Washington Public Library Book Discussion Groups

Wednesday Evening Book Group

Meets 3rd Wednesday evening of each month in the Library from 6:30-8 PM.  Group reads a variety of genres.  Group is open to new members at all times.  Books are available for checkout at the library.
 

January 16, 2013 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
February 20, 2013 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
March 20, 2013 Dances with Luigi by Paul Paolicelli
April 17, 2013 Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
May 15, 2013 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
June 19, 2013 My Reading Life by Pat Conroy
July 17, 2013 Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
August 21, 2013 The Ape House by Sara Gruen
September 18, 2013 One Vacant Chair by Joe Coomer
October 16, 2013 The Cross Gardener by Jason Wright
November 20, 2013 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien


Literary Classics Book Group

Meets 3rd Monday evening of each month, except in January and February, in the Library Meeting Room from 7:00-8:00 PM. 

Group chooses the "classics" it wishes to read.  Group is open to new members at all times.  Books are available for checkout at the library.

January 28, 2013 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
February 25, 2013 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
March 18, 2013 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
April 15, 2013 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
May 20, 2013 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
June 17, 2013 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

  
Daytime Book Group

Meets the second Monday morning of each month at 10 a.m.  Group will choose which titles it would like to read and discuss.  Current selections are:

January 14, 2013 The Long Walk Home by Will North
February 11, 2013 Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel by Mahbod Seraji
March 11, 2013 Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
April 22, 2013 Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts
May 13, 2013 The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
June 10, 2013 Forgetting Ireland by Bridget Connelly


Start a Book Club

A how-to guide

Book Clubs are welcome to meet at the library.

 

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