Books We're Reading

These are books we've discussed lately, or will be reading soon in the book groups. Each of the book pages listed below contains links to other web sites, such as the book publisher's site, with information about the book or the author. There may be many other books or web sites on topics related to the book you're reading. Check with your reference librarian for pointers!

New titles selected for 2013:

• The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
• Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
• The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown

Plus the 2013 Big Read selection: Poems of Emily Dickinson

Titles selected for 2012:

• Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey  by Thornton Wilder
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy
• A Comrade Lost and Found by Jan Wong
• A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
• The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
• The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow
• Nemesis by Philip Roth
• Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
• This Cold Heaven by Gretel Ehrlich
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
• The Typist by Michael Knight

Mystery Book Discussion Group titles

"Canon" and "Great Books" discussion group titles

Books for Book Clubs: titles available to local book clubs

Books We Were Reading: archive of titles selected in previous years

Find out more: Book lists, discussion guides, articles, author interviews and biographies

• NoveList (reviews, discussion guides, and recommended reads for fiction and non-fiction)
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• Literature Resource Center (biographies, essays, reviews, and criticism for fiction and literature)
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• New & Noteworthy (lists of new audiobooks and award-winners you can check out of the library)
  
  
• The Big Read (past titles from our annual county-wide reading program)