Tuesday Book Club

Tuesday, October 8, 1 – 2 pm at the library. Join us as we discuss The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes. It centers on the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and his struggle to preserve the integrity of his music while keeping himself out of the violent […]...

Tuesday September 10 at 1:00 pm. Join us as we discuss “Waking Lions” by Israeli writer Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. Described in the New York Times as “…part psychological thriller, part morality play” it was listed as a NYT Notable Book of 2017. The story begins when a highly […]...

  1:00 pm, August 13, at the library.  Join us as we discuss The Library Book by Susan Orlean. It is a full banquet of delight for library lovers everywhere. The book is constructed around the investigation into the devastating Los Angeles Public Library fire in 1986 […]...

Tuesday, July 9, at 1:00 pm. “A Place for Us” by Fatima Farheen Mirza is the novel to be discussed at the July 9th meeting of the Killingworth Library Tuesday Book Discussion Group. It is the beautifully written story of an Indian couple who migrate to America […]...

Tuesday, June 11, at 1 pm at the Killingworth Library. “Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee is the novel to be discussed at the June meeting of the Killingworth Library Tuesday Book Discussion Group. Named as one of the NYT Ten Best Books of 2017, it is a […]...

Tuesday, May 14 at 1:00 pm.  Join us at Killingworth Library as we discuss In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History by Mitch Landrieu. “There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence for it.” When Mitch Landrieu addressed the people of New […]...

April 9 at 1:00 pm, Killingworth Library. The Keepers of the House is a 1964 novel by Shirley Ann Grau set in rural Alabama and covering seven generations of the Howland family that lived in the same house and built a community around themselves. As such, it […]...

Tuesday, March 12, 1:00 pm at the Killingworth Library. The memoir “The Choice” by Edith Eva Eger (with Esme Schwall Weigand) is the work to be discussed at the March meeting of the Tuesday Book Discussion Group. Subtitled “Embrace the Possible”, it is the inspiring story of […]...