The Library’s Contemporary Literature Book Discussions meet in the Library Conference Room on the second Tuesday of the month (during the months of September – November and January – May), at 7:30 p.m. No registration required.
Upcoming book discussions:
Tuesday, Sep. 11, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Hiroshima by John Hersey
This understated nonfiction account by journalist John Hersey tells the
stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin
Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure by Julian Smith
The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst
Bliss, Remembered by Frank Deford
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything
to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb
The Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, a Jew—Three Women Search
for Understanding by Ranya Idli by, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry selected by Billy Collins
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar
Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen
The United States of Arugula: The Sun-Dried, Cold-Pressed,
Dark-Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution by David Kamp
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Playing with the Enemy by Gary W. Moore
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez: An Autobiography
by Richard Rodriguez
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
Kindred by Octavia Butler
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
by Nathaniel Philbrick Felidae by Akif Pirinçci
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage and the Quest for the Color of Desire
by Amy Butler Greenfield
Folly by Laurie R. King
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach,
a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team by Wayne Coffey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
Emma by Jane Austen
An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Strange Fits of Passion by Anita Shreve
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America
by Alex Kotlowitz
Spilling Clarence by Anne Ursu
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel
E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
Sula by Toni Morrison
Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
A Lesson before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness
at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
Of Beetles and Angels by Mawi Asgedom
Headlong by Michael Frayn
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
Talking to the Dead by Helen Dunmore
Larry’s Party by Carol Shields
All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor
The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien
Paradise News by David Lodge
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb