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Welcome book nerds and those who want more community in their love for reading and new ideas!

Each year we read through the New York Times Best Books of a previous calendar year. There are five fiction and five non-fiction books on the list, and we meet monthly to discuss the merits, weaknesses, messages, and relevance of each of the texts. We skip August and December.

Here’s a rough schedule for 2023:

January: A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millett

February: Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

March: Deacon King Kong by James McBride

April: A Promised Land by Barack Obama

May: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

June: Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro

July: Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar

August: NO MEET UP

September: Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener

October: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

November: War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan

December: NO MEET UP

Meet ups are in-person.

If you find that you are unable to attend or you haven’t finished the book, please RSVP ‘no’ so that we know how many people to expect. Thank you, and happy reading!

~ Sarah

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