Both Afternoon and Evening Book Discussion Groups meet on the first Wednesday of the month in the Ames Meeting Room, and are open to all. Copies of the current selection are available at the circulation desk. Call (860) 536-7721 to reserve a copy. Below are the lists of books that have been discussed.Book Club Forum List 2017
Book Club Forum List 2016
Book Club Forum list 2015
Book Club Forum list 2014
Afternoon Book Discussion Group (1:00 p.m.)
June 2016 - The Age of Radiance by Craig Nelson
May 2016 - Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson
April 2016 - The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
March 2016 - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
February 2016 - The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
January 2016 - Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
December 2015 - The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
September 2015 - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
June 2015 - The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal
May 2015 - Hotel Florida: Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil War by Amanda Vaill
April 2015 - Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood With Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynn Olson
March 2015 - Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark by Jane Fletcher
February 2015 - My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
January 2015 - James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist by James Joyce
December 2014 - Someone - by Alice McDermott
November 2014 - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
October 2014 - Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - by Susannah Cahalan
September 2014 - The Eight by Katherine Neville
June 2014 - The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro
May 2014 - The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
April 2014 - Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
March 2014 - The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
February 2014 - River Town by Peter Hessler
January 2014 - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The June meeting is a pot luck luncheon held elsewhere. All are welcome.
Evening Book Discussion Group (7:00 p.m.)
May 2016 - H is for Hawke by Helen Macdonald
April 2016 - Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
March 2016 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
February 2016 - March by Geraldine Brooks
January 2016 - Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
June 2015 - Old School by Tobias Wolff
May 2015 - The Great Lenore by J.M. Tohline
April 2015 - Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
March 2015 - Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
February 2015 - Runaway: Stories by Alice Munro
January 2015 - The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
December 2014 - Polish Officer by Alan Furst
November 2014 - Erasure by Percival Everett
October 2014 - Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan
September 2014 - Someone by Alice McDermott
July 2014 - The Dirty Life by Kristen Kimball
June 2014 - Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
May 2014 - The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
April 2014 - Angels by Denis Johnson
March 2014 - Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
February 2014 - Gulp by Mary Roach
January 2014 - The Invisible Mountain by Carolina de Robertis
