Book Club

The Library's Book Club usually meets on the first Thursday of the Month at 7:30 pm in the Library's Program Room. Light refreshments are provided. In the event of a holiday, the Book Club may be re-scheduled for the 2nd Thursday of the month. Please see the Program Calendar for Book Club dates and join us. Upcoming titles for discussion are listed below.

The Book Club meets monthly from September to June with the exception of January. At the last meeting in June, Club members bring in their favorite books to exchange for summer reading enjoyment. At the monthly meetings, participants may pick up the next month's book for discussion at the Circulation Desk. The Book Club is facilitated by Adult Services Librarian, Claudia Gisolfi. To learn more please see the Bookmark column about the Book Club. We hope to see you here!

At our June 7th meeting, we will discuss:

2012

January	no meeting
February	One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, by Jim Fergus
March	The Privileges, by Jonathan Dee
April	The Birth of Venus, by Sara Dunant (Also POETRY)
May	Nine Stories, by J.D. Salinger
June	Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri
September	TBD
October	TBD
November	TBD
December	TBD

Past Years

We hope that the titles below give you a taste of the types of books our club members enjoy discussing. Looking for a good read? Please see our Book Club Recommendations featuring books we especially enjoyed.

2011

January	no meeting
February	Saving the World, by Julia Alvarez
March	Who Occupies this House, by Kathleen Hill
April	Sarah’s Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay
May	The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
June	Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann
September	Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
October	Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
November	Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
December	A Gesture Life, by Chang-Rae Lee

2010

January	no meeting
February	The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
March	Before You Know Kindness, by Chris Bohjalian
April	A Backward Glance, by Edith Wharton
May	Autobiography of a Face, by Lucy Grealy & Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
June	Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
September	No meeting
October	South of Broad, by Pat Conroy
November	The Hour I First Believed, by Wally Lamb
December	A Room With a View, by E.M. Forster

2009

January	no meeting
February	Empire Falls, by Richard Russo
March	A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest Gaines (the Big Read)
April	Nothing Like it in the World, by Stephen Ambrose
May	Three Junes, by Julia Glass
June	The Full Matilda, by David Haynes
September	Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson
October	No meeting
November	Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
December	The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls

2008

January	no meeting
February	The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright
March	Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
April	Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky
May	A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khalid Hosseini
June	On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
September	One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
October	Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
November	Say You’re One of Them, by Uwem Akpen
December	Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See

2007

January	no meeting
February	The Lighthouse, by P.D. James
March	The Falls, by Joyce Carol Oates
April	no meeting
May	The Mayor of Lexington Avenue, by James Sheehan
June	The City of Falling Angels, by John Berendt
September	Digging to America, by Anne Tyler
October	no meeting
November	Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, by Jung Chang
December	The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards