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The Library is happy to host a number of book group and book discussion options. These groups are led by both Library staff and volunteers.
These are the groups currently meeting at the Library:
Monday Night Book Club (meets at 7:30pm)
- May 4, 2020 - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- April 6, 2020 - Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
- March 2, 2020 - Queen of Katwe by Kim Crothers
- February 3, 2020 - Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
- December 2, 2019 - The Man with the Crooked Hat by Harry Dolan
- November 4, 2019 - In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
- October 7, 2019 - Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell
- Full list of Books for the 2018 - 2019 season
- Full list of Books for the 2017 - 2018 season
- Full list of Books for the 2016 - 2107 season
- Full list of Books for the 2015 - 2016 season
Eclectic Book Club
- October 23, 2019 - The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo by Ian Stansel
- June 26, 2019 - Marauders by Tom Cooper
- February 13, 2019 - Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howath
- October 24, 2018 - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- June 20, 2018 - American War by Omar El Akkad
- February 28, 2018 - The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
- Full List of Previous Titles
Local History Book Discussion
- December 2, 2020 - Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
- September 2, 2020 - The Great Hurricane: 1938 by Cherie Burns
- June 3, 2020 - Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall ofAmerica’s Premier Mental Hospital by Alex Beam
- March 4, 2020 - American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, RalphWaldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau:Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work by Susan Cheever
- August 28, 2019 - Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
- April 24, 2019 - The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser
- Full List of Previous Titles
Cookbook Club
- January 27, 2020 - Vietnamese Food Any Day by Andrea Nguyen
- November 18, 2019 - The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays by Ree Drummond
- September 23, 2019 - Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi
- May 20, 2019 - Bring It! by Ali Rosen
- March 25, 2019 - New England Invite by Kate Bowler
- January 14, 2019 - Skinnytaste Fast and Slow by Gina Homolka
- November 5, 2018 - Cooking with Mary Berry
- September 17, 2018 - Tyler Florence Family Meal
- June 25, 2018 - Carla's Comfort Foods by Carla Hall
- April 30, 2018 - Cooking for Jeffrey by Ina Garten
- February 26, 2018 - The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman
Celebrity Book Club
- February 6, 2020 - American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
- December 5, 2019 - A Place for Us by Fatima Mirza
- October 17, 2019 - Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
- August 1, 2019 - The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
- June 6, 2019 - The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
- April 4, 2019 - Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
- February 7, 2019 - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- December 6, 2018 - Still Lives by Maria Hummel