Book Clubs

  • Combined Tuesday & Mystery Book Club Title for June
    Combined Tuesday & Mystery Book Club Title for June
    May 19, 2023 by
    Join us as we discuss The Guest List, by Lucy Foley. On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine […]...
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  • "Only the Best" Book Club Title for May
    “Only the Best” Book Club Title for May
    April 21, 2023 by
    Join the “Only the Best” book club at 6:30 on Tuesday, May 16th, to discuss Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow! “To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for May
    Tuesday Book Club Title for May
    April 12, 2023 by
    Join us as we discuss Early Morning Riser, by Katherine Heiny. Jane falls in love with Duncan easily. He is charming, good-natured, and handsome but unfortunately, he has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City, Michigan. Jane sees Duncan’s old girlfriends everywhere—at restaurants, at the […]...
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  • First Meeting of the "Only the Best" Book Club
    First Meeting of the “Only the Best” Book Club
    February 24, 2023 by
    The inaugural meeting of the “Only the Best” book club will be on Tuesday, April 18, 6:30 PM, at the Killingworth Library to discuss “Middlesex” (Pulitzer, NYT Editors’ Choice) by Jeffrey Eugenides. All books selected for the club have merited Pulitzers, Bookers, Critics Circle awards, or other […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Theme for March
    Tuesday Book Club Theme for March
    February 16, 2023 by
    Join us this month in discussing a banned book of your choice, to read ahead and share with the group! You can find suggested reads here: Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged books, 2010-2019 (courtesy of the American Library Association). The discussion will be held in the […]...
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  • The March Mystery Book Club Selection
    The March Mystery Book Club Selection
    February 16, 2023 by
    Join us as we discuss The Likeness, by Tana French! Still traumatized by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O’Neill. When he calls her to the scene of his new case, […]...
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  • The February Mystery Book Club Selection
    The February Mystery Book Club Selection
    January 21, 2023 by
    Join us as we discuss A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie. As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing every happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for February
    Tuesday Book Club Title for February
    January 14, 2023 by
    Join us as we discuss Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. In the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople. She learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds what might be the last copy […]...
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  • The January Mystery Book Club Selection
    The January Mystery Book Club Selection
    January 5, 2023 by
        We had an interesting discussion the other night, January 19th: Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler.  We felt that he is an excellent writer, and for writers at that time, one well thought of.   Although the discussion centered around the time period and the environment […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for January
    Tuesday Book Club Title for January
    January 5, 2023 by
    Join us as we discuss Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. This is a collection of essays, by a Native American botanist who is also the Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the […]...
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  • Book Club Combo Holiday Meetup!
    Book Club Combo Holiday Meetup!
    November 26, 2022 by
    To celebrate the Holiday Season, The Mystery Book Club and the Tuesday Book Discussion Group are holding a joint session on Wednesday, December 21st at 6:30. It is being held at the BarrelHouse on Route 81 in Killingworth. Two self published authors, both Killingworth residents, will discuss […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for November
    Tuesday Book Club Title for November
    October 31, 2022 by
    Join us as we discuss West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge. It is a fictionalized account of a real road trip with two young giraffes across the south headed for the San Diego Zoo. The giraffes arrived in New York Harbor during the 1938 hurricane, and amid […]...
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  • The November Mystery Book Club Selection
    The November Mystery Book Club Selection
    October 31, 2022 by
    Join us as we discuss The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers–Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, […]...
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  • The October Mystery Book Club Selection
    The October Mystery Book Club Selection
    September 19, 2022 by
    Join us as we discuss The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell. On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for October
    Tuesday Book Club Title for October
    September 19, 2022 by
    Join us as we discuss Still Life by Sara Winman. It covers the decades from the Second World War through the 1980s, with characters you will not want to leave behind and places where you’ll want to linger. From London to Florence, it’s always about the people […]...
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