Book Club

The Sweetness of Forgetting (2012), Kristin Harmel, paperback 368 pp Discussion Leader: Jyothi Shroff General Fiction, Historical Fiction / Three generations struggling to survive reach a turning point when Hope […]

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (2021), 368 pp Fiction. Set against the 1974 Greek and Turkish conflict on the island nation of Cyprus is the love story […]

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (2023), 448 pp Historical Fiction. A late-18th-century midwife and healer in New England investigates a murder and a rape. Based on the real-life Martha […]

The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2003), 224 pp General Fiction. Bittersweet tale of a 15-year-old autistic and math genius, a kind of Holden […]

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (2018), 576 pp Family Life & Friendship. In 1974, a troubled Vietnam vet inherits a house from a fallen comrade and moves his family […]

How To Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great by Karen Karbo (2007), 208 pp Nonfiction. A guidebook to using your inner Hepburn, with no-nonsense commentary from the notoriously […]

Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl (2019), 248 pp Biography & Memoir. Essays of evocative snapshots and lyrical reflections, drawn from the order of […]

The Woman in The Window by A.J. Finn (2018), 464 pp General Thriller & Suspense. Unreliable narrator Dr. Anna Fox—who describes her alcoholism, agoraphobia, and the traumatizing events of her […]

Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea (2021), 432 pp Thriller/Suspense. Twenty years after an accused murderer’s first meeting with her attorney is cut short by the 9/11 attack, a shocking […]

Home Front by Kristin Hannah (2012), 432 pp General Fiction. An honest look at modern marriage and an exploration of the price of war on an ordinary American family. Discussion […]