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Rev. 6.16 Morning Book Group Great Books Group Nonfiction Book Group

The Morning Book Discussion Group The Great Books Discussion Group The Nonfiction Book Discussion Group generally meets on the third Monday of the generally meets on the fourth Tuesday of the generally meets on the first Wednesday of month at 10:30am in the Activity Room. month at 7:30pm in the Activity Room. the month at 7pm in the Activity Room. July 18, 2016 No meeting July or August July 6, 2016 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Lady in Gold by Anne-Marie O’Connor August 15, 2016 September 27, 2016 August All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu Beowulf Seamus Heaney Translation No meeting Grendel by John Gardner September 19, 2016 September 7, 2016 My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante October 25, 2016 Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson October 17, 2016 October 5, 2016 November 29, 2016 Dead Wake by Erik Larson The triumph of seeds by Thor Hanson The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler November 2, 2016 November 21, 2016 December 13, 2016 The Unwinding by George Packer Room by Emma Donoghue The Judgement December December 19, 2016 The Metamorphosis No meeting A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka January 4, 2017 January 24, 2017 January 23, 2017 The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan Franklin and Winston by Jon Meacham The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan February 1, 2017 February 28, 2017 February 27, 2017 Dark Money by Jane Mayer Lost Horizon by James Hilton The Wright Brothers by David McCullough March 1, 2017 March 28, 2017 March 20, 2017 Lab Girl by Hope Jahren The Inheritors by William Golding The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede April 5, 2017 April 25, 2017 The Bad-Ass Librarians by Joshua Hammer April 24, 2017 Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates May 3, 2017 May 23, 2017 Black Hole Blues by Janna Levin May 15, 2017 Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw June 7, 2017 The Illegal by Lawrence Hill June 27, 2017 The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan June 19, 2017 Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë Annual book selection meeting