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Central Library Book Club

The Central Library Book Club meets the second Thursday of the month, at 10:30 a.m. in the 4th floor Meeting Room.

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

Central Library book clubs - dates, times, and titles.

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

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