Evening Book Discussion Group

The group meets on the second Tuesday of the month (unless otherwise indicated) at 7:00 p.m. in the Conference Room. Registration is not required.

Please note: The group does not meet in August.

Copies of the book will be available at the Adult Reference Desk on the Saturday following each month's meeting, including large print if possible.

Titles may also be available in ebook and/or audiobook formats on hoopla and/or Download Destination (Libby app). More information is available on our Downloadable eBooks, Audiobooks, and Magazines page.


If you like discussion questions, there is a long list at https://bookriot.com/2017/08/21/book-club-discussion-questions/.

2026
January 13 - Transcription by Kate Atkinson
February 10 - The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
March 10 - Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin
April 14 - How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
May 12 - The Jackal's Mistress by Chris Bohjalian
June 9 - Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
July 14 - The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell
September 8 - The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
October 13 - Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
November 10 - The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
December 8 - Tiny Tales by Alexander McCall Smith

2025
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
First Ladies by Marie Benedict
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
Trust by Hernán Díaz
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

2024
Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
The River by Peter Heller
Be Frank with Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

True Grit by Charles Portis

2023
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf (due to lack of available copies of Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid)
Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict

2022
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
Crooked House by Agatha Christie
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
Another Brooklyn  by Jacqueline Woodson
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

2021
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
The Mountains Sing: A Novel by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Writers & Lovers: A Novel by Lily King
Afterlife: A Novel by Julia Alvarez
The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophesies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
His Only Wife: A Novel by Peace Adzo Medie