Book Clubs
Book clubs provide opportunities for readers to discuss books and their significance in society and culture. Share your reading experience and meet new people. Here are three book clubs that meet at the Library.
If you are interested in joining one of these groups, or if you would like to start a new book club, please contact bookclubs@mclvt.org.
History Book Club:
Meetings take place the third Tuesday of every month at 4 PM. This club is currently CLOSED to new members. An idea of the group’s interests may be gained from selections for 2024:
January– A Fever In The Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot To Take Over America… | Timothy Egan
February– Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy | Damien Lewis
March– River Of The Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile | Candice Millard
April– Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West | Dee Brown
May– How The Scots Invented The Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It | Arthur Herman
June – The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams | Stacey Schiff
July– Our Declaration: A Reading Of The Declaration Of Independence In Defense Of Equality | Danielle S. Allen
August– Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History | Robert M. Edsel
September– Empress Of The Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction | Lynne Olson
October– East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity” | Phillippe Sands
November– 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus | Charles C. Mann
December– The Wife Of Bath, A Biography | Marion Turner
MCL Book Club:
The MCL Book Club meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 4:30 PM. This club is CLOSED to new members. Please email bookclubs@mclvt.org if you are interested in joining. An idea of the group’s interests may be gained from selections for 2025:
January– Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
February– Whose Names Are Unknown by Sanora Babb
March– Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
April– National Poetry Month! Bring your own favorite or find a local poet.
May– The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
June– The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
July– James by Percival Everett
August– West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
September– This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women edited by Allison Jay, et al.
October– Table for Two by Amor Towles
Page Turners:
Meetings take place the third Thursday of every month at 5 PM. This club is OPEN to new members. An idea of the group’s interests may be gained from selections so far for 2024:
February– Pet | Catherine Chidgey
March– Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom | Ilyon Woo
April– We Begin at the End | Chris Whitaker
May– The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics | Daniel Brown
July– Frozen River | Ariel Lawhon
August– A Room with a View | E.M. Forster
September– After Annie | Anna Quindlen
October– The Secret Life of Sunflowers | Marta Molnar
Totally Booked
Meetings take place on the Third Thursday of every month at 2 pm.