Book Groups 2025-2026

The Daytime Book Group meets 3/23 at 3:30 PM; the Evening Book Group on 2/17 at 6:00 PM

The Daytime group will discuss  Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake The Evening Group will discuss The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.

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.

2026

  • January 26 (Held on 2/2): Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
  • February 23: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
  • March 23:  Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II by Jennet Conant
  • April 27:  The Library Book by Susan Orlean
  • May 18:  God of the Woods by Liz Moore

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
  • June 23: Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
  • September 22: Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh
  • October 27: Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
  • November 24: Saturday by Ian McEwan
  • December 22: Dancer: A Novel by Colum McCann

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

Evening Book Group

2026

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
  • June 26:  A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
  • July 24: First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly
  • September 25: Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
  • October 23: Outline by Rachel Cusk
  • November 20: Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
  • December 18: Normal People by Sally Rooney

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