Book Groups for Adults

Book Bunch Book Group

1st Monday of the month, 1:30-2:30p
For Adults
Library Program Room

Reading current fiction and non-fiction. New members always welcome!

Questions? Contact Kay Klocko at 215-628-8744 or via our contact form

• December 3: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
• January 7: Varina : a novel / Charles Frazier.
• February 4: Britt-Marie Was Here, by Fredrik Backman.
• March 4: Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War, by Karen Abbott.
• April 1: State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett.
• May 6: Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee.
• June 3: Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng
• July 1: Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, by Jill Lepore.
• September 9 (one week late): The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins.
• October 7: Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. (Banned Book week is the end of September)j
• November 4: Clock Dance: A novel, by Anne Tyler.
• December 2: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman.
• January 6, 2020: Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover.

Curious about what we’ve read in the past? Check out our booklist from 2001 to 2018.

Facilitator: Sara S.

No registration.

History Book Group

1st Tuesday of the Month, 7-8 pm
For Adults
Library Conference Room

Reading fiction and non-fiction books about history. New members always welcome.

Questions? Contact Kay Klocko at 215-628-8744 or via our contact page.

Upcoming Books

• December 4: The Oregon Trail : a new American journey / Rinker Buck.*
• January 8: Nightingales : the extraordinary upbringing and curious life of Miss Florence Nightingale / Gillian Gill.
• February 5: In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex / Nathaniel Philbrick.
• March 5: Norse mythology / Neil Gaiman .
• April 2: Nothing like it in the world : the men who built the transcontinental railroad, 1863-1869 / Stephen E. Ambrose.*
• May 7: A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier / Ishmael Beah.
• June 4: Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI / David Grann.

Upcoming books, especially those six months out, may change depending on group needs.

No registration.

Bookworms Book Group

1st Thursday of the Month, 7:15-8:15p
For Adults
Library Program Room

This group, facilitated by Lauren Smyth & Kay Klocko, reads current fiction and non fiction. New members always welcome!

Upcoming Books:

• November 1: Haunting of Hill House / Shirley Jackson
• December 6: Martian by Andy Weir (on The Great American Reads list)
• January 3: Being Mortal: medicine and what matters in the end /Atul Gawanda
• February 7: TBA (some form of love story)
• March 7: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (on The Great American Reads list)

Curious about the Bookworms? Check out their list of books read.

No registration.