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Library Book Discussion Group

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair is the book club pick for July 26, 2010.

The book discussion group meets the 4th Monday of each Month (except December) at 7:00 p.m. in the small conference room.  New members are always welcome!

The Book Club kicked off the new year with a discussion of On the Road, by Jack Kerouac.  Appetizing theme related snacks to match the spirit of the book were also provided!

Previous Book Club Selections

2010

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

The Ride of our Lives by Michael Leonard

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

On the Road, by Jack Kerouac

2009

Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan

The God of Small things, by Arundhati Roy

Inman's War, by Jeffrey S. Copeland

Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift

Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome Jerome

Mrs. Mike, by Benedict and Nancy Freeman

The Rescue Artist, by Edward Dolnick

The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Schaffer

Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh

 

2008

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

A Room With a View, by E.M. Forster

Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky

Special Topics in the Calamity of Physics by Marisha Pessl

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Disappearing destinations : 37 places in peril and what can be done to help save them by Kimberly Lisagor and Heather Hansen

Kiss Me Like a Stranger:  My Search for Love and Art by Gene Wilder

The Book Thief by Marcus Zasak

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Cretaceous Dawn by Lisa Graziano

2007

John Adams by David McCullough

The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Henry V by William Shakespeare

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and/or Digging to America by Anne Tyler

Dead Men Tapping by Kate Yeomans

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