Welcome, Philadelphia Book Readers!

Welcome to the Metro Philadelphia Book Club. This meetup is open to anyone who wants to join in. Most of our meetups will take place at BYO's around the city where we will discuss the months selection over dinner. Some of our previous books have been The Road, Boomsday, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Running With Scissors, The Gathering, Then We Came to an End, On The Road and many others. Also, we were mentioned in Philadelphia Magazines "things to do" issue (July, 2009).

The Books for the rest of 2009 are:
November - White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga & Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
December - A Mercy, by Toni Morrison

For those who want to get started on next years readings here are the monthly books for 2010:
January - That Old Cape Magic, by Richard Russo
February - The Lazarus Project, by Aleksandar Hemon
March - The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
April - The Accidental, by Ali Smith
May - The Garden of Last Days, by Andre Dubus III
June - How to Rob an Armored Car, by Iain Levison
July - Drown, by Junot Diaz
August - The Given Day, by Denis Lehane
September - Home, Marilynne Robinson
October - Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
November - Juliet, Naked, by Nick Hornby
December - Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks

New for 2010: with the sheer number of members in the book club we will start to add alternative meetups for books each month that will be led by different members. These alternative meetups will be led by a different organizer each month and cover a different title than the regular selection being covered by the main group. This is really an effort to get more people involved. More details will follow in the coming months.

Enjoy!