Books on Tap Archive

Books on Tap is a book group that combines good books, food, drink, and conversation together in a laid back atmosphere.  Books on Tap meets at Jimmy's Pub, on Chandler Road in East Lansing.

2009
October 13th, 6:30pm:  When you are engulfed in flames by David Sedaris
November 10th, 6:30pm:  Zeitoun by Dave Eggers 

2010
January 12th :  Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
February 9th : The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind:  creating currents of electricity and hopeby William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
April 13th :  Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer  
May 11th :  Little Bee by Chris Cleave
June 8th : Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
July 13th : The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian
August 10th : The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
September 14th : Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
October 12th :  Orange is the new black by Piper Kerman
November 9th : The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse

2011
January 11th: Room by Emma Donoghue
February 8th: Snow falling in Spring by Moying Li-Marcus
March 8th: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
April 12th: You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face-Blindness, and Forgiveness by Heather Sellers
May 10th: Crooked letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
June 14th: Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
July 12th: The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
August 9th: Up From the Blue by Susan Henderson
September 13th: The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
October 11th: The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
November 8th: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

2012
January 10th: Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell

February 14th, 6:30pm: Bossypants by Tina Fey

May 8th, 6:30pm: Fame : a novel in nine episodes by Daniel Kehlmann
June 12th, 6:30pm: The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

July 10th, 6:30pm: In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
August 14th, 6:30pm:  The language of flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
September 11, 6:30pm: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (2013 One Book, One Community)
October 9, 6:30pm: The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
November: Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl