Our longest running book group brings together readers who enjoy discussing and sharing insights about a single title each month. Facilitated conversations are lively, intelligent, and insightful. The titles are mostly fiction, with one nonfiction choice included each year. The group chooses titles for the coming year by ballot in the spring. Book discussions are held on the third Wednesday of the month, September through June (no July or August meetings), and all adult patrons enthusiastic about reading and talking about books are invited to join us as often as they can. Before each meeting, you can pick up your copy for the next month’s discussion at the Circulation Desk. If you have questions, please contact Karen Stern at stern@noblenet.org.

Below is the list of titles chosen by the group to be discussed between September 2021 and June 2022. Note that there are no meetings in July and August, and the September discussion is usually a bigger book or two books to compare and contrast (as it is in this case).

September:   Caste, Isabel Wilkerson and The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett

October:   Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell

November: Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn

 December:   The Flatshare, Beth O'Leary

January:   The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel

February:  Trust Exercise, Susan Choi

March:  Women Talking,  MiriamToews

April:  Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro

May:   Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill

June:  Oona Out of Order, Margarita Montimore