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Book Discussion Groups

August 2025

The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin

The Afternoon Discussion Group will meet in the Library on Wednesday, August 20 at 2:00 pm.

The Evening Discussion Group will meet in the Library on Thursday, August 21 at 6:00 pm.

Books will be available at the circulation desk prior to that month’s meeting.
Copies will include regular print, large print, and audiobook.
Books may also be available in e-book format on Libby.

All are welcome! 

Past book discussion books:

2025

• Patriot by Alexei Navalny
• The Women by Kristen Hannah
• Horse by Geraldine Brooks
• The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
• Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
• The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb

2024

• North Woods by Daniel Mason
• The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
• Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
• The Lido by Libby Page
• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
• The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
• The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
• Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
• A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

2023

• The Guncle by Steven Rowley
• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
• Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
• Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• The Maid by Nita Prose
• This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

2022

• Miss Benson’s Beetle By Rachel Joyce
• The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart
• Still Life by Sarah Winman
• Sudden Sea: the Great Hurricane of 1938 by R.A. Scotti
• The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
• Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
• The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan
• The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts
• The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner

2021

• We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
• Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
• Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson
• The Leavers by Lisa Ko
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Rosie Project by Graeme
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop by Fannie Flagg

2020

• A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
• The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
• The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
• Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan

2019

• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
• We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
• Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
• Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen
• Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Connor Grennan
• Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
• The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis

2018

• Dogtripping by David Rosenfelt
• Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
• Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson
• The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
• News of the World by Paulette Jiles
• The Dry by Jane Harper
• Bear Town by Fredrik Backman
• Hero of the Empire by Candace Millard
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

2017

• Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever
• The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
• A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
• Amagansett by Mark Mills
• Flight of the Sparrow by Amy Belding Brown
• The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
• The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
• The River of Doubt by Candace Millard
• The Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith

2016

• Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
• Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf
• The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
• Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
• Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

2015

• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Above Us Only Sky by Michele Young-Stone
• Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
• Sweetland by Michael Crummey
• George Washington’s Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade
• Memory Wall: Stories by Anthony Doerr
• The Language of Flowers by Vanesssa Diffenbaugh
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
• The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
• Body & Soul by Frank Conroy

2014

• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
• Paradise Misplaced by Sylvia Shaw
• The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
• The First American Revolution by Ray Raphael
• Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
• My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
• Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
• The Good House by Ann Leary
• Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munroe

2013

• The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
• King Peggy by Peggielene Bartels
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
• Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua