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Book Groups 2024-2025

The Daytime Book Group meets 4/28 at 3:30; the Evening Book Group on 4/24 at 6:00

The Daytime group will discuss Amity Gaige's Sea Wife. The Evening Group will discuss Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar.

Daytime Book Group

All discussions are at the library at 3:30 p.m. on the fourth Monday of the month.  

Join us! No need to buy the book, we have copies available for check out. Call 743-1400 if you would like a book set aside for you.

2025
January 28: Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
February 24: Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
March 24:  The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
April 28:  Sea Wife by Amity Gaige
May 19: Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks

 

2024
January 22:  Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
February 26: Five Thousand Days Like this One by Jane Brox

March 25: Remarkably Beautiful Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
April 22: This Other Eden by Paul Harding
October 28: Leap of Faith by Queen Noor
November 18: West with the Night by Beryl Markham
December 16: A Life in Light by Mary Pipher

2023
January 23:  The Pioneers by David McCullough
February 27: House of Sticks by Ly Tran
March 27:  Horse by Geraldine Brooks
April 24: Remember by Lisa Genova
May 22:  Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
June 26: Voices by David Elliott
September 25: Foster by Claire Keegan
October 23: Good Morning, Monster by Catherine Gildiner
November 27: Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
December 18: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

2022
January 24: Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman
February 28: The Hundred Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury
March 28: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

April 25: Bewilderment by Richard Powers
May 23: Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman
June 27: House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
September 26: A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
October 24: A Man for All Seasons by R. Bolt
November 28: Great Harry by Carolly Erickson

 

Evening Book Group

2025
January 23: Tenth of December by George Saunders
February 27: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
March 27: (did not meet)
April 24:  Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
May 22: The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff


2024
February 22: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
March 28: Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
April 25: Poetry Exchange!
May 22: Trees by Percival Everett
June 27: One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty
July 24: The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers
September 26: The Swimmers by Julia Otsuka
October 24: The Glass Castle by Emily St. John Mandel
December 5:  Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
December 19: Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward