MFPL Book Discussion Group
Our monthly Book Discussion Group is taking the summer off. Please check back with us in the fall. Past titles featured in our Monthly Group have included:
- Proulx's Heart Songs and Other Stories *
- Office of Innocence: A Novel; The Place Where Souls Are Born: A Journey to the Southwest; and/or American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles--all by Thomas Keneally
- Frost's A Boy's Will & North of Boston and After Frost: An Anthology of Poetry from New England *
- Wharton's Summer *
- West's The Living Is Easy *
- Nunez's Prospero's Daughter
- Shakespeare's The Tempest
- Parker's Double Play
- LeCarre's Absolute Friends
- Chabon's Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Leon's Death in a Strange Country
- Cooke's The Bostons: Stories
- Paterniti's Driving Mr. Albert
- Barker's The Ghost Road
- Chopin's The Awakening
- Bannerman's Little Black Sambo
- Lester's (and Pinkney's) Sam and the Tigers
- 100 Most-Often Censored Books List, including:
- Parks's The Learning Tree
- Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Dahl's James and the Giant Peach
- L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time
- Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
- Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
- Blume's Blubber
- Diamant's The Red Tent
- Piercy's Summer People
- Berg's What We Keep
- Du Maurier's Rebecca
- Beauman's Rebecca's Tale
- Struther's Mrs. Miniver
- Miller's Tropic of Cancer
- Chevalier's Falling Angels
- Proulx's The Shipping News
- Robinson's Housekeeping
- Bryson's Notes from a Small Island
- Bryson's In a Sunburned Country
- Haruf's Plainsong
- Allende's Daughter of Fortune and Portrait in Sepia
- Russo's Empire Falls
- McFarland's School for the Blind
- Ephron's Heartburn
- McCullough's John Adams
- Hall's The Saskiad
- Livesey's Eva Moves the Furniture
- Greene's The Quiet American
- Lipman's The Dearly Departed
- Redfield's The Celestine Prophesy: An Adventure
- Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus
- Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Glasgow's In This Our Life
- McCall-Smith's Morality for Beautiful Girls
- Orleans's The Orchid Thief
- Pollan's The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View
- Hoffman's Local Girls
- Eugenides's Middlesex
- Conroy's My Losing Season
- Kunzru's The Impressionist
- Badami's The Hero's Walk
- Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Assorted Materials on The Middle East
- Parks' Getting Mother's Body
- Raban's Waxwings
- Cheever's Falconer
- Tremain's The Colour
- Hulme's Bone People
- Cohen's Blindsided
- Jone's The Known World: A Novel
- Swift's Last Orders
- Tyler's Ladder of Years
( * part of the Storylines New England Series sponsored by the ALA and NPR)
