One Man Book Club

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The Phantom Tollbooth

September 23, 2025
The Ogress and the Orphans

September 23, 2025
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

November 18, 2024
Endling: The Last

August 14, 2024
Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard

February 1, 2024
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

January 16, 2024
Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

December 7, 2023
The BFG: God Bless Roald Dahl

October 6, 2023
The Wild Robot Protects: Long Live Roz

October 2, 2023
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library

August 28, 2023
A Guest Review of The Worlds We Leave Behind

August 23, 2023
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: The Elevator? Really?

August 23, 2023
Searching for Super: Super Again!

June 23, 2023
Almost Super: Super in every way!

March 8, 2023
Bastille vs the Evil Librarians: We’ve only been waiting 15 years. Nbd.

September 23, 2022
How to Train Your Dragon: Excessive Fun Warning!!!

August 5, 2022
A Book Club Guest Review of Looice

May 25, 2022
Charlotte’s Web: All We Need is Love

February 26, 2022
A Book Club Guest Review of Summer of the Monkeys

February 25, 2022
#BookScavenger: Where was this when I was 11?

October 25, 2021
#Holes: A story worthy of its accolades

October 14, 2021
#Dragonwatch: Dragons are the bacon of books

September 29, 2021
A Book Club Guest Review of My Name is River and Hope Girl

July 9, 2021
#TheEnchantedForestChronicles: The Series That Was Written in Reverse!

May 28, 2021
#FloraAndUlysses: We loved it! (Mostly…)

March 12, 2021
#TheWildRobot: Why Didn’t I Think of That?

February 26, 2021
A Book Club Guest Review of The Infinity Ring Series

January 26, 2021
#Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow–Knock, knock, knocking on Harry’s door…

December 30, 2020
A Book Club Guest Review of The Star Darlings Series

November 13, 2020
A Book Club Guest Review of Huckleberry Finn

November 13, 2020
#Fablehaven: If only it were real…

May 22, 2020
#Bob: Just one more chapter, PLEASE!

February 28, 2020
#TheSasquatchEscape: Big Foot, dragons, and read-aloud fun!

March 1, 2019
#CharlieandtheChocolateFactory: God Bless Roald Dahl

September 24, 2018
#ThePenderwicks: Ah, the good old days…

July 30, 2018
#TheWitches: God Bless Roald Dahl (also, the kids smell like dogs’ droppings)

May 24, 2018
The Wild Robot Escapes

April 25, 2018
#Kenny&theDragon: The Dragon Wins!

February 26, 2018
#JeniusJournal: A new fav for fans of quality story time!

December 11, 2017
#TheMiraculousJourneyofEdwardTulane: I can’t wait to read this to my kids!

December 11, 2017
#TheChangelings: Down the Rabbit Hole

October 16, 2017
The Wrath of Mulgarath (The Spiderwick Chronicles)

September 23, 2016
The Ironwood Tree (The Spiderwick Chronicles)

September 22, 2016
The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles Book 1)

September 21, 2016
Lucinda’s Secret (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #3)

September 21, 2016
The Seeing Stone (The Spiderwick Chronicles)

September 21, 2016
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

September 12, 2016
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)

August 17, 2016
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)

August 16, 2016
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

August 13, 2016
The BFG by Roald Dahl

April 14, 2016
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

March 14, 2016
The World According to Humphrey (According to Humphrey, #1)

February 24, 2015
Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel

December 31, 2014
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

January 13, 2014
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl

January 13, 2013
The Arcade Catastrophe (The Candy Shop War, #2)

October 24, 2012
The Candy Shop War

October 22, 2012
Keys to the Demon Prison (Fablehaven, #5)

February 1, 2012
Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary (Fablehaven, #4)

January 30, 2012
Grip of the Shadow Plague (Fablehaven, #3)

January 27, 2012
Rise of the Evening Star (Fablehaven, #2)

January 25, 2012
#CharlieandtheChocolateFactory: Timeless fun

August 30, 2011
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)

February 5, 2011
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)

February 3, 2011
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)

February 1, 2011
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)

January 10, 2011
The Lighting Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)

January 3, 2011
#WheretheWildThingsAre: The Best Re-Aloud Book Ever

November 14, 2010
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

January 13, 1986