Book Group Selections

The Library Book Group meets at 1:30pm on the 3rd Thursday of each Month. This month’s selection is available from the library circulation desk. Past book group selections:

Abide with me, by E. Lynn Harris

The Accidental, by Ali Smith
The air we breathe, by Andrea Barrett

All He Ever Wanted, by Anita Shreve

Aloft, by Chang-rae Lee

Back when we were grownups, by Anne Tyler

Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress, by Sijie Dai

Be near me, by Andrew O'Hagan

Before you know kindness, by Chris Bohjalian

The binding chair, by Kathryn Harrison

The bird artist, by Howard Norman

The birth of Venus, by Sarah Dunant

The brief history of the dead, by Kevin Brockmeier

Broken for you, by Stephanie Kallos

The buffalo soldier, by Chris Bohjalian

Caramelo : or puro cuento, by Sandra Cisneros

Cavedweller, by Dorothy Allison

The cemetery yew, by Cynthia Riggs

The Coalwood way, by Homer Hickam

The coffee trader, by David Liss

Cold mountain, by Charles Frazier

The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother, by James McBride

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time, by Mark Haddon

The dive from Clausen's pier, by Ann Packer

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood, by Alexandra Fuller

English passengers, by Matthew Kneale

Eva moves the furniture, by Margot Livesey

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

Family matters, by Rohinton Mistry
Finding Nouf, by Zoe Ferraris

Five quarters of the orange, by Joanne Harris

The forest lover, by Susan Vreeland

Fortunate son, by Walter Mosley

Founding mothers : the women who raised our nation, by Cokie Roberts
Friday nights, by Joanna Trollope

Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson

Hawke's Cove, by Susan Wilson

The history of love, by Nicole Krauss

Home, by Marilynne Robinson

The ice child, by Elizabeth McGregor

In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick

The Inn at Lake Devine, by Elinor Lipman

Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history, by Erik Larson

Larry's party, by Carol Shields

The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse, by Louise Erdrich

The life and times of the thunderbolt kid : a memoir, by Bill Bryson

Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
The memory of running, by Ron McLarty

The namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri

Never let me go, by Kazuo Ishiguro

No great mischief, by Alistair MacLeod

O pioneers!, by Willa Cather

The optimist's daughter, by Eudora Welty

Orchard, by Larry Watson

Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood

Pope Joan, by Donna Woolfolk Cross

The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio : how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less, by Terry Ryan

Prodigal summer, by Barbara Kingsolver

The reindeer people : living with animals and spirits in Siberia, by Piers Vitebsky

The rice mother, by Rani Manicka

Saving fish from drowning, by Amy Tan
The secret river, by Kate Grenville

Skinner's drift, by Lisa Fugard

Snow flower and the secret fan, by Lisa See

Spartina, by John Casey

Stolen lives : twenty years in a desert jail, by Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi

The stone diaries, by Carol Shields

Stones for Ibarra, by Harriet Doerr

Stones from the river, by Ursula Hegi

Sweetwater, by Roxana Robinson

Talk talk, by T. Coraghessan Boyle

The thirteenth tale, by Diane Setterfield

Three Junes, by Julia Glass

The tortilla curtain, by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Trans-Sister radio, by Chris Bohjalian

Unravelling, by Elizabeth Graver

The vanishing act of Esme Lennox, by Maggie O'Farrell

Vineyard blues : a Martha's Vineyard mystery, by Philip R. Craig

The vision of Emma Blau, by Ursula Hegi

The voyage of the Narwhal, by Andrea Barrett

Waiting for snow in Havana : confessions of a Cuban boy, by Carlos Eire

Wickett's remedy, by Myla Goldberg

The wild trees : a story of passion and daring, by Richard Preston

Wish you well, by David Baldacci

The world to come, by Dara Horn

Year of wonders : a novel of the plague, by Geraldine Brooks

The zookeeper's wife : a war story, by Diane Ackerman