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Book Club
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
