Tuesday Book Club

Funny, You don’t Look Autistic, by Michael McCreary.  Available online from March 23 – April 13, 2020. Introducing an e-book club with NO WAIT LIST.   This is part of a national initiative called the “Big Library Read” and is being offered to libraries nationwide by the parent […]...

Tuesday, February 11, 1 – 2 pm at Killingworth Library. Join us as we discuss Northland: a 4,000 Mile Journey Along America’s Forgotten Border by Porter Fox. The work describes Fox’s 4,000 mile adventure along our U.S./Canadian boundary with an appreciation for both the area’s history and […]...

 “The Man Without a Face” by Masha Gessen is the nonfiction work to be discussed at the January 14th meeting of the Tuesday Book Discussion Group. Subtitled “The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin”, it traces the early life of Putin and his eventual rise to power.  One […]...

December 10, 1- 3 pm at the library. Join us as we discuss The Dry by Jane Harper. The locale is a small Australian town suffering a prolonged drought. A multiple murder brings fear and consternation to a place already on the edge. The hatreds and suspicions […]...

Tuesday, November 12, 1:00 pm at the library. Join us as we discuss A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. Extra copies will be available at the circulation desk. Newcomers always welcome!...

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 […]...