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Book Discussion Groups

June 2025

Patriot by Alex Navalny

The Afternoon Discussion Group will meet in the Library on Wednesday, June 18 at 2:00 pm.

The Evening Discussion Group will meet in the Library on Wednesday, June 18 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 ebook format on Libby.

All are welcome! 

Past book discussion books:

2025

Fiction

• 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

Fiction

• 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 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

Nonfiction

• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

2023

Fiction

• 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
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• The Maid by Nita Prose
• This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

Nonfiction

• Crying in H Mart By Michelle Zauner

2022

Fiction

• The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner
• The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan
• Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
• The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
• Still Life by Sarah Winman
• The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart
• Miss Benson’s Beetle By Rachel Joyce

Nonfiction

• The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts
• Sudden Sea: the Great Hurricane of 1938 by R.A. Scotti

2021

Fiction

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

Nonfiction

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean 
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

2020

Fiction

• Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
• The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

Nonfiction

• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
• A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell

2019

Fiction

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

Nonfiction

• Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Connor Grennan

2018

Fiction

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

Nonfiction

• Hero of the Empire by Candace Millard
• Dogtripping by David Rosenfelt

2017

Fiction

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

Nonfiction

• American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever
• The River of Doubt by Candace Millard

2016

Fiction

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

Nonfiction

• Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff

2015

Fiction

• Above Us Only Sky by Michele Young-Stone
• Body & Soul by Frank Conroy
• The Language of Flowers by Vanesssa Diffenbaugh
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Memory Wall: Stories by Anthony Doerr
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
• Sweetland by Michael Crummey

Nonfiction

• The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
• Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
• George Washington’s Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade

2014

Fiction

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

Nonfiction

• The First American Revolution by Ray Raphael
• My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

2013

Fiction

• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

Nonfiction

• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
• The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
• King Peggy by Peggielene Bartels
• Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder