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Have you read a good book lately?
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 11:00 am via Zoom*)
- Full list of Books for the 2021 - 2022 season
- October 4, 2021 - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
- * contact jhlady@ocln.org to join the group
- Full list of Books for the 2019 - 2020 season
- 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
- Currently on hiatus
- 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
- ONLINE December 2, 2020 - Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North by James Oliver Horton
- ONLINE September 9, 2020 - Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo
- ONLINE June 3, 2020 - A City So Grand by Stephen Puleo
- 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
- October 16, 2021 - Pastry Love by Joanne Chang
- August 25, 2021 - Milk Street Cookish by Christopher Kimball
- ONLINE May 19, 2021 - Martha Stewart's Appetizers
- ONLINE March 24, 2021 - Marcus: Off Duty by Marcus Samuelsson
- ONLINE January 27, 2021 - Food From Friends by the Friends of the Milton Public Library
- ONLINE November 12, 2020 - Magnolia Table by Joanna Gaines
- ONLINE September 30, 2020 - The Mason Jar Cookbook by Amy Fazio
- ONLINE August 5, 2020 - Sweetie Pie's Cookbook by Miss Robbie
- Full List of Previous Titles
Celebrity Book Club
- November 4, 2021 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- September 9, 2021 - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
- ONLINE May 6, 2021 - Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
- ONLINE March 4, 2021 - A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight
- ONLINE January 7, 2021 - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
- ONLINE November 5, 2020 - Mercy House by Alena Dillon
- ONLINE September 23, 2020 - A Hundred Suns by Karin Tanabe
- ONLINE July 30, 2020 - Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- Full List of Previous Titles