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These are subject to change, but here's an idea of what we will be reading this year. Pick up your copy at the Main Desk on the First Floor and join us! Questions? Call 401-333-2552 x2 |
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| Morning Book Discussion Meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 10:00am
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| Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell Drawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, Hamnet is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child. Date: Wednesday, January 10th, 2024 |
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| The Violin Conspiracy by Brendon Slocumb A mystery about a Black classical musician whose family heirloom violin is stolen on the eve of the most prestigious classical music competition in the world. Date: Wednesday, February 14th, 2024 |
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| Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Remarkably Bright Creatures is an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. Date: Wednesday, March 13th, 2024 |
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| A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. Date: Wednesday, April 10th, 2024 |
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| Flight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon Flight of Dreams is a fiercely intimate portrait of the real people on board the last flight of the Hindenburg. Behind them is the gathering storm in Europe and before them is looming disaster. But for the moment they float over the Atlantic, unaware of the inexorable, tragic fate that awaits them. Date: Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 |
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| Finding Me by Viola Davis Finding Me is a deep reflection, a promise, and a love letter of sorts to self. My hope is that my story will inspire you to light up your own life with creative expression and rediscover who you were before the world put a label on you. Date: Wednesday, June 12th, 2024 |
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| Delicious Foods by James Hannaham Delicious Foods tells the gripping story of three unforgettable characters: a mother, her son, and the drug that threatens to destroy them. Date: Wednesday, July 10th, 2024 |
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| There There by Tommy Orange Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Date: Wednesday, August 14th, 2024 |
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| Radium Girls by Kate Moore Written with a sparkling voice and breakneck pace, The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the "wonder" substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Date: Wednesday, September 11th, 2024 |
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| by Simone St. James In this atmospheric suspense novel, the secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before. Date: Wednesday, October 9th, 2024 |
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| The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders -- Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumored Rebel on the run from the police , and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. Date: Wednesday, November 13th, 2024 |
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| Homecoming By Kate Morton In the Midst of Winter: A Novel by Isabel Allende Three very different people are brought together in a mesmerizing story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil, sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story. Date: Wednesday, December 11th, 2024 |
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| Evening Book Discussion Meets on the 2nd Monday of each month at 6:30 pm |
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| Monday, January 8, 6:30 pm Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Date: Monday, January 8th, 2024 |
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| In the Midst of Winter: A Novel by Isabel Allende Three very different people are brought together in a mesmerizing story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil, sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story. Date: Monday, February 12th, 2024 |
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| Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this memoir. Date: Monday, March 11th, 2024 |
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| The Postmistress by Sarah Blake What would happen if someone did the unthinkable-and didn't deliver a letter? Filled with stunning parallels to today, The Postmistress is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women-and of two countries torn apart by war. Date: Monday, April 8th, 2024 |
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| My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman When Elsa’s grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa’s greatest adventure begins. Date: Monday, May 13th, 2024 |
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| The Color of Water by James McBride James McBride, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut. Date: Monday, June 10th, 2024 |
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| The Obituary Writer by Ann Hood Part literary mystery and part love story, The Obituary Writer examines expectations of marriage and love, the roles of wives and mothers, and the emotions of grief, regret, and hope. Date: Monday, July 8th, 2024 |
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| Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home. Date: Monday, August 19th, 2024 |
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| Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Date: Monday, September 9th, 2024 |
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| Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult Mad Honey is a riveting novel of suspense, an unforgettable love story, and a moving and powerful exploration of the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become ourselves. Date: Monday, October 21st, 2024 |
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| Forever by Pete Hamill This widely acclaimed bestseller is the magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains . . . forever. Date: Monday, November 18th, 2024 |
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| Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Remarkably Bright Creatures is an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. Date: Monday, December 9th, 2024 |
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| Stephen King Book & Movie Club Meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm |
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| The Regulators There's a place in Wentworth, Ohio, where summer is in full swing. It's called Poplar Street. Up until now it's been a nice place to live. The idling red van around the corner is about to change all that. Let the battle against evil begin. Here come...The Regulators. Date: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 |
