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 2025:
January–The Showman: Inside the Invasion that Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky  by Simon Shuster
February– On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
March– Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama
April– Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation by Sune Engel Rasmussen
May– Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
June – Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation by Brenda Wineapple
July– God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America’s Most Hated Man by Jack Kelly
August– Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World by Patrick Joyce
September– Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy by Colin Dickey
October– Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy
November– Sea of Faith: Christianity and Islam in the Medieval Mediterranean World by Stephen O’Shea
December– An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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 CLOSED to new members. An idea of the group’s interests may be gained from selections so far for 2025:
January– James by Percival Everett
February– West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
March– North by Brad Kessler
April– Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
May– This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
June– All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
July– The Memory of an Elephant by Alex Lasker
Totally Booked
Meetings take place on the Third Thursday of every month at 2 pm. This club is CLOSED to new members. An idea of the group’s interests may be gained from their selections for 2024:
January– The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
February– Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough
March– Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
April–
May– The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
June– The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
July– The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
August– The Women by Kristin Hannah