Given the same book to read, very seldom will a group of readers come away with the same experience. Some will be happy with the amount of description the author includes while others just wish he would “get on with the story”. One may find pleasure in the thought-provoking turn of a well-constructed sentence and another will find comfort in simple words reminding them of curling up in a favorite chair with a warm cup of cocoa.
A good book discussion group brings together readers of different ages, education, and backgrounds, and welcomes all points of view. Join today to add your voice to the mix. Ask at the Circulation Desk for more information.
Books read and those scheduled for future discussion:
| Title | Author | Discussion Date |
| (to be announced) | 08-2019 | |
| My three countries | Anna Melgaard | 07-2019 |
| Becoming | Michelle Obama | 06-2019 |
| The great alone | Kristin Hannah | 05-2019 |
| Pachinko | Min Jin Lee | 04-2019 |
| The lighthouse keeper’s daughter | Hazel Gaynor | 03-2019 |
| Reader’s choice | Tony Hillerman | 02-2019 |
| East of Eden | John Steinbeck | 01-2019 |
| Station eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | 10-2018 |
| Life in a jar | Jack Mayer | 09-2018 |
| Rosemary: the hidden Kennedy daughter | Kate Clifford Larson | 08-2018 |
| The true tails of Baker and Taylor | Jan Louch | 07-2018 |
| Circling the sun | Paula McLain | 06-2018 |
| Reader’s choice | 05-2018 | |
| Orphan master’s son | Adam Johnson | 04-2018 |
| Reader’s choice | Margaret Coel | 03-2018 |
| Killers of the flower moon | David Grann | 02-2018 |
| The nest | Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney | 01-2018 |
| Defending Jacob | William Landay | 11-2017 |
| A gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles | 10-2017 |
| The last bus to wisdom | Ivan Doig | 09-2017 |
| Reader’s choice | Fav Author | 08-2017 |
| The zookeeper’s wife | Diane Ackermange | 07-2017 |
| The handmaid’s tale | Margaret Atwood | 06-2017 |
| The nightingale | Kristin Hannah | 05-2017 |
| The kitchen house | Kathleen Grissom | 04-2017 |
| The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared | Jonas Jonasson | 02-2017 |
| The seafront tearoom | Vanessa Greene | 01-2017 |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 11-2016 |
| Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow | 10-2016 |
| A man called Ove | Fredrick Backman | 09-2016 |
| Currently reading | 08-2016 | |
| The lost German slave girl | John Bailey | 07-2016 |
| The girl who wrote in silk | Kelli Estes | 06-2016 |
| Currently reading | 05-2016 | |
| Reader’s all-time favorite | 04-2016 | |
| Reader’s choice | 03-2016 | |
| Reader’s choice | Ivan Doig | 02-2016 |
| Reader’s choice | Jasper Fforde | 01-2016 |
| Go set a watchman | Harper Lee | 11-2015 |
| The husband’s secret | Liane Moriarty | 10-2015 |
| The light between oceans | M. L. Stedman | 09-2015 |
| The goldfinch | Donna Tarrt | 08-2015 |
| In the garden of beasts | Erik Larson | 07-2015 |
| Deep dark down | Héctor Tobar | 06-2015 |
| Extremely loud and incredible close | Jonathan Safran Foer | 05-2015 |
| Orphan train | Christina Baker Kline | 04-2015 |
| Boys in the boat | Daniel James Brown | 03-2015 |
| The traitor’s wife | Allison Pataki | 02-2015 |
| All the light we cannot see | Anthony Doerr | 01-2015 |
| The lace reader | Brunonia Barry | 11-2014 |
| The orchardist | Amanda Coplin | 10-2014 |
| The red scarf | Kate Furnivall | 09-2014 |
| The invention of wings | Sue Monk Kidd | 08-2014 |
| The silent wife | A. S. A. Harrison | 07-2014 |
| The signature of all things | Elizabeth Gilbert | 06-2014 |
| The monuments men | Robert M. Edsel | 05-2014 |
| The book thief | Markus Zusak | 04-2014 |
| The greatest generation | Tom Brokaw | 03-2014 |
| Transatlantic | Colum McCann | 01-2014 |
| House rules | Jodi Picoult | 11-2013 |
| The lovely bones | Alice Sebold | 10-2013 |
| Blind your ponies | Stanley Gordon West | 09-2013 |
| My beloved world | Sonia Sotomayor | 08-2013 |
| The elephant keeper’s children | Peter Høeg | 07-2013 |
| Half broke horses | Jeanette Walls | 02-2013 |
| A walk in the woods | Bill Bryson |