The Central Library Book Club meets the second Thursday of the month, at 10:30 a.m. at Central Library.
Please call 651-266-7000, ext. 5 for more information.
Central Library book clubs - dates, times, and titles.
2013 Titles
- Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
- The Wolf at Twilight by Kent Nerburn
- A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
- The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
- The Road from Coorain by Jill K. Conway
2012 Titles
- Vestments by John Reimringer
- Still Alice by Lisa Genova
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbach
- Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
- Coop by Michael Perry
- The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip by George Saunders
- News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist by Laurie Hertzel
2011 Titles
- Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
- The Days of Rondo by Evelyn Fairbanks
- Little Bee by Chris Cleve
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence by Matthew Sanford
- The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2010 Titles
- The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- The Color of Water by James McBride
- The Hills at Home by Nancy Clark
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
- The Latehomecomer: a Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
- The Tattooed Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
- Driftless by David Rhodes
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
- So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger
2009 Titles
- A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
- The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
- The Gathering by Anne Enright
- Kabul Beauty School: Beneath the Veil of Afghan Women by Deborah Rodriguez
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
- Digging to America by Anne Tyler
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer
2007-2008 Titles
- When Charlotte Comes Home by Maureen Millea Smith
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
- Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
- Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
- House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
- Plainsong by Kent Haruf
2006-2007 Titles
- The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Team of Rivals; the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Simon's Night by Jon Hassler
- My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
- The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