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| The Green Mile Masterfully told and as suspenseful as it is haunting, The Green Mile is Stephen King’s classic #1 New York Times bestselling dramatic serial novel and inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks. Date: Tuesday, February 20th, 2024 |
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| Desperation There's a place along Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's known as Desperation, Nevada. It's not a very nice place to live. It's an even worse place to die. Let the battle against evil begin. Welcome to ... Desperation. Date: Tuesday, March 19th, 2024 |
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| Wizard & Glass (The Dark Tower #4) Over the course of one long magical night, Roland transports us to the Mid-World of long-ago and a seaside town called Hambry, where Roland fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson, the harrier who ignited Mid-World’s final war. Date: Tuesday, April 16th, 2024 |
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| Bag of Bones Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares, Mike reluctantly returns to his hometown to find it held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. Date: Tuesday, May 21st, 2024 |
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| Storm of the Century They’re calling it the Storm of the Century, and it’s coming hard. The residents of Little Tall Island have seen their share of nasty Maine Nor’easters, but this one is different. Date: Tuesday, June 18th, 2024 |
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| The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon A uniquely frightening suspense about a young girl lost in the woods as night falls, with only the voice of her beloved Red Sox relief pitcher to sustain her and help her survive—maybe. Date: Tuesday, July 16th, 2024 |
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| Hearts in Atlantis Five interconnected narratives, set between 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. Date: Tuesday, August 20th, 2024 |
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| Dreamcatcher A dark and sweeping adventure, Dreamcatcher is set in the haunted city of Derry - the site of Stephen King's It and Insomnia. In it, four young boys stand together and do a brave, good thing, an act that changes them in ways that they hardly understand. Date: Tuesday, September 17th, 2024 |
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| Black House Abandoned by his friends as they cycle through the Wisconsin town of French Landing, ten-year-old Ty Marshall spots a crow hopping towards him down the sidewalk. Then it calls his name. Fascinated, Ty gets off his bike for a closer look - and is dragged into the shadows. Is Ty destined to become the fourth victim of the Fisherman, the serial killer who's stalking this sleepy town? If so, only ex-detective Jack Sawyer may be able to save him. Date: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 |
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| Everything’s Eventual The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares & Everything's Eventual includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by The New Yorker, and "Riding the Bullet," King's original e-book, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade. Date: Tuesday, November 19th, 2024 |
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| From a Buick 8 The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was...wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous. Date: Tuesday, December 17th, 2024 |
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| Other Worlds Book Club (Fantasy & Sci-Fi) Meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm |
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| Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein A recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe—and into battle against mankind’s most alarming enemy... Date: Tuesday: January 23rd, 2024 |
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| The Thief by Megan Whelan Turner Gen is a thief and proud of it. When his bragging lands him behind bars he has one chance to win his freedom, journey to a neighboring kingdom with the magus, find a legendary stone called Hamiathes’s Gift, and steal it. But Gen has plans of his own. Date: Tuesday, February 20th, 2024 |
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| Prey by Michael Crichton In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles—micro-robots—has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. Date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 |
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| The Cloisters by Katy Hays In this “sinister, jaw-dropping” debut novel, a circle of researchers uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York’s famed Met Cloisters. Date: Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024 |
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| Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated coprse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. Date: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 |
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| The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Tells the story of Nora, a depressed woman in her 30s, who, on the day she decides to die, finds herself in a library full of lives she could have lived, where she discovers there's a lot more to life, even her current one, than she had ever imagined. Date: Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 |
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| Light from Other Stars by Erika Swyler A poignant, fantastical novel about the electric combination of ambition & wonder that keeps us reaching toward the heavens. Date: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024 |
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| The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. Date: Tuesday, August 27th, 2024 |
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| Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free. Date: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 |
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| The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative London. Their mission: Retrieve a particularly dangerous book. The problem: By the time they arrive, it's already been stolen. Date: Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024 |
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| The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed. New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. Date: Tuesday, November 26th, 2024 |
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| Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders. Date: Tuesday, December 17th, 2024 |
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