PCYC Book Club

Join fellow members of the Palm Coast Yacht Club for engaging discussions, lively conversation, and a shared love of reading. Whether you're an avid reader or just looking to connect with others over a good book, our welcoming group invites you to come read, reflect, and enjoy the camaraderie.

This novel tells the story of three women, whose lives unexpectedly interconnect after one of them discovers a devastating secret.

No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world. For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. And that's exactly the way Cooper wants it, because he's got a lot to hide.

This is a historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone underground in America. In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted…

This novel, inspired by real events, tells the story of a female aviator who defies the odds to embark on a daring air race across the Pacific. It intertwines the stories of a pioneeringfemale aviator in 1927 and a modern-day woman uncovering her legacy.

Set in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, The Help follows the story of Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, a young white woman who decides to write a book from the perspective of the Black maids working for prominent families in her town. She collaborates with two maids, the wise Aibileen and the outspoken Minny, to share their experiences with the injustices they face, a risky project that challenges the deeply ingrained racial barriers of the Jim Crow South. 

The story of an enduring yet complicated friendship and divergent lives of two girls from their childhood in the 1950’s when Iran was being Westernized until the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

This story is about a group of recently retired women. After spending 40 years as field agents within an elite network of assassins they became targets themselves.  Taking advantage of being "invisible" by virtue of their older age and their occupational skills they work together to fight for survival.   

Lust for Life is a biographical novel by Irving Stone about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and his hardships.

Written with raw insight and emotion, it follows the artist through his tormented life, struggling against critical discouragement and mental turmoil and bears witness to his creative journey from a struggling artist to one of the world's most celebrated artists.

 With all his family and friends gone, one-hundred-year-old Murray McBride is looking for a reason to live. He finds it in Jason Cashman, a ten-year-old boy with a terminal heart defect and a list of five things he wants to do before he dies.
Together, they race against the limited time each has left, ticking off wishes one by one. Along the way, Murray remembers what it's like to be young, and Jason fights for the opportunity to grow old.

This story highlights how medical/psychiatric institutions manipulated women in the 19th century. The story takes place at the notorious asylum: the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. There, women were routinely diagnosed as "hysterical" to the level it was considered an epidemic. The treatments were harsh. The story follows two young women who were under the influence of a powerful doctor at the asylum and must navigate the exploitative system to achieve sanity and autonomy.

London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable Dorothy L. Sayers, the group includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the Queens of Crime.