Funk Heritage Center Book Club
The Funk Heritage Center Book Club meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 2 p.m.Come enjoy the companionship and camaraderie! No Admission Fee for Book Club Meetings

Margaret Jackson (left) chats with author Polly Craig on Jan. 8, 2013. Ms. Craig wrote the book A Metal for Dr. Mary.

Members enjoy discussing a book.
Upcoming Selections:
October 9, 2018 Place of Hope by Eric Motley
November 13, 2018 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
December 11, 2018 A Very Souther Christmas (short stories by various authors)
Previous Selections
September 11, 2018 I am One of You Forever by Fred Chapell
August 14 Madison Park: A Place of Hope by Eric L. Motley
July 10, 2018 A confederacy by Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
June 12, 2018 Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
May 8, 2018 Running on Ted Dog Road and Perils of an Appalachian Childhood by Drema Hall Berkheimer
April 10, 2018 Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grissom
March 13, 2018 The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole
February 13, 20018 Cataloochee by Wayne Caldwell
January 9, 2018, Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
November 14, 2017 - The River of Kings by Taylor Brown
October 10, 2017 - The Tilted World by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly
August 8, 2017 - The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark by Trae Crowder and Corey Ryan Forrester
July 11, 2017 - The Last Girls by Lee Smith
June 13, 2017 - Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
May 9, 2017 - A Low Country Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life by Pat Conroy
April 11, 2017 - The Whistler by John Grisham
March 14, 2017 - The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: Novel by Fannie Flagg
January 10, 2017 - VIDEO: Isacc's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in Hisrtory
December 13, 2016 - Christmas Celebration, Music and Treats
November 8, 2016 Hillbilly Elegy: A memoir of a Family and Culture In Crisis by J.D. Vance
October 11, 2016 Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
September 13, 2016 Slave Daughter: Author Bob Lipscomb discussed his book
August 9, 2016 Tongues of Flame by Mary Ward Brown
July 12, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
June 14, 2016 The Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Christopher Scotton
May 10, 2016 The Secret Wisdom of the Earth, by Christopher Scotton
April 12, 2016 Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab by Steve Inskeep
March 8, 2016 A Cup of Dust by Susie Finkbeiner
February 9, 2016 - Creek Mary's Blood by Dee Brown
October 13, 2015 - Falling from Grace By Lance Hansard
September 8, 2015 - The Wright Brothers By David Mc Cullough
August 11, 2015 - Go Set A Watchman By Harper Lee
July 14, 2015 - Something’s Rising By Silas House
June 9, 2015 - Jerry Lee Lewis By Rick Bragg
May 12, 2015 - A Land Remembered By Patrick D. Smith
April 9, 2015 - Story Teller (Thursday)
March 10, 2015, The Son by Philipp Meyer
February 10, 2015, Suffer and Grow Strong: The Life of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas (1834-1907) by Carolyn Newton Curry
January 13, 2015, The Cotton Patch Evidence: The Story of Clarence Jorden and Koinonia Experiment by Dallas Lee
February 10, 2015, Suffer and Grow Strong: The Life of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas (1834-1907) by Carolyn Newton Curry
December 9, 2014, Christmas Movie (Reinhardt University Library)
November 11, 2014, Orphan Train: A Novel by Christina Baker Kline
October 14, 2014, Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills
Sept 9, 2014, Unbroken by Laura Hellenbrand
Aug 12,2014, Down Among the Crackers by Rosa Pendleton Chiles
July 8, 2014, The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
June 10, 2014, Earl in the Yellow Shirt by Janice Daugharty
May 13, 2014, That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World it Invented and How We Can Come Back by Thomas L. Friedman & Michael Mandelbaum
April 8, 2014, Moon Over Taylor’s Ridge, by Janie Dempsey Watts
March 11, 2014, The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan
January 14, 2014, A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
December 10, 2013, Christmas Movies and Treats
November 12, 2013, Poetry (Members' Choice)
October 8, 2013, Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
September 10, 2013, A Land More Kind Than Home: A Novel (P.S.) by Willy Cash
August 13, 2013, Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference by Warren St. John
July 9, 2013, Flight Behavior: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
June 11, 2013, The Disappearing Man by Doug Peterson
May 14, 2013, The Cutting Season: A Novel by Attica Locke
April 9, 2013, Caleb's Crossing: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
March 12, 2013, Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Pafford Miller
February 12, 2012, The Glory Days of WCHK by Marguerite Cline - Author will attend the meeting.
January 8, 2013, A Metal for Dr. Mary by Polly Craig
December 11, 2012, Christmas Tales and Treats
November 13, 2012, Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
October 9, 2012, Heartmender: A Story of Second Chances by Andy Andrews
September, 11, 2012, Brother to a Dragonfly and 40 Acres and a Goat: A Memoir by Wi.. D. Campbell
August 14, 2012, Breaking the Heartland: The Civil War in Georgia By John D. Fowler and David B. Parker
July 10, 2012, Dr. Mary's Monkey: How an Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, A Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus are Linked to Lee Harvey...Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics by Edward T. Haslam and Jim Marrs
June 12, 2012, The Accidental Slave Owner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family by Mark Auslander
May 8, 2012, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Rilly
April 10, 2012, Finish 1493 Uncovering the New World Columbus Discovered
March13, 2012, 1493 Uncovering the New World Columbus Discovered by Charles Mann (Read first third of the book)
February 14, 2012 - DVD: Out of Ireland; Emigration to America
January 10, 2013, Black Indian Slave Narrative by Patrick Minges
Christmas tales and treats
November 8, 2011 - The Homecoming of Samuel Lake: A Novel By Jenny Wingfield
October 11, 2011 - Friday's Daughter by Patricia Sprinkle
September 13, 2011 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
August 9, 2011 - Ava's Man by Rick Bragg
July 12, 2011 - Raney by Clyde Edgerton
June 12, 2011 - The Thread That Runs So True by Jesse Stuart
May 10, 2011 - Hannah Coulter by Wendle Berry
April 12, 2011 - Trail of the Lonesome Pine b y John Fox, Jr.
March 8, 2010 - Loosening Corsets: The Heroic Life of Georgia's Feisty Mrs. Felton, First Woman Senator of the United States by A. Louise Ataman
February 8, 2011 - Lighthouse by Eugenia Price
December 14, 2010 - Nothing with Strings: NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories by Bailey White
November 9, 2010 - An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor
October 12, 2010 - Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams by Paul Hemphill
September 14, 2010 - Cracker Queen by Lauretta Hannon
August 10, 2010 - Littlejohn by Howard Owen
July 13, 2010 - Heart in the Right Place by Carolyn Jourdan
June 8, 2010 - Smoky Mountain Magic by Horace Kephart
May 11, 2010 - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
April 13, 2010: The Widow and the Tree by Sonny Brewer
March 9, 2010: Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: TheTrue Story of a Great American Road Trip by Matthew Algeo
February 9, 2010: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
January 12, 2010: Purt Nigh Gone by Zell Miller
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