Book Discussions
The Babylon Public Library Book Discussion Club usually meets the third Wednesday of the month. Please check Calendar of Events for confirmation. All are welcome to join this lively discussion group!
All meetings are at 7:00 pm.
Inquire at the Adult Reference Desk for copies of the books.
Next Meeting: Wednesday,November 15, 2017.
We will be discussing The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant.
Copies of the books are available at the Reference desk on a first-come, first-served basis
Previous Book Titles
| 19th Wife, by David Ebershoff A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve Aloft by Chang-rae Lee Amagansett by Mark Mills Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout Angels and Demons by Dan Brown Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott Atonement by Ian McEwan Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny Bee Season by Myla Goldberg Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjlian Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Boston Girl (the) by Anita Diamont Boys in the Boat (the) by Daniel James Brown Brick Lane by Monica Ali Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka Caleb’s Crossing by Gerladine Brooks Canada by Richard Ford Canterbury Sisters (the) by Kim Wright Cloud Chamber by Michael Dorris The Corrections by Jonayhan Franzen Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende Dear Life by Alice Monroe Defending Jacob by William Landay The Dinner, by Herman Koch Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerForgotten Garden by Kate Morton Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick Fortune’s Rocks by Anita Shreve Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen The Gathering by Anne Enright The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Good Grief by Lolly Winston Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (the) by Jamie Ford House of Mirth by Edith Wharton How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent by Julia Alvarez I Know this Much is True by Wally Lamb Ice Bound by Jerri Neilson The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot. Imperfectionists (the), by Tom Rachman Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Irresistible Henry House (the) by Lisa Grunwald Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Knitting Circle (the) by Ann Hood The Known World by Edward P. Jones Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult Liars Club by Mary Karr The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman Little Bee by Chris Cleave Lost Wife by Alyson Richman Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett The Manor by Mac Griswold |
The Molokai by Alan Brennert Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult Mystic River by Dennis Lehane Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Nest, by Cynthia D’Aprix Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman Ordinary Truth (the), by Jana Richman Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett Peace Like a River by Leif Enger Pearl by Mary Gordon Plot Against America by Philip Roth Plainsong by Kent Haruf Queen of the Road by Doreen Orion Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Reliable Wife (a) by Robert Goolrick River of Doubt, by Candace Millard The Road by Cormac McCarthy Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead Secret Keeper by Kate Morton Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Separate Peace (a) by John Knowles Sister of My Heart by Chitra Divakaruni Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Snow in August by Pete Hamill Stiff by Mary Roach Still Alice by Lisa Genova The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, by Gabrielle Zevin Submission (the) by Amy Waldman Surfacing by Margaret Atwood Sutton by J.R. Moehringer Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer Thirteenth Tale (the) by Diane Setterfield Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Three Junes by Julia Glass The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes Unless by Carol Shields The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell Vine of Desire by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Waiting by Ha Jin Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf Welcome to Shirley, by Kelly McMasters What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro Wild by Cheryl Strayed Year of Magical Thinking (the) by Joan Didion Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Zookeeper’s Wife (the) by Diane Ackerman |
Non-Fiction and Noshes (afternoon book discussion) Titles:
| Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan Zelda by Nancy Milford Infidel by Hirsi Ali Dead Wake by Erik Larson Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain |