Bellevue Book Club

We're excited to announce a new group for our book club called Thursday Thrillers! This will be an ongoing, monthly meeting focused on thrillers and mysteries.

Join us for this month's Thursday Thriller at Mercury Coffee in Bellevue
Book of the month: The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am.

She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. But what she can’t possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well—and she is on a collision course to meet them.

Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone.

The can’t-look-away story of three entangled families living in a house with the darkest of secrets.

Join us on Bookclubs to vote on and recommend upcoming books: https://bookclubs.com/clubs/6073326/join/862bf2/

* Please be considerate of other members and only RSVP if you are able to make it to the meeting.

Join us for book club at the Bellevue Library, Meeting Room #2
Book of the month: Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi & Jonathan Wright (translator)

From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi--a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local café--collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed. Hadi soon realizes he's created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive--first from the guilty, and then from anyone in its path. A prizewinning novel by "Baghdad's new literary star" (The New York Times), Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humor the surreal reality of contemporary Iraq.

Join us on Bookclubs to vote on and recommend upcoming books: https://bookclubs.com/clubs/6073326/join/862bf2/

Feel free to stay late after the meeting with us to hang out and grab lunch somewhere nearby too! We'd love to get to know our community better.

* Please be considerate of other members and only RSVP if you are able to make it to the meeting.