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Library Book Discussion Group

The Art Forger, by B.A. Shapiro is the June 3rd selection.
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein is the June 24th selection.
The book discussion group meets the 4th Monday of each Month (except December) at 7:00 p.m. in the library. New members are always welcome!

Previous Book Club Selections

2013

River of Doubt:  Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, by Candice Millard

Double Cross: the True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre

Bleak House, by Charles Dickens

The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner

2012

Black potatoes : the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The Visable World by Mark Slovka

The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman

In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson

2011

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Pope Joan by Donna Cross

The Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv

Readers Choice of any book by Herman Wouk

Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells

Count of Monte Crisco, by Alexandre Dumas

Mark Twain, a Life, by Ron Powers

2010

A Passage to India by E. M. ForesterA Passage to India by E. M. Forester

Native Son, by Richard Wright

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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