Book Groups 2024-2025

The Daytime Book Group meets 10/27 at 3:30; the Evening Book Group on 10/23 at 6:00

The Daytime group will discuss  Lucia Berlin’s Manual for Cleaning Women. The Evening Group will discuss Outline by Rachel Cusk.

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
  • 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

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

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

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