far From the Twisted Reach – By Matt Bindig
Demon Copperhead – By Barbara Kingsolver
The Art Thief – By Michael Finkel
The Museum of Ordinary People – By Mike Gayle
Implosion – Elizabeth Garber
Noon at Tiffany’s – Echo Heron

2023
The Magnolia Palace – By Fiona Davis
The Midnight Library – By Matt Haig
Lessons in Chemistry – By Bonnie Garmus
Heaven’s Ditch: God, Gold and Murder on the Erie Canal – By Jack Kelly
A Piece of the World – By Christine Baker Kline
The Silent Patient – By Alex Michaelides

2022
The Exiles – By Christine Baker Kline
Klara and the Sun – By Kazuo Ishiguro
The Giver of Stars – By Jojo Moyes
The Dictionary of Lost Words – By Pip Williams
The Vanishing Half – By Brit Bennett
The Secrets We Kept – By Lara Prescott

2021
A Perfect Mother – By Aimee Malloy
Finding Dorothy – By Elizabeth Letts
A Gentleman in Moscow – By Amor Towles

2020
Little Women – By Louisa May Alcott
Inland – By Tea Obreht

2019
Pichinko – By Min Jin Lee
Educated: A Memoir – By Tara Westover
The Death of Mrs. Westaway – By Ruth Ware
The Dinner List – By Rebecca Serle
The Library Book – By Susan Orlean

2018
The Wonder – By Emma Donoghue
The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City: Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World’s Fair – By Margaret Creighton
The Handmaid’s Tale – By Margaret Atwood
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry – By Gabrielle Zevin
Killers of the Flower Moon – By David Grann
What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories – Laura Shaparo

2017
Commonwealth – By Ann Patchett
Underground Airlines – By Ben Winters
The Book of Speculation – By Erika Swyler
Leaving Before the Rains Come – By Alexandra Fuller
Grandma Gatewood’s Walk – By Ben Montgomery
The Lady in Gold – Anne-Marie O’Conner

2016
All the Light We Can Not See – By Anthony Doerr
West with the Night – By Beryl Markham
Shop Class as Soul Craft – By Matthew B. Crawford
The Alchemist – By Paulo Coelho
Station Eleven – By Emily St. John Mandel
A Fierce Radiance – By Lauren Belfer

 2015
Two in the Far North – By Margaret Murie
The Secret History of Wonder Woman – By Jill Lepore
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy – By Diana Preston
Legendary Locals of East Aurora – By Rob Goller
Let the Great World Spin – By Colum McCann

2014
And the Mountains Echoed – By Khaled Hosseini
The Red Badge of Courage – By Stephen Crane
In the Garden of Beasts – By Erik Larson
Thomas Jefferson:The Art of Power – By Jon Meacham and Little Journeys:Thomas Jefferson – By Elbert Hubbard