Central Library Book Club

The Central Library Book Club meets the second Thursday of the month, at 10:30 a.m. at Central Library [1].

Please call 651-266-7000, ext. 5 for more information.

Central Library book clubs - dates, times, and titles [2].

2013 Titles

• Train Dreams [3] by Denis Johnson
• The Wolf at Twilight [4] by Kent Nerburn
• A Reliable Wife [5] by Robert Goolrick
• The Postmistress [6] by Sarah Blake
• The Road from Coorain [7] by Jill K. Conway
• March [8] by Geraldine Brooks

2012 Titles

• Vestments [9] by John Reimringer
• Still Alice [10] by Lisa Genova
• Catch-22 [11] by Joseph Heller
• Handle with Care [12] by Jodi Picoult
• Cutting for Stone [13] by Abraham Verghese
• Great Expectations [14] by Charles Dickens
• The Language of Flowers [15] by Vanessa Diffenbach
• Remarkable Creatures [16] by Tracy Chevalier
• Coop [17] by Michael Perry
• The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip [18] by George Saunders
• News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist [19] by Laurie Hertzel

2011 Titles

• Snow Falling on Cedars [20] by David Guterson
• The Days of Rondo [21] by Evelyn Fairbanks
• Little Bee [22] by Chris Cleve
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog [23] by Muriel Barbery
• Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence [24] by Matthew Sanford
• The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse [25] by Louise Erdrich
• The Help [26] by Kathryn Stockett
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid [27] by Bill Bryson
• To Kill a Mockingbird [28] by Harper Lee

2010 Titles

• The Pleasure of My Company [29] by Steve Martin
• The Time Traveler's Wife [30] by Audrey Niffenegger
• The Color of Water [31] by James McBride
• The Hills at Home [32] by Nancy Clark
• Olive Kitteridge [33] by Elizabeth Strout
• Water for Elephants [34] by Sara Gruen
• Nature Girl [35] by Carl Hiaasen
• The Latehomecomer: a Hmong Family Memoir [36] by Kao Kalia Yang
• The Tattooed Girl [37] by Joyce Carol Oates
• Driftless [38] by David Rhodes
• Three Cups of Tea [39] by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• So Brave, Young and Handsome [40] by Leif Enger

2009 Titles

• A Spot of Bother [41] by Mark Haddon
• The Sweet Hereafter [42] by Russell Banks
• The Gathering [43] by Anne Enright
• Kabul Beauty School: Beneath the Veil of Afghan Women [44] by Deborah Rodriguez
• The Lovely Bones [45] by Alice Sebold
• The Thirteenth Tale [46] by Diane Setterfield
• Digging to America [47] by Anne Tyler
• Gone With the Wind [48] by Margaret Mitchell
• Their Eyes Were Watching God [49] by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Tender Bar: A Memoir [50] by J.R. Moehringer

2007-2008 Titles

• When Charlotte Comes Home [51] by Maureen Millea Smith
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down [52] by Anne Fadiman
• The Kite Runner [53] by Khaled Hosseini
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time [54] by Mark Haddon
• Reading Lolita in Tehran [55] by Azar Nafisi
• Year of Wonders [56] by Geraldine Brooks
• The Year of Magical Thinking [57] by Joan Didion
• The Joy Luck Club [58] by Amy Tan
• Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons [59] by Lorna Landvik
• Peace Like a River [60] by Leif Enger
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [61] by Betty Smith
• Prodigal Summer [62] by Barbara Kingsolver
• Reservation Blues [63] by Sherman Alexie
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan [64] by Lisa See
• House of Sand and Fog [65] by Andre Dubus
• Plainsong [66] by Kent Haruf

2006-2007 Titles

• The Painted Drum [67] by Louise Erdrich
• One Hundred Years of Solitude [68] by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Team of Rivals; the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln [69] by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Simon's Night [70] by Jon Hassler
• My Name is Red [71] by Orhan Pamuk
• The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency [72] by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Things They Carried [73] by Tim O'Brien